Who Is Your Character

Listen to "Who Is Your Character" on Spreaker. As far back as I can remember the character we set free in the moments we lived were not always based on who we truly were. My father always told me to stay away from certain people because he knew my character would change and I'd end up getting in trouble. Same is true in 2018. You can physically see the personality changes on social media. What I find more interesting is how each character changes on what social media we're using. Twitter versus Instagram versus Facebook. Some will tell you that it's the same. All they did was cut and paste. Why then did I feel like it was three different newspaper stories featuring several different artists? Our character at work can be very protective or extremely shy. Who are you at home in the morning compared to when you get home after a long hard day? The shapes of our characters, are they created and or generated the way my dad saw it? Do you become a certain person while circling with certain friends or family members? How can you regain control of your truer self? If people saw me away from radio I'd be instantly branded a boring person. I love simple. I don't want to get in peoples way. I'd rather sit near the window staring at the forest then walk into a conversation and pretend I know what's going on. Where's the leadership in that role? That in itself is a very authentic question. Do we have leaders today or are they characters? Dad would always remind us, "Know your place and never forget where you came from." That was his way of saying that no matter how big you think you are with others there's still dishes to be washed at home and a dryer full of clothes that need to be folded. Be aware of your character changes. Study their habits and what they crave. Get back to being your true self. The rest of us will catch up.

Why Your Dreams Are Coming Through

Listen to "Why Your Dreams Aren't Coming Through" on Spreaker. I never plan for this. If I did it wouldn't be real. I step into this beautiful studio overlooking an incredible forest each morning and pick up a book of my daily writing. I'm locked and lost somewhere at the tail end of April 2016. Why do I do this? Because through each of our daily walks there are hordes of lessons shared and rarely do we locate the time to jot down notes. Even as that daily writer I miss so much. I feel it moving through the tip of my writing instrument but I'm so busy trying to make other people happy that the plan and purpose of where we're supposed to be on the bigger map sits in a RV park located on the corner of Walk and Don't Walk. While studying the pen scratches and stumbles of a wandering thinker the elements presented during those late moments of April 2016 unveiled a very important feature in the story of why our dreams aren't coming through. Not true. I physically said through. It's the junk we're collecting. We purchase so much stuff that it's stuffing our reasons to want to realize the importance of our being. Most of us are working to pay for the stuff that we no longer use. Here's a deeper truth. I've been daily writing since July 1994. I still have poetry written in the 5th grade. It goes even further. I still have my first spelling test book from the first grade. Hording right? To you yes. To me? I'm holding onto the birth of my writing and how I write. The importance of what we hold onto is what keeps us from growing. When I walk into an office operated by a strong GM or decision maker and I see the walls lined up with plaques and trophies I laugh. I honestly want to ask, "But who are you today?" Why aren't your dreams moving through you? How can we activate them into becoming part of your new found victory? Until I learn to open the vaults that hold my daily writing and I begin to throw it away, I honestly have no answer except to say "Eat more ice cream."

What Is Within

Listen to "What Is Within" on Spreaker. The headline asks a very important question that few would find joy in trying to unwind. Not a judgement but rather an observation. What is within? Especially since we all experience it on an everyday basis at work, while jogging, driving through horrid traffic or while doing something creative by way of art. A runners high is very real. A mothers way of protecting her child several blocks from where she stands is traveling within. There is a source of communication without words when you build that path toward strengthening the ability to always return to your within. Yoga, meditation, studying religion are incredible keys that open the doors of what we assume is locked. Me being me. Going within seems selfish, self serving and without the proper knowledge of knowing what to do with the higher purpose of the energy. Doctors, preachers, caretakers and other community minded individuals experience within in deeper ways. It is the act of traveling within the mind body and soul of the passerby. Not to steal but to help heal. Not to take advantage but to hear the calling out of a path that too many love to hide. My most recent challenges with a very strong minded rescued dog tested the depths of the lessons learned. We don't know the true stories of the objects in front of us. We can only assume by the way their words have described. Jazzie the rescue came from three different families. Her anxiety level was on huge overload and it was very evident I had adopted an out of control destructive dog. Every day there was more and more damage. I swear she was eating my house. I looked at Jazzie one day and asked, "Are you here to free me from a past that I cannot change and the only way to make that move is to take it from my sight?" We get wrapped up in so many things that we forget to look within. We gripe about how fast life is moving and yet the clock has never sped up its pace between the clicks. Learning to look within the shapes that unfold in front of us teaches us that it's time to hear more than your heart. Jazzie is now 22 days without bringing down the house. We meditate together, she takes me for the walks, she invites me to wander through the forest watching spring come back to life in Carolina. Jazzie has proved not to be the distraction but rather the correction. We all go through this. Maybe its time we stop pushing whats wrong away and learn from it. Use your gift of going within others so that you can see the stronger more faithful you that's still alive beneath your skin.

