We need a different type of President
by Robert G Parent
We need a different type of President to solve the economic mess we're in. Why don't we have a President who is a successful business person?
If we did have a President that is a successful business person, this country could actually make wise investment decisions.
Imagine if we ( The United States of America ) could make $8 Billion on a $2 Billion dollar investment.
Imagine if the National Debt actually decreases every year ( What a Concept ).
We are being imprisoned by debt. How effective can a country be when it is in debt to many or every country in the world?
I have a dream. That in 2010, we will have elected in office a Liberatarian/Moderate congress. And in 2012, we will have the first successful business person as President of the United States. And if he or she is a liberatarian, how much sweeter it will be.
Monday, March 2, 2009
More is Too Much
More is Too Much
by Robert G Parent
More money doesn't necessarily solve problems. More money could cause problems. Our ability to use our creativity, our innovation, our intuition is how we'll solve problems.
I had to use and develop these abilities in my life because many times I did not have a lot of money to get the "best" programs or gadgets. But, the things I create with inexpensive programs or gadgets are as good as those created with the most expensive programs or gadgets.
In education, we can use our creativity to come up with lesson plans that show our students the bigger picture. For example, I just watched a series on my local public television station, where teachers showed how they used art to help teach complicated concepts in subjects like math, history, science, and other subjects.
More doesn't mean better, more just means you/we need more energy to complete a simple task. Nature doesn't operate like this and we shouldn't either.
More also means more stress and more anxiety, we don't need this and these are abundant when we have more government. Also, this goes for mega-businesses, who need to comsume more, just to make a profit.
Our society has thrived on consuming more and more. What has that caused? This current global problem. Its not the fault of our elected officials because they are a product of this type of society.
We are at a point where we can learn a major lesson as a society as a whole. In every generation there is a test that is faced, maybe, this is the test this generation faces.
To survive this time, we have to think differently, to do things differently. If we don't think and act differently, we'll miss our opportunity for a major lesson as a whole society. A lesson that can unify this world. A lesson that will launch us into a new future.
by Robert G Parent
More money doesn't necessarily solve problems. More money could cause problems. Our ability to use our creativity, our innovation, our intuition is how we'll solve problems.
I had to use and develop these abilities in my life because many times I did not have a lot of money to get the "best" programs or gadgets. But, the things I create with inexpensive programs or gadgets are as good as those created with the most expensive programs or gadgets.
In education, we can use our creativity to come up with lesson plans that show our students the bigger picture. For example, I just watched a series on my local public television station, where teachers showed how they used art to help teach complicated concepts in subjects like math, history, science, and other subjects.
More doesn't mean better, more just means you/we need more energy to complete a simple task. Nature doesn't operate like this and we shouldn't either.
More also means more stress and more anxiety, we don't need this and these are abundant when we have more government. Also, this goes for mega-businesses, who need to comsume more, just to make a profit.
Our society has thrived on consuming more and more. What has that caused? This current global problem. Its not the fault of our elected officials because they are a product of this type of society.
We are at a point where we can learn a major lesson as a society as a whole. In every generation there is a test that is faced, maybe, this is the test this generation faces.
To survive this time, we have to think differently, to do things differently. If we don't think and act differently, we'll miss our opportunity for a major lesson as a whole society. A lesson that can unify this world. A lesson that will launch us into a new future.
Monday, August 25, 2008
Light in the Darkness by Robert G Parent
Light in the darkness
by Robert G Parent
I want to talk about the times we live in now, everyone is saying recession, tough economic time, job market low, housing markets, and stock markets woes. All people see is the darkness that is out there. Well maybe not all people. There are those in the financial business that understand cycles. Who say, "there is opportunity out there." I say their right.
I'm out of a job currently and have been looking for one in the past months. About three at the time of this writing. And you know, there are many jobs out there. There are companies still growing and need good people, which they have plenty to choose from. I have been interviewed for jobs in companies that could lead to management ( leadership roles ). Now, I've been thinking about this for some time now before my unemploynment, but didn't know how or have the opportunity to go after the leadership jobs. Looks like my next job will lead to leadership in one form or another. There is light in the darkness. Or maybe its best said, when you shine a light on your darkness ( your fears ), you see what is really there and also opportunity.
