For week twenty-four in our fifty week calligraphy challenge we were asked to great words with ligatures. A ligature is when two letters form one letter, such as the ampersand or TH. I had to think long and hard about this one as I was not sure my ideas were up for the task. In other words, I was stumped. What to do?
It took me a while to find words or phrases that gave me the inspiration to create some natural or unnatural ligatures. I found this quote and thought it expressed perfectly how I was feeling and thinking during this process. I thought I had a thought and yet it wasn’t the thought I thought I thought…perfect!
Ever had one of those days? When your mind is racing and has a hard time landing long enough to process through your thoughts? And when you do land, your thoughts are not at all what you thought they were. It is a strange and wonderful feeling, eery and exciting at the same time. The best part is knowing you are not mad and yet having felt that way you are actually relieved to be thinking normal again.
Our minds play tricks on us, more often than we care to admit. The frazzled pace of our day to day world can be VERY overwhelming. Standing in line a to do item drops into your thoughts yet you are trapped and unable to act…so you keep thinking about it until it’s presence becomes a distraction. Or even worse, that important idea you do not want to forget suddenly disappears and leaves you feeling flat and frustrated. UGH! Why does this always happen? How do I make it stop?
When my coaching clients bring these kinds of frustrations to the discussion, I encourage them to write it down. Our brains calm down when they have somewhere safe to land. Not typing it out, writing it down. Our brains react differently when we have physical movement from our hand to paper. We remember better and calm down. Sooooo, that being said, give yourself the gift of calmer thinking and get a safe place to write down your ideas. A notepad, a journal, a blank book, whatever suits your fancy.
Want the thoughts you think to be the thoughts you want to think? Write them down. Give yourself and your mind a safe place to process, to remember the great ideas and the nagging to do items. It is also a fantastic way to remind yourself of all the things you think about and how they have progressed. Writing things down is a sure fire way to feel relief from a frazzled mind.
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