writing things down

Many spiritual traditions (some of them even respectable) teach that there is power in the written word.

Ye Olde Magickal Traditions hold that writing gives you Will over whatever you’ve written about. (think hooded Victorians, trying to raise Great Aunt Eustice through sigils and automatic writing) New Age Teachers say that writing amplifies the Magical Magnetic Law of Attraction. (think crystals, rainbows and trying to write Great Aunt Eustice into the Light) Modern Organizational Gurus promise that writing a to-do list will multiply your productive power exponentially (Ok, so they’re not technically spiritualists, but GTD is a religion, to-do lists serve as alters, and I swear these people could mind-map Aunt Eustice into the afterlife!)

• • Negative Thoughts, Positive Results
    
  • Further details on Plate-Spinning Productivity, and my progress.
  • In Progress An Intro to Brainwaves ( largely because I want to learn more about the subject)
  • Could the blogosphere provide the sense of community I’ve been searching for?
  • My Current Productivity Tools
  • My Personal Search for Meaning, ala Van Gogh Blues
  • In Progress: Round Up of Research articles I didn’t get around to posting
  • Pseudo-Science and False Gurus of the week
  • The Positive Posting Intent/Progress Reports

Silliness aside, I agree that Writing-Things-Down is a good thing which can bring powerful results, even if I don’t agree about some of the supernatural and pseudo-scientific origins.

My own productivity gurus required that I write to them every day.

Those emails were part journal, part to do list, part brain-dump, part white-board. It was all very GTDish, before GTD. The emails opened me up, made me think in different ways, framed my problems clearly way, and flushed a lot of gunk out of my mind, recognized my progress, obligated me to commitments, and cemented my goals and intent. (Ok, maybe that IS kind of magical after all)

I was thinking that MindTweaks could use some of that “obligation to commitment” and “cementing of goals and intent” stuff…

So here’s a list of the posts I’d like to make over the next week:

I’d also like to do a few regular (weekly?) posts:

There. Cemented.

Of course, it’s more more rubber cement than concrete; blogging needs to be flexible and reactive, I’m told. If forced to choose, I’d rather be focused than relevant, but I’ll try to strike a happy medium.

Do any of these proposed articles especially appeal to you? Have other ideas about what I should write? Leave me a comment and let me know.