I Don't Need No Stinkin' Secret

You know I've been a little tired of all the hype around The Secret.  I really still plan on watching it, but I have 20 days until the start of my next Writing Essentials Program, and I have lots better uses for an hour.

However, attraction, making nice with the Universe, and visualizing what I really want are, in and of themselves, good uses for my time.  And I can do all that on my own.

My dream is to be able to write all the time, and I have a perfect place to do it - a cabin in the mountains.  I've been doing life maps for a few years, and I believe in the power of visualizing what you want to bring into your life.  So, I created a cabin map, and I look at it every day.

Before I created the cabin map, I had it all visualized in my head.  I wrote about it in my journal and I even drew pictures (note how I did NOT include those sorry images).

I want a fairly small cabin with a great room, a kitchen, a mudroom, and a loft where the bedroom will be.  The front of the cabin will be all windows.  In the great room, I'll have a desk facing the wall of windows, and another desk on the other side of the room near the fireplace.  There will be bookshelves on either side of the fireplace. 

The cabin will be mine, and I'll use it as a retreat to write my books.  My family can come visit me, albeit on a limited basis.  :-)  I'll write for several hours during the day and be able to walk and hike the trails near my cabin. 

When I'm ready to go up, I'll call the wonderful company that maintains the cabin and property and have them get the cabin ready for me.  This includes cleaning, fresh sheets on the bed, fresh flowers in the kitchen and on the desk near the picture windows, fresh fruit, cheese, and wine. 

As I thought about it, the only challenge in creating this NOW is money.  When I shared my thoughts with Chris, he said, "Uh, big surprise there."  No, really.  He might have balked at the whole "on a limited basis" visitation policy, but he didn't.  He also liked the idea of a maintenance company.  "I'd have a problem if the only time we went up to the cabin was to clean and weather-proof it.  You have a service to help out with that... I'm all on board."

I also have done a pretty good job over the last few years of shedding as much mommy-guilt as I can.  I truly feel that each person in our family is as important as the other, and it's not my role to cater and slave to my children.  As a matter of fact, that would be antithetical to good parenting.  With the lack of mommy-guilt, and all my experiences of going away for work weekends with Stacy and even just with myself, I'd have no qualms about picking up and heading off to the mountains to write.

So, as Write Well U becomes a success in the world, my cabin will come into being.

See, I don't really need The Secret after all.

Although I still plan on watching it.  It can't hurt.

P.S.  In case you're interested, here are some of the sources I've found for creating my cabin visualization:  Lindal Cedar Homes and Cottage Living magazine.

Comments

[Stacy]

You visited our cabin; can I visit yours? :)

Love you :)

[Dawn]

:::sigh:::

I guess.

:-)

[Carolyn]

"I want a fairly small cabin with a great room, a kitchen, a mudroom, and a loft where the bedroom will be. The front of the cabin will be all windows. In the great room, I'll have a desk facing the wall of windows, and another desk on the other side of the room near the fireplace."

Hey, you just described my place! I actually live and work here, real life, although it's not finished yet. It doesn't look like your pictures, it is very modest, simple, small. I am finishing it bit by bit. And it IS in the mountains.

I've been enjoying your blog, and it's nice to find a kindred spirit.