You can be at the very bottom, at least from your point of view in the metiphorical pit, the darkness, but, if you look around, shine a light on the darkness, you will see the opportunity out there. It can lead you out of capitivity, the captivity of our own fears, to a new land, a new place. Because its when you percieve yourself to be at your lowest, is when you can soar among the clouds. What it all boils down to is where do you want to put your attention, in the bucket of Crabs or soaring among the Eagles. The choice is each of ours.
by Robert G Parent
I want to talk about the times we live in now, everyone is saying recession, tough economic time, job market low, housing markets, and stock markets woes. All people see is the darkness that is out there. Well maybe not all people. There are those in the financial business that understand cycles. Who say, "there is opportunity out there." I say their right.
I'm out of a job currently and have been looking for one in the past months. About three at the time of this writing. And you know, there are many jobs out there. There are companies still growing and need good people, which they have plenty to choose from. I have been interviewed for jobs in companies that could lead to management ( leadership roles ). Now, I've been thinking about this for some time now before my unemploynment, but didn't know how or have the opportunity to go after the leadership jobs. Looks like my next job will lead to leadership in one form or another. There is light in the darkness. Or maybe its best said, when you shine a light on your darkness ( your fears ), you see what is really there and also opportunity.
You can be at the very bottom, at least from your point of view in the metiphorical pit, the darkness, but, if you look around, shine a light on the darkness, you will see the opportunity out there. It can lead you out of capitivity, the captivity of our own fears, to a new land, a new place. Because its when you percieve yourself to be at your lowest, is when you can soar among the clouds. What it all boils down to is where do you want to put your attention, in the bucket of Crabs or soaring among the Eagles. The choice is each of ours.
Friday, July 18, 2008
Old Journals by Robert G Parent
Old Journals
by Robert G Parent
Have you ever looked back and read or listened to something you did in the past? Well, I do this every so often and, I usually get inspired to write something. It usually comes out pretty good, well at least I think so, because its like I started thinking on something, like a seed thought, and through my experiences from that moment to the current moment there has been growth and greater understanding about that thought.
This happens to each of us. If you think back, you should be able to see those instances for yourself. This is also proof that we "set" our future selves up in the life that we live. What we think about today, we will become tomorrow.
This is how I grow not only as a spiritual being but as a poet. My latest occurrence was when I wrote the poem "Preflection". That word came to me 16 years ago in 1992 in a dream. I wrote it down because of the dream I had. I wanted to understand about that word more. So as I was listening to a tape of my audio journal that dream and the word "Preflection" caught my attention again. Even though I had forgotten it on one level, my inner self ( higher mind ) didn't. I still wanted understanding of it. So, I wrote it down again, leaned back in my chair, and had the urge to write about it again. I did and the poem "Preflection" and this article came out of it.
If your currently looking for inspiration and can't seem to write anything, maybe, you should go back to old audio and/or written journals. This not only will get you out of a dry spell, but give your life a sense of continuity. And, if you still haven't started a written journal, what are you waiting for.
by Robert G Parent
Have you ever looked back and read or listened to something you did in the past? Well, I do this every so often and, I usually get inspired to write something. It usually comes out pretty good, well at least I think so, because its like I started thinking on something, like a seed thought, and through my experiences from that moment to the current moment there has been growth and greater understanding about that thought.
This happens to each of us. If you think back, you should be able to see those instances for yourself. This is also proof that we "set" our future selves up in the life that we live. What we think about today, we will become tomorrow.
This is how I grow not only as a spiritual being but as a poet. My latest occurrence was when I wrote the poem "Preflection". That word came to me 16 years ago in 1992 in a dream. I wrote it down because of the dream I had. I wanted to understand about that word more. So as I was listening to a tape of my audio journal that dream and the word "Preflection" caught my attention again. Even though I had forgotten it on one level, my inner self ( higher mind ) didn't. I still wanted understanding of it. So, I wrote it down again, leaned back in my chair, and had the urge to write about it again. I did and the poem "Preflection" and this article came out of it.
If your currently looking for inspiration and can't seem to write anything, maybe, you should go back to old audio and/or written journals. This not only will get you out of a dry spell, but give your life a sense of continuity. And, if you still haven't started a written journal, what are you waiting for.
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Who Are You?
Who are you?
By Robert G Parent
Sometime I get to a point where I start to question my life, my choices, where am I going – NO I am not going through a mid life crisis. I wonder why people call it that? I've noticed, at least for me, that the questioning, wondering, pondering happens more than once in my life. I talk about cycles in much of my poems and that is because I know we go through many cycles in a lifetime – cycles upon cycles, to put it into more poetic terms.
The questioning phase is a part of the cycles we go through. And for me, it is usually when I do a lot of writing, even though I'm always writing something or doing some creative work. How can I not? After all, this is why we're here on Earth, to create. Anyway, getting back to the questioning phase. I do a lot of writing in that phase but usually it's a different kind of writing. It's about, or part of, a growth cycle experience, and as creative people – we all go through.
