I'm honoring my need to write, right now, knowing that editing will have to wait till later, so if you choose to read this unedited post, please excuse incomplete trains of thoughts and inaccuracies of grammar pouring forth from the depths of my mind before time to dive in, again, offers clarity to us both :)
And having clarified at least that much ... Here goes :)
Generally, major change that considers everyone's needs requires deep thinking on the part of leadership.
Generally, a deep thinking leader requires a rested mind fueled with self trust.
Walt Disney was fired after being told by a newspaper publisher that he had no creativity—??? Lucky for us, Disney developed the self trust that freed his heart and strengthened his spirit to guide his mind to respect passion's need to create a new dimension to life, which to this day, offers immeasurable pleasure to the masses beyond the scope of any mind that came before his own.
Charles Lindbergh's solo flights into the great unknown were fueled from the strength of his spirit, within.
Upon engaging with the intelligent eyes of Anne Morrow for the very first time, the unparalleled energy field, emanating from this shy, yet self-empowered aviator, drew forth Anne's sense of self trust in that she felt, without question, that the aviator's stellar spirit created a force field so profound as to inspire her spirit to follow his lead, and as a couple, they proved a match for all time—and though history suggests their union was far from perfect, the instinctive depth of their love proved strong (if not pure) through thick and thin until the aviator parted from his spiritual partner/soul mate at the end of his life.
What is this fuel that drives leadership to connect excellence with excellence while most accept the mundane?
I believe this fuel proves to be an innate belief in self trust, which empowers the passions of the mind to overcome fear of failure until the human think tank accomplishes whatever amazing feat that person's spirit feels driven to achieve, and along those lines, experience has taught me to accept this fact, concerning my life: A person's needs change as we move from stage to stage. So if my mind chooses to focus on positivity in hopes of achieving long range goals, I can't help but think differently than mindsets that anxiously concentrate solely upon meeting present needs. In short thoughts which offer my spirit a sense of thriving good health may differ from thoughts which creates a sense of safety for another. Having come to accept that difference in thinking patterns has expanded my understanding concerning 'rights and wrongs', which had shaped during my youth.
If asked what fed my spirit, yesterday, I'd say pleasing others by meeting their needs. If asked what feeds my spirit, today, I'd reply ... my spirit is irresistibly attracted to all that proves natural to joyful interaction, and thus do I coach myself to reconsider yesterday's limited viewpoints that caused my mindsets to exist in line with societal constraint. As to now, tis time to adventure into the great unknown for one reason and one reason only ... life is short and at this stage, mine may be over in a blink. Guess you might say that after having lived a most respectable life, it's bucket list time for me in hopes of expanding my personal experiences to enjoy all that feels natural, healthy and wholesome—to me.
This dawning of awareness inspiring my need for healthy change provides me with the challenge of creating a new sense of inner balance, born of thinking skills, which have had sound reason to mature, over time. And as my mind's focus has turned toward offering my spirit good health in terms of emotional balance, any thoughts of hedonistic tendencies would be misconceived due to the fact that every decision stirred by my creative juices remains mindful of the needs of others along with my own. The profound difference that may be seen in my expanded viewpoint today is this: The needs of others cannot crowd mine into dark shadows of my mind.
It's been said that that which inspires fear is what we need to experience if personal growth is a goal. Please don't quote me on that, because that bright light of insight emanated from the intelligence of Eleanor Roosevelt :)
When quoting me, one might say, Annie's spirit soars when interaction with others proves natural in that like minds appreciate the gifts of Mother Nature's bountiful blessings. Show me a grapefruit in the act of growing and watch my spirit beam joyously. In truth, it takes little more than that :)
Show me a sunbeam, streaming down upon the imaginative minds of children, playing let's pretend beneath an endless blue sky, and watch my heart sparkle as seen by my hands clapping with delight simply because my childlike love of life feels glowingly alive :)
Does this mean my mind and spirit never dive into the swirling depths of despair—not on your life ... but each time that's the case, my mind works to grasp the bigger picture in hopes that as puzzling pieces fall into place, lo and behold, insight into creative solutions will offer my spirit reason to soar to heights even more astounding than before :)
And now that that train of thought has culminated in that insight, here's another, which I can feel emerging from deep within, right now: If joy is an inside job, then it's a mistake to wait, hopefully, for joy to be fed to you by another A joyful spirit is stimulated from deep within one's own mind. And that's the truth.
