Zen Your Life Thursday: Start where you are right now
Posted by Goddess Leonie on February 4th, 2010. Filed under: Zen Your Life.
Hey beautiful hearts!
I wanted to do a new feature each week here at Goddess Guidebook – Zen Your Life Thursday!
A day we can do just one small thing to make our life calmer and more zen.
Because we need some goodness. We need space. And when we make space? It is sacred, beautiful transformation. It is soul work and physical work that can make us feel lighter and clearer.
Each Thursday I’ll post your Zen Your Life project for the day… an easy, possible kind of project.
Sound like yummy delicious fun? Want some more zen goodness in your life?
Hurrah! Let’s start! We can doooo eeeeeeeet!
Today, your Zen Your Life project is:
Clear your desk… right where you are right now.
Just spend five minutes. Make it clear and zen.
You’ll be amazed at how different you’ll feel afterwards.
Report back if you need to. Whatever you need to create more zennish goddess goodness… give it to yourself.
Happy zennifying dearhearts!
big love you,
February 4th, 2010 at 1:04 pm
So I looked at my desk and thought yes I really should tidy it up. Now I have more space
Thank you Leonie and little mermaid.
Bright blessing to you & yours
February 4th, 2010 at 2:07 pm
OMG, this is so perfect. For three reasons:
1) I read this in my blog feeder while procrastinating on getting some “real” work done because (drumroll, please) my desk is such a mess.
2) I’ve had “clean up desk!” on my “things I really ought to just do already” list for, um, weeks now.
3) It’s still early Wednesday evening here in Hawaii. So, while I’m thrilled I’ll have a clean desk tomorrow, I don’t actually have to lift a finger to make it happen for another twelve hours (’cause it’s a Thursday thing!).
I look forward to some zen-cleaning moments with my desk while I caffeinate tomorrow morning.
When I’m done with that, I might even sweep the floor.
February 4th, 2010 at 4:31 pm
Oooooh yeah ~ Goddess Barbara ~ We can clear away together
*aaaaah space*
Goddess Stephanie ~ Oh *HURRAH* darling… l love the perfect synchronicity of it all… and wishing you happy zen-making adventures!
xoxoxoxo
February 4th, 2010 at 6:20 pm
What a great idea
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I published a book in Germany in 2007 with little nudges for everyday life – how to change things up, how to tackle things you pushed ahead of yourself for so long, …
So an idea like your Zen Thursday appeals to me a lot
I do “clean desk policy” every night. But as to the shelf just above it … *whistles innocently and then goes to work on it*
February 4th, 2010 at 9:28 pm
Um… I’m on my iPhone! So instead I shall go through it’s “desktop” and delete and reorganise the apps… iZen!
February 4th, 2010 at 10:32 pm
i love it! i do a “monday moment of zen” on my blog since mondays seem to be so hard for everyone. looking forward to more zen!
hugs!!
February 4th, 2010 at 11:05 pm
LOL! Great minds think alike! I was in the process of naming my ritual days and since I tend to straighten my house on Thursdays since we’re either going out of town or resting on the weekends, I decided it would be my ‘Make it Zen’ Day! How’s that for a sign from Great Spirit that I’m going in the right direction?!
February 5th, 2010 at 4:42 am
What a brilliant and very …WARMING … idea … Zen Thursday. My desk got a nice sweep and shuffle and it’s so restorative an act, small and neat and like a sweet exhalation. Thank you!
February 5th, 2010 at 5:13 am
Stephanie in Hawaii reporting back in. It took more than 10 minutes, but at 9am my desk is clean, my (paper) inbox is emtpy, and all loose papers are in three tidy piles: active, file, and read/review. I even swept the floor. Ahhhhh. So nice!
Heading out to do errands in a little bit, and have added “orchid for office” to the list. I like to have one in that empty spot next to the printer, but none of my plants are blooming at the moment, which gives me an excuse to get another. (House rule: I can only buy a new orchid plant if none of the ones I’ve already got is in bloom– otherwise I’d blow the grocery budget on flowers!)
February 5th, 2010 at 8:26 am
Oh I flipping LOVE this… how exciting… zen-making goddesses!
