Last week I suddenly realized that I couldn’t just keep ruminating on my DMP, but had to get something concrete down. I nearly decided to change my PPNs again, but said enough is enough (and my guides set me straight). Get on with it.

What made me realize this?

We need to have 4 different versions of our DMP to use all day long every day.

We need a Movie Trailer version to put on an index card, less than 300 words.

We need the regular version, a writer’s version of 300 words.

We need a press release version written after the DMP has been achieved.

We need a Movie poster version, with pictures.

I discovered that after I started working on some of the other versions, this was starting to become more fun and less like work (or a surgical procedure without pain killer) and I was relating to the whole process much better. I literally became excited at the Movie Poster project when I finally got to it.

I think we have been told that when we hit resistance it is the old Blueprint rearing its head. But the thing I realized this week is that I am an inductive learner.

I am only pushing myself to catch up because I finally get what they are doing by bombarding us with all these things they want us to do without explaining why (although I am now thinking they have said why but it hasn’t gotten through my thick skull until this week).

Since the course began I’ve been having interesting experiences with subby.

Like what was that all about when I bid on and won 27 live auction items on the Saturday before the course technically began? Who was saying buy all that stuff?

One item was an antique toy cook stove which subby brought to mind a few days ahead of time to purchase for my granddaughter. I had found one in related sale a few years back for a friend. Now subby said it was time to get one for me.

If subby makes all the decisions… I’m still kind of in shock from that. I had really only planned to bid on 3 items. Famous last words, right? But the three items were from my preview and were for myself.

I only got one of the three because I had a very low budget. That allowed me to help my son refurnish his home and buy more for my granddaughter and get other interesting things I’ve always wanted. An antique Mickey Mouse for my husband who loves Disney… Subby just knows that, doesn’t need to be a special focus.

Full disclosure, I’ve been warming up to Mark’s ideas since May, but didn’t fully get what was happening to me…..

Other things have happened as well, but this week was especially surprising.

I was thinking about a special photo of a specific house I needed on my Movie Poster and what luck, I would be near enough to easily walk over and ‘snap’ it.

But, I just kept forgetting to do it until it was almost too dark on the last day before I would be leaving for my other home. So I quickly dropped everything and attempted to get a good shot from an easy vantage point.

Nope, too far, so I had to climb an even higher “hill” to get right in front of the house. And that took extra time. But it was nice to have a closer inspection of the front, back and sides.

Picture taken, I headed back down to the road, and as I was close to my home, a car stopped to ask me about my bee hives. Turns out Shownda has an apiary with 120+ hives down the road, which I had heard about but didn’t know where it was or whose it was.

Now I have a beekeeping mentor! She had noticed my hives and was meaning to stop and ask if I needed help but she was never sure if we were there. I happened to be out on the road and so she stopped. Wow!

Right behind her another car had stopped and wanted to talk with me also. It was someone I needed to talk with, mostly for peace of mind, concerning a property issue. I had not seen him for years. But he stopped to talk about the very thing I needed to discuss with him.

These two people came to me because I was working on my DMP.

This is real.