Month: August 2014

I have my own story

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We all have our own story.

Yesterday was the last day of Mastermind Summit 2014. Amazing speakers and incredible stories about the human experience and how we can overcome adversity…..learn from it, grow from it and become inspired by it. 2750 of us from all over the US & Canada, mostly realtors, laughed, cried and learned. The theme this year was living an inspired life. The lesson was how we, normal everyday people, inspire others and how we must strive to give and inspire others as well as ourselves. 

Yesterday’s focus was on us, ourselves. How we each have our own stories. How we can use our own struggles and triumphs that we have in our own lives to inspire ourselves. To plug into our own inspiration and the inspiration of others to make it a good life. To go out, live, learn, teach and touch others lives. 

Think about this…Was there someone in your life that made all the difference at that one time you needed them or their message? Is it possible that they did not even know that they made all the difference to you at that moment? Did it change your private little world, your life for the better?…Is it possible that you may have done this for someone else and not even know it?

We all have a story. We have all triumphed over something. We can inspire ourselves, we can inspire others. We each can make a difference. We each can change the world. 

Big thoughts, big journey…..but it’s true.

Go! Be Fearsome!

Update:

I write this post then I see this from yesterday. Maybe not at this moment but at some point in these young men’s lives they will remember this man and how he changed their world at that very moment. This is a coach, a real coach, a real inspiration. 

Can one person change the world?

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Yesterday’s guest speaker was John O’Leary.

http://rising-above.com/the-movement/

His section was named the power of one. His message so moving and so true. I had so many tears of joy steaming down my cheeks that Fearsome was dripping on my shirt. 

John was burned as a child. An explosion, caused by him playing with gasoline and matches in his family’s garage when he was about 7 or 8, burned 98% of his body and almost all of that 98% was 3rd degree burns. He was not expected to live. 

His story is about the people who got him through. The love that they had and how they changed him. Most of all was the one person who’s love and words challenged him to move beyond his situation. 

Do one good thing for one person each day. At the end of the day ask yourself “what more could I do?”. Find passion in what you do. These little things hold the keys to the kingdom of a life that can change the world, for one other person, yourself and possibly hundreds or more. 

Start with one. Just reach deep into yourself. The world will change and sometimes you don’t have a clue how much more you changed nor for how many more through the ripple effects. That’s why when you choose to do one good thing you, and each one of us, can make this works a better place. 

Check out this link, have a tissue, feel the joy.

http://rising-above.com/2012/12/the-power-of-one-2/

Have an incredible day and choose good!!!

Would you cut your arm off?

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Last nights opening speaker was Aaron Ralston. Aron Ralston is the man this movie is based on. He fell while climbing in a canyon in a very remote part of Utah. His arm was caught between a rock and the canyon wall. 127 hours (6days) later he freed himself by cutting it off. 

His message is that we all have boulders in our lives. Obstacles. Inside of us we have the strength to overcome these obstacles. Use the obstacle as a stepping stone, make it your boulder to learn about yourself, find your strength, grow and learn. Most of all be grateful for your boulders, your obstacles for you gain the insight that you would never have about yourself without them. 

Yes this man is freaking grateful that he was stuck alone, in a isolated canyon with only a t shirt and shorts and temperatures of 36 degrees F at night for 6 days with his arm pinned in such a way he could only stand and was not able to sleep. He ran out of food and water. He lost 30 lbs. He is grateful because of what he learned about himself. He took an obstacle and turned it into a blessing. When he did that he set himself free. 

Hope lights my path

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Very very early in my blog, day #3, I wrote this:

https://fearsomebeard.wordpress.com/2014/06/03/hope/

It was simple, sweet and I was just getting the hang of writing something that would be posted where others would read my writing. Others would know what I was thinking. I like what I said. I think I conveyed a meaningful message that I believe and I did it very simply. 

Yesterdays Meditation (#6 in the 21 day challenge) was Hope Lights My Path. In reflecting back I see that in my last post on hope, I write about being open and how openness allows us to see opportunity. With hope we can see. Hope is light. It can be a path itself, a path to follow, a path of light. Hope is a good contemplation for a Sunday. A day that our culture uses as a day of recreation & rest. Even for those who work on Sunday, like myself, it has a different feel…a feel of ease. 

