C.V.

Good morning!
This blog should have really been written at 4.00am this morning when my somewhat direct unicorn shouted it in my ear....and then kept me awake until seven, till I got up and switched on the pc. (Thank you Jaz) So I guess it must be important.
Ok, yesterday afternoon, when other Ms Lunicorn and I were having a bit of a meeting re Lunicorn's ever evolving direction, and thinking it was probably time to cast off our diverse freelance activities and take another leap of faith, to focus solely on Lunicorn, Laura mentioned Shakti Gawain. Now Shakti is to Laura what Kate Bush is to me - a wondrous inspiration, and since I've known Laura, she's mentioned her a lot. Shakti Gawain has written a number of books about positive thought, but her most famous to date, is "Creative Visualization". Laura has always been suggesting to me that I read her books. As we were chatting, and Laura was reading me out yet another of Shakti's one liners, I suddenly thought, I know this writer already...off I went, to what we affectionately call 'the library' in our house, and there it was - The Creative Visualisation Workbook by Shakti Gawain. So what, you might think, what's the significance of that?
I bought this book over twenty years ago from a shop in Edinburgh, then owned by the lovely chaps who run the Body & Soul Fairs we attend with Lunicorn. And in it, I had created my very own visualisation page or 'treasure map'(pic of myself, some pix of sports cars, some positive words I had cut out of magazines) and on the opposite page I had written down my affirmations.
Now, here's the amazing bit. I'm now over forty, back then, I was in my early twenties, and being an Aries, I must have used this book for a while, then got bored and moved onto something else, as my input stops half way through.
Every thing that I wrote down or pasted in a picture of, has happened! I got my sports car, exactly like the one I'd cut out of a magazine (don't have it now, but that's another story), I got published, writing became my career, as I have been both a journalist and a publicist. From Joanna Lumley, who called me a gypsy (!), to K.T.Tunstall, I've either interviewed or set up interviews for some of the best known names out there. Yet, as I became enmeshed in that world, I lost sight of the map that had taken me there. It's only since we started Lunicorn, that I understand again. And whether we call it Creative Visualisation, The Law of Attraction, Positive Thought, The Secret, it's working with the same principles - simply that we can achieve anything and everything we truly want if we believe we can. Some of my goals have changed now from back then, but one remains steadfast - you see the unicorns have a plan.
Is it just co-incidence that CV stands for both Creative Visualisation and Curriculum Vitae. Think about what we do with our own CVs? We write down what we've achieved career wise and send it off to a prospective employer in the hope that they'll be dazzled by our skills and offer us that big job. Try writing your CV in the present tense, with everything you want in life. Where you want to be. We're doing it with Lunicorn. On Wednesday this week, before all this happened yesterday, we each bought cork boards to serve as visualisation boards for what we now want. I don't think there'll be any sports cars this time, but you never know! Maybe a pic of some nice clean lungs, as I realise the reason I haven't stopped smoking yet, is because I'm giving all this thought energy to stopping rather than focusing on health.
Ok, I think that's what I was supposed to write, so I'll bid you another Good Morning and go wake Laura Lunicorn.
Ta ta
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