Initiative

“Strike while the iron’s hot” is an old adage but the challenge with the saying is I have to wait for the iron to heat up or get hot. What if I don’t want to wait? What if I have initiative? The power or opportunity to take charge before others, yep, that’s better than waiting for the iron to get hot.

“Patience is a virtue” another age old adage but I’m not feeling very virtuous at this moment. I’m ready to launch forth into this next phase of development. It’s been an arduous, soul-searching, and enlightening experience, one I’m most grateful for, and I’m finally ready for what’s next. Whatever the future may hold, I’m unreservedly ready.

Today, Thursday, March 5, 2020, I am grateful that:

Howard and I had a chance to speak today. He’s a great friend, more family than friend. Howard offers the voice of wisdom, experience wrought through extensive evaluation of himself and others. Always productive and uplifting, our conversations are most beneficial.

I’ve been putting forth effort with no obvious or immediate payoff. I’ve spent months “sowing” and a bit more time awaiting my harvest. I’ve never been a farmer but I can sense some empathy with their plight. As they wait for their crops so I must wait. Hopeful anticipation holds my initiative and ambition at bay.

This list is still a constant. Years ago, while taking medication for depression, I’d stop taking my meds when I started to feel better. My thought process was I feel better so I don’t need the medicine. That’s the insidious part of depression for me, when I started feeling better I’d forget what I’d done to feel better. But that experience brought me to this point and that’s awesome. I won’t forget to keep writing as it’s part of the reason to hold the depression in a suppressed state.

With whom do you speak consistently?

Are they uplifting? Are you?

How do you manifest your initiative?

When was the last time? What was the instance?

Be Great. Be Grateful!!!