Nice Dice
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- Bill Ward
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I am an active practitioner of the mind-set that life is what you make of it. How a sentence is worded reveals a lot about an individuals view on life. For example, the following three comments: a) The glass is half-full; b) Today is partly sunny; c) I havent reached that point YET are all of the TYPE of sentences that come out of my mouth on a regular basis. Another truism I totally buy into is Perception is Reality.
Positive thinking, optimism and self-fulfilling prophecies are all controllable things that make sense to me. The yang to my yin is our *friends the pessimists. *Even in typing this article, I cant help calling the archenemies of Positive Living friends ..
To continue with the examples, the same three comments above could be worded, a) The glass is half-empty .who is going to fill my glass for me?, b) Today is partly cloudy I bet it will be like this all week .c) I will never make it Im doomed in fact, were ALLLLL doomed .
As
most humans have the opportunity to choose exactly which words to use to
describe a situation, I prefer to cast light with my words, rather throw shadows.
A Joe Friday version of the same three comments goes like this:
a) The glass has water in it.
b) Todays weather is not consistent.
c) Im working on it.
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the Title in with the Article
To illustrate this point, I have defined the meanings of each number value as it turns up on the roll of a die in words the I CHOOSE to use.
Value of Die |
What
Springs to
|
What it means to me |
One |
I won. |
Life is great. I have food in my stomach and I slept with a roof over head last night. |
Two |
You too. |
All the above of I won with an emphasis this time on YOU can have this feeling too. That is, of course, if you want this feeling. |
Three |
Free. |
We are all FREE to choose our attitudes. Truth-be-told, our attitudes and how we look at things are two of the rapidly diminishing items left in this busy world that remain 100% within OUR CONTROL. |
Four |
Fortitude |
A favorite word of mine. This is a noble word that means, Strength of mind that allows one to endure pain or adversity with courage. |
Five |
Live |
The word, Live can be pronounced as rhyming with Five meaning not-dead, in other words, ALIVE AND KICKING. This exact same word can also be pronounced so it rhymes with Forgive. Picture someone on the brink of death with a loved one anxiously watching on. If they were allowed ONE word to repeat over and over, the word very well could be Live, live, live . |
Six |
Mix |
Life most certainly is a MIX. With proper Balance, PLANNED and EXECUTED, tossed into the mix, little will remain in life to FIX. If balance is NOT a part of life, and the candle is burning on two WICKS, then my personal opinion is that this mind-set and resulting behavior must be NIXED. Otherwise, youse be getting SICKS . |
Rather than leave the outcome of your life to fate, or seemingly random happenings, in closing, may I suggest you look upon each event that occurs in one and only one of two ways:
1) Great, Im glad that happened or
2) The leaning experience is not YET readily seen from this seemingly non-ideal outcome ..however, Im confident a point to be leveraged for growth will soon become apparent. If history is allowed to forecast the future, when things go awry, as they sure have done in the past, a valuable LEARNING nugget is ALWAYS included in the deal. The challenge I have now is to FIND it.
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Peace out,
Bill Ward