Time for a confession…this is not the first time I’ve started a blog. I think this is my fourth blog reinvention! Each blog had a different focus and none of them ever really got off the ground. I wasn’t motivated to work on them and I think I understand why.
None of them fully resonated with my authentic self and purpose.
Until now, of course. 😉
Setting your intention before beginning something new, a blog or otherwise, I feel is essential. But intention is not enough and good intentions of course are not enough either. It may or may not pave the road to ‘hell’ but the aims of our good intentions need more than simply our intent towards them.
Each of my previous blogs had good intentions but something else was missing.
Blog #1 was on the process of getting Phd and sharing my experiences in hopes it may help others going through the same process. I think I made a total of two entries. The first when I was just about to start taking my classes and then the second when I was done with the program. Ha! Perhaps this was a true reflection of what it was like as I didn’t have a lot of time to focus on work outside of my program.
Blog #2 was an attempt to share ethics and moral thinking. This time I had like three entries. While I still like what I wrote, it reflected I think more of my lecturer side discussing topics more like I would in an introduction to ethics course.
Blog #3 was really the seed blog parent to this blog. I was just starting to get grounded in a real sense of my authentic self and wanted to really reach out publicly and open up in an honest and vulnerable way. It really felt like a stretch then. I posted just one entry and I’ve included it below. I think I just wasn’t ready yet. Though it was really eye opening to me now to go back and re-read what I wrote two years ago as a simple, single, one blog entry offering of my new year’s resolution to be ‘unconditional’.
This brings up to date to this “Live You” Blog, or in this context Blog #4!
So what is this blog all about anyway?
Being my authentic self and helping you to be your authentic self.
Another good intention? Yes. But good intentions are clearly not enough if you are not personally in alignment with your intentions. Meaning your intentions must line up with your WHY, your purpose, your values, what truly resonates with your heart and soul.
This alignment with your purpose and what gives your life meaning is not visible on the outside or on the virtual words on a digital page. It is felt.
How do I know this blog reinvention is different? I can feel it.
Joseph Campbell, the famous American mythologist, is well known for instructing his students to “Follow your bliss”. I am following my bliss.
So follow not just your good intentions but also your bliss and you will find not just success my friends but happiness and well-being.
See you on the blissful path!
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From the Archive on my previous “Unconditional World” Blog, 01/01/2015:
RESOLVED TO BE ‘UNCONDITIONAL’
It’s the first day of the new year and resolutions abound. I resolve to be ‘Unconditional’. What does this mean? To not place conditions upon myself or others.
It is another way to embody unconditional love but emphasizing what ‘Unconditional’ expresses. ‘Unconditional love’ comes with social and cultural baggage and I can imagine some are already rolling their eyes with just the mention of the phrase. We are quick to dismiss and think, because we understand the words, that we understand the deeper truth of the phrase.
If you are ‘Unconditional’, you recognize others are deserving of respect and are worthy regardless of the conditions of their actions and choices. Worth is independent of conditions even if you would prefer others were different.
If you are ‘Unconditional’, you recognize you are worthy regardless of the conditions of your past, present, or future.
If you are ‘Unconditional’, you recognize the conditions of your life do not determine your inner thoughts, beliefs and feelings. In other words, if you want to change your reflection in the mirror, change yourself not the mirror.
If you are ‘Unconditional’, you recognize you can be your best self now.
So in this ‘Unconditional world’ blog I work to create an ‘Unconditional’ self and work for an ‘Unconditional world’.
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…one final note. I think I needed to have each of these previous blogs to get to where I am now. In this way those blogs didn’t ‘fail’ but were just another part of the journey. Sometimes you need to understand what doesn’t work before you can truly understand what does work.
Ethical Living 