"The agreements" - or, "What have you signed up for?

I'm not even one day in to my vacation, and I have already completed reading one book...yahoo! I know/knew I needed to be reading more, and already this month have finished reading/researching three! (The latest is: The Four Agreements, by Ruiz.)

Here is something that landed in my journal while I read...

Do you have a lot of ideas about how things could or should be? What if you took one of those ideas and gave it a little more...more than just a passing thought. If you put your full attention on that thing for just 5 minutes, what could happen?

Get paper, a pen, and a timer. Set the timer for 300 seconds. Press start. Write down one of the biggies you're thinking about, and then, on that same piece of paper, write ANYthing else you can think of associated (or semi-associated) to that item.

For the whole day tomorrow, keep that piece of paper handy, and during your "5-minute windows of time," ask yourself this question:

How can I engage and move forward in that area of my life?

Sure, it's risky...you might wind up making some major progress sooner than you thought!