Where is the magical button on social media where you just press <enter> and off you go into the stratosphere?
There is none.
There were none when I started either. Any new social media corner there were signs with advice on which turn to make. LEFT or RIGHT ..... which could end up being RIGHT or WRONG.
Right it is
To assume right as the likely choice since we use the same word in both situations.
Resistance
There are so many more resisting factors, fears, concerns time 100s to the ones who are actually on here.
Where is here?
Where you are when you read this: at home on your PC, laptop, tablet? Scrolling around sensitized and on high alert for something interesting to appeal to you in that split second it takes you to react to that magical CLICK.
To journey
To arrive here, you will have had to be comfortable enough to have an internet connection and at the very least an email/service provider.
The starting line
Would be your interpretation of how you will use that device: to chill out, to search for something, to check something ... whether it be a fact, a source, a resource, a review, a picture, a story.
Reach out
That is when you reach out: when you are looking for something. Somehow, somewhere somebody (I'd bank of Google) is amassing all those queries or search terms and dividing and conquering sourcing that one top reply.
Replies to multiple
Within that algorithm, there most likely dwells a key identifier that would suggest which ones are the most popular responses by site. In other words, which one of the choices is clicked on most often. An from that, extrapolate which ones held the audience the most captive the longest.
That's the sort of information
Anyone who is a knowledge junkie or fact checker to support their blog would be found.
I'm a big fan of numbers
Which I just really recognized by self-discovery by examination of answering this one question: What do you want?
What you want
Is not one singular thing. There is no magical way of blinking here one moment into time travel and advancement to a now where you've arrived at that answer.
There are steps
Whether you are climbing a Mount Everest metaphor-like obstacle in life, you don't just go *poof* and you are there.
Even in the movies
There are steps to creating a movie. Without an idea, there would be no script that is needed to create a vision, where there are phases from pre-production to assembling the team to arrive on location, are numerous intricate steps.
I could define
how to answer that one question. What do I want? Too many offshoots of questions and avenues of learning needed to be gliding around before I could answer that. You see, there are four words there that you are answering and need to be broken down:
What?
What is the end point, best that could happen if Utopia were uncovered by being able to say confidently, that you know what the WHAT was, is, or meant.
- WHAT would it look like?
- WHERE would you be?
- WHAT will you be doing?
- WHO will you be doing it with?
- WHO will you be doing it for?
- Is there a WHY you include as part of WHAT?
- WHEN will you be doing this?
- NOW? What does your picture look like?
- IF NOT NOW, WHY not? This only means that you are procrastinating, lacking the confidence, or lost your sense of belief in what you are able to accomplish.
DO
Phew. We're only on the second of four words. Bet you didn't realize that, being so caught up in the pauses between questions and definitions above. Hard word. You bet. Wait till you have to bring out a pen and write it down, with your answer right after. No pushing off, procrastinating, avoiding or not DOing. What are the questions you can think of that merge with DO? Give it a try:
- DO you believe in yourself? If not, what is holding you back? What needs to be done so that you will?
- DO you have emotional support? A loved one, a family member, a mentor, coach, cheerleader? OK, write down each one and then name who has that role in your life. If you do not have someone in that role, then it is your responsibility to find someone for each one. You may as well stop until you have a few people in your corner, be your guide and cheerleader cheering you on. You need these people if there are obstacles. Obstacles seem insurmountable unless you are able to divide and conquer. Break it apart one boulder at a time or as a dynamic explosion, or smashing the bottle of champagne against a boat, cutting the ribbon to commemorate the opening. You need to know who will be there to help you celebrate. OR, at the times when you feel failure or have failed in some way. Who is going to pick you up, nurse you back to health, inspire you to get back up again, or motivate you because of one reason or another?
- WHAT will you DO? What are you doing when you are at "what do you want?" Sailing the Caribbean with a captain and crew to navigate to sunny waters, catch lobster and cook it for you? A bottle of champagne for cocktails after refreshing in classic evening attire with elegance. Responding to emails here and there throughout your vacation called life, to keep the other part of what you DO continually working on your behalf.
- DO you work or do you work at not working too hard?
