Personal development
fearlessly (or fearfully), having difficult
conversations with those around you.
This is done with the knowledge that
their lives, logic and yours, may not
always align.
And perhaps you’ll push your internal
dialogue further:
1. What do I want out of my life?
2. Why do I want it?
3. What do I expect to get from it?
4. What does making IT truly mean?
5. What will I do if I do get it and it is
not fulfilling?
6. What will I do if I don’t get it?
7. How will I respond to receiving a
YES or NO answer for something
that I (think I) truly want?
8. Why do I respond this way?
9. What is it that I don’t know?
that while we make choices, we may
not be able to determine who or how
those choices will impact our lives—or
families. If your defined “achievement”
is a dividend producing asset with
increased returns on your TIME and
MIND, you may have some form of
peace and prosperity.
Every vertical moment, your H2O has an
opportunity to be in harmony through
prayer, positivity, hugs, reflection,
imagination, vision, art, affirmations,
laughter, music, meditation, dance and
deciding. Your life need not be farcical
to benefit others alive or dead—or for
yourself.
Remember, we’ve all been given one
(1) bottle of life. CHOOSE not to be
victimized by marketed images of
success, insincere canned laughter,
artificial accolades and carrot-titles
traded for your time. When you are
present in the lives of your loved ones,
BE FULLY PRESENT. You may recall,
no matter how monetarily wealthy,
brackish waters are not well, and truly,
are not measures of success.
A caldera is an enormous cauldron
depression that often forms through
the subsidence and collapse of a
ground surface after the evacuation
of an underlying magma chamber.
A magma chamber is a great pool of
liquid molten rock below the surface
of our earth. The magma is under
monumental pressure. With time,
that pressure can slowly, and directly,
fracture the rock around it. Thus,
creating a way for the magma to move
upward.
What cauldron pressures have you
created for your life? If you choose
to rise UPward, where and what are
you rising to? Why? Tick+Tock=TIME.
One (1) LIFE. Before you are driven to
the edge, decide.
10. How kind am I being to myself?
11. How often do I celebrate my living
(not just my achievements)?
12. How much quiet time do I give
myself daily?
13. How often do I thank myself, my
body and the internal voice that
guides me)?
14. How often do I ask, what am I
REALLY hungry for?
15. What or who am I neglecting and
why?
16. Is it beneficial to attend to an
additional demand on my time?
Why?
There is an energy source and force in
the universe that we are all connected
to. All molecules have meaning.
What can we do to avoid falling victim
to an insatiable hunger & drive to
achieve? First, define and redefine
“achieve.” For whom are you trying to
achieve? Guess what? It is perfectly
okay to say, “I have changed my mind.
This is not what I want. The vision, the
dream is too costly or fraught with
minefields and they are mercenary in
nature.”
It is also okay to be wrong or to have
been misguided. As I tell my scholars:
“Get it wrong! Grow strong! The
GREAT make MISTAKES!”
Conversely, if you’ve defined your IT
and decided that it is worth the co$t
of whatever you must give up, OWN it.
Don’t complain or explain. Understand
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