“Who we are” is a question that keeps changing. At different places in our life, we are different people, focused on different problem, philosophies, and do different patterns. We move from one way of thinking to another way of thinking. Have you every thought of why we do that? What are we growing toward? What makes us change? Is it because we don't want to be bored that we keep creating experiences? Here is an exercise: Look back at your life, if you've kept a journal great, read though it. Notice where you've started to question stuff. What experiences where you having at that time? If you haven't kept a journal, this could be a great time to start. Go through your memories. Ponder on what problems you were going through. How has that changed your philosophy? Ask yourself how have you grown through that problem or experience? You can also look at your family and friends and mentally put yourself in their shoes ( so to speak ); How has their problems or experiences shaped their philosophy? Write this out in your journals. This exercise will not only give you insight into your own philosophy, but will help you understand other people and how we come into a belief system or our philosophy.
Here is another challenge for those brave enough to accept it. If you are a Democrat, put yourself in Republican shoes. If you are a Republican, put yourself in Democrat shoes. What experiences shaped their philosophies? You can also do this for any gender or people ( nationality ).
We are who how we think of our experiences. This shapes our Point of View. This helps bring life into our writing. This helps keep the Creative Juices rolling by giving us content, experience, and growth that opens us up to a bigger world, a bigger picture filled with more possibilities to create and create again. Through creating, we discover who we are emotional, mentally and spiritually. And, this is the foundation to all our writing and creative works.
By Robert G Parent
Sometime I get to a point where I start to question my life, my choices, where am I going – NO I am not going through a mid life crisis. I wonder why people call it that? I've noticed, at least for me, that the questioning, wondering, pondering happens more than once in my life. I talk about cycles in much of my poems and that is because I know we go through many cycles in a lifetime – cycles upon cycles, to put it into more poetic terms.
The questioning phase is a part of the cycles we go through. And for me, it is usually when I do a lot of writing, even though I'm always writing something or doing some creative work. How can I not? After all, this is why we're here on Earth, to create. Anyway, getting back to the questioning phase. I do a lot of writing in that phase but usually it's a different kind of writing. It's about, or part of, a growth cycle experience, and as creative people – we all go through.
“Who we are” is a question that keeps changing. At different places in our life, we are different people, focused on different problem, philosophies, and do different patterns. We move from one way of thinking to another way of thinking. Have you every thought of why we do that? What are we growing toward? What makes us change? Is it because we don't want to be bored that we keep creating experiences? Here is an exercise: Look back at your life, if you've kept a journal great, read though it. Notice where you've started to question stuff. What experiences where you having at that time? If you haven't kept a journal, this could be a great time to start. Go through your memories. Ponder on what problems you were going through. How has that changed your philosophy? Ask yourself how have you grown through that problem or experience? You can also look at your family and friends and mentally put yourself in their shoes ( so to speak ); How has their problems or experiences shaped their philosophy? Write this out in your journals. This exercise will not only give you insight into your own philosophy, but will help you understand other people and how we come into a belief system or our philosophy.
Here is another challenge for those brave enough to accept it. If you are a Democrat, put yourself in Republican shoes. If you are a Republican, put yourself in Democrat shoes. What experiences shaped their philosophies? You can also do this for any gender or people ( nationality ).
We are who how we think of our experiences. This shapes our Point of View. This helps bring life into our writing. This helps keep the Creative Juices rolling by giving us content, experience, and growth that opens us up to a bigger world, a bigger picture filled with more possibilities to create and create again. Through creating, we discover who we are emotional, mentally and spiritually. And, this is the foundation to all our writing and creative works.
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Journaling by Robert G Parent
Journaling
by
Robert G Parent
Here are 5 stages ( Ideas ) to remember about Journaling. Your Daily Life. Organize Thoughts. Increase Awareness. A Place to Play. Looking Back.
Journaling will help you learn about and tap into the creative potential that is within all of us. What you learn about creativity will help you come up with new projects in writing, art, photography, and music. Journaling and the exploration of creativity can help you on your job and business solve problems or come up with new products and services.
Your Daily Life. Journaling is a way to record events, ideas, special moments and thoughts about your daily life. Each word and idea you put into your journal is like a seed that is waiting to sprout. In the process of becoming, manifesting into the physical realm, your journal is your potential plan, your guide to a better and more creative life. Write down everything in your journal.
