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July 22, 2015 I'm going to start today to record on a daily basis whatever happens to strike my fancy. So, it is a very cool breezy day. I just posted 5 short book reviews to The Monthly Reading Challenge. I'm suppose to put away some winter wood today from the woodpile outside but I'm playing hookey from work to write so starting this blog will get done. I'm having a daily fight with a flock of English Sparrows that are trying to take over my barn. They are making a terrible mess so they have to go. I have destroyed several nests so far they don't leave but they get out of the barn when I am around. I'm just starting the fight so I guess I don't know how far I have to go to discourage them. I'm trying not to spread myself to thin on WDC because I find so many things that are interesting here and I am trying to work on a new story. I really enjoy sitting at my desk with a cup of tea and reading blogs on WDC. |
What characteristics do you admire in a leader? Is there or was there a time in your life when you took on a leadership role? Research different leadership styles and describe which style you would most like to follow. Which style are you? When you are in a leadership position, do you exemplify the qualities you admire in a good leader?  Quote: Visionary — mobilize people toward a vision. ... Coaching — develop people for the future. ... Affiliative — create emotional bonds and harmony. ... Democratic — build consensus through participation. ... Pacesetting — expect excellence and self-direction. ... Commanding — demand immediate compliance. {from Google search (leadership styles) This prompt is a little over my head?  So, I'll take on the questions one at a time. Besides, I found places that said there was 6, 7, or 8 styles.1. I like a leader to be honest, even bluntly honest and knowledgeable, about whatever the subject is they are leading. The person should be able to direct the people being led into some kind of knowledge, that may be needed for the situation. 2. Yes. I was a mother, a cub scout den leader, and a leader of a church youth group. Also, a riding instructor for horseback riding and training. And at one time I taught some children dog obedience for their companion dogs.) (for children and teens from about 12 to 17.) Depending on the group I needed some musical ability to lead songs, organizational ability to teach classes about how to train and communicate with animals. And, any knowledge of children I could glean. 3. This is a part where it's over my head. I guess I did not know leadership styles was a subject you could research and chose to follow in such a strict manner. When I took journalism classes the professors used transformational. 4. I always tried to impress honesty on any groups I was in charge of and make sure they had knowledge that they could depend on, as they grew, to be accurate and far reaching. I did not delve into this subject too deeply, so I would think maybe the way I led was as a coach, or in a visionary capacity. Mostly, my position was brought about by the fact, that no one else was available to lead the group. I was the one with the training, knowledge, or time to participate. So, it would have been a combination of leadership values to meet the need of the situation. I will be interested in answers to this as many of you have college courses in psychology and leadership in business. THE END.  |
11/18/2019 - What is something that most people misunderstand or wrongly assume about you?  ???What a question? How would I know? I actually never talk to very many people. I tried to be friends with one of the neighbor ladies years ago and that turned into a mess. Actually, I'm stunned by things I know now I did not know 30 or 40 years ago. I don't think our children are being raised with enough knowledge about humanity. One neighbor thought I was writing about her in a short story I wrote about some women gossiping about a neighbor at a meeting for coffee. I explained all this before in another blog. I tried to join a book club a few years ago. The ladies tried to use psychology to put me to sleep or just get me to tell them if it was safe to take an over seas vacation? I just left quickly and then laughed for awhile at home. These ladies are into prophecy or oracle speech from spirits. I was interested to read in one book last year about Pope Benedict who loudly proclaimed. "I'm not an oracle!" when some church members wanted information from him about future events. It was in a book I might have reviewed. A catholic journalist who was covering the Vatican reported the situation. I read a lot of journalist writings about church history. History does try to repeat itself especially if people are not inclined to read about past occurrences in the history of humans. Lots of history books have references of other books and sometimes I'm inclined to look up some book used for a reference and read the whole book. Of all the hundreds of books I read I feel like my total knowledge bank would still only fit on the head of a pin. I'm just a person. I don't have all the answers. Besides, if you want to communicate with God you are suppose to develop your own relationship with the Creator. In a Journalism class we were required to write an article about a