Hope is a frame of mind for me, a place I like to try to stay in. I have found that no matter what the situation if I stop, pull back, go within through a deep breath I can see something even if it’s a faint glimmer. A something that can open the door to hope. With that door open just a crack I can continue to open my mind and find hope. It makes me feel better, it keeps me in a more upbeat mood. It no longer seems like a closed and trapped space. 

I have found that I am never really trapped. I have found that in every situation there is always a way through it and things are better on the other side. When I keep this perspective, hope always shows up. Hope always lights a path to better things. Hope always helps lead me back to happiness. Trapped is a very dark place. I find if I’m trapped I am in fear. But fear of what? When I find hope, fear fades. The worst fears never become reality if I find hope. They were just made up by being closed, by choosing to stay in the dark wallowing in them. Opening myself to hope exposes the fears as transient. This too, shall pass. It always passes. 

This evening I start a seminar that I have been attending for many years. Mastermind Summit starts tonight right here in San Diego. Brian Buffini is a real estate agent motivator with the largest coaching company in the real estate arena. Mastermind is his once yearly whole life seminar. It is 2 1/2 days. It always gives me hope and insight. 

http://www.buffiniandcompany.com/mastermind-summit.aspx

May your day be a wonderful Sunday. May it be filled with light and hope. 

Comments … Spo started it

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Yesterday I popped over onto Spo’s blog and he had a post up about comments. I posted a comment and it was off to bed. Occasionally I will turn out the light and the mind starts spinning. Last night it did.

A number of years ago (can’t remember exactly so let’s say about 8) I met a really great guy on a trip to Florida. He told me that he had started a blog. I had just started to read J.M.G about that time so I started to read his. He didn’t post much and I wanted to read more so I started to comment in order to support him and hopefully see more. There was one other person who consistently commented. I discovered one day by accident that if I clicked on that commenters name it took me to another blog. Yep you guessed it, Spo Reflections. I found I liked this blog and started to come back to it. Since Spo was supporting my friend through comments I started to comment on his blog as well.

So as the years have passed I have seen some go, my friend who got me started reading, and others begin, Anne Marie, Someone. I have met new people and found out, through Anne Marie, that I knew them through 6 degrees of separation, Sassybear, through a really close friend I don’t blog around with. It’s been a crazy ride. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Spo & Someone out in Palm Springs, being included in the Spo Shirt World Charity Tour and even picking him up at the airport in San Diego, and meeting Anne Marie (AM I call here on here) for cocktails while I was in Philly. All the while not blogging myself. All by just commenting. Three new and now long time friends…..Spo, AM & Sassybear (I mustn’t forget Someone as well)

I have enjoyed the reads, the adventures, the ups, the downs, the laughs, the questions, the inspirations and pics. I have enjoyed commenting and feeling included. I’ve popped over on a few of your blogs along the way. I’m starting commenting more on yours too and getting to know you better. I just didn’t blog myself. Well if your reading this you are fully aware that changed. The Beard had his way with me and got his blog, he even got a name. I, and Fearsome, are having a great time. I like to comment, I feel it gives support to the blogger I am reading and as I have learned takes you to a deeper level with the blogger your reading. You make friends. Not a bad thing. Fits me better than being 1 of 1,000 Facebook friends. 

Commenting takes time, you don’t just click a like button. It takes thought on my part and helps me to examine my point of view and make adjustments should I need to. It helps me to grow and may help another reader or blogger along the way. It’s important when commenting to stay open minded and be willing to see from another’s perspective, maybe even a better perspective. I’m still learning how to do that, thank you to those who help me and put up with me. 

Now that brings me to the comment I left on Spo’s blog post. About those big blogs, the huge ones with thousands of readers and often political or controversial topics. That is the place to be careful about commenting. If you are going to comment in that mine field, have a tough skin and do not take things personally. Remain open minded and don’t become so set in your own opinion that you can’t be empathetic to others and their opinions. Be respectful and if another commenter comes at you with insults, don’t comment back. I speak from experience, it’s wasted time and energy cause there are commenters there who will call you names and make it their job to discredit you all just because your opinion differed from theirs. 

Comments on my blog. I LOVE THEM. I thus far have had nothing but support from them. I like the support, I get to know you better. I am smart enough to know that one day I will get negative feedback. That’s ok, I will consider the feedback and if it is not relevant I have the option of deleting it. I have only deleted one so far, and it was because it was not relevant. It was criticism and not constructive. It was someone I have never heard of basically telling me that they understood I was new at this but that I either needed to step up to the plate and write longer more in depth post with more meaning or give it up all together. I didn’t feel that was constructive. It’s my blog and if I wrote it it meant something to me. Encouraging one to write more, not a bad thing, but telling them to do that or give up….go figure. 

