Like any good mother, her desire was to have her child grow bright and bold, and to be full of good humor and wit, and to be generous and courageous and kind.
For, being such, how could anyone not have the most beautiful story?
After all, what is the code and concept of life, of living, of humanity, if it is not to find one's calling and to have that calling be greater than one's self; if it is not to pursue that calling and complete it with joyous self-respect?
Wherever you go, whatever you do, you take yourself with you. Everything else is dressing.
Beyond The Hero we find no person journeying that is not fully equipped with what is necessary - the journey's non-negotiable essential. No substitution. No short-cut. No snap-solution. No silver bullet. Not Beyond The Hero! To each, this is a journey of significance.
Beyond The Hero, awesome learnings emanate largely from the 'light' of their example shining on the realities of our experiences. In these episodes we are exposed, by degrees, to essential skills employed along this journey of significance (skills learned and honed during a hero's jouney). What are your skills?
Are you on your hero's journey or have you arrived Beyond The Hero?What skills have you proven essential for your journey? How are you honing those for optimal effectiveness? What is your evidence of their essentiality and their effectiveness?Are you satisfied? Are you still waiting? Are you progressing? Do you have a super power?
The sky is clear.
One thing we know about these greats, these thundering giants of our grand arenas, it is this: these greats were focused on being the best of their breed and they became the best and as they did they spawned greater greatness farflung from their fields.
These greats were not the only persons with hearts and minds so fixed on a dream, yet only these greats were the ones who made it to the top of their heaps, not those others who were just as fixed in their guts and in their souls on their dreams. Why is it then that while these greats made it to the top, their mortal mates got stuck? Why? Why did all those other mortals with bowels full of talent and heads full of dreams not ABLE TO ESCAPE THE DUNG HEAP?
Something was missing.
Stories mutate. Even our grand and glorious stories. Perhaps, moreso the grand and glorious - those stories our communities love to hear and tell and believe and want to come true again and again, and those stories we wish washed from our shores. They mutate. Perhaps that is the nature of our being. Perhaps such stories comfort us in darkness. Perhaps they are the hopes of dreams. Perhaps they are tablets of wisdom unavailable to impoverished intentions. Perhaps! Beyond The Hero, on the journey of significance, we find disclosure - not highlight reels - living stories being lived eyes opened. Brave stories.
Welcome to episode four of BEYOND THE HERO - intention - curated by Neville DeAngelou, shining a light on essential skills these learned and honed during their hero's journey, as well as upon what these highlight as the emphatically urgent and important difference between the joy of one's secret chord and the tune of the pied piper, and not only that!
Simplicity is beautiful. Simple, projecting what it is not, is deception.
Enjoy actionable discoveries continuously shared - smartly - particularly those that uplift, inspire, promote harmony, expand opportunities, exemplify beauty, and reveal wonder, in other words, those proven to strengthen our emboldened exercise of genuine love through all of love's fertile dimensions, supplying those of us who are blessed and inspired to take action with necessary skillsets to be awesome in our real world. Namaste. Share.
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BE SMART
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Miracles of mind-over-matter and follies of matterless minds are enormously edifying.
There exists amongst us a breed BEYOND THE HERO - not some sort of stereotype. Time and again, we have leaned on brilliant examples from amongst our Wonder Women to facilitate transformation and growth and achievement. This will continue to be so in this segment. Learning never stops. Beyond where growth stops, the news is not good.
In our new segment, however, we will primarily be highlighting four critical elements of the RyoMale, which we will use to explore, examine, exemplify, and work out in order to expand amongst our ranks a) more of our brand new breed BEYOND THE HERO and b) effective emergent leaders (of all stripes) apopros to the better values of our times.
We are OPEN - Our World Needs Each Of Us, that much better at our best!
Today's pivot QUESTION: (repeated) you are wise, you are smart; you've taken deep breaths and centered yourself; you reflected, re-evaluated and recalibrated; you're refueled; you've come to an awakened realization: alas, despite a thousand butterflies busy in your belly, this is your moment; it's time for ACTION
- what's missing and what will you do about it; are you still waiting?
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The Hero's First Quadrant
Who is the hero of your story? Who is living it out? We discovered, BEYOND THE HERO, that essential skills used along each journey of signifcance were honed from the hero's journey where no hero can go it alone.
Using that journey's celebrated pattern, mapped into our own intentional and habitual actions, we allowed ourselves a more focused and informed view of the elements of the hero's tug out from his or her comfort zone (that first quandrant shown above) - i.e., call to action, wise assistance, departure - into life's necessary adventure / quest / discovery / revelation. Here is where intention is clarified and the journey's curriculum is decided. We also recovered essentials recognized as missing from our own privileged set skills and are acting in accordance with those as well. You aso may find this helpful.
