Tag: build

You Are a Builder

Jennifred Jones

What are you building? Are you building anything today?

We are all builders…building something. Will it last? Is it sturdy to withstand pressure and use? Can others benefit from it? If it’s just for me, will it be good for me?

Sometimes it’s hard to build. Really anything worthwhile is hard work. It takes a lot of thought, patience, looking at it again. Maybe taking it all apart and starting over – like I had to do so many times learning to sew. Even in writing. The words don’t come out right. They don’t say what you meant. The computer didn’t save it, you lost everything and had to start over…happened twice yesterday.  You have to begin an exercise program to stay fit after desk sitting for 10 years or start a particular therapy to recover from an injury…like after I fell off my bike.

Maybe it’s an internal build. You’re trying to develop a new mental habit or break an old one.

The important thing is that you continue to build. Some projects take lots longer than others. Sometimes you have to stop, rest and think about it.

Keep at it. You will have something rewarding after it’s completed, and you can be proud of it!

I will carry-on.

The Idea Chain

Jennifred Jones

How is a chain made? One link at a time.

How is anything else made? One idea at a time.

Ideas, thoughts, are like links in a chain. You can make the chain any length you want, you can make the links any size or thickness you like, and you can use any material you desire…either from what you already have or from something completely new.

Some chain links are made round, others rectangular, some oval or twisted.

Some links need to be very strong and are soldered closed. Others are merely closed so more links may be added.

The strength of your idea will determine the strength of your chain. Some chains are longer and some only need a dozen or so links.

Your idea will determine all of that and often you won’t know quite what you need until you begin to make it.

The important thing is to begin. See where your idea leads, what links can be added, when you need to take some away. Ideas like chains can change directions. A flexible chain can be twisted this way and that as your idea develops.

Chains are not rigid like a steel girder. They are meant to move in any direction needed.

Begin your idea. That is the first link and will get the process started. It may take a little longer sometimes to make subsequent links, to get them all shaped and attached, but keep going. So many good things have happened even with a hesitancy to start, or from a ‘blunder’ in the middle.

Get the idea out into the open – into the light to see which direction you want to go. Keep thinking, keep experimenting, talk about it with others. Link by link your chain idea will grow until you can use it to pull along more.

After that chain is finished…begin a new one!

Let your life become a fun game…building, making, helping, doing, thinking…repeat, repeat, repeat.

…my first link will be…

Life-4

Jennifred Jones

The other day we mentioned the commonality of negative talk. What if instead we bond in commonality with positive talk.

Basically, we all want to belong, we like to be in agreement with others; what if we use positive, helpful, good ideas and plans to be our common ground. This gives us something to build instead of tear down.

We are made to think and create and build. When we do we feel better. There is a satisfaction that cannot be attained any other way than by accomplishing something worthwhile…not only in the building, but later looking back and remembering the process and progress as we built whatever it was.  This building can be a relationship, a business, a project, an idea… Let your mind dream up whatever it wants to that can be developed to further the good of you, of humanity, of the world.

We want the freedom to think our own thoughts and do what we are inclined to instead of being told what we should like and do. We seek that personal empowerment. There is plenty of space for each person to have their own ways and means for advancing life for their and another’s good.

The first step is believing you can. Then that you are able. Then talk about it and begin.

It all starts with a positive idea mixed with other people thinking in common to produce something good and perhaps uncommon!

Let the good talk flow….