Are you ready for today’s adventures? They’re waiting for you. Who knows where they will carry you. Be open to surprises, new people, and new knowledge. Everything that is coming to you today will help prepare you for tomorrow. Free up your inner child and go after this day with gusto. If disappointment hits, shake it off and go on to the next adventure. Who knows how many dragons you’ll slay or secret treasures you find. Perhaps your muse will knock at your door and crank your creativity up a couple of notches. Today is yours. Don’t miss a minute of it.
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Today’s Thought: Change it Up
Change it up today. We get caught in habits. It’s as if we walk through life on automatic pilot. If we’re not careful our thoughts go on automatic pilot and we don’t question what we’re thinking or why we’re thinking it. Try some small things. If you always stop at Starbucks for coffee, go to a different coffee shop or make your own and take it in your travel cup. If you get delivery meals or eat out, make your dinner tonight. Instead of heading to the sofa after dinner, go for a walk. Change it up. You never know what wonderful creative thoughts will come into your mind.
Today’s Inspiring Quote: What Is Possible for You Today?
White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities. Stephen Sondheim
Today’s Poem – Imagination by John Davidson
Imagination by John Davidson
There is a dish to hold the sea,
A brazier to contain the sun,
A compass for the galaxy,
A voice to wake the dead and done!
That minister of ministers,
Imagination, gathers up
The undiscovered Universe,
Like jewels in a jasper cup.
Its flame can mingle north and south;
Its accent with the thunder strive;
The ruddy sentence of its mouth
Can make the ancient dead alive.
The mart of power, the fount of will,
The form and mould of every star,
The source and bound of good and ill,
The key of all the things that are,
Imagination, new and strange
In every age, can turn the year;
Can shift the poles and lightly change
The mood of men, the world’s career.
Mind Sharpening Anagrams – Sharpen Your Brain by Solving Today’s Anagram
An anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of another, often creating amusing or thought-provoking variations. It’s a wordplay delight that sparks creativity and puzzles the mind.
Today’s Anagram:
Mind Sharpening Anagrams ~ Spark Your Creativity
What is an Anagram?
An anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of another, often creating amusing or thought-provoking variations. It’s a wordplay delight that sparks creativity and puzzles the mind.
Can you solve this anagram?
Poem for Today ~ Pirate Story
Pirate Story
Robert Louis Stevenson
Three of us afloat in the meadow by the swing, Three of us aboard in the basket on the lea. Winds are in the air, they are blowing in the spring, And waves are on the meadow like the waves there are at sea. Where shall we adventure, to-day that we’re afloat, Wary of the weather and steering by a star? Shall it be to Africa, a-steering of the boat, To Providence, or Babylon, or off to Malabar? Hi! but here’s a squadron a-rowing on the sea— Cattle on the meadow a-charging with a roar! Quick, and we’ll escape them, they’re as mad as they can be, The wicket is the harbour and the garden is the shore. Source
Thinking Out Loud ~ Are You Following the Herd?
In his work, Self Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson writes, “Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.” Pps. 122-123
NOTE: The great herd tries its best to conform and make sure what it says conforms to what the herd wants it to say. Researchers point out that the greatest ideas and innovations come from the edges. They come from people who do not conform to the herd but intuitively listen to a different voice. If you’re feeling an internal conflict, it may be time to think about leaving the herd mentality and walking to edge.
Thinking Out Loud ~ It Takes Practice, Practice, Practice
Joseph Campbell speaks of the creative act in Reflections on the Art of Living. He says, “The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to new creative movements. Think, for instance, if someone is studying the piano. There is nothing worse than having somebody in the neighborhood, studying the piano, practicing their exercises. There is nothing at all beautiful about them. Their function is to give you facility, and presently there comes a point when you have the facility, It happens automatically, and you do not have to think this is true for everything. The one who attempts to be an artist and has not learned the craft is never going to be an artist. P. 262
Note: I read a book where the author says it takes 10,000 hours of practice to master a skill. That’s why there are so few great ones. There is the joke where a reporter asks a virtuoso how they got to Carnegie Hall. The virtuoso replies, “practice, practice, practice.” It’s true in all areas of life. Do you want to be a good friend, parent, husband, or wife? Practice, practice, practice. And, one day it will happen, and you will not even realize it is happening,
