Pastel by Greg Vineyard
Time to Realizationalize Yourself!
Sometimes the smallest decision can turn out to be quite the radical action.
Take deciding whether to get out of bed, for example. If one does not arise, the chain of events of the day – both the very typical as well as the unexpectedly atypical ones – wouldn’t get their fair shake. Despite a lot of routine, each day still also holds much potential for Endless Wonder (my sci-fi nod to “Warehouse 13”).
My made-up word, “realizationalize” is an obvious melding of “realization” and “rationalize.” Each of which revealed interesting definitions in my Ginormous dictionary that I always go on about. (Because it’s bigger than my car.) “Rationalization,” in the most positive light, means “exploring reason”, and a favorite meaning of “realization” is “making … real of something imagined.” Given these, perhaps we can imagine and explore our realities as we address this year’s goals – or even simply face any given day’s opportunities.
Back to getting out of bed… I may or may not have mentioned my rescue cat? Now and then? Ok, only a hundred times. Since adopting said cat, I have no choice but to get up early or I may receive (or, because I have indeed received) an inquiring paw on my face. As I stumble to the kitchen amidst a meowling that sounds as if someone is slowly squeezing the air out of Snuffleupagus, I remind myself that there’s always more than plenty to do, so the pre-sunrise hour is ultimately a good thing.
Friends and I commented recently about how 2013 seemed to have whizzed on by extra quickly. This feeling actually stems from the sense of urgency that accompanies having fewer and fewer decades laid-out before us. For really, a year is just a year is just a year. It shouldn’t feel different, but it does. And then there’s leap year, with that odd, precious extra day of (a paw in the face!) … potential. That extra mark on the calendar feels like nothing to us, but it’s 0.02 years to a cat.
So, what can we do to radically explore our realities, to use reason to address and then fuel one’s creative fires? In that same dictionary of hugeness, “radical” has many useful characterizations in addition to the ways I have used it here. And these following explanations can be used like a checklist:
“Going to the root of origin.” OK, so that’s sorta math-ish, but after my complex cat-year calculation above, I’m into it. I relate this to drilling-down and identifying an original creative or business passion. What am I still not doing that I wish to be doing? We must find the origins!
“Forming a basis or foundation.” This could also be seen as slightly obtuse. But it reminds me to make a plan, and then build up a solid structure. Can the big, bad wolf blow my house down? Gotta pour the concrete.
“Existing inherently in a thing or person.” This third one caught me by surprise. (But, it is a huge dictionary, full of things new to me. When I can lift it. Have I mentioned how big it is?) How awesome is this delineation? I immediately go to considering my level of trust in my universe. Is my creativity (… or my art, plan, idea, business, project, intention, love, (insert anything here) really resident within me? Am I truly connected?
My goal here, aside from trying to drive spell-check crazy, is to offer up “radical-ness” as more of an everyday concept, an accessible notion. I want to encourage action, even in the smallest ways.
So, rise from your slumber, feed the cat, and see what the new daylight may bring into focus for you. And, at the end of the day, may your slumber be full of dreams that grant you new realizationisms and rationalities for your next day’s endeavors!