It's not as if I awaken thinking of creating joy as I go about my day. It's just that the simple things create a sense of joy, which emanates, naturally from within me, and since joy has a habit of being contagious, I feel naturally gleeful enough to sparkle, each time I tap into the caverns of another mind—not every mind, mind you—just those that I sense have remained attached to youthful attitudes which, combined with one's sense of logic, reach realistic goals by plugging into as many sources of positively focused energy as possible until, little by little, that which seems impossible to others is joyfully achieved.
As for me, I don't need to achieve a goal to experience joyful fulfillment emanating, naturally, from within my core. Instead, joyfulness emerges, naturally, when one step toward success leads toward the next. And feeling as wondrous as a child, amazed at all I've yet to discover while adventuring through life ... perhaps that's why I, who thrive in the company of family and friends, shocked everyone, including myself, upon choosing to move far from home in hopes of offering my spirit every possible opportunity to bask in a temperate climate where blue skies and streaming sunbeams fuel my connection to inner joy, if not every day than many more days than not. And since I chose to raise my family in a joyful environment, both physically and emotionally, well, over the long run, I've actually fueled all of my needs by CREATING family of friends, every place I've ever lived.
If asked why I believe friends, all over the country, choose to adopt me as family, I'd say my mind conjures plans that bear sweet fruit—long range—for everyone who expresses an unmet need to me ... as Dad once said with a chuckle ... don't tell Annie what you want unless you really want it, because she'll set her mind to making sure you'll get it :)
Since each creative plan is initiated from within my spirit's strong sense of self trust, most of these plans shape up without my having a glimmer of a conscious clue as to which experiment may prove successful vs which may culminate with egg dripping down my face ... On the other hand, the fact that most of my deep thinking efforts create emotional environments where peaceful connection depends upon honoring attitudes that incorporate mutual respect, most situations, fraught with conflict, resolve, and watching tense frowns turn upside down, eventually, creates such a sense of joy in me that suddenly I can feel the insight, brewing inside my mind that, compelled me to sit down, though time was short, to write today's post:
If joy is an inside job, meaning it's unhealthy to wait for joy to come to you, then joy must be an attitude that one chooses to develop in order to live life as an emotionally well balanced adult.
And if you think I had any idea of this insight brewing when I felt compelled to sit down to pound each word of this post into my keyboard, think again :)
Actually, I'm in the middle of resolving several emotional dilemmas right now, one created by a physical problem, that turned up unexpectedly in a blood test, this week. As each of these problems proves serious enough to have produced tears, which I've learned to honor as emotional stress in need of physical release—as though the windows of our souls express some kind of natural need to sweat. And though all of those problems are as yet unresolved, today, just watch me refuel my spirit by diving into a sense of inner joy each time I come up with an insight that will serve me well as each dilemma unfolds toward its ultimate, as yet unknown, resolution, one by one.
So what creates my need to immerse my spirit in joy more often than not? Well joy is my just reward for eagerly making it my business (literally) to create problem-solving plans of action that consider the emotional health of every person I love, suggesting that the bent of my mind is inclined to concentrate on serving up taste tests of how diving into the depths of self awareness provides me with a better-balanced sense of emotional good health. And each time loved ones feel inspired to follow the Pied Piper's lead, their paths, leading toward joyful success creates joy for me. And if everything comes full circle then I guess you could say that today's train of thought has exposed this fact: My greatest joy continues to focus on meeting my loved one's needs—as mucc as, but not more than attending to my own. Attesting to ... peace of mind's need for balance in all things. :)
Anyway, as long as I can maintain my balance between two worlds that fuel my spirit, the world I share with loved ones and the highly personal world that I create for myself, you'll find me feeding my sense of joy by nourishing my needs. And as long as a spirit partners up with its mind to nourish existential needs, there's little time left in a day to nurse stormy issues, unresolved from the past that tend to rise up to create storms of sadness, anger, abandonment, or boredom :)
Anyway, engineering problem solving plans, which fuel open-minded spirits, feeds my need to experience joy—not just at special occasions but every day. And as this imaginative, positively focused, childlike (not to be confused with childish) side of my mind attaches to common sensical knowledge, some gleaned from digesting masterfully written trains of thought, penned by sages through the ages as well as my own experiential failures, nothing intrigues me more than recognizing the mind's ability to re-invent itself by questing for insight into clarifying, thus simplifying, emotional reactions, which, at first glance, prove too confusing for words.
Today, when considering the needs of my love ones, I remind myself to consider that which nourishes my spirit's need for personal growth, and in this way do my mindsets expand, consciously, past yesterday's narrow scope.
