Heart Pocket Word for the Day is Example!

Wassily Kandinsky - Arch and Point - for more, click here ...

The word from my heart pocket is Example.

I'm one. You're one. There's no way around it.

Arch and point. Ready, aim, fire. We wake up in the morning, and BOOM! we're examples. It's not necessary to fret about this. It's not a test and there's no official grading system. 

It might be good to be mindful of our visibility. You might not feel you are an example to anyone, but at any given moment, it's possible. Even when we look back on our lives, we find we are an example to ourselves. We are 'case in point', history; an illustration of how we have lived.

Take a moment to reflect on who your heroes are. Go ahead, list them. Here are some of mine:

Meryl Streep, Elmer Nesius, Mary Angela Butler, Wassily Kandinsky, Robert Henri, Grandma Moses, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Margaret J. Wheatley, Eleanor Roosevelt, Charles Dickens, Madeleine L'Engle, Joseph Campbell, Dag Hammersjold, Sir Ken Robinson, Isak Denisen, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, David Foster, Richard Feynman, Teddy Roosevelt.

Expressives, humanitarians, adventurers, philosophers, leaders, storytellers, humorists, healers.

Make a list of your heroes and you will find your examples. You will discