Looking Forward : a 5-minute practice in want-writing sans frontiers
You'll need a phone or timer; something to write with and on. You could also speak into a recording device.
Set a timer for three minutes. Put fingers to keys, pen to paper, tape recorder to lips, and riff away. Do not stop writing or talking until you hear the timer go off. When it does, if you need more time, just keep on going.
1. What do you want for yourself this year? In the next few years? Think personal, relational, financial, professional, political, epicureal ... any and all realms. You are allowed to want, independent of your sense of what may or may not be possible. We want to cut through all that to find out what really makes you tick.
Set the timer again for 2 minutes:
2. Pick one thing you wrote that you want. Create three scenes — who? what? when? where? why? — in which your hero pursues their (your) desire. No holds barred, no limits held. If you need to fly, fly. If you need a billion dollars, it's there for you. Where? How? Ask those questions, but it's there.
Do not stop writing or talking until you hear the timer go off. When it does, if you need more time, just keep on going.
Set a timer for three minutes. Put fingers to keys, pen to paper, tape recorder to lips, and riff away. Do not stop writing or talking until you hear the timer go off. When it does, if you need more time, just keep on going.
1. What do you want for yourself this year? In the next few years? Think personal, relational, financial, professional, political, epicureal ... any and all realms. You are allowed to want, independent of your sense of what may or may not be possible. We want to cut through all that to find out what really makes you tick.
Set the timer again for 2 minutes:
2. Pick one thing you wrote that you want. Create three scenes — who? what? when? where? why? — in which your hero pursues their (your) desire. No holds barred, no limits held. If you need to fly, fly. If you need a billion dollars, it's there for you. Where? How? Ask those questions, but it's there.
Do not stop writing or talking until you hear the timer go off. When it does, if you need more time, just keep on going.