Each time my mind conceives of a solution-seeking plan that considers needs all around my sense of personal joy abounds for this reason: Though much of my time is spent alone in a room, diving into the deep, I am most heartfully a people connector rather than a solitary sojourner .. And I believe the creative portion of my mind, which, to this day, encourages my sons to problem solve in mutually respectfully and thus success oriented ways has inspired their spirits to adopt the same hopeful, joyful, positively focused attitudes toward life and relationships as do I. You see, rather than hoping for others to deliver joy to them, they've learned to connect their minds' best negotiating efforts toward resolving conflicts by brainstorming toward formulating plans, like the one that's yet to unfold, describing thought processes, which motivated two teen aged bulls to share a thirteen year old car, which we'd affectionately nick named, Big Red ... And the reason why we three agreed to this plan is two fold: First of all, both people must be in tune with positive focus before conflict can be resolved by way of negotiations that end in conflict resolution for both and secondly ... Whoops ...I lost track of time and as it's past time to ready myself to leave house for an appointment, more later ...
PS If asked how this plan developed inside my mind, here's how I'd reply, off hand: While growing into my adult self, I modeled an organized mother, an adventurous father, a tenacious grandma ... and early adversity with personal tragedy catalyzed my need to recreate smiles which had sound reason to turn into frowns. You see, I'd been the main source of my family's sunshine until I was three. Then tragic loss banished sunbeams from our lives, and every fiber of the child I was then felt utterly compelled to reproduce sunbeams, sparkling good naturally, which had fueled my spirit until darkness caused certain people in my family to lose and fail to recapture their sense of inner joy ... and now, reflection suggests I've been questing toward ensuring that I do not end up in the same sad place, one day, looking back with regret at all that I'd failed to enjoy when storm clouds gathering inside shadow the sun, though the sun continues to offer opportunities to play in the warmth of joy shining, not just over head but from deep within my sense of self trust, again and again. Oh yes, one more thing ... this bigger picture of why to recapture a childlike sense of one's own inner joy is not complete without mentioning the addition of a library, rich in communication, problem-solving techniques, which I've boiled down to fit into five tools, so simple that three year olds can begin to advise other tots to follow rules based in logic and common sense, in hopes that minds from young to old can negotiate plans that create peaceful co-existence for all, and voila, now that insight into today's bigger picture has emerged ... and as I've indulged my need to write whatever poured forth, naturally, in today's post—we'll need to place the logical car sharing plan that worked for us, on hold, till tomorrow, because I'm about to be late for a very important date so—adios! :)
And having clarified at least that much ... Here goes :)
Generally, major change that considers everyone's needs requires deep thinking on the part of leadership.
Generally, a deep thinking leader requires a rested mind fueled with self trust.
Walt Disney was fired after being told by a newspaper publisher that he had no creativity—??? Lucky for us, Disney developed the self trust that freed his heart and strengthened his spirit to guide his mind to respect passion's need to create a new dimension to life, which to this day, offers immeasurable pleasure to the masses beyond the scope of any mind that came before his own.
Charles Lindbergh's solo flights into the great unknown were fueled from the strength of his spirit, within.
Upon engaging with the intelligent eyes of Anne Morrow for the very first time, the unparalleled energy field, emanating from this shy, yet self-empowered aviator, drew forth Anne's sense of self trust in that she felt, without question, that the aviator's stellar spirit created a force field so profound as to inspire her spirit to follow his lead, and as a couple, they proved a match for all time—and though history suggests their union was far from perfect, the instinctive depth of their love proved strong (if not pure) through thick and thin until the aviator parted from his spiritual partner/soul mate at the end of his life.
What is this fuel that drives leadership to connect excellence with excellence while most accept the mundane?
I believe this fuel proves to be an innate belief in self trust, which empowers the passions of the mind to overcome fear of failure until the human think tank accomplishes whatever amazing feat that person's spirit feels driven to achieve, and along those lines, experience has taught me to accept this fact, concerning my life: A person's needs change as we move from stage to stage. So if my mind chooses to focus on positivity in hopes of achieving long range goals, I can't help but think differently than mindsets that anxiously concentrate solely upon meeting present needs. In short thoughts which offer my spirit a sense of thriving good health may differ from thoughts which creates a sense of safety for another. Having come to accept that difference in thinking patterns has expanded my understanding concerning 'rights and wrongs', which had shaped during my youth.
If asked what fed my spirit, yesterday, I'd say pleasing others by meeting their needs. If asked what feeds my spirit, today, I'd reply ... my spirit is irresistibly attracted to all that proves natural to joyful interaction, and thus do I coach myself to reconsider yesterday's limited viewpoints that caused my mindsets to exist in line with societal constraint. As to now, tis time to adventure into the great unknown for one reason and one reason only ... life is short and at this stage, mine may be over in a blink. Guess you might say that after having lived a most respectable life, it's bucket list time for me in hopes of expanding my personal experiences to enjoy all that feels natural, healthy and wholesome—to me.
