Notes from Jaceo's Diary
I usually spend a lot of time alone, gazing at spectacular landscapes such as this Sedona landscape in Arizona.
I start the day driving around a particular place, and when an area interests me enough to catch my attention, I stop, and with my trusty Julian easel,paint away for an hour or two until I complete a painting.
Many people see painting as a very lonely profession and it couldn't be farther from the truth. There's a sense of exhilaration that's impossible to describe whenever I see an empty linen canvas in front of me and smell the turpentine, and touch the oil colors that I'll use, colors galore that make my eyes crinkle in delight: cerulean blue,quinacridone red,rose madder,cobalt turquoise light, alizarin crimson.
I usually bring my Ipod and listen to downloaded stuff from my Itunes folder - a bunch of french lessons I really diligently listen to perfect my french accent; a couple of audio Tonight shows with Jay Leno (my brother-in-law records it diligently for me. He downloads it and listens to it in his office too) and an audio copy of one funny radio show from the Philippines called Goodtimes with Mo which leaves me in stitches the whole day.
I was listening to their Monday show and the hosts were talking about secrets people keep which were anonymously revealed to the world at large. It was so hilarious since many of the secrets involved people sleeping with their partner's siblings. That's with an s in case you didn't notice. I find it funny since I found the situations surreal. I just realized these people had a lot of time on their hands for titillating stuff which border on the ridiculous.
Whenever I hear the word secret, it means something totally different for me. I read this book a few years ago, "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne, with a lot of contributions from wise sages like Jack Canfield, John Grey and Lisa Nichols among other resource persons. There's been a lot of hullabaloo about this book, some good, some bad. I found the riff raff quite disconcerting since the principles espoused in the book has been around for quite some time.
I've known about the Secret for quite some time. For a very long time, I wasn't sure what my career path was, and I took a lot of missteps to get to where I am today. I read a lot of books to find out why I was placed on this earth. The more I read, the more I realized that the messages were quite similar. The message: You can be whoever you want to be, if you believe and work hard to make that dream come true.
The book helped me redefine what I wanted, a very easy guideline to create what you want in three simple steps.
1. ASK
Lisa Nichols :'The first step is to ask. Make a command to the Universe. Let the Universe know what you want. The Universe responds to your thoughts.'
2. BELIEVE
'Believe that it's already yours. Have what I call unwavering faith. Believing in the unseen.'
3. RECEIVE
Three simple steps. That's all. Trying having this kind of Secret rather than the other troubling, salacious kind. Goodtimes!!!!
(Notes from Jaeco's Diary is fictional and comes from the imagination and point of view of this blogger.Photo of the Sedona mountains by Krikit. Photo of the Arizona sunset by Threaded Thoughts )
