"The plow must go five times over the site of a wood before it can become a field."
____ traditional Welsh saying (trans. CM)
The sun has returned and the light is growing, but the plans we have been brooding upon may show little signs of progress. Now is a good time of year to prepare the ground for the projects that are important to us. Make a list of plans and projects whose unfinished rubble clutters your way forward. These may include long, ongoing plans that are not going anywhere fast and short-term projects that are unfinished due to a lack of resources or energy. Look down your list: Which irrates you the most? Which nags at you as unfinished? Which did not work out according to plan, and why? Do not be surprised if you access deep emotion, and do not be afraid of what you feel.
Go through the list, creating questions that challenge and uncover the roots of the problem. Has your vision for each of the plans changed? Are your projects still workable as they stand? Evaluate long-term projects for significant progress and assess which approaches might loosen things up. Do you perhaps need to break down long-term plans into shorter achievable components, for example? Are there associations with partners or friends that impeding your progress? If someone else is involved, what contribution has that person made? Finally, go through your list item by item and mark projects for eradicattion, rethinking, or fresh effort.
This proceduare requires hard mental effort, but it can help dig up the soil of our potentiality and prepare it to receive new growth.
"Set aside time to clear your way and root out outworn strategies and failed plans."
[From: "The Celtic Spirit" by Caitlin Matthews]
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