Post 1448
Have I made you aware of this fact? Upon deciding to blog, I had
No intention of writing about the role played by personal growth in
Effecting positive changes, which improve my daily life
My original plan had focused solely on penning a memoir of
Success stories, some serious, some funny, all highly personal and
Classically meaningful, concerning our global need to create
Change for the better in home after home ... then as the content of
My posts grew so expansive as to include descriptions of
My day to day existence, my blog evolved as is true of
Many surprising aspects of life, and here's why that
Change proved better than my original plan, which entailed writing
A trilogy of books, each filled with stories aimed at inspiring
Parents to enjoy raising kind-hearted, responsible children:
Whereas authoring an autobiographical series of books offers readers
A chronological beginning, leading toward a finite end
Authoring a blog creates a living entity, and any living thing that's
Fully energized proves to be as unpredictable as is true of life, itself
And as living things (specifically human beings) are not machines
Unlike machines, human beings have hearts in need of
Nurturing, minds in need of guidance and spirits in need of thriving
And having spent time reviewing insights, which re-emerge in
Post after post, I can see why intuitive trains of thought inspired
My conscious mind to pen my personal take on
Faulkner's quote before freeing my thought processor to glide into
A rest station where my Solution Seeker (not to be confused with
My Fixer) plans to relax until my natural sense of readiness spotlights
The first in a series of stories (each of which is sure to showcase
The part played by personal growth when leadership, thinking to
Make good use of creativity, comes up with a plan of action, which
Ensures that change for the better will benefit one and all)—and
BTW, in case you're wondering why I've decided not to jump-start
My story-telling voice before my intuitive sense of readiness feels
Naturally re-energized, I'd reply: Every seasoned story teller knows
That shaping a story's success depends upon the vitality of
The creative process, and for quite some time, my conscious mind
Has not felt inspired to describe—
Personal growth spurts while in high school ...
Personal growth spurts while in college ...
Personal growth spurts while teaching children ...
Personal growth spurts while transitioning from girlfriend to wife ...
Personal growth spurts while living across the country from family
Personal growth spurts while parenting ... with humor
Personal growth spurts while teaching adults to motivate children ...
Personal growth spurts while speaking at professional conferences ...
Personal growth spurts while authoring articles ...
Personal growth spurts leading toward marital separation ...
Personal growth spurts leading toward mutual reconciliation ...
Personal growth spurts leading toward spiritual existentialism
Personal growth spurts leading toward my acceptance of aging ...
Personal growth spurts leading toward my soulful sense of wholeness ...
And since I have no clue which series of insight-laden stories
Will emerge from within my intuitive well-spring, next, common sense
Tells me to offer my whole mind time to relax and enjoy the rest of
This festive holiday season unencumbered by inner need to tunnel
Toward insights, which, upon intuitive release from subconscious storage
Will, no doubt, act like jumping beans inside my head, and
Hopefully, by adhering to this plan of inaction (which, as you know
Will not be easy for my active mind to pull off) a new day will
Dawn when my intuitive urge to write stories, highlighting
Yesteryear's personal growth spurts, will re-emerge as naturally as
The Phoenix arose anew, and once readiness resurrects my storyteller
Here's what we can expect to change for the better:
We can expect my newfound sense of wholeness, based in a recent
Series of personal growth spurts, to enrich my storyteller's ability to
Relate each story that pops out of my memory bank with a greater
Sense of maturity than would have been possible had each of these
Stories been told before my conscious mind had gained insight into
This fact: As long as yesteryear's pain had remained buried alive in
Its festering state deep inside my subconscious
My defense system's wall of denial would have blocked
My smarts from identifying how often tunnel vision
Had limited my perspective of choices, which are
Readily available to my expanded sense of sight, today, and
Now that my current stream of consciousness has emerged for
Your consideration, all I feel need to say before pulling
Today's insight-driven train of thought into a rest station for
An undetermined length of time is this: No matter which
Series of stories emerges first, each will surely focus
Your think tank and mine toward considering insights, concerning
Classic conflicts in need of resolving and universal problems in
Need of solving by making sound use of our noodles' innate
Potential to grow toward creating positively focused plans of
Action, culminating in change for the better, just as
My intuitive smarts inspired my conscious awareness to
Tweak the bleakness out of Faulkner's skeptical point of view:
"The past is never dead. It’s not even past."