person in a community. I'm rural so I'm not up on too many local special people. I read in a newspaper about a pastor that was retiring soon and had contributed to a lot of community enrichment. I interviewed him and wrote up an article about him. When the professor of the class read my article he said I made the man sound like any ordinary person just going about his every day work instead of a well known man in the Christian community. I was interested in the fact that the professor thought this person was not living an ordinary life because he was a Christian? I like to listen to other peoples ideas about an ordinary life on the earth. Maybe there really isn't any such think since no two people approach life exactly the same I think you can train two people to do a job but they will follow the rules of the work of slightly different angles. THE END Quote: "Trees exhale for us so that we can inhale them to stay alive. Can we ever forget that? Let us love trees with every breath we take until we perish." ― Munia Khan https://onetreeplanted.org/blogs/stories/inspirational-quotes-about-trees |
There are 45 days remaining in the year. What do you want to do or accomplish before 2019 is over?   Quote from The Overstory by Patricia Westerford -- "It's a great idea, trees. "So, great that evolution keeps inventing it, again and again." 45DAYS? Yesterday a meteorologist on TV reminded us it isn't winter yet. He also, said this would be a good week to put up our trees? I've been watching the news. There are a lot of advertisements about Christmas shopping. Ads encouraging people to get their shopping done early. Early Black Friday Sales as well. I do wonder if the weather will be a lot worse than this, when winter hits on the calendar. I'm half way through with my shopping. Even, that is good for me, as some years I am not starting until after thanksgiving. But, I won't put up the tree until the day after Thanksgiving. Our tree is 30 years old or more. I don't like the trees I see in the stores now. They are not made as well as the one I now have but, it is beginning to see better days. Last year a row of bottom limbs fell off and we just patched it back together so, I think we may have to get a new one. I have pictures every year of the tree we now have. My 48 year old parrot, that died this summer, used to sit in the limbs during the holidays. No, it was a well trained parrot. Never left poo any where but, in the proper part of its cage. I have pictures of piles of gifts under the tree, past pets, well remembered cats and dogs, that curled up among the gifts, because the hand crocheted tree rug was a soft place to take naps. 2019 has a lot of started projects that, won't be finished until 2020. Some things just were started too late to finish in the present cold weather. A new tree is kind of a promise, that the new projects might get finished in the new year. Different cats will sleep under the new tree and bat at the plastic decorations on the lower limbs. I'm wondering if I can find a tree that looks as good as this one always did at a price I can afford. Thanksgiving might be catered this year, which means I won't have to cook.  . I'm sure 45 days is going to fly by. Other than that, I think I'll just keep moving on odds and ends projects and see how the rest of the year goes. Grandma always said, "Don't wish your life away."Turkey Day is on it's way  . |
If you had to spend one million dollars in one day, what would you spend it on? *Dollar*   Quote from The Overstory: by Patricia Westerford. "The Secret of Life: Plants eat light and air and water, and the stored energy goes on to make and do all things." $1,000,000,000  Aha! The Millionaire one of my favorite shows at the time. First a new automobile. Probably a Jeep of some sort and a trailer to haul stuff. Pay off my mortgage and school loans, Give to some charities, Hire some work done on the house. I could do a lot of that on about 200,000. Make the dog run bigger and get another dog. This may be an under estimation. Then invest in something and see who in the family needed more cash for their own problems. If I absolutely had to spend it all in one day I bet I could find away. It's actually fun to think of ways to spend or even give away cash. I'd be penniless at the end of a day. Some ways to spend lots of cash: 1. Buy kindles and put them in food boxes to the hungry at Thanksgiving. 2. Build a cottage on some land and give it to a needy family. 3. Pay electric or cell phone bills for people who could not pay their own. 4.. Buy some solar panels and hire someone to install them for people who don't have a lot of cash to spend. Buy infrared heaters to run with the solar energy. 5. Put up a tower and rent out space for cell phones or TV channels. Put up a windmill. 6. Open a factory to turn bamboo into lumber for sale at a reasonable price. 7. Build a factory to turn recycled plastic into insulation for homes. 8. Fix my driveway. 9. Trade in my tractor for a newer one. 10. buy a snowblower with a cab on it. 11. If I started early in the morning I bet I could spend a lot of money in one day and sleep well at the end of the day. 12. Buy land and put up one room cottages and camp space for the homeless. Lots of thought will have to go into this one. 12. Start a school specifically for homeless people. Put them to work in my factories. Only if they want a job of course. {BYE FOR NOW)  |
