Take Back Your Life!

Hey lovers of life,

Most folks out there want to help you make more money & that’s fine. I want to help you make more life. That’s what Giulietta the Muse is all about — helping you get your life back, before it’s over. It’s short enough, why not maximize it? We’ve been taught to put our REAL lives off until retirement, until we may or may not be able to even walk or may not even be alive.

Have you heard yourself say, “I’ll start travelling when I retire?” The problem with waiting until you retire is that you may be really tired. Isn’t that what retire is short for? really tired? tired of living everyone’s life but your own?

Forget retirement, live now!

Start today by making a list of 50 things you’d like to do. I’d love to hear some of them if you care to leave a daring comment. Chances are good that if you announce them to the world, they’ll happen.

Muse thx,

Giulietta

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If you want to become a better writer, write as much as you can. It’s like any other endeavor: Practice, while it may not make perfect, makes a very good imperfect. And the best writing is imperfect.

Perfect writing never gets published or finished because there’s no such thing. Sometimes sending an essay or article to an editor is the best thing you can do for a piece of writing. Many times, I’ve hit the send button only to simultaneously realize as my essay hurtles through cyber space that the ending made no sense.

The editor usually shares my revelation by sending me a rejection. I toss the rejection into the virtual trash, bask in my newfound humility, rewrite the ending and send it somewhere else.

Sometimes you need to let go of a piece of writing to find it.

Happy writing to all of you!

Muse thx, G.

p.s. I’m teaching an essay writing class in August. Click here for more details!

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I’m almost done with the 30 day power blog challenge! It’s been great to have a goal to work towards, to be wanting to finish something with flying blogging colors. Will have 30 entries of ideas for future essays, blog posts, conversations, dreams,  life shops. It’s also spurred me on to start my own challenge. Am getting my other blog site ready for it!

Perhaps you will join me on this other challenge? Will let you know when it’s ready. As for today, it’s so lovely out, I’m going to take a walk. Walking always gets me centered and gives me even more ideas for writing and life shops. Think it’s the slowness of it all. The up close and personal nature of being one with the planet.

Cars zoom by everything. Life becomes a whirling blur.

Will you walk today?

I’ve decided to try something new every day for a month. A new food, a new movie, a new product, a new way of working, a new way of selling, a new way of being, a new way of listening. You get it.

Today, I tried a new food. Jimmy and I were driving through Allston, MA, and noticed a cute restaurant serving food from Burma! We’d had Indian and Thai and Vietnamese and Japanese and Chinese but never Burmese. In we walked. Super clean and cute with some neat artwork on the walls.

I asked the waitress to make a suggestion. She thought I’d like Y7 — ShweTaungKhotSwe. We started off with some yummy pastry appetizers called Samusar. Very good. Then came #7. Delicious. Jimmy like his curry too. The food tasted like a cross between Indian and Thai. Sure enough, the restaurant had a map in front of the restroom, which showed Burma’s located smack in the middle of India and Thailand. No wonder Burmese food tasted like a blend of the other two.

It’s called YoMa Burma. I highly recommend it.

I’m almost through the 30 Day Power Blog Challenge. It’s been powerful and challenging. Writing an entry every day proved to be more taxing than I thought it would. Most days I post at least one entry. Others days it’s hard to make the time to write even something short.

It all comes down to commitment. What’s #1 on the priority list. Frankly, distraction can get to the top of my list. Before I know it I’m Googling things I don’t really care about. That’s when I could use a distraction alarm, a device that beeps at me very loudly so I snap back into the present and realize I’ve been on a virtual tangent.

I’ve decided there are two types of distractions. A) fake distractions, like the ones where you find yourself googling a celebrity for some bizarre reason or B) real distractions, like the ones where you hear about say the Slow Food movement from a friend and want to learn more about it.

Perhaps, I can’t have one without the other or maybe distractions serve some kind of innate need. Not sure. How about you? Do you find yourself distracted?

I’m 3/4’s of the way through a writing class. It’s called The Art of Storytelling. Useful class for writers, storytellers, screen writers and even business owners who give talks. You’ll hold the attention of any audience if you can learn to tell a compelling story — a story where the central character changes in some way. This could a story you’re writing about a fictitious character or a story you’re telling about how one of your business clients benefited from your program.

It’s called the transformation. Without a transformation, your story will fall flat. No one will care. That’s a big problem with a lot of talks – the speaker leaves out the transformation. The audience has no idea how you can help them get from emotional point A to emotional point B.

The best thing about the 30 day power blog challenge is that I’m writing something every day. At first I thought it might be hard, but it’s actually proved to be the opposite. There’s plenty to write about and the constant practice makes the words flow more quickly.

Last week I bought a beautiful card – almost like my Giulietta The Muse colors except it had an overlay of gold swirls and whirls. All it said on the front of the card? BEGIN.

I bought the card for its beauty and also its message. So many times I just didn’t begin. Yet that’s the key to getting the most meaningful mileage out of your life — begin. Get going. Take a baby step. Circle something. Make an informational call. Sign up. Show up.

What can you begin today?

Hello!

I know that a lot of bloggers write longs posts. You won’t find that here. I enjoy reading shorter posts so I can take it all in. When I’m faced with a long blog post, I read some of it, skip to the end and maybe go back and read another few sentences. It overwhelms me. I wonder how many people really read long, long posts in one setting.

Have you read “Small is Beautiful?” Written in 1989ish, it warned back then about the Earth’s dwindling resources. In the intervening years, everything got bigger, way bigger — houses, cars, monthly budgets, waistlines, egos.

Why not small? Why not manageable? Why not bite size posts to one’s blog?

Hello Fellow Rebels,

I’ve taken Connie Green’s (twitter @conniegreen) 30 day Power Blog Challenge. I need to post 30 posts on my blog by July 7th. Since my blog is fairly new this is a great way for me to spread the word of the Muse! Tonight I’ll start with my favorite topic of late: food.

On June 12th in NYC and LA, the movie/documentary Food Inc. comes out. I’m really excited to see it. Been doing lots of research on where the food on our plate comes from. This started a few years ago with Fast Food Nation, then some documentaries on Monsanto, followed by the Omnivore’s Dilemma. For the longest time I just took it for granted that the stuff landing on my plate was good for me and safe for me. Perhaps not.