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Finding one’s way

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Above you see the average life path. Below you see what the desired route should be:

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Full of trials and successes and attempts and experiences.

And if the life is short, the route can be:

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Short, but meaningful.

And what about a long life that is purposeful, balanced, and connected? This life’s picture would be:

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“…Moment after moment after moment. The moments accumulate and produce the picture that is one’s life. Enriching moments are vibrantly colored; valueless moments are dull and unexceptional.

Fullness and not. Life can be full—or not. The picture that is one’s life has dimensions: smooth in places that are enriched, jagged in places that are unbecoming, two-dimensional in places where a choice was not made. The form of the picture can be SO large, one simply has to choose to be giving and engaged and willing to participate in a well-lived life. Life that is experienced through true living lights the way for others.”

…from the chapter “Moment” in Pond a Connected Existence.

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Christmas doings

Post 49-Christmas‘Tis the season to be thinking about family and friends and gathering and connecting. It is not the season for envy and anger and distance and overtime.

The holiday season can be filled with so much anxiety that the holiday loses its glow. The glow is the important aspect of the holiday. The glowing faces of children seeing a Christmas tree, the glowing faces of strangers experiencing holiday lights together, the glowing expressions as people wish one another happy holidays.

Taking the time to remember to experience the holiday is key. Be sure to schedule time to experience the beauty and rhythm of this very special time.

Wishing all a happy and glowing Christmas!

Renee

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First impressions–are they really the most important?

I’m working on Book #3. Here is a quote from the chapter titled “First Impressions”. The quote is about how to formulate first impressions:
“…accept as is, as are, as could be. As is: accept each person as he or she is, with different thought processing and different ideas. As are: accept each group of people as they are, with different needs and different goals. As could be: accept oneself and others as reliable, compelling people who can better the world with each action, with each interaction, with each reaction.”

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22 stones. One for each combination of positive-negative voices in our heads. Sort of like the good angel-bad angel depiction of our consciences.

1 good-bad
2 elevate-stay/descend
3 try-hold back
4 consider-discount
5 open-territorial
6 caring-disdain
7 charitable-judgmental
8 respect-disregard
9 prepare-neglect/ignore
10 retain-spread
11 me-others
12 others-me
13 accept-reject
14 act-accept
15 speak up-hold back
16 contribute-withhold
17 develop-abandon
18 patience-impatience
19 defend-withdraw
20 aid-hurt
21 support-sabotage
22 humility-vanity

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Made in measuring

When a + b + c + d make cake, a, b, c, and d are ingredients that are edible. When a + b + c + d make a child happy, a, b, c, and d are possibly components of a birthday gift (gift+gift wrap+card+message on card) or event segments (visit at zoo+transport to and from+seeing a special animal+being with parent). When a + b + c + d make a home pleasant for living, a, b, c, and d are elements such as comfortable furniture, a meal at the table or kitchen counter while talking with a family member, music, and calmness in the air. When a + b + c + d make an outdoor game, a, b, c, and d can be team members, a ball or chalk, a play area, and sportsmanship.

However,

When a + b + c + d make a person feel unwanted, a might be a sense of unkindness in the air, b and c might be participants who create that sense of unkindness, and d might be an out-of-style outfit or a physical handicap or a perceived problem that actually doesn’t exist.

Each ingredient contributes and each ingredient matters. The outcome simply reflects the quality of the parcel and parts that connect for each measure of living.

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Intrigue

“To be balanced is to know how much to say, how much to keep back, and how much to say kindly. ”

I received this advice for Book #2. I received this information in order to spread it to others. I also received it for myself.

“Knowing how much to say kindly” is the key to effective communication. Kindly, not brusquely; kindly, not with a lecturing tone; kindly, not meanly. K-I-N-D-L-Y.

The essay about Intrigue presents much more than information about intrigue, revenge, and gossip. Refraining from these things is not easy to do, but neither is being kind when one is tired or short on time.

I have to remember that the words delivered in kindness are the words that will be remembered. Remembered and valued.

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