Suggestions for 1 month PD vacation

[seeker5]

Hi,

Starting sometime in December, I've got 1 month off from school. So that means, 1 month with no work, no school work, no obligations. I could take some road trips, though I have to be careful about my expenses. I don't care about Christmas, so I don't intend to do anything Christmas-related.

I thought, what if I made this month into a great Personal Development Month? I'd love to go on adventures, either outer or inner, that touches the heart. My current top personal development focus right now is the initial development of relationships of all kind, and I'm very interested in increasing my alignment with the principles of Oneness and Courage, as well as Love and Power.

So, basically instead of spending a lazy month, I'd love to do something exciting, something invigorating, and something that would lead to a lot of growth

So, I'd love suggestions in regard to what I could to to make the most of this one month - something I could focus on, some kind of goals, some kind of trips I could take, some programs, etc.?

[seeker5]

Heh, I just noticed that coincidentally, the time I posted this (for me here in the Pacific Time Zone) is 11:11.

[Hyperchiller]

Hey Seeker

Breaks are good I have a 3 month break coming up. I'm open to ideas about what to do but I've planned it out more or less.

But here are my initial plans:

• Learn lucid dreaming
• Learn to channel
• Read, understand and use all the ideas in Sanaya Roman's books - including Personal Power through Awareness, Living with Joy, Creating Money, Soul Love, Opening to Channel and Spiritual Growth.
• Mastering Steve's book so well that I could easily explain any concept to anyone.
• Be an early riser - get up at 6am
• Develop my personal philosophy and consolidate my beliefs by fully 'owning' them. I will do this by contemplating why I believe certain things and being able to uphold my values through debate and proof. So when I talk to someone and they say 'why do you believe this' then I am able to debate my viewpoint with power and authority.
• Going through good audio programs and fully mastering them by teaching the concepts to others. One's that I want to go through are Jim Rohn's The Art of Exceptional Living, and Napoleon Hill's Your Right to Be Rich and maybe some others in less detail.
• Do two more speeches for Toastmasters to get my CC.

[Hyperchiller]

My ideas for you could be:

• Become a pickup artist and approach girls you like with alignment to oneness and love etc. I don't know how much is in alignment with your values though. This will definitely stretch your comfort zone for sure.
  
• Read Soul Love by Sanaya Roman and apply the ideas in the book. I heard it's really really awesome for self love, love for others and soul-mates. This book will probably hit the spot if you're looking on an inner journey that will touch the heart.

[Honeywith4bees]

My suggestion would be to immerse yourself in some kind of volunteer effort that would involve you working with people. I'm not sure what kind of thing would appeal to you, but for me, I might volunteer to work in a shelter caring for the small children during the day while the parents take advantage of ESL classes or job training of some sort. My local shelter has needs for people to teach workshops, work in their kitchen and care for the children. I would see that as great opportunity to work on establishing relationships with people of all ages and abilities, not only the clients but the staff and other volunteers. I'm sure that if you check the United Way in your area, there is a large list of organizations that would be thrilled to have your expertise for a month!

Good luck and have fun!

[Angela]

Hey, seeker5, I notice that Byron Katie is doing a New Year's Cleanse for a 5 days in L.A., and it's very expensive, but it looks like she is doing scholarships for worthy individuals. If anyone is a worthy individual, you are! They apparently do a juice fast kind of thing and probably lots of examining of beliefs and other partner exercises. It sounds great. Take a look on her website under "Events."

I'd be glad to assist you in drafting a letter about how you should be scholarshipped.

[seeker5]

Hyperchiller, Honeywith4bees & Angela: thanks for the suggestions!

Angela: I love the idea of attending the Byron Katie workshop! I'd be honored to have your help with writing a scholarship letter!

[Angela]

Let's do it! Did you look it up on the website yet? Did you look at what would be required to get a scholarship?

Wouldn't that be great if you did this and then reported back here what you got out of it? I would love that.

[seeker5]

Originally Posted by Angela

Let's do it! Did you look it up on the website yet? Did you look at what would be required to get a scholarship?

Hmmm, I didn't see any scholarship info, I thought maybe you had the info somewhere else. I did a google search for scholarship on her site, and found some scholarship application for a different event which is 9 days instead of this event.

[seeker5]

Originally Posted by Hyperchiller

Breaks are good I have a 3 month break coming up. I'm open to ideas about what to do but I've planned it out more or less.

That sounds interesting! You seem to have multiple goals. Do those goals excite you?

I was thinking last night that to avoid subcomming to laziness during my 1 month, I should set some goal that would excited me and that may be possible (but would be a stretch) to accomplish in just one month. I know I love feeling driven, and having an exciting goal helps me feel driven and focused. What do you think?

[Hyperchiller]

Originally Posted by seeker5

That sounds interesting! You seem to have multiple goals. Do those goals excite you?

I was thinking last night that to avoid subcomming to laziness during my 1 month, I should set some goal that would excited me and that may be possible (but would be a stretch) to accomplish in just one month. I know I love feeling driven, and having an exciting goal helps me feel driven and focused. What do you think?

Definitely. I've had experiences now with goals and such that if the goal doesn't:
1. excite me - it has to be something you want and define based on YOUR values
2. align with my best interests in the long term, i.e. a good asset to invest in that will provide good long term returns and that will have positive effects in your other life areas too (relationships, health, life purpose, money etc)
3. improve my current situation NOW
that the goal usually won't work. I'm still young though so I'm still experimenting with the planning and goal setting process. So take the above with a grain of salt. It makes sense to me when I talk about it though. Another way to work out what you might want to do is ask your higher self

Most of the goals excite me, except maybe the getting up early part. Lucid dreaming probably takes precedence. Understanding and applying what's in the above books definitely excite and inspire me. It might seem I have a long list, but they definitely do inspire me.

[seeker5]

Originally Posted by Hyperchiller

Definitely. I've had experiences now with goals and such that if the goal doesn't:
1. excite me - it has to be something you want and define based on YOUR values
2. align with my best interests in the long term, i.e. a good asset to invest in that will provide good long term returns and that will have positive effects in your other life areas too (relationships, health, life purpose, money etc)
3. improve my current situation NOW

Cool, that sounds like the formula Steve uses in his book! That's what I'm going to use too in planning my goals for December. I've been informally using this system too lately for my goals. No forming of goals that makes me happy in the future, but not now.

Most of the goals excite me, except maybe the getting up early part.

Hehe

Lucid dreaming probably takes precedence.

Let me know how that goes! I've had a long standing goal on doing Lucid Dreaming, and focused on it a bit earlier this year. However, other goals have a higher priority now so I've let that slide...for now, but I'd like to really focus on this eventually!