In your entry today, write about focus. Use the following questions to guide you. At what time of day are you the most focused? When you need to focus on a task, how do you prevent distractions? How do you manipulate your environment to keep yourself focused? How else do you practice focus in your life? Any tools or techniques you can share?  Quote for Today:“Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. ...Paulo Coellto {link:www.planetofsuccess.com › blog › inspiring-focus-quotes} FOCUS I know it is after morning chores are finished. That's the time I will take on a new job or sit down to knit, or write or take on a special cleaning job that needs done. Distractions? If I'm alone I don't get many. If it is a long term project, more than one hour or one day. I might have to meditate or prepare myself mentally to continue the job. Some jobs I just hate. Some jobs I don't think I should have to do. I tell myself to do the job. When the job is over I get a reward. An example would be wheeling loads of wood into the wood shed each day. Ugh! I think of how nice it is to burn the wood when it isn't piled high with snow. I don't have to go out in a storm to get it. And, I'm working monetarily toward a heating method that will eliminate the need to carry wood forever. Might happen next winter. Some distractions are worse than others. Some can be put off. If it's K I may have to be specific. He can fix his own computer or phone or app or find a hammer or tool on his own. This one made me laugh. Bob Gates uses a mantra. It's in the link above. So, do I. It drives out thoughts that are not worthwhile. While your body works to get the job finished. Hauling wood, cleaning the freezer, moping floors are all mindless jobs. Sometimes if it's possible music keeps me going. I work faster and steadier to music. Knowledge gained by reading also help. But, I'm one of those people who can't write or read with music turned on. I can do the day to day busy work of cleaning and storing and cooking to music but nothing that needs a mental input. Techniques? (This is part of what made me laugh because I am trying to stay away from the God subject since we have members who may be offended. So, now in this part we are talking about just me. I tell it to God.)I don't really just pray. Or, I don't call it prayer. Jesus made some statements and I just take him at his word. He said he would help so, if I need help I get specific and state what I need help with. God is neither male or female and God is eternal. but, in church you learn to say he when you probably should say God or it. Just so you know--"One day at a time" (in the bible)-- People can't hear me" (in the bible) I use to say this when I would ask a family member for help and not get it. Then, yep found it in scripture. So, the electricity for thoughts moves out into atmosphere connects with elections in atmosphere molecules and moves along a line until it bounces back and I get help and focus and the job gets done. https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Airwatt This makes one airwatt equal to 0.9983 watts, which rounds off to 1.0 watts. My doves have returned to the feeders. Probably 25 or more. February or early march is breeding season for them. They get fat during the holiday months so those little fledglings will hatch and keep warm in the cold. THE END  |
Think back to a moment in your life when you were faced with making a difficult choice. (Which city to move to, which college to attend, what to ask Santa for, etc) How might your life be different if you had made a different choice than the one you did?  Quote: Influence is when you are not the one talking and yet your words fill the room; when you are absent and yet your presence is felt everywhere. – TemitOpe Ibrahim https://sayingimages.com/influence-quotes/ CHOISES I like a steady day to day life. Major choices make me gringe if I don't have a lot of information about the alternatives to back up my choice. Most of my choices were not really mine. Sending my horses to a local sale was not exactly my choice . I was being pushed to do it. I did not even find out how I was influenced until years later. The choices I made, to get a job outside of my home were mine. The kennel job was a great choice but, my family interfered with it so, I did not keep it. Selling the sheep and goats was my idea too. Or at least enough of my idea to be beneficial. And, I used the money from the sale to buy a horse. The Donut Shop job was also a good choice only once again, someone else interfered with it. Still, a good choice to work and earn my own cash. College was a good choice also. I will never be sorry for going even at such a late date. It slung me mentally into the information age. It aided my self esteem. And, I became tech savvy. It would have been good for me to learn the college things earlier in life. My brother suggested I become an airline stewardess after high school. I sometimes wonder how I would have managed if I had done that, with as little knowledge of the world as I had at the age of 17. I was a dumb blonde at age 17.  } The End |
