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2014: inspired

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I have been thinking about 2014 already.

I know, don’t be annoyed with me, but I wanted to start something that others could join in with me and unless we prepare it won’t happen. Christmas kinda drains us of all our motivation and then we often limp into a new year. I think the best resolutions are those that are planned.

The banner I am declaring over 2014 next year is this;

2014: inspired

The dictionary describes the word inspired in the following way…

inspired:
  1. of extraordinary quality, as if arising from some external creative impulse.
  2. (of air or another substance) that is breathed in.

These two definitions really impacted me, considering my writings of late. Creative impulse, breathing in, extraordinary quality. All of these words have begun to speak to me about the potential of a new year.

Honestly the last few years have been terribly crazy.

I am ready for an inspired year.

Another dictionary described the word inspired;  ‘imbued with the spirit to do something, by or as if by supernatural or divine influence.’

As I have been thinking and praying about this project the reason why I believe I need to get it out there now, is I think it is going to be an amazing time of freedom and inspiration for the people that take part in it.

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Here is what I am going to do…

I am committing to drawing, finding, writing, describing, looking for and visually representing something I have been inspired by everyday.

I have bought the Kikki K Journal 365 above to do it with and then I will take a photo and post it on Instagram and on here each day.

My goal is to capture the inspiration that is awaiting discovery.

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I know there will be hard times, I know somedays it will be difficult with a 2 year old, but I am committing to it.

I want to ask you now, what will you commit to with me?

I will help you with accountability.

Think about it.

Is it write on your blog everyday?

Is it to take a photo everyday and post to Instagram?

Is it to exercise everyday and document it someway?

or do you want to join me by buying a 365 journal and write, drawing, scrapbook, visual journey our way through 2014.

I am asking you to commit by hash-tagging this #inspire14

I am believing that 2014 will be a completely different year for you.

One of inspiration and capturing moments, that fleetingly pass us by.

There is so much on the internet and in our homes that is discouraging, why don’t you email me and commit to something positive together.

Email: amanda@amandaviviers.com

Another way to start the year well, is to use my book Capture 30 days of inspiration to begin your year creatively. It is a 30 day inspiration guide, to living a more creative life.

“I ask not for any crown
But that which all may win;
Nor try to conquer any world
Except the one within.”

Louisa May Alcock

Let’s conquer something together.

Inspired

Amanda
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walking with the wind

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This morning, after a massive event last night, the very last thing I felt like doing was exercise. You know that dead weight, I can’t even lift my coffee feeling. The feeling where your eyes roll at the thought and even then the energy to roll your eyes is too much.

That was me today.

Then I remembered…

I promised myself, I even wrote it in permanent marker on my mirror in my bedroom, ‘exercise everyday’.

Every, means no matter how I am feeling, I need to do something exercise-y each and every day.

As I got outside after gulping my coffee down, I realised it was crazy windy. Like a tornado was about to whip down the beach cray cray.

Yes, I can go back inside but something in me beaconed to take a chance and walk into the windy force field.

As I walked it was intensely difficult walking against the wind. As I pushed myself, I felt like all the cobwebs that had formed in the night (whilst I slept) were being blown away. There was something so tangible about being outside and then it happened, I started to dream. It was like a live awake kind of dream, but it was so real.

I dreamed about potential for this next season, I dreamed about possibilities that would make all the little fires I have burning at the moment more do-able. I found answers to questions that I had been baffled by. I got lost, I turned down a over grown path, that I never venture upon and then I turned onto the beach.

The beach was wild.

As I walked against the wind I got an impression of what my life lately has been like.

It is like I have been walking against the wind. I haven’t done anything wrong, I have just been trying to swim upstream and make my life something that is not necessarily the season that I am in.

Have you been there?

Without even realising you are trying to walk backwards and it is just so devastatingly hard?

Do you feel like everything you are doing at the moment is walking against fierce opposition and resistance?

I believe there are seasons that we are challenged and stretched by the season and the opportunities that we are meant to take, but they only make us stronger.

Then there are days that we just need to turn around and walk with the wind.

As I was thinking about this revelation this morning, I turned around and walked with the wind and it’s like I was picked up off the beach and carried all the way home.

I realised in someways, I have been trying to recreate some old seasons and I have been walking against the wind but it is a new day and I need to walk where the wind is blowing.