This dawning of awareness inspiring my need for healthy change provides me with the challenge of creating a new sense of inner balance, born of thinking skills, which have had sound reason to mature, over time. And as my mind's focus has turned toward offering my spirit good health in terms of emotional balance, any thoughts of hedonistic tendencies would be misconceived due to the fact that every decision stirred by my creative juices remains mindful of the needs of others along with my own. The profound difference that may be seen in my expanded viewpoint today is this: The needs of others cannot crowd mine into dark shadows of my mind.
It's been said that that which inspires fear is what we need to experience if personal growth is a goal. Please don't quote me on that, because that bright light of insight emanated from the intelligence of Eleanor Roosevelt :)
When quoting me, one might say, Annie's spirit soars when interaction with others proves natural in that like minds appreciate the gifts of Mother Nature's bountiful blessings. Show me a grapefruit in the act of growing and watch my spirit beam joyously. In truth, it takes little more than that :)
Show me a sunbeam, streaming down upon the imaginative minds of children, playing let's pretend beneath an endless blue sky, and watch my heart sparkle as seen by my hands clapping with delight simply because my childlike love of life feels glowingly alive :)
Does this mean my mind and spirit never dive into the swirling depths of despair—not on your life ... but each time that's the case, my mind works to grasp the bigger picture in hopes that as puzzling pieces fall into place, lo and behold, insight into creative solutions will offer my spirit reason to soar to heights even more astounding than before :)
And now that that train of thought has culminated in that insight, here's another, which I can feel emerging from deep within, right now: If joy is an inside job, then it's a mistake to wait, hopefully, for joy to be fed to you by another A joyful spirit is stimulated from deep within one's own mind. And that's the truth.
It's not as if I awaken thinking of creating joy as I go about my day. It's just that the simple things create a sense of joy, which emanates, naturally from within me, and since joy has a habit of being contagious, I feel naturally gleeful enough to sparkle, each time I tap into the caverns of another mind—not every mind, mind you—just those that I sense have remained attached to youthful attitudes which, combined with one's sense of logic, reach realistic goals by plugging into as many sources of positively focused energy as possible until, little by little, that which seems impossible to others is joyfully achieved.
As for me, I don't need to achieve a goal to experience joyful fulfillment emanating, naturally, from within my core. Instead, joyfulness emerges, naturally, when one step toward success leads toward the next. And feeling as wondrous as a child, amazed at all I've yet to discover while adventuring through life ... perhaps that's why I, who thrive in the company of family and friends, shocked everyone, including myself, upon choosing to move far from home in hopes of offering my spirit every possible opportunity to bask in a temperate climate where blue skies and streaming sunbeams fuel my connection to inner joy, if not every day than many more days than not. And since I chose to raise my family in a joyful environment, both physically and emotionally, well, over the long run, I've actually fueled all of my needs by CREATING family of friends, every place I've ever lived.
If asked why I believe friends, all over the country, choose to adopt me as family, I'd say my mind conjures plans that bear sweet fruit—long range—for everyone who expresses an unmet need to me ... as Dad once said with a chuckle ... don't tell Annie what you want unless you really want it, because she'll set her mind to making sure you'll get it :)
Since each creative plan is initiated from within my spirit's strong sense of self trust, most of these plans shape up without my having a glimmer of a conscious clue as to which experiment may prove successful vs which may culminate with egg dripping down my face ... On the other hand, the fact that most of my deep thinking efforts create emotional environments where peaceful connection depends upon honoring attitudes that incorporate mutual respect, most situations, fraught with conflict, resolve, and watching tense frowns turn upside down, eventually, creates such a sense of joy in me that suddenly I can feel the insight, brewing inside my mind that, compelled me to sit down, though time was short, to write today's post:
If joy is an inside job, meaning it's unhealthy to wait for joy to come to you, then joy must be an attitude that one chooses to develop in order to live life as an emotionally well balanced adult.
And if you think I had any idea of this insight brewing when I felt compelled to sit down to pound each word of this post into my keyboard, think again :)
Actually, I'm in the middle of resolving several emotional dilemmas right now, one created by a physical problem, that turned up unexpectedly in a blood test, this week. As each of these problems proves serious enough to have produced tears, which I've learned to honor as emotional stress in need of physical release—as though the windows of our souls express some kind of natural need to sweat. And though all of those problems are as yet unresolved, today, just watch me refuel my spirit by diving into a sense of inner joy each time I come up with an insight that will serve me well as each dilemma unfolds toward its ultimate, as yet unknown, resolution, one by one.
