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31 days to GOal!! Do you need a "muchness" tune-up to really reach your goals and dreams?

Posted 04-11-2010 at 04:31 PM by Sandra Bostwick
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The Mad Hatter: The Jabberwock, with eyes aflame, Jaws that bait and claws that catch, Beware the Jabberwock, my son, The frumious Bandersnatch He took his vorpal sword in hand The vorpal blade went snicker-snack He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back. Its all about you, you know
Alice: I'm not slaying anything. I don't slay, so put it out of your mind
The Mad Hatter: ...Mind?
[Hatter stops, puts Alice down on a log, and continues walking]
Alice: Wait! You Cant leave me here!
The Mad Hatter:You don't slay? Do you have any idea what the Red Queen has done? You don't slay.
Alice: I couldn't if i wanted to.
The Mad Hatter: You're not the same as you were before You were much more..."muchier" You've lost your "muchness"
Alice: My "muchness"?
The Mad Hatter: [Points to Alice's heart] In there.

What a great dialogue! How meaningful!

Here some muchness comments from yesterday:
Angie commented:

I found the ending brought the same excitement... I use the term "Muchness" quite often now... as the same reminder that I shouldn't fear going after what I want...
I bought a necklace from JAPAN in EPCOT when I was there in December. It is a silver Japanese symbol with a black leather necklace... the symbol meant "NOTHINGNESS" and for me, it meant more than nothingness, I had to have it, to wear it as sort of a warrior symbol... I am more than nothing, I can be more than nothing, and this beautiful piece that I bought from the one place I want to be for life reminds me of what I must to do not be "NOTHINGNESS"



Posted Yesterday at 10:08 PM by A.Daley


Pam commented:

I am working on getting my Muchness back as well. I feel like I have done a pretty good job on that though. It took me a few years to figure out how much of my Muchness I had lost, and it is taking me a while to get it back, but get it back I am. Part of getting my Muchness back involves Disney. I truly believe I began to get it back on the day that I decided to take my DD to Disney for the first time. Since then, I have days where I get lots of it back and days where I lose some of it. (Like those days where I had recently broken up with a boyfriend and felt like no one wanted me at all.) Now I have a wonderful DD, a truly amazing DBF, and a terrific group of friends (IRL and online) and together they all support me in different ways as I gather my Muchness up around me again. I have become an in home travel agent so I can help others plan their Disney vacations. I go to school so that I can fulfill my life long dream of being a teacher. I am working on becoming a Guide for Passporters so I can give back to the community that has given me so much. I am getting my Muchness back.



Posted Today at 04:13 PM by PamelaK

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These are both such great thoughts on the topic. There is something in life that can start to take away your "muchness". It is like when a bright, beautiful T-shirt gets washed too many times. It is still the same T-shirt, but it has lost it's "muchness" somehow.

When it comes to goals and dreams, my muchness has always been in my drive, my focus, and my unwillingness to give up on something I believe in.

Well, I think I need a muchness tune-up.

I love in the clip above, where Alice holds the sword above her head and says "How's this for muchness?"

That is what I'll be working toward and THIS is my blog entry for today!




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    I cannot wait for the day I can say to my doubters, the ones that think any dream career involving Disney is cute or silly, "Hows this for muchness?"
    I could consider the Nothiness and Muchness my ark and Light... "I will not be Nothing, I will find my Muchness"
    If I can say that every morning, when I start to fade, when I am told which hat to wear.
    I wear my nothingness necklace... I took the Muchness quote into my heart... but until yesterday, I never brought the two together as sides of my world. And until just now, I have never put the two together as a complete emotion or mantra.
    So as I type, I am creating my own revelation for tomorrow when I wake and decide which hat to wear.
    So thank you Sandy... whewn I come onto the blog, I occassionally wonder what I will post and how will I contribute... but the more I type, the more I connect with myself, with others, and with what I really want to do and what I need to tell myself to get a little closer!

    Tomorrow... I will not be Nothing, I will find my Muchness and create... not for others but for myself!!
    And now I am done typing! good nite
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    correction*** I could consider the Nothiness and Muchness my Dark and Light... "I will not be Nothing, I will find my Muchness"
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    Angie, you were the one who made the muchness concept click for me.

    I remember saying "I used to be SOMETHING" to someone recently and not being able to articulate any clearer than that. I was really talking about my muchness.

    Sometimes what looks like TOO MUCH to others is just the right amount of muchness for someone else!
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