HURRAH for Hawaiian Goddess Stephanie
Look at you GO, goddess! And your orchid house rule is so lovely… maybe I might take up an orchid buying hobby too 
hee hee hee! Or maybe some bamboo… I like me some more bamboo! I need more!
Goddess Toni ~ Oh YAY YOU!
So happy for you darling!
Goddess Tea Priestess ~ Holy dinger sweetie… you are so right on! How in tune is that? So so beautiful
Goddess Melita ~ Oh your moment of zen is so beautiful and inspiring hon… love love love how you are shining light for the world
Goddess Samantha ~ Oh you are brilliant… that is such a gorgeous idea. IZEN!
Goddess Nina ~ Oh possum! You are so very, very, very ridiculously wonderful… you amazing author you
I so wish I could read German so I could fossick up a copy of your book!
February 5th, 2010 at 8:27 am
Meanwhile… I think it’s time to Zen up myself… my desk needs a ridiculously good simplify and clear down… especially since I’m finishing up at my desk job next week… in I go! Will check back in when I’m done
February 5th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
I like the idea of a Zen Thursday, I am new to the GoddessGuidebook so I’m just trying to process everything!
February 5th, 2010 at 1:32 pm
Zen thursday sounds wonderful!
My desk is where I do most of my creative things … And I can’t concentrate if my environment isn’t pretty and peaceful nothing creative gets done …
So I tidy my desk, and every day I mess it up again so every day I tidy it again … but it’s worth it!
Great advice and I realy really love your beautiful blog!
yasmina
February 5th, 2010 at 5:05 pm
Only took me aggggesssssss… but I did it! Desk clean and zen and beautiful
Feeling *so* much cleareer now 
Goddess Yasmina ~ Oh that is beyooootiful sweetie… I love how you rock your zen creativa space
Goddess Jill ~ Oh welcome to the Goddess Guidebook ship sweetie… hope you are settling in beautifully… *passes a velvet cushion*
February 6th, 2010 at 5:21 am
Oh Leonie, I’ve been planning to tidy up my desk forever…
And Stephanie, I also read this in my RSS feed while procrastinating because stuff was getting overwhelming. You are definitely not alone!
Clean, tidy surface. All papers converted into to-dos, with only 2 papers left are the ones I’m working on this very moment. And I have 3 talismans hanging out with me: a kitchen timer, a little Zulu doll and a pewter coin (one side “relax”, the other side “go go go”).
Ahhhh. Leonie, this is so nice. And I only subscribed to your RSS yesterday, where was I before!
February 6th, 2010 at 7:10 am
I am settling in nicely for sure, thanks so much Goddess Leonie! You have a wonderful community here!
February 7th, 2010 at 12:51 pm
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February 7th, 2010 at 5:53 pm
Spent a few minutes straightening up my desk which is part computer desk and part work surface for my art. Learned two things from this experience — one, I need shelves and two, I need a bigger desk!!!
It felt good though to clear some of the clutter that accumulates. Zen Thursdays is a good idea.
Roo
February 7th, 2010 at 11:06 pm
Ooh, this was perfect this morning. I cleaned my desk and was really strict, I wouldn’t allow myself a cuppa until I’d done it! It did take more than five minutes though ;o) A bit late I know but I’d only just seen your ‘Zen it Thursday’. Love it! Is it ok to put your little badge on my blog? x
February 8th, 2010 at 12:40 am
Hi Leonie,
I love the Zen Thursday theme and I will get right to this weeks task and clear my desk and table too. While I have several desk in my home, other than the one I use for my daycare, they seldom are used thus remaining neat most of the time. My area of clutter and discord falls mainly to by kitchen table which is always covered with newspapers, cookbooks, coupons, greeting cards waiting to be mailed etc. I love my large table…it is the hub of the house…and after I clear it off, I will be able to better enjoy its beauty.
February 8th, 2010 at 4:39 am
What a great idea! Blessings to you and your gift of goddess wisdom.
February 8th, 2010 at 4:41 pm
Actually I found this little post today (Monday) after having just finished my list of ‘to do’ for this week. On it was emptying out purse and bag. Well did that and have just finished my desk! yay! It’s all good and now I’m ready to start on the ‘good stuff’! Time to paint without guilt!
February 11th, 2010 at 2:55 am
You’re awesome Leonie, what a great idea! I am looking forward to every Zen Thursday with you!
Yolanda