Locating Harmonics

Listen to "Locating Harmonics" on Spreaker. I've never looked at the Beatles as being a band. Those are fighting words aren't they? History shows they were four different guys who happened to come together in a moment that would change the way we buy, market and listen to music. Spin the clock forward to 2018 and you can't help but wonder what happened to these avenues of collaboration. We go to work and do a job. I get it. Collecting paychecks is a very cool habit. What are you doing for your uniqueness? Snow flakes are often accused of being that greater than glory process in nature of no two never being the same. Guess what John Lennon can't be compared to Paul McCartney. You can't be your boss but you can locate the harmonics in the connections made. Julia Cameron's book The Artist Way At Work should be studied by every layer of a working business. It clearly points out the uniqueness of each person involved in the avenues of locating success. Rather than bending and shaping the employee or standing in the corner pinpointing new ways to hate the boss. Tighten up the six strings of your guitar and learn that each of those strings truly has nothing to do with each other and yet music changes the world. Study the path of a single leaf. As much as we hate the allergy season the journey of that single leaf will one day feed the soil of the tree that brought it to life. I've never heard a tree complain about its water collecting shade offering partner. It's a relationship of growth by endlessly reaching for the limbs of tomorrow. Leaves that break down in the soil creates energy. How much energy are you truly bringing to the foundation of business success? Not a guilt trip. I know you're great at what you do. What if the labels and judgement were removed? What if it wasn't a job you were going to but rather a connection to clients that need your product to better the lives of people also wanting to grow forward? Look beyond the four walls. There is purpose in your walk.

The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 105

Listen to "The Lyrics From Billys Forest Chapter 105" on Spreaker. That moment. Yep the one where everything feels like the planets have aligned. You feel great and in tune with the atmosphere of constant change. Most people don't pick up a writing instrument or whip out their smartphone or tablet to write about that moment. The open space of receiving something greater than normal and the choice becomes to personally celebrate the accepting of such a vibration. More than ever those moments are a series of experiences that happened to glide together. All things are possible and that was it. How far and few are they brought to the surface of reality? Why don't those moments arrive more often? Is it because we truly aren't the students we claim to be? The only way to take great notes isn't after the event but rather while it's happening. Being true to the shape of it's journey through your efforts. I know, who has the time to take the time to write? You get 24 hours a day to make incredible plans and pictures. How much of it goes unnoticed due to another person's expectations? Your voice is always going to be louder. That invisible monster in your head that endlessly speaks while in the car, facing a deadline or just trying to get sleep. Practice writing before you dive into it. You have to train your imagination to recognize those moments. Bring them out by giving your imagination a reason to believe in who you are on the outside of that heart.

Judgement From Your Side Of The Fence

Listen to "Judgement From Your Side Of The Fence" on Spreaker. We all do it. We sit and wonder why some people have more but aren't grateful and or show no respect for having such. When we take note of such behavior we tend to forget there are those doing the same to us. Just because you aren't on a pro sports team and or have buckets of bucks flooding the bankers floor doesn't mean your personal gifts in other peoples eyes don't also draw the same I want that picture. A good example is serving at the homeless shelter. While you spent the afternoon watching others play in their moments of glory the men or women you're serving at the shelter look at you behind the counter realizing you're going home to a comfortable bed and will have breakfast lunch and dinner tomorrow. Same story is true when you sit with a child not grasping the wisdom required to read properly. The new walk should be to think of yourself wearing a pair of contact lenses. When you have a pair in you can move your eyes around and see things. Now shift to a pair of glasses. In order to see you need to move your entire body to look around or you get dizzy. Yes the grass is green on the other side of the fence. It's also very green where you stand. Turn around and inspire someone to grow with you in forward motion.

I Am Water

Listen to "I Am Water" on Spreaker. Say it five times, "I am water." Water has flow. From that purpose faith, trust, love and peace are allowed to grow in areas of a bigger plan. It always doesn't work that way. We find reason to become beavers. Beavers build dams which tend to back things up, sometimes flooding some very valuable chunks of land. In the end and upon the bigger picture the water didn't stop. It still found reason to flow forward. "I am water." Believe in the moment. Take in the elements of your present place and step. If something is blocking you from reaching a chapter of victory you are still water. I read this morning that trust is a question. It's not something that we aimlessly give away like love. Trust physically requires an answer in order to proceed. You can love all day but do you trust what you love? That's where faith shines it's oddly shaped smile. For the past six weeks my world has been turned upside down by a co-dependent rescued dog that has severe anxiety during moments of departure. Before we were blessed with her path four different families returned her to the animal rescue. Never once have I felt the energy to create a path leading in that direction. "I am water." Sure my house needs repair. But my home is blessed with tremendous amounts of forgiveness and love. She absolutely has been a beaver in my stream but in learning to love and trust she's grown away from the destructive behavior which has allowed my mind body and soul to feel the presence of love and peace. "I am water." If life sucks at your job prepare yourself for learning to understand what your boss or co-workers are going through in their moments of a private life. What if what you bring in your flow of water is their only way to locate love and peace? The Beatles were four individuals that happened to create harmony. That's exactly how you have to hold love and peace and trust and faith. Grow forward and outward.