The current lesson in the Blog Triage class is called ‘Combat the Uglies’, a lesson that couldn’t come too soon.

I was listening to a TED talk recently by Barry Schwartz about too many choices, and I definitely was dealing with that when I was working to tweak the Wordpress theme I had chosen. Too many choices and not enough expertise in Photoshop and/or graphic design. I’m finally taking the plunge and calling in a professional.

In the meantime, I’ve used the full extent of my photoshop skills to play with some different color combinations. This first version uses the original colors from my website.

Here are some other ones I came up with. Let me know what you think…

Changing the background to a softer, more soothing color

Going green...

The Explorer/Seeker/Wanderer leaves the known to discover and explore the unknown.  This inner rugged individual braves loneliness and isolation to seek out new paths.  Often oppositional, this iconoclstic archetype helps us to discover our uniqueness, our perspectives, and our callings.

from Archetypes 101

I got to this from Typelizer, a site where you can analyze your blogtype. The default analysis is the MBTI: from the current blog posts, it thinks this ENFP is an ISTP.

The archetypes analysis indicates that the author’s motivation is Stability/Structure (desire to feel safe and in control) – NOT!  I’m more about Learning/Identity (desire to be yourself and find out about the world).

Which leads to part two of the first assignment:  what do I want out of this blog?

Originally, this blog was meant to be about my path, my own authentic body project, which is a work-in-progress.  But I am an evolving, expanding woman, and so, it always will be.  In the months since I conceived this idea, I’ve come to see the labor and delivery of this body of work as my Bigger Game, as what’s next for me.  So the perspective has shifted.

I want to break out of the isolation and loneliness and share the path with others who are willing to explore a new way of being around this question.

I love to read and synthesize ideas from reading and conversation, and I want to noodle about that here, in their half-baked form, instead of waiting until they are well-formed and tested.

I am a powerful coach, and I want to create relationships with people who are intrigued by my ideas, and seek a deeper connection, a deeper relationship.

I want to find my unique voice, my authentic expression, so that some day in the not-so-distant future, the Typelizer result is ENFP.

As I mentioned yesterday, I’m committing to a more gutsy, vibrant and fulfilling (for both my readers and myself) blog by engaging in a 4-week Blog Triage class with Cynthia Morris and Alyson Stanfield. I’ve been following Cynthia’s blog on her adventures as a Creative Nomad for the past year, and had been thinking, “I wish Cynthia would teach a blog class.” So I jumped at the chance even though this is not an artist blog.

The first assignment is to describe the people I want to visit and read my blog.

This blog’s for you if have struggled with food, with your weight, with your body image and know that there must be a better way to approach the subject matter.

This blog’s for you if you want to “stop weighting” to re-connect with all your hungers, and want to move forward enthusiastically to satisfy them.

This blog ’s for you if you are willing to consider the possibility that reclaiming your authentic body could be a fun, creative venture that you get to make up as you go along.

This blog’s for you if you just want to be part of a leading edge conversation that transforms the cultural attitudes about our relationships with food and our bodies.

The Authentic Body Project is my Bigger Game, so this blog is also for you if you are curious about getting a first-hand look at how I play my bigger game.

And most, especially, this blog is for the many people who have visited in the past, and expressed a hunger for more!