posted September 21, 2012 03:53 PM            

It was worrisome when she just dropped off like that.

posted December 23, 2012 11:48 AM            

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Originally posted by LEXX:
I posted this on another thread but I feel it deserves its own thread!

I have begun treasure mapping!
Wrestling the Alligators ...Leveraging Your Strengths
[b]Treasure Map Your Success

Knowing exactly what you want in life is the key to getting it.

Treasure-mapping is simply the process of visualizing exactly what you want. The clearer you can see it as a reality, the sooner it manifests. The magical part about treasure-mapping is that you don’t have to know where the desired object or opportunity will come from. Gifts, contest prizes, sudden opportunities are typical outcomes.

The actual process is simple: tear out color pictures in magazines or catalogs and rubber cement them to half a sheet of poster board.

Currently I use a sketch book that I constantly add to page after page. Sometimes I am not even sure what I am searching for, but in the process of looking, I get clearer when an image seems to call to me.

Here are some of the things I have successfully treasure-mapped:

New house (complete with gazebo)

New job, change in career, and career opportunities

Vacations (including white-water rafting and a hot air balloon ride

Clients and audiences

Lifestyle, romance, jewelry and clothes

Art, dishes, collectibles, cars, etc. (This is the easy stuff)

My husband!

Family relationships

Variations, tips, and ideas:

1) Each New Year, treasure-map what you want the year to look like. Focus on opportunities, desired lifestyle changes, etc.

This is a tradition for our whole family. I do the half page treasure-map at this time. I might add that children end up cutting out pictures of cute animals; they have a hard time with future goal setting. More on that later.

2) Relationships: To treasure map a spouse or special companion, concentrate on finding pictures that represent what you want the relationship to look like: how you want to be treated, what you will do together, what values you would share, etc. Avoid treasure-mapping a specific physical body (after all, they are just models in the pictures and they spend incredible amounts of time in the gym.)

3) Physical changes: If you want to treasure-map an ideal body for yourself, concentrate on the active, healthy lifestyle that your body would need to have. I’ve even pasted my own face on the body of a woman doing aerobics. It was so believable to me that it melted the resistance I was feeling at the time.

4) Words: Include your own name, cut out of type, and a phrase or two also in type, that motivate you. Beware of too many words, however, as it is the visual image that your mind finds so powerful.

5) When the treasure map is finished, bless it. Some people like to add a picture that represents God as their source for everything. I write a little prayer on the back: “Thanks you, God, for this or something better for my highest good.”

6) Invite friends to bring their scissors, glue, and magazines for a treasure map party! Treasure-map with your spouse, and your children.

Children age 10 and up can treasure-map their short term goals. You can make suggestions, such as cutting out pictures of Scout badges they would like to earn, or a place for a family vacation that summer, or a pet they would like to take care of, or a specific item for Christmas. (Caution: a kid with a toy catalog goes beserk!)

Challenge a teenager to treasure map his or her in life in ten years. That gives them a grounded sense of thinking strategies toward preparation (what courses to take, etc.)

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Hi LEXX, Thank you for this post you wrote on Deccember 30, 2010 at 11:57pm [/Labors of Love]

posted December 25, 2012 12:47 AM            

When pain gnaws, pulls, twists, and shoots all over? that can take a toll on the ability to bear with just ordinary run of the day emotions, too. Wear you out. Physically and emotionally. Enough is enough, right?

Please don't worry, or put all that pressure on yourself... I understand how that can feel. When you are one who feels deeply, seems inside that you want to love and heal everything that hurts in another human being, Lexxigramer!

So, I WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Rest, then come back and have fun... There are always opportunities that come round and round again, to express ourselves.

And I LIKE your expressings very much!

posted January 05, 2013 06:24 PM            

I hope things will get better soon for you too mirage.

I am still down most of the time.
Past 4 days have been awful.
I try to at least browse the forums, but not always up to posting.
Sorry about that.
Still treasure mapping though.
Sigh.....
One can dream I guess.
On that note here I go again.

posted January 10, 2013 06:06 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
Don't give up.

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