Andrew's Journal
My imagined self
There is a darkness here. An emptiness.
An exposure to raw reality that bites. Hurts.
The question that has been answered has left me in silence.
Stunned.
As I improve in my practice of being present I lead my future self further down the executioners long hallway. With every step I feel the cold of honesty that lives in the prese...
If only....
Self doubt can show up for all of us. It’s those times we tell ourselves that who we want to be or the way we want to live is not realistic, or too far off to reach. We fill our journals with the reasons we’ve identified as the barriers to our success. Most of the statements begin with “if only”…. If only I had more time. If only I had the ...
Walking in blindness
There is a deeper purpose in learning. It is not necessarily to expand my borders of knowing or to increase my influence, but to identify the edge of my knowledge. I look hard for the edge of my knowledge and diligently assess my circumstances for where I may find out what I didn’t know I do not know. The effort to straddle the boundary line, k...
What is the role of a mentor?
Mentoring has become quite a buzz word for creative and professional development. It is increasingly common for first-professionals take jobs with below market rate salaries when these jobs are paired with the opportunity for mentoring in their first year. There is now an emerging market for those at the top of their game to teach or mentor the ...
Beautiful demon
So much in this world to feel, to hate, to run from, to chase. Have my deepest desires been rooted in my efforts to get away? Has the motivation for my achievement been the fear of being with my wounded soul? What are you retreating from? Who’s chasing you?
The demon is within.
Everywhere I go I bring it. Failure and falling on my face s...
The discipline of action
For someone like me, getting things done is not a foreign concept. I’ve mastered to-do lists, used various project management tools, created daily productivity rituals, and am a David Allen disciple. In fact for a period of my life my personal motto might have been the old FedEx tag line: “We get more things done by 9am than the rest of the worl...
Voodoos of ambition
“Today I'm flying low and I'm not saying a word. I'm letting all the voodoos of ambition sleep. The world goes on as it must, the bees in the garden rumbling a little, the fish leaping, the gnats getting eaten. And so forth. But I'm taking the day off. Quiet as a feather. I hardly move though really I'm traveling a terrific distance. Stillness. One...
Measuring the right things
What is the impact you have?
To improve my impact I must be able to assess it and then assess the delta in it when my actions vary. Said plainly - can I see what the results of my actions are and then see their increase or decreased effect based on changing my behavior? While this is simple in concept, it is actually quite complex. Very rarely in ...
The gift of separation
What am I learning?
To allow and to look.
To dive deep under the surface of any experience and allow it to be whatever unfolds while bringing my best self to this moment. My best self no longer means my “shiny” self or my “clean” self. But my True Self. The entirety of who I am, the brilliant and radiant parts and also the dark and shadowed. ...
Recognizing our attachments and the role of impermanence
Permanence - the state or quality of lasting forever, unchanged.
Funny how often we find ourselves disrupted by the suddenness of change. The relationship that we thought would last forever, abruptly diverging into separate paths; the concept or idea of how we relate to a part of our world such as finances or work rapidly changing without a ...
Author
Andrew Bennett
I am a thinker, a writer, and a creative. Discovering who we are, the True Self, requires a willingness to remove the camouflage we have constructed and reveal our most basic unadorned person. No longer seeing only what we wish to see, we can begin to become the whole. My hope is by sharing from my own journey, I may be an encouragement to you on yours.
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