And with thoughts of opening our minds to creating change for the better as
We welcome in The New Year, imagine my spirit's smile wishing you and yours
A Very Happy, Merry, Healthy, Rebalanced Perspective Concerning Everything
You Wish To Come True For Your Positively Focused, Existential Self!
As for me, I'm planning to ring in the New Year with Barry's loving family of
Four, who, having celebrated Christmas with Marie's family on the coast, feels
As eager to light the rest of our Chanukah candles with us as we feel eager to
Join hands and dance from room to room, singing holiday songs, followed by
Ladling applesauce on latkes before everyone sits in a circle on the floor in
Readiness to play dreidel with Papa and me! And with that happy plan in mind
Imagine my think tank relaxing while my spirit's sense of joy wishes
A happy, health prosperous New Year to one and all!
PS
This addendum popped out of my mind on New Year's Eve:
Tonight, we'll toast to peace on earth, which each of us can wish for, though
Reality suggests that achieving such a Herculean feat is way beyond
One person's control. On the other hand, if we each choose to redirect
Our trains of thought toward creating a wholesome sense of inner peace, that
Long range goal, being highly personal in nature, can be accomplished
Little by little, by making such good use of our smarts as to grow ever more
Attentive to tuning into those times when our intuitive powers are guiding
Our intelligence to place our defense systems aside in order to
Switch tracks from negativity toward tunneling ever more deeply
Courageously and constructively through layers of subconscious fears, each
Of which has, in one way or another, limited our mindsets ever since childhood ...
And with thoughts of dismantling defensive walls of denial by way of
Joining hands to create a circle of love, where each of us feels inclined to
Pass the baton of personal growth, back and forth
I feel hopeful that those who seriously adopt my line of reasoning
Will develop into positively focused leaders, who guide other fortunate
Souls to follow their lead by creating an emotional atmosphere
In home after home, where people of all ages, nationalities and religious
Ideologies feel so safe as to embrace a sense of eagerness to congregate
Together, as often as possible, thus inspiring children's minds to absorb
Such a deep sense of personal safety as to encourage each other's
Sense of inner peace to thrive, and as inner peace is based in
Self worth, families who choose to embrace effective and compassionate
Solution-seeking techniques will influence changes for the betterment of
Mankind to advance around the globe, and here's why that's true:
As attitudes of future generations experience sound reason to grow
Ever less defensive, more people will feel inspired to
Work together, wholeheartedly, to achieve common goals, which
With patience, will lead toward the eventual establishment of
World peace—one step (one home, one town, one city, one nation)
At a time, and each of my stories will reflect the ways in which
The establishment of self respect in home after home will serve to
Form the foundation of mutual respect that's necessary if
Children are to grow up to be positively focused, kind hearted
Adults, whose leadership skills have had sound reason to mimic and absorb
Well balanced portions of humility, self respect and mutual respect while
Growing up under the protective wings of loving adults, who—having
Come to understand and absorb the importance of honoring self-control
Self respect and mutual respect—consistently role model all three—most
Especially when conflicts, which are bound to arise, are in need of resolution
And that's where my stories come in, because each will exemplify this fact:
Little monkey faces tend to mimic and take with them into the world whatever
Their adult role models say, do, and feel, and once I came to see how often
Our defense systems fool us into believing that we know ourselves in depth
I decided to tune into my intuitive voice, which is empowered to offer me
Clues as to when my wall of denial is fooling no one as much as I'm fooling myself!
And with hopes of relating stories (describing my conscious adoption of personal
Growth whenever I'm seeking to effect change for the better), some time soon—
That's a wrap for today—except to say that I reeeallly hope readiness ripens
Before too long, because, as you can see from the length of this PS, after
Five years of posting, I'm having a tough time accepting this self imposed
Hiatus from blogging, because mental habits are hard to break, and
My stories will be sure to describe the effects of that deeper truth, too :)