So here I am in blog land with my own blog thingy. I sincerely hope to make more new friends along the way. I hope that I can give something. I hope that a few might think, learn and maybe even get inspired. I will continue to comment. I will try to comment in a supportive manner. I hope to keep growing through the process. I invite you to comment on my blog anytime. I will laugh and smile. I will learn and grow. I hope you do as well. 

Have a great weekend!!!

Be Fearsome……….. 😉

Wise Beard

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So my meditation today (day4) was on love. A very good meditation. 

But my mind is on wisdom and what I believe, think and desire about it. So as always I start by looking it up and post the definition below. The part about ‘knowledge of what is proper or reasonable: good sense or judgment’ is resonating with me today. I will contemplate on that today. What part of the definition resonates with you today? What quality might you cultivate in yourself from it? 

Maybe that beard of the day below this entry inspired this entry. While it is a very Fearsome Beard, it also appears that it may be full of wisdom.

Maybe that beard of the day below this entry inspired this entry. While it is a very Fearsome Beard, it also appears that it may be full of wisdom.

Relight my fire!

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Sometimes your just feeling a tune. I’ve always loved this one and it’s moving me today.

Dan Hartman’s 1978 classic Vertigo/Relight My Fire original 12″ remix….gotta love it when Loleatta Holloway chimes in with “I gotta be strong enough to walk on through the night,  there’s a new day on the other side, gotta have hope, in your soul….”

on the other side the other side…..

Runners Batted In

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Ok so I like to watch Oprah. I watch Super Soul Sunday and I watch Masterclass. There’s good stuff on those shows. Fearsome would prefer I watch baseball. He puts up with my tender side and this whole growth saga. But it gets in, Fearsome grows as I grow. But please don’t tell him, it’s our secret. 

So I’m doing the ironing and have the DVR going and it’s Sharon Stone on Masterclass. The wisdom that comes out of these people is incredible and sometimes in the simplest of statements. This piece of wisdom I have heard before but somehow the way she shared it knocked me and Fearsome both right upside the head. 

She said that when she was leaving her fathers home to go off into the world he handed her an article about Mickey Mantle. The article was about how at the time Mickey Mantle held the baseball record for the highest number of runners batted in. That’s a very important stat to any baseball player. The article also noted that he held the record for the most strike outs as well. 

Be Fearsome. Don't be afraid to strike out. In order to hit one out of the park you have to be willing to strike out. Then keep slugging cause you will clear the bases, but only if you keep trying to.

Be Fearsome. Don’t be afraid to strike out. In order to hit one out of the park you have to be willing to strike out. Then keep slugging cause you will clear the bases, but only if you keep trying to.

 

Fearsomely filled with Spirit

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in·spired [in-spahyuhrd]

1. aroused, animated, or imbued with the spirit to do something, by or as if by supernatural or divine influence: an inspired poet. 2. resulting from such inspiration: an inspired poem; an inspired plan. 3. inhaled: inspired air.

Or as the definition was conveyed in today’s meditation; To be filled with spirit.

When I decided to start this here blog thingy (I love describing the blog that way as Joe Jervis over at Joe.My.God does and it always makes me smile when he does, so I borrow the description from him) I had a vision of getting to know myself better, growing myself and sharing my experience just in case it helped another or at least made someone smile. That vision excited me, it made me feel good, happy. I had a motivation, time stopped and I enjoyed searching names, contemplating what things meant, reading, thinking. My beard is growing. I am growing thus the growth of the two resonated with me. It felt so good to keep going in the direction of making this happen.

I realize that I was filled with spirit and felt joy. At the time it just felt good. Being inspired was then and is now a wonderful state to be in.

Can we be inspired every moment? I think not. Life moves in cycles. Up and down, around and around it goes, it’s natural. Can we be inspired more? I believe so. The cycles of life can be modified by our openness and willingness. We cannot change the world or another person, but we can change how we perceive and how we react. We can change our focus. I feel if we focus on what moves us, we can spend more time in the inspired state and less time in the discouraged or disheartened states. If it feels right….move that way, if it doesn’t feel right….let it go.

So I chose to be open. I choose to be willing to let my feelings flow. I choose to focus on and follow what resonates. I choose to be willing to grow, to experience and to let my spirit fill me.

Woo Hoo!