Accidental Genius... meets Focus...

I have just finished listening to Accidental Genius by Mark Levy which I downloaded from Audible...

I have been reading The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron and am finding it inspiring in so many ways but as I wrote my morning pages... I find myself writing more than 3 pages... then I found myself wanting to look into other ways of working on freewriting...

On searching Amazon, I came across Accidental Genius and decided on the audio book...  I enjoy listening to books as well as reading them.  

The book was set out in 3 different sections, the first section was about 6 basic guidelines for freewriting, try easy, write fast and continuously, setting a time limit, writing my thoughts as they come to me, creating with the thoughts, then redirecting my attention and looking at my thoughts in a different way.  

The second section goes into refining the process...

But chapter 27 in the third section really caught my attention.  It is where Mr Levy talks about making a list of everything that has ever fascinated me...  to work on the list in my freewriting... to think about the list for several days...  to investigate anything I have ever felt passionate about...  or still feel passionate about...

This dovetails beautifully with the other book I am listening to at the moment, Focus by Steven Covey...  in this audio book of one of the Franklin Covey Focus Workshops, they state that for us to be able to really focus on and succeed in setting goals, it is essential that these goals are based on our own values...  what we truly believe in...  this idea comes from Benjamin Franklin's autobiography where at the age of 27 whilst feeling dissatisfied, he took time to reflect and came up with 12 virtues that he wanted to learn to live his life by...  Franklin's book is available for free download from Amazon for Kindle...  

So I am now working on a list of things that fascinate me, so that I can look at any themes that run through these passions of mine, past and present, to enable me to decide what my true values are...  Yes, I could easily come up with values that just come to my mind, but I want to work out what feel most true to me and my personality, so I am going to freewrite and work on my list and in a few days, I shall work through the list to decide what is most important to me...  What the themes have been throughout my life...  What gives me most joy in life...  What makes me feel inspired just thinking about it...