Organize Thoughts. Creativity has to start at an organized place, work through chaos, and bring it back into order in a New Way. Creativity is all about looking at ordinary life in a new way, by asking “What if?” or “Imagine that...” We take what we see and shape it in a new way, reforming it in many ways like Playdough, from that chaos stage we need to turn it into another New Tangible form. How do we do this? By having a place where we can record that journey of our imagination – in our Journals.
Increase Awareness. As we use our journals, we will increase the awareness of our surroundings, emotions, thoughts, and our soul – the higher part of ourselves. A journal is a recording of our daily life. It's what we thought and felt in the past to how we think and feel now. It's about our growth from our past to our present to our dreams that shape our future. Whether we take a walk in the woods, park, city, mall, or wherever, we learn to pay attention to our environment and gain meaning from the places we go. We not only go through life but we go through life with meaning ( beingness ).
A Place to Play. As we write down our thoughts and ideas, we can start playing around, combining, and reshaping our ideas in new ways. This is what I call playing and where thoughts and ideas can start to sprout. In this playing process, start moving around your words and ideas. Combine them in new ways. Pick out some words or ideas and place them with other words and ideas. As the rain and the sun do their dance to create a plant, we take this Playdough mess of the process of playing and look for an image, a New Thing, and focus and put our attention on this image and bring this New Thing into manifestation by adding to or taking away from this Playdough mess.
Looking Back. This works for everyone from the writer to the business person. You are aware of your current problems, whether its a block or business problem. By looking back on what you've written, you can create a new project or find a solution to your current problems. After, you can use your journal to work through the process to create that new work or new solution.
Your journal can be a planner, a therapist, a place to play, place to create or anything you can dream about it becoming. Your journal is your record through life. Your journal is a place to explore your creative potential in your life. Your journal can also be your best friend that you share intimate details about your life. Everyone should have a place to record there creative journey to life. So, what are you waiting for, start your journal today.
by
Robert G Parent
Here are 5 stages ( Ideas ) to remember about Journaling. Your Daily Life. Organize Thoughts. Increase Awareness. A Place to Play. Looking Back.
Journaling will help you learn about and tap into the creative potential that is within all of us. What you learn about creativity will help you come up with new projects in writing, art, photography, and music. Journaling and the exploration of creativity can help you on your job and business solve problems or come up with new products and services.
Your Daily Life. Journaling is a way to record events, ideas, special moments and thoughts about your daily life. Each word and idea you put into your journal is like a seed that is waiting to sprout. In the process of becoming, manifesting into the physical realm, your journal is your potential plan, your guide to a better and more creative life. Write down everything in your journal.
Organize Thoughts. Creativity has to start at an organized place, work through chaos, and bring it back into order in a New Way. Creativity is all about looking at ordinary life in a new way, by asking “What if?” or “Imagine that...” We take what we see and shape it in a new way, reforming it in many ways like Playdough, from that chaos stage we need to turn it into another New Tangible form. How do we do this? By having a place where we can record that journey of our imagination – in our Journals.
Increase Awareness. As we use our journals, we will increase the awareness of our surroundings, emotions, thoughts, and our soul – the higher part of ourselves. A journal is a recording of our daily life. It's what we thought and felt in the past to how we think and feel now. It's about our growth from our past to our present to our dreams that shape our future. Whether we take a walk in the woods, park, city, mall, or wherever, we learn to pay attention to our environment and gain meaning from the places we go. We not only go through life but we go through life with meaning ( beingness ).
A Place to Play. As we write down our thoughts and ideas, we can start playing around, combining, and reshaping our ideas in new ways. This is what I call playing and where thoughts and ideas can start to sprout. In this playing process, start moving around your words and ideas. Combine them in new ways. Pick out some words or ideas and place them with other words and ideas. As the rain and the sun do their dance to create a plant, we take this Playdough mess of the process of playing and look for an image, a New Thing, and focus and put our attention on this image and bring this New Thing into manifestation by adding to or taking away from this Playdough mess.
Looking Back. This works for everyone from the writer to the business person. You are aware of your current problems, whether its a block or business problem. By looking back on what you've written, you can create a new project or find a solution to your current problems. After, you can use your journal to work through the process to create that new work or new solution.
Your journal can be a planner, a therapist, a place to play, place to create or anything you can dream about it becoming. Your journal is your record through life. Your journal is a place to explore your creative potential in your life. Your journal can also be your best friend that you share intimate details about your life. Everyone should have a place to record there creative journey to life. So, what are you waiting for, start your journal today.
Thursday, April 12, 2007
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