From Self-Help to Self-Improvement to Personal Growth & Development Odyssey to Journey to Winding Path to How do I choose a Title?
I have made it my Life’s Mission & Purpose to navigate my way not only through the world literally but to navigate and chart a path for growth and transformation. Since I was a young lady preteen and teenager, I gravitated towards all the books that promised me a transformation. Now I am seeking to disseminate the knowledge, I may question some or all of the success formulas, compare and contrast them, and the virtues and opinions of the major proponents of the success philosophy.
Before it was trendy to become a life coach or a motivational speaker, I dreamed of the day when I would have amassed enough knowledge ( the way many do personal fortunes and coffers) and would have fine-tuned and developed my message to distinguish myself from all the rest- oh, the competition. Mercy me!!! She cried aloud and quite with fervor!
For me, it was and it continues to be into perpetuity a journey of healing, change, and discovery. Picking up a new book, consuming and drinking in the nuances of a new theory, universal law, success principle would get me giddy as I would envision castles, yachts, swimming with dolphins in my private oasis- island pool built by my efforts, energy, and well-developed ideas.
Decades into my startling realizations, I am aware of the areas where I still need further development and growth, areas where my subconscious mind rules and plays a cheap trick on me and my conscious efforts. it is so much like playing a game of Whack a Mole.
The thoughts well what is my original thought or ideas after having consumed thousands of others. Oh, dear! Can I write an article faster and better without taking the time to research or consult my records of notes from 30 years?
Well, many of those years' notes have disappeared henceforth why I sometimes still do sigh despite the law of allowing and the law of vibration see Abraham Esther Hicks.
Does anyone ever talk about the failure rate with many personal growth and development programs I wonder or online courses? No, we see these stellar examples of success and feel so much pressure to succeed, to outthink, to outperform, or to at least keep pace, and then there are the character attributes.
There are volumes to the laws of success, to paradigms to mindset, to how your childhood shaped everything to how you can consciously unconsciously by accident or by intent deceive your own mind to erase those pesky and interfering limiting beliefs.
A new challenge was given to me by my partner my business and creativity partner has instructed me to read and write faster. No more trips to Barnes and Noble or Lost Books in Montrose, LA to buy new books until I read, summarize, and create products around my current library.
Last trip we bought
- Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill- (yes, I have read before and listened to audiobooks- needed a new copy for Southern California
- Awaken The Giant Within- by Tony Robbins- I believe his second book (I have often wondered if I spent more time mastering Tony’s strategies and tactics and philosophy if I would have been more financially and professionally successful when I was younger.
(I read tons of books in the field, but not one book 100 or 1,000 times, The closest I ever got to that would be my Holy Bible.
3. Influencer- Building Your Personal Brand in the Age of Social Media by Brittany Hennessy
4. A prior trip to the Americana and Barnes and Noble in Glendale, CA (where I met my business and creativity partner) had us investing in
This is where we discussed his comment we are building a bookshelf together or some kind of paraphrase.
Seeking Wisdom by Julia Cameron is a treat for the artists and creative creators movement among us the designers, painters, writers, singers, paper engineers, and more
Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself by Dr. Joe Dispenza
How to Lose Your Mind and Create A New One-
Whew did I ever wish for that!!!
Something it took me I am embarrassed to admit and confess perhaps 20 + years to learn how to voluntarily stop personal suffering and become friends with my wonderful magnificent mind. You have that capacity too.
It really starts with draining the swamp of the past,- let the icky poo go, move on, harness all energy and thought and resources in present living in the present and leaning and living into the future you design and craft for yourself.
Whew, breathe- those were some fast fingers dancing all around my computer keyboard.
Yes with many typos because I hunt and peck with a bushel and a check- but I digress in an effort to be funny Hunny...
Since we aim to craft a personal growth plan and development for you I ask you to ask yourself some key questions, assemble your reading list for quarter one, identify which skills — 1 or 2- not too many at once that is the mistake of many of us make including me until I learned not to…
I was such a naive one- I thought rather than master one language I will be able to study and speak 7 foreign languages and dazzle international visitors with my array of polite words and phrases and some very random sentences like in Russian translated to English: I have an apple. very practical…
But perhaps if you were to consume that daily apple you will not only keep the doctor away but enhance those brain cells as they gleefully supply you with more energy, creativity aid idea juice to satiate even the most ardent Type A personalities. and of course, we learn to avoid the company of bad or rotten apples- seriously, evaluate your friendship circle and sphere of influence.