In what circumstances do you believe it is okay to fib or tell a white lie? Quote from Goodreads.com:“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.” ― Mark Twain My second son wanted to know about fibs and white lies? We were preparing for the holiday season. If you are in a gift giving scene, sometimes you tell people a white lie. Hiding the gifts and trying to keep the kids from searching for them? A white lie can be told to avoid hurting someones feelings but, in the end, whatever you avoid telling may hurt them over time. I just said, "Stay out of my room if you want any surprises at Christmas." When it comes to children I've met lots of them that don't care about the surprise just want to know what is going to be under that tree. Sometimes truth is from experience and your own knowledge; so if someone is trying to catch you in a lie they will look for something to be wrong with something you said. Or, new facts may surface that will cause you to change or review what you know. Or, if someone is lying to themselves they will be angry with the facts of a statement. They may look for a way to turn your facts against you? A fib is a lie. You think it is unimportant, but again, sometimes small untruths take away from the way you are perceived as a person. Personally, I think lies are more important than people realize. I've told the truth sometimes when I did not want to tell the truth. My experience is truth is like a living thing. Truth is a sound wave spreading like the fluctuation waves, in a pond. When you throw a pebble into the water. The center wave ring is the largest and makes the biggest movement. As the waves move out they get smaller but, can still rock a swimming duck or water lily floating in the pond. Truth is a necessary part of life. Without truth you don't know who or what to believe unless you see it or experience it with your own eyes. It's why the journalist mantra is "Tell the truth, don't write dull material." The words of truth or lies drives the way societies see the world. Telling lies destroys trust. Destroy trust and you destroy relationships between people. The cover a Lie gives will disintegrate like sugar in water. Truth can clear the air, take away confusion, make things right, solidify trust.   ![Merit Badge in Point of View
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What is one thing (sight, smell, sound, object, etc) that, when you encounter it, instantly brings you back to your childhood?  BOOKS Probably the book Heidi. Someone gave me a copy of Heidi at an early age.For awhile it was the only book I had that was not a "Little Golden Book." Heidi and the goats on the mountain, her attachment to grandfather was interesting, as I look back now. I read it so many times I knew pictures and phrases by heart. I now believe it was given to me to use as a manipulation of my life. The so called experimenters thinking ahead. I was raised on goat's milk, which is a no, no in some cultures. My dad wanted me to raise dairy goats because my mother wanted to raise dairy goats. I raised sheep and dairy goats for 8 years. Spent time learning to do it right. Sold the sheep and goats to get another horse. Which prompted at least two people to state they really did not know me at all. Oh, well a different life would have just had different stories. The snow all melted Sunday. Last night it put down 6 more inches and 6 more are expected by morning. Bird feeders are filled and lots of birds and red squirrels are feeding now at the feeders. Two of my cats are young. There is a cat door out to the balcony, where I keep cat boxes and feed so the dog won't eat the cat food. It isn't heated but totally enclosed, so snow, rain, and weather are kept out. Morning after the first snow the two young cats were sitting on chairs staring out at the white world, wondering, I'm sure, how the world outside their windows turned white in the night. The End . |
Today, your prompt is one word: Transformation. Quote for the Day from: https://www,wiseoldsayings.com Transformation does not start with someone else changing you; transformation is an inner self reworking of what you are now to what you will be. To transform yourself, you don't need to do big things. Just do small things in big way. Transformation will follow you! Transformation Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:2 | NIV | May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance. 2 Thessalonians 3:5 | NIV But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23 | NIV | What other people cannot know is what you are inside of yourself. If others push against your own inside goodness, try to change the way you work to achieve peace and inner calm it's easy to flip out. The transformation is when, as you age, you learn things to build a quiet barrier against evil thoughts and actions. your own and other people who would prefer that you not learn about the peace that passes understanding. In a psychology class I took, the professor was a trained psychiatrist. We spent time learning, that we are all products of our environments. Not, everyone grew up in the same type of home life situations. But, you learn to fight against the environment or accept it as a part of your life and live the way it pushed you to be. Fighting against improper upbringing is one of the greatest ways to experience transformation. When the voices start up to condemn you