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?
Peculiar isn't it, somewhere along life's timeline, initiated by some ad hominem event or awakening, perhaps fortunately by graceful realization, we face the very questions ancients wrestled (who am I, why am I here, where am I going). In so doing we are sometimes shuffled along that well known crowded spectrum, somewhere between the road to boon and the road to cynicism, hopefully not loitering where we landed. Nevertheless, wherever we are this is a new moment; your new day, our new day!
As which of these do you see yourself today: PERSON 1.0, PERSON 2.0, or PERSON 2.0 Supreme?
Here, PERSON 1.0 awakes to another Ground Hog Day. Ooops! Same old news. Guaranteed predictability. That infamous loop. It is what it is.
Progressing, let's say we've identified four resources currently available to our PERSON 2.0 and PERSON 2.0 Supreme. What might those resources be and how would you wisely use them were you Project Awesome?
This is our pick of resources (at this moment for the Project):
time
money
intelligence
relationships
What's your pick of four available resources? Choose smartly.
Say PERSON 2.0 or PERSON 2.0 Supreme has need of these resources (or find each pivotal to his or her purpose, wellbeing, and-or pursuit) and chooses to make optimal, compounding or profitable use of each, it seems he or she would want to have at minimum a sound understanding of these four resources, even more so, a profound functional sense of their ongoing inter-operability!
Would you agree?
Again, who are you in Project Awesome?
Do you consider yourself a burgeoning PERSON 2.0 or PERSON 2.0 Supreme? (God forbid, please, not a PERSON 1.0 EMBEDED. That being what it is, there is no passage through here!)
We noticed a few unique peculiarities about our selected set of four available resources. These peculiarities are highly suggestive of variable risk, and each resource is equally susceptible to uneven breaking points, especially when taken for granted or misused. Did you notice?
For example:
time (don't know how much is in the bucket - mysterious)
Well, here we are. These are our resources. This is a new day, a beautiful day. This is our moment. This is your moment. So! Those ancient questions again! Who are you? Why are you here? Where are you going?
Embrace YOUR enriched experiences.
REFLECT. reset. Make Your Move.
We are a peculiar people: you and I. No doubt we are intricately interwoven (internally, externally). And marvelously made, preciously so with blindspots (might we say a spate of Ethereal Humor demanding comity): we are interdependent.
The mastery and the malevolence of our manifestation as humans, is this: we (humans) are simultaneously creator, mirror and observer of our actions and experiences. We pride our precious independence.
Infinitely peculiar, this power is!
Creation is full of humor.
Well.
This is our tragedy: the freedom to believe (a pride of devils and demons). This is our marvel: the freedom to believe (privileged to cherubims and seraphims). It proves wise to keep intentions clear.
Breathe.
belief: an awesome super power
Welcome to SEASON SEVEN, 're-CLAIMED,' episode six - identity - curated by Neville DeAngelou, revealing through these organizing principles a) how cultivating a sense of purpose can help us weather life's biggest storms, b) where tranquility thrives, and c) a sprinkling of some of many fine ways we stack and use four of our invaluable resources (time, money, intelligence, and relationships) which prove essential to the fulfillment of some aspirations and the attainment of equilibrium in our lives. By way of this discourse we are also celebrating some honorable trailblazers who continually inspire us to be who we are. Isn't that awesome?
"For anyone who has seen the highlights of Biles defying gravity and the seeming limitations of the human body, of her ability to twist, turn, flip, and land with power and grace, threre should be no question that she has the rare courage that comes from the mixture of youth and athleticism. But there is a lot more to the Biles story. Not only is she an Olympic champion and acclaimed as the best gymnast to ever live, she is also an African-American in a country with a fraught relationship to race, a trailblazer within a predominantly white sport, a survivor with an organization that failed to protect its athletes and quite simply, a human being navigating her 20s in and out of the spotlight." Dan Rather
Isn't that awesome?
"The outpouring love & support I've received has made me realize I'm more than my accomplishments and gymnastics which I never truly believed before." Simone Biles
Isn't that awesome?
There are beautiful people everywhere around us, each in their particular ways making marvelous differences toward better. For sure that depends on where one looks and for what one may be looking. A few steps beyond the confines of comfort and away from bomerang noises we find super samples of awesome. These are every bit all human, just like the rest of us. It's good to know them, not only for who they are, also for how they do what they do. It proves good for us to keep becoming, being our richly authentic selves, not to prove anything to anyone, just seeking to offer the best of who we are in what we do. For that is just awesome.
"Leaving my first Olympic Games with two medals. I am SO blessed. Blessed to have had the opportunity to represent @teamusa at the Olympics, to have my support system, to have an amazing medical staff here with us, and to have a coach who prepared me for these moments."
- Gabby Thomas (Neurobiology - Harvard; pursuing a masters in epidemiology)
We are WIDE OPEN wholly responsible for making our world a better place.
Today's pivot QUESTION: perhaps you also are venturing out safely, rediscovering, or for the first time you are sampling farther fields - smartly - or are discovering marvelous worlds revealed by extrarodinary minds and-or those designed by the fruitfully imaginative, and you are finding such journeys and escapades to be incredibly edifying, rejuvinating, uplifting, exciting;
where to next?
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TAKE ACTION
- Allyson Felix confidently, faithfully, carrying the baton
"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
Why not examine your life from a different angle?
As much as is affordable for matters that matter, afford yourself a 360 degree view. You may find this of great value in ways you had not imagined nor known to account for. It is highly probable you will also encounter awesome insights that are of no relevance to who you are or what you are about, and that you will make observations you are ill-equipped to comprehend. It is highly likely you will encounter delightful delusions, and disconcerting illusions, and lots of bs disguised as helpful secrets. It may very well not be incumbent upon you to contest or combat any of these, but they will inform you, and will assuredly put upon you the onus to be ever more discerning and to be ever smarter with your decisions and clearer with your intentions, for all in all these will profitably test your faith and mirror your trust, and render you that much better. As much as is affordable for matters that matter, afford yourself a 360 degree view.
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Potentiality
"An infinity of forests lies dormant in the dream of an accorn."
HIDDEN BRAIN: Cultivate Your Purpose (Traversing Life's incline)
Remember: it is YOUR LIFE; only you can live it. A fish devoted to climbing a tree is a task not pretty. Though life is full of marvelous exceptions worthy of awe, there beside foolishness tragedy piles hard. There is just so much baloney a stomach can take before the gut turns sick. Therefore, it may prove of good worth to own a well-oiled baloney detection kit, to know how to use it well, and to use it wisely. Regardless, be ever aware: this is your life, ONLY YOU can live it. Life is full of wonder. Each of us plays a significant role in the richness of that experience. We say, let us be amazing, each in his or her own particular way, whether this is in who we are, toward who we are becoming, or by what we do. For isn't that just awesome? Cheers.
Allyson Felix - Mom - Most decoraled American Track & Field Olympian
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!
Discovering: sobering realities
inventor
entrepreneur
creator
coach
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
Memories from My Bedroom
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? We live amongst viruses and bacteria: some are villains and some are monsters. Monsters breed. Villains are everywhere; you are ever in their sights. Be yourself. Be prepared: find your rhythm, stay in balance, keep your values and your vision in focus. Keep your intentions clear. Are you carrying the baton or readying to receive it? Know your purpose. Choose friends wisely. Create cherished memories. You'll glow.
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.
expand your mind
. . .
live
laugh
love
. . .
let your light shine
Live. Laugh. Love.
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. YOU ARE VALUED BEYOND MEASURE. (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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