Quick Sunday Read celebrates creativity, offers words to contemplate for the week, and journal prompts to expand your mind and life. Join me, writer and creativity guide Cindy Yantis.
A Quick Sunday Read and a bit about Cohesion
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Hey Reader! Thank you for being here. More to the point thank you for receiving me into your inbox. It’s a privilege I don’t take lightly. You’ll see some slight changes to my correspondence in the coming weeks. I’m consolidating my newsletter and blog onto Substack. It’s a big change for me as I’ve had my blog Thought Changer at its current location for the last 15 years. It feels time to change it up and bring things under one roof in a place with a ready and engaging community for both readers and writers. Feels like another open door. I look forward to sharing more Quick Sunday Reads and more quality words and ideas with you from my new Abundant Creation publication there. As always, I would love to hear your thoughts as we go along. And, what's cool is on Substack you can leave comments in real-time, besides replying to my email. Quick Word - Words have power. Use them well.This week's word: Cohesion Does it feed or serve the story? Is the scene necessary? Or the character? I’m editing my novel and these are questions continuously posed as I craft and hone a cohesive story that delivers on its theme and intention. I'm also streamlining all of my areas and platforms for creation and writing. Creative cohesion. On my list of "More of this and less of that" that I create at the start of each year, 'more cohesion and less splintering' was at the top of the list. Cohesion. What a unifying word. Cohesive is a noun meaning "the action or fact of forming a united whole." Or, "the act or state of sticking together tightly." Or, “a condition in which people or things are closely united.” Unity. Harmony. Collaboration. Concord. Compatibility. Consensus. Kinship. Symbiosis. Affinity. Its first use was in approximately 1660 and is borrowed from New Latin cohaesiōn-, cohaesiō (Medieval Latin, "proximity contact"), from Latin cohaes-, variant stem of cohaerēre "to stick together. “When your thoughts, words, and deeds form a seamless fabric, you streamline your efforts and thus eliminate worry and dread."— Epictetus It takes cohesive thinking to execute. Often this is what I help clients with too. Culling through vast collections of wonderful ideas to streamline, to create a cohesive plan and direction to execute the ideas to a completed form. You are the executive of your ideas. Or your project. Or your mission. Or your day. Cohesion is an aid for the effective execution of those things. It's uniting and bringing together all of the bits in a fashion to proceed. To bring it to fruition. When you feel scattered with a wealth of ideas to the point of overwhelming, think cohesion. Cohesion is putting things in order. It is streamlining and eliminating the clutter and the distractions from the cohesive central idea, plan, mission, theme, intention, or purpose. Cohesion is alignment. Cohesion is an important leadership skill. It’s solidifying a team of people or principles aligned with the core values of the company. Leading with cohesion also means embracing contradictions as debates that will strengthen the team's initiatives and course-correcting when things get off track. Teamwork. “The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime."—Babe Ruth Do you have cohesion in your life? In your home? In your work? Trust your intuition. Is it a necessary component that can be adjusted, and molded to cohesively execute? Or is it a distraction that can be released, thus strengthening the story? Something to think about. Journal Prompt What are you spending time on that isn't serving your story, your life? How can you adjust and make a more cohesive choice? My newest journals available on Amazon: Open Sesame: A Manifestation Journal for Opening the Doors of Your Life The Open Sesame Journal: To Manifest the Life of Your Dreams Creative Coffee ChatWhat do you want to create? Invest in your create cohesion. :) Perhaps a Creative Jam Session is the key to opening the portal to your highest imagination... Learn more about my creative coaching practices and packages HERE. Now's the time for your Projects, Passion, and Purpose™! Book a year of creativity with me and you'll be amazed at what you'll accomplish. I hope you have a great week filled with steps toward effective and harmonious cohesion. And, kindness.
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Quick Sunday Read
Quick Sunday Read celebrates creativity, offers words to contemplate for the week, and journal prompts to expand your mind and life. Join me, writer and creativity guide Cindy Yantis.
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