But, decisions are made for us a lot more often than we care to acknowledge. Sure, we make choices, come to conclusions, take action and work at things that makes us believe that we’re running the show, but truly the path, the direction, the trajectory of our lives seems to be handed to us in a series of small choices from the cosmos, whether we’re even aware of it or not; a left turn when we would have gone right, a stop when we felt like starting, a risk when we wanted to play it safe.

Awareness isn’t the key here, though, I would say that the key is not submitting to the fact that the cosmos guides our life direction, but rather how we deal with the circumstances, how we deal with the trajectory, do we resist or move with the current of life to some end that we can neither conceive or imagine, to an outcome that is uniquely ours. I hope that I am able to stay with the current of life, somehow,  so far, that’s been so much more than anything I could have conceived or imagined.

Good ideas that is, as today’s title is taken from an excellent CopyBlogger.com post by Jonathan Mead. Ever the sucker for tirades and tangents on inspiration, passion, trust and building relationships, this is an especially good lesson. The idea (ironically enough) is to not over think, or over plan, but rather to let the thing unfold, and the natural passion and inspiration for what you are doing will propel it. More importantly, you’ll be so interested in what you’re doing that you won’t be focused on being propelled, but rather the joy in doing what you’re doing.

I especially loved this quote:
“If we care about the same things, you’ll probably listen to what I have to say. A relationship is formed. You open up the channels of trust and permission.”