1142 NIP IT IN THE BUD

When nipping mental confusion in the bud, knowing whom to go to for astute and compassionate guidance takes us halfway toward simplifying complexity, which, left unresolved, is sure to drive a well ordered mind close to crazy, over time.

Each confounding situation challenges the brightest of minds to brainstorm, together, in hopes that, over time, a host of insights will highlight a bigger picture, which inspires our limited viewpoints to expand.

With mind expansion, we're more likely to achieve a mental breakthrough, whereby a well balanced sense of solution seeking strategy secures a simple plan of action, which simplifies complexity, thus insuring a peaceful state of mind, all around.

Upon growing ever more mindful of negatively focused attitudes, which lead to self defeat, we become ever more likely to develop attitudes, generating a hopeful sense of positive energy, which propels brainstorming toward leaps of faith, resulting in conflict resolution, at last.

Once like minds generate this sense of positive energy, bolstered by hope, a heightened sense of awareness empowers both brains to overcome subconscious fear, which leads to self defeat.

As this process of self discovery results in a hopeful sense of personal growth at every stage of life, it makes sense to set our sights upon trains of thought worth emulating.

In hopes of ending the serious nature of today's stream of consciousness on a lighter note, it's with tongue in cheek that I'll leave you to ponder this last train of thought until we meet, tomorrow:  I see dead people, like Socrates, Shakespeare, Henry James, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Helen Keller, Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ingmar Bergman, Martin Luther King and Erma Bombeck to name a few. 
LOL, your friend,
Annie
PS
Okay.  Just one more thought for today:
If you picture the spirits of sages huddling around me, like a cheer squad, each voice encouraging my sense of clarity to feel ever more grounded while my think tank connects one insight into the human condition with the next, you'll watch my spirit takes wing in hopes of enticing you to make good use of this same host of insights whenever you or a loved one experiences personal crises, which tends to erupt as one stage of life approaches the next.  As you shall see, experience continues to offer me this lesson, time and again:  The most self empowering antidote to self doubt is the ability to keep positive focus intact no matter how mystifying and dark life seems to become.  And if you doubt the validity of that train of thought, try this one on for size:

Life is either a great adventure into the unknown or else it is nothing — Helen Keller