Positive Qualities: Bountiful & Openhanded

The social pathology, existential vacuum, and meaninglessness experienced by contemporary society is the result of intrinsic values starvation, Being-value deficiency. Transpersonal values command adoration, celebration, and reverence. They are worth living and dying for. Contemplating and becoming one of these values gives the greatest sense of worth and joy that human beings can experience. — … Read more

Positive Qualities: Principled & Effective

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. • Be Proactive (responsible, independent, imaginative, self-aware) • Begin with the end in mind (conceptualization, visualization, creation) • Put first things first (time management, start with matters of importance) • Think Win/Win (mutual benefit, successful, integrity, maturity) • Seek first to understand, then to be understood (good listener, … Read more

Positive Qualities: Thrifty & Capable

A scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent. — The Boy Scouts’ Law, 1908 You have Capabilities: both past and future. Build on what you have learned and earned. As Thrifty would suggest, stay between the extremes, that is, use prudent judgment and progress will be made. … Read more

Positive Qualities: Scrumptious & Complacent

What we dwell upon we help bring into manifestation. — Steps Toward Inner Peace, Peace Pilgrim (1908-1981) Pacifist Positive qualities go both ways: toward yourself and toward/for someone else. Take someone Scrumptious (see definitions) out to enjoy a scrumptious dinner. Once you are mutually sated, you will both feel pleasantly Complacent. Peace, Jim           SCRUMPTIOUS … Read more

Positive Qualities: Quick & Patient

Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. — Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935) Jurist In order to be Quick what does one need? Preparedness, observation, foresight, imagination, agility … And remember there are at least four levels on which to practice any quality: the physical, mental, spiritual, and personal.      … Read more