What is easy, simple and peaceful in your world?

Not just easy and simple… Easy, simple and peaceful.

I would say that is the way the wind is blowing.

What is stressful, overwhelming and chaotic…(aside from our lovely kids, they are this everyday)

I mean in your heart, dreams, purpose, vision sense? Then I would also prepose that maybe you are walking against the wind.

This season why don’t you develop your strengths rather than beat yourself up over your weaknesses?

Does that mean I think we don’t need any resistance in our lives?

No I had a lot of resistance in going out for my walk, and if I hadn’t have made the time to walk against the wind, I wouldn’t have found this moment of inspiration.

Today I am looking for where the wind is blowing in my life and I am going to try walking that way. Even if it clearly takes me to a whole new season, I think it’s about time I embraced it rather than continually keep walking against the wind.

Not every season is meant to be so hard.

Walk where the spirit blows, my dear friend.

Walk with the wind.

Amanda

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Goodness

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whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable if anything is excellent or praiseworthy think about such things.

Our minds are so powerful. This scripture from Philippians in the bible implores us to fill our minds with thoughts that are good.

How often are we drawn to the negative though?

How often do we think about the worst case scenario rather than the best?

How often do we worry and think about all the things that could go wrong, rather than what could go right?

Positive thinking is not just a self help, new age trend, it has been around for thousands of years.

The differences between new age thinking and that of the bible however, is that new ageism implores us to empty our minds however scripture tells us to fill our minds with goodness.

Think on loveliness.

Think on what has gone right in your life rather than what is about to go wrong.

The reason why emptying our minds doesn’t work is because our minds are more powerful than any computer ever made.

To override the system operating our brains, we need to fight the original programming with new and more powerful content.

Ever tried to stop thinking about something?

Ever felt so overwhelmed at the strength of your mind?

It is impossible to think about nothing, if you are thinking about nothing you are still thinking about something.

So why not reprogram?

Reprogram with pure, noble, good, inspiring, commanding, helpful, loving, decent, brilliant, encouraging thoughts.

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Renew

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Impossible.

Reengineer?

Possible.

The stability and strength of your mind will always alter what you creatively produce from it.

Be mindful this spring.

Love

Me

 

 

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other worldliness

My Mum often comments that Max has a frown sometimes.

Not a frown as such but a quizzical look that he is deeply thinking about something.

I know what he’s doing, because he is part me, part my husband and part divine.

I know what he is doing, because I am often doing the same thing.

Thinking.

Dreaming.

Imagining.

An other worldliness comes upon him and he is completely lost in his own or something eternals presence.

Ever since he was a baby, whenever we have gone into a sacred space. Whether a church or a gymnasium that is used regularly to worship in, he would stare off and point to the rafters.

I am sure that he saw angels.

I am sure he saw things, that we as adults in our more mature and logical minds have lost the capacity to see.

Other worldliness.

A space of contemplation.

Space.

I think our DVD plasma rich worlds, take up the time and space to imagine, pray, meditate and dream.

Our children need more time to themselves.

Developing a healthy understanding of the possibilities beyond.

Another world.

An eternal one.

With golden places and beautiful deep longings.

Amanda
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God is a designer

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Some days I get to a point where I feel like I cannot come up with another idea.

No more.

I’m done.

I’m tired, I am parched, I have seen too much, done too little with my ideas and I feel overwhelmed.

A consumer generation has convinced my heart that there is no new idea under the sun.

Then I walk, twenty metres out my front door, at about 5.25pm at the moment and watch the sun go down.

The pelicans fly back to their island home in formation.

The penguins flurry.

The seals huff.

Everyone gets ready for the night to settle and peace to reign again once more.

Every sunset is different.

There is never one that is exactly the same.

It doesn’t matter how many times I have watched it, I am still bedazzled at the colours, the quiet, the potential and the beauty.

You don’t need to be at the beach to experience its call.

You could be sitting in traffic on the freeway and watch its colours pique and declare the presence of one greater.

There are millions however that don’t see the designers artwork that is fleeting.

dirt-pathLook up and look beyond.

Allow inspiration to arise again.

There are new ideas, there are new opportunities, the creator of the whole universe avails them to us every evening and then again in the morning tide.

He is a designer

He is a creator

He is unique and we are created in his indelible image

Amanda