SAY YES TO LIFE and REJOYCE with JOY in how life EMBRACES YOU in Return
PREFACE to rekindle future Strommen Rambling Blogs (v2)
It has been years since I have posted, not that I have not thought of it, just had lost the focus on this fun, transformational and inward thinking blog of mine.
It is now time to rekindle and again make these posts a meaningful part of my life. For those that follow and read and find it of interest, FANTASTIC, if you find it insightful, FANTASTIC, if it stirs a personal shift in who you are, how you view other, how you view your personal life and the relationships around you, I would be ELATED and would love to hear from you that these ramblings made a difference.
Where do I re-start? Over the past 4 years I have learned through success and failures,
Wait a minute, FAILURE is too negative of an adjective, each unsuccessful experience taught me something, something that I internalized, maybe not quick enough but internalized non the less and made a shift in doing my best to make the unsuccessful something less likely to repeat itself.
Recently, in a conversation with a friend who had lost their spouse to cancer and was reflecting on how life had changed, a year later a commitment was made to SAY YES TO LIFE! The statement impacted and caused a shift in my thinking and perspectives. How about you?
A few months ago, I made a decision to enroll in a National Small Group Leadership Training Program, (Align, Marathon and Mountains. Com, check it out on google) that culminates experiencing 5 days of hiking in Peru with the 8 fellow students from around the country and our 3 leaders celebrating graduation, friendships and a refreshing realignment to life in Machu Picchu.
I have discovered, thanks to my saying YES, to the leadership program that a few unsuccessful experiences in business and personal relationships had not progressed and developed as they should because I was too INWARD and not interestingly OUTWARD to those around me, my actions were not aligned with my feelings and desires .
These experiences reminded me of a great news reporter, political commentator , Charles Krauthammer. Charles was refreshing, honest, objective and extraordinarily intellectually insightful, Charles Krauthammer, Charles lived by a mantra when he met someone new: TELL ME ABOUT YOU, I WANT KNOW YOU! This simple straight forward question is powerful beyond its few words’ that has taught me a refreshing approach to both business and personal relationships, thought and behavior.
These rather recent experiences are contributing experiences that has rekindled this writing. To default saying YES to opportunities, experiences, those currently around you and those who will enter your life in the coming days. Who knows, this refreshing outward perspective just may allow you to rekindle a relationship that was lost in the past.
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Ramblings from Bob Strommen 