So what creates my need to immerse my spirit in joy more often than not? Well joy is my just reward for eagerly making it my business (literally) to create problem-solving plans of action that consider the emotional health of every person I love, suggesting that the bent of my mind is inclined to concentrate on serving up taste tests of how diving into the depths of self awareness provides me with a better-balanced sense of emotional good health. And each time loved ones feel inspired to follow the Pied Piper's lead, their paths, leading toward joyful success creates joy for me. And if everything comes full circle then I guess you could say that today's train of thought has exposed this fact: My greatest joy continues to focus on meeting my loved one's needs—as mucc as, but not more than attending to my own. Attesting to ... peace of mind's need for balance in all things. :)
Anyway, as long as I can maintain my balance between two worlds that fuel my spirit, the world I share with loved ones and the highly personal world that I create for myself, you'll find me feeding my sense of joy by nourishing my needs. And as long as a spirit partners up with its mind to nourish existential needs, there's little time left in a day to nurse stormy issues, unresolved from the past that tend to rise up to create storms of sadness, anger, abandonment, or boredom :)
Anyway, engineering problem solving plans, which fuel open-minded spirits, feeds my need to experience joy—not just at special occasions but every day. And as this imaginative, positively focused, childlike (not to be confused with childish) side of my mind attaches to common sensical knowledge, some gleaned from digesting masterfully written trains of thought, penned by sages through the ages as well as my own experiential failures, nothing intrigues me more than recognizing the mind's ability to re-invent itself by questing for insight into clarifying, thus simplifying, emotional reactions, which, at first glance, prove too confusing for words.
Today, when considering the needs of my love ones, I remind myself to consider that which nourishes my spirit's need for personal growth, and in this way do my mindsets expand, consciously, past yesterday's narrow scope.
Each time my mind conceives of a solution-seeking plan that considers needs all around my sense of personal joy abounds for this reason: Though much of my time is spent alone in a room, diving into the deep, I am most heartfully a people connector rather than a solitary sojourner .. And I believe the creative portion of my mind, which, to this day, encourages my sons to problem solve in mutually respectfully and thus success oriented ways has inspired their spirits to adopt the same hopeful, joyful, positively focused attitudes toward life and relationships as do I. You see, rather than hoping for others to deliver joy to them, they've learned to connect their minds' best negotiating efforts toward resolving conflicts by brainstorming toward formulating plans, like the one that's yet to unfold, describing thought processes, which motivated two teen aged bulls to share a thirteen year old car, which we'd affectionately nick named, Big Red ... And the reason why we three agreed to this plan is two fold: First of all, both people must be in tune with positive focus before conflict can be resolved by way of negotiations that end in conflict resolution for both and secondly ... Whoops ...I lost track of time and as it's past time to ready myself to leave house for an appointment, more later ...
PS If asked how this plan developed inside my mind, here's how I'd reply, off hand: While growing into my adult self, I modeled an organized mother, an adventurous father, a tenacious grandma ... and early adversity with personal tragedy catalyzed my need to recreate smiles which had sound reason to turn into frowns. You see, I'd been the main source of my family's sunshine until I was three. Then tragic loss banished sunbeams from our lives, and every fiber of the child I was then felt utterly compelled to reproduce sunbeams, sparkling good naturally, which had fueled my spirit until darkness caused certain people in my family to lose and fail to recapture their sense of inner joy ... and now, reflection suggests I've been questing toward ensuring that I do not end up in the same sad place, one day, looking back with regret at all that I'd failed to enjoy when storm clouds gathering inside shadow the sun, though the sun continues to offer opportunities to play in the warmth of joy shining, not just over head but from deep within my sense of self trust, again and again. Oh yes, one more thing ... this bigger picture of why to recapture a childlike sense of one's own inner joy is not complete without mentioning the addition of a library, rich in communication, problem-solving techniques, which I've boiled down to fit into five tools, so simple that three year olds can begin to advise other tots to follow rules based in logic and common sense, in hopes that minds from young to old can negotiate plans that create peaceful co-existence for all, and voila, now that insight into today's bigger picture has emerged ... and as I've indulged my need to write whatever poured forth, naturally, in today's post—we'll need to place the logical car sharing plan that worked for us, on hold, till tomorrow, because I'm about to be late for a very important date so—adios! :)
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