After all, as many of the personal great gurus and authors and luminaries and visionaries, all who I have aspired to be emphatically state,” Your network is your net worth.” So to get richer surround yourself with success mentors, solid friends with an excellent character who support your dreams, and more. You have to like, comment, subscribe, and follow me for more tidbits and nuggets of wisdom in the now forevermore- slightly giggling to herself…
What separates the 1% from the 99% is often wise advisors, counsel, good connections, and some pretty amazing and brilliant strategies.
So ask yourself while I reset or rest my fingers (ah couldn’t resist sometimes a typo may lead to the next joke, IDEA, or book title) Spoiler alert!!!! Indeed, it is a message ( ooh a message or a massage)??? from your guardian angel, God, the Universe- what can you do to create and have a bigger impact in your world our world? (It could be Heaven’s way of getting your attention and reminding you of how much your loved one would appreciate a soothing foot massage tonight)! =D)
What 1 or 2 skills can you learn and add to your skillset arsenal to catapult you to the top ( give or take a year or a decade unless you have some fancy snazzy pizzazz of a strategic maneuver on your way to your defined path journey of success)
How can you drill down, create a schedule and practice your craft daily with passion, fervor, and focused intent?
For me, I must simply discover a way, method, strategy, step-by-step process, and formula to read and write faster.
Because I really want to go to the bookstore and buy more books to read, reflect on, study, savor, and then get better at writing summaries and synopsis and the secret sauce- spice which my creative genius partner supplied me with today. It looks like it will take me some 2022 days to assemble the grand chess pieces and puzzle pieces of it for you, my dear sweet reader. Now pass the double chocolate frappuccino with oat milk and 4 hits of caffeine to fuel the mind and body to create, work, and serve. May you be inspired, enthused, and enlightened from this bleached blondie (or was it beached) I hear the call of the ocean, the seagulls, the sand, the waves, tide in and out….)
Bookie worm with sassafrass and oh do I smell a hint too of turmeric. It is good — oh my goodness I highly recommend this herbal tea turmeric and ginger it is just wow enough with the PSA. Now get to it.
Your task for today is to identify and write out the top 1 or 2 skills to develop and to master, create your reading list (make it glisten) for the quarter.
P.S. A trip to Target yielded these books in January it is; as if they jump off of the shelf seriously I got to Target to buy a week’s worth of Valentine’s Day-themed hearty sweet sappy socks with kiss lips and more hearts galore, and what do we find, hmmm….
but Brene Brown’s Atlas of the Heart is a gorgeous well put together beautiful coffee table type book with red for the season of love
“Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience”
P.S. Last month saw the addition of- drum roll, please! Now the title says it all
I Didn’t Do The Thing Today: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt by Madeline Dore
Partially to help me forgive myself for not always being the most productive superhuman machine and knocking my socks off- (pun intended- why do you think I need more colorful and creative socks?)
but sometimes you “Just Be” like D.J. Tiesto taught us in the wonderful song and music video ah, my good times' past theme song…
Tea time for me now… seriously now moving on to tab number 32 and computer number 2. or was that the third monitor?
like Third Rock from the Sun- totally random association my brain likes to make it is a sort of hobby…in my existential soup and a longing for a bigger vocabulary….Wouldn’t some say boat or car or house?
Can I have a bigger brain, please? The Brainiac said to the Joker and the Magician said Your wish is my command. Whose name was it? Aladdin or The Aladdin Factor- what did he factor in consequently? (Consequently, just happened to be out of date term- oh really? Check the expiration date of your milk it is different from the English language fellow,
Poof. Suddenly the Hermit appeared and he transfigured before our very eyes. The Social butterfly began wearing reading glasses and was taken to the Hall of records a deep passageway through time and the grandest of libraries…
What could happen? That is for you to decide. Embark on the Hero’s Journey…
Closing credits roll… cut- do-over!!! Ah, really? But God…I was soooo close…
