GIVING UP THE GUN by Vampire Weekend

I happen to be teaching this method of Daily Bloomified’s morning routine as I too am going through a rough patch.  Funnily enough, that coincidence is proving to me more and more how much I can trust the process of completing that morning 30 minutes of cardio, followed by 30 minutes of prayer/meditation and topped off with an entry of journaling or posting a blog.

It is amazing because I have been a teacher my entire life and only through writing does the bulk of the teaching come alive.  Meaning, when you teach in person to a crowd, you learn quickly that it doesn’t matter how you teach it, how you deliver the information, or even your relationship with your audience.  What matters is if the audience CHOOSES to be engaged.

You learn this the hard way as a teacher.

You are pumped, young, creative, endlessly intelligent.  You seem like Mary Poppins to your

crew, just pulling ideas out of thin air and making your audience for a split second buy into what you’re selling.  But as time goes on and data proves, people only internalize what you teach them if they WANT to learn – if they want to embrace the details.

When teaching coffee, I had a similar revelation.  An infamous trainer in the Australian coffee industry just enlightened me the other day, as I had the chance to be taught by him and learn from his training session on Bar-Flow & Customer Service.  He said, “We’ve learned a lot today.  We’ve dissected extraction and I’ve shown you the most efficient and quickest habits to master pumping drinks out in 1 minute or less, but you each will only retain about 10% of what I said today.  And it all comes down to you exhibiting that 10%, him exhibiting his 10%, and her sharing her 10% once I’m gone.  Then, hopefully, one of you will take the reins and be the leader in which you reinforce this process everyday.”

I felt like I was listening to myself.  These are the types of truths you come to know as a teacher, but cannot explain to anyone else.  In the coffee industry, I was able to be one of those humans who took the reins and reinforced everything I was being taught.  It was amazing.  Almost too perfect, to where you realize how good it feels to bring to life something that not only you can teach, but you internalize at the same time.  You start wishing that everyone you knew (outside of coffee) cared as much as you.

But guess what?  You are not alone.  There are actually many more people out there who are great learners.  Who care about the details.  Who want to improve their own lives whether they are in an UP or a DOWN, or just CHILLIN in the middle.

 

 

I know this because the audience for ALL writers are people who WANT to learn.  They are choosing to read what you’ve discovered or created.

You cannot see them, and the audience does not know each other, but they are out there

internalizing what they came to learn.  Practicing what they are choosing to preach.  Believing in something for themselves by living it out.

And this is why writing is so powerful.  Sure, on the day to day, there are a million people who refuse to change, or see the world any different.  Worse, there are people in your own family who are in fact in straight up denial about all of their mishaps and more.  But they do not want to learn like you.  They choose not to internalize.  And that is their own dismay.

YOU came to learn. And you came to learn so that you could live it out.  And when you live it out, you are TEACHING by example.

So you see?  The 3rd Step of Daily Bloomified is extremely important.  It takes all the glory home in one quick swoop.  When you write, you pull together every truth that you have begun to solidify in your mind and heart. You create affirmations just by writing.  That’s what writing is!  One huge affirmation.  We call this entire process of understanding transformed into fluid practice, internalization.  If you can write out the truths for yourself, then you can teach it to others or live by example for anyone else looking for a hopeful mentor.

If you were to do this every day, then these affirmations – these writing sessions – become

culminating factors in your ability to overcome obscene amounts of stress, negativity, disagreements, family issues, friend drama, career choices … the list could go on.

Only when all three steps are committed to in a consistent way, does Daily Bloomified really pay off.  It usually takes a full cycle: Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3 for Daily Bloomified to reveal its strength.  When you feel its strength, you unveil the knowledge that you’ve had all along.  You unleash the truest you, and you are that much more motivated to repeat the cycle.  Thus, Daily Bloomified is a daily routine.

Enjoy Daily Bloomified!  I will be posting consistently as well with more insight into each of the 3 Steps of this specifically crafted, yet very simple routine.  I know that you will find what you are looking for, as it has had great healing affects on my own life and brought me closer to who I truly am in this world.

With Much Love & Much Hope,

Diane