Make a list. What knowledge, skills, habits of necessity, etc., did you accumulate during the following, which you are continuing to employ and fine tune:
call to action
search for wise assitance
receipt of wise counsel and guidance
preparation for departure from your comfort zone
departure?
Are these now in sync with your wise intention? Will they take you forward? How do you know? Can you differentiate the sound of your secret chord from the tune of a pied piper? Which are you in step with at this moment? Choose wisely. This is your life - a gift for all eternity. It is your experience, your story, written forever on the pages of time, as much as we can tell. Is something missing? Will your next action embody in whole, in part, and in outcome, your intention? Do you know who you are? Who goes there?
"Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny." _ Mohandas Gandhi
Fill your heart with love and laughter.
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer." _ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Have you a cause so compelling your being exists precisely for it? Is your cause SO JUST it is worthy of the time, space, and efforts required to achieve it? Does your cause keep you fired up, does it give you a reason to rise into every fresh new day grateful? How brave are you? It is a combination of courage and connection.
Learn something new - maybe a new language / an online course
Re-acquaint yourself with nature - bird-watching - hiking - gardening
Make that new recipe or invent one
Do puzzles / board games for families (or homies)
Call that person! Call that person! Call that person!
Drop a dish / Leave a note / Let someone know you're available (if you are)
Count blessings
Remember: this is YOUR LIFE; only you can live it.Live purposefully; that is profitable.
Take Action
"Know what you own. Understand what you claim. Believe you can achieve what you conceive then call it by its name. Mine! The extent to which you have this clarity of mind, this purity of understanding, this strength of belief, you have the fire, the fuel, the impetus, the passion, the determination, the willpower you require to pursue and retrieve your truest desire. But do not claim what does not belong to you. It will not keep you . . . it will suffer you but for only so long."
You are valued. You are important. What you experience is important. Your intention matters. You are a whole being. You are a true wonder. You diminish yourself whenever you pit valued elements of who you are against vital elements of who you are: your intuitive self against your intellectual self, your rational self against your emotional self, your gut against your heart against your head. Don't be put at war against yourself: you are a masterpiece. An intricate being. Human!
Connection Is Key
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coach
advocate
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Life: it is a dance. It gets better with practice; its music is in your heart and in your soul and in your blood and in your bones. Life; it is a dance. It gets better with practice. You have a partner – your spirit. You can have a party if you like, but choose smartly who you invite, for life – your life – is a dance. It gets better with practice, unless you stop the music or so crowd your dance floor there is no space to move or be moved within it. Explore. Yes, life; it is a dance. It gets better with practice until the dance becomes the dancer and the dancer becomes the dance and life and all of existence becomes a singular flow. Yes, life; it is a dance. It gets better with practice. Dance.
Masterpiece
a work of outstanding artistry, skill, or workmanship.
tour de force
Is it a house or a castle?
Home is a special place. Love resides there. The best journeys take you there. Hope lives there. Home leaves no question about belonging. Friends belong there. Dreams thrive there. Home is a place of forgiveness. There is no rejection there. Home is a place of rest and recuperation and rejuvination. There is laughter there. Life takes you to unexpected places; love brings you home. At home you are free to flourish. It is where you birthed your wings. Are you there yet? Be royal - you make your rules.
Out beyond ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field. I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.
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live laugh love
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let your light shine
Come, let us all be friends for once,
Let us make life easy on us,
Let us be lovers and loved ones,
The earth shall be left to no one.
Across the nation and around the world there is a long rumble.
It is a rumble so loud it strikes ready ears as a distant clap of a fierce thunder. It is a rumble so low, it rides beneath the noise of a thousand human fears; it can no longer be heard. Fear of flight, fear of heights, fear of sand, fear of snow, fear of monsters in the closet, fear of bugs in the pillow, fear of cats, fear of bats, fear of strangers at the door, fear of being lost, fear of being laughed at, fear of being stuck in the toilet bowl, fear of whites, fear of blacks, fear of browns, blues and yellows, fear of nakedness, fear of the unknown, fear of being hurt.
Smile. Live. Love. Laugh. Look. Listen. Learn. Be awesome. You are powerful beyond measure. You are not alone. You can do all things. I am you. You are me. We are one. Keep Sharing.
May our light shine on sprinkled seeds along The Journey.
"Live Your Life - Live it well. You are worth it."
Listen. Learn. Lead.
"I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down, men other-centered can build up." Martin Luther King Jr.Look. Listen. Learn. STRETCH & SAVE! (A Place Called Ah.)
Breathe.
We are accompanied.
Balance - Focus - Rhythm
BE EVER REMINDED:the life you are living is YOUR life; ONLY YOU can live it!
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