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“Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in life there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.” ― Rasheed Ogunlaru

Elisa’s Thought for the Week

I've been thinking a lot about the idea of flow recently.

That place you get to when you can just imagine and create and write and publish.

How often do you get into a state of flow? What does it feel like? What does it look like?

It might be worth taking a daily journal entry to suss this out. To see if you know where your flow exists, and how you access it. 

If you ever have accessed it before.

(PS: Yes. I'm re-reading Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life for an upcoming client's workshop; to give thought inception credit where thought inception credit is due. 💭)

 

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Weekly Writing Tip …

A quick chance to learn from the masters.

"If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them." — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life
 

For the Upcoming Week …

Because we all need a good chuckle to start things off right!

Oops! Almost spilled my hot cocoa.

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(Image Credit: Falmouth Memorial Library)

Till next time!

Elisa