- DO you have plenty of love and attention in your life that negates risk, risky behavior, risky thoughts?
YOU
So many of us have a hard time defining ourselves. Not too difficult to describe our physical selves with something to reference our every single waking moment. Can you write a bunch of questions or descriptions that would allow you to define who YOU is? Is there more soul searching required to examine what makes you jump up in the morning and seize the day? The great news is that when you know how to answer that important question: "what do you want?" you will very likely be quite comfortable, confident and objective on who YOU are.
WANT
Can be often misguided to material things like houses, cars, boats, travel homes, clothing, jewelry, toys like electronic devices, smartphones, computers, gadgets, tools, and anything that is an object defined by ownership.
LIFE
How do you want to see your life will present a much more satisfying way of answering or describing the WANT. Do you see yourself surrounded by a lot of immediate family with a spouse and kids and even their kids, grandchildren? What is the setting or event that got you all assembled there? Or are you alone because that is what satisfies you: seeker of peace, quiet, mediation and prayer.
Perhaps
In a subconscious fashion, this is about a journey of my own. Stopping to smell the roses. Take a deep breath and take the next steps in the uphill climb.
REALIZATION
There are many ah-ha moments that can pop out from the core. Letting go of tension and fear. Allowing yourself moments of pause that allows you to embrace appreciation. Then, express gratitude and thanks to all who have joined you throughout, or stopped in once or once in a while. Thank YOU has such a widespread benefit. It is free.
BRAZIL
For the past number of months, my statistics, kindly provided by Google because I am steadfast in using their Blogspot platform, learning more and more about the advantages. (See comments at the end). I have been shown, time and time again, that my most loyal blog readers are from Brazil.
Attached to a Tweet that said:
"Gracias to #Brazil and #Mexico #Argentina #Spain
Give credit to where it is due. In this case, I see how having my blog is a much smarter move than the obvious. I am on Tumblr which posts like you are a blogger however more picturesque, but I am also on Word Press and I had thought originally a much more close knit, collaborative crew. That is warm and fuzzy for sure. But how about Google's translation GADGET? What other blogs have the capability to translate into other language?
BREAKTHROUGH
Bouncing beyond the obvious to the revolutionary. Google is way ahead of the pack by allowing bloggers to allow their readers to translate into their own tongue. If I wanted to read a blog that was not caught up in politics and news, there may be fewer to chose from in the Latino language? This is don't know for sure. It is only a guess. Whatever the specific reason, I do know that I have had a great number of Latino supporters hailing from those countries like Brazil. Even nicer when they're all working together with Spain, Mexico and Argentina. Quite the powerful sources for a Latino engine.
THANK YOU.
For whatever brings you here. Appreciation and respect for making it this far. The end of this blog. Leaving lots more thoughts for another day.
Without you, the reader, the clicker, I would have no reason to write. Other than to exude demons that surface more readily once you hit 50. You know you lived a fairly charmed life, that was not perfect, with its own doses of rejection, betrayal, hurt, disappointment, aggrieved, cheating, unfairness.
It is the ability to bounce back is what sets some apart. A resilient coping super power!
The "goodest" of intentions pour from these fingertips. No direct malice towards anyone inclined. Just the freedom of expression.
I watched something on TV the other night that has lingered in my psyche: about this woman from New York who was committed passionately about making urban cities all about its people, neighborhoods. She wrote a lot about her misgivings and projections and recommendations. So much so, CITIZEN JANE [ yay I remembered ... my "sometimers meter is set to high" ] I will get her name and come right back to insert, even find a trailer to share.
What was remarkable was her commitment to her belief. Or, one could evaluate and extrapolate their own theory: that tenacity is a wonderful quality and character trait. Far more uncommon in a female than a male. Making an encounter with this extraordinary lady, you may become immediately intimidated by how smart she is, or at least so knowledgeable about her trade.
Qualities that are the best to start from while growing and blossoming (geez, not two m's and one s). To reach deep inside yourself, through meditation or deep reflection with piercing observation, to put out there your great intent. Solve a problem, serve people, create things, capture things, share things ... and so on and so forth.