for some little no nothing thing you said, or did on the spur of the moment, which you might not have done or said anyway, if you took time to think before you spoke or acted or had more knowledge or guidance in any life situation: God says you are not condemned. Tell it to that voice in your head. Jesus Christ did not do anything wrong. Yet they tortured him, then hung him on a cross. He was a scape goat. Now, he is the only scape goat. Because what happened to him is not suppose to happen to us. God doesn't do bad things to us, people do. (He was seen by over 5000 people after he rose from the dead. They were witnesses, Real people, who wrote about what they saw.) It's a historical fact. I'm really 74, I struggled. You will struggle, but, even if it is gradual you will be transformed. It's a joy to know what a truth-to be is.. I read the end of the book and we win! Truth is so much fun.  THE END or THE BEGINNING YOU DECIDE |
 Quote from : Wisdom From Myles Munroe It is time to change both our thinking and our behavior to bring them in line with who we really are. November 9. 2019 Write a stream of conscious entry starting with the words “I wish...” I wish I had more psychology knowledge and training so I would recognize phrases like "stream of conscious," I Googled this and decided that's the only way I could really make much out of this for the blog. However, I do think this type of thinking shows up when I'm writing a story. In a recent chapter of Plage one of my characters is spending lots of time with steams of thoughts about the adventure she is involved in. Unfortunately, wishing and Google won't make it so and I am not going to take another psych class right now. The End November 10. 2019 What do you find yourself insecure about? Are you able to overcome your insecurities? If so, how? Over the time of my life, I've had a lot of insecurities. Individuals are responsible for their own actions in a democratic type of society. So, you get up in the morning figure out your day and try to stick to your schedule no matter what gets in the way. I believe one of the most difficult thing for a person to do is the daily drudge of living and being. The only official psychology I've had was 101 and reading books. I've been reading parts of the Bible since my maternal grandfather sent me a New Testament as a gift when I was a youngster. (Don't know what age?) One day I walked in to the house from school and my dad handed me the Bible and said, "Here your grandfather sent this to you." It wasn't in a package so I'm assuming if it came in the mail Dad opened the package first to find out what was in it? So, I like "One Day at a Time" It is good advice. Aging teaches you, that as you get into any situation; the solution shows up after awhile. Of course, I've never been into drugs, or prison, or without housing of some type. There are lots of severe problems I never experienced, serious illness, bankruptcy, volcanic eruptions,and I hope not. I experience insecurity when I have to have a wellness checkup. People say dumb things to me during checkups. An eye doctor told me I would probably go blind because I have blue eyes. A nurse practitioner told me I should take High Blood Pressure medicine; even though I take my blood pressure and it is rarely out of normal range. It was after I talked to her. On another occasion, a woman who I think was a nurse, ushered me back to a waiting room and told me how she takes 10 different types of pills a day and, what is wrong with me, that I don't take any? I was so startled when she asked me, that I could not speak. The most recent stupid comment was from a Doctor who stated she did not have any idea I was a drug addict? I think I'm high on living I guess. One day I told someone I would probably be walking along someday and God would say, "Come up here." My body would fall over dead and someone would trip over it, when they walked by. Now, a segment of medical people think I should be tested for heart problems? Honestly, No one expected me to live this long. Truthfully, I have had accidents. Once, a horse pitched me into a fence. I cracked my shoulder. And, had whiplash. But, I do yoga and everything eventually went back into place healed and I moved on. I don't want to stand around and try to figure out how I will die, because I'm too busy. I have a sweater to knit this winter. I have read 9 books since the end of September and I have to record them in Goodreads. In October, I spent time every day putting two truck loads of wood into the wood shed. There is regular barn cleaning and grooming for the pony. I write a story once in awhile. There is always house work to be done, the dog to walk, and other odds and ends of daily life. I can't afford to hire help but, even I can see the day is going to arrive when I won't be able to keep up without a helping hand. We'll see how life evolves for me. I'm insecure about how K is going to be, if his condition worsens. He has high blood pressure, Diabetes 2, and lots of insecurities about how his life will end. Aging is probably the biggest insecurity around. Will we be here today, tomorrow, next year? Who Knows? We are into blatant winter, with over cast skies, snow, and the whole works. Too early for my taste. THE END. |
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