A Quick Sunday Read and a bit about Cohesion
A Quick Sunday Read and a bit about Cohesion
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
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?
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I hope you have a great week filled with steps toward effective and harmonious cohesion. And, kindness.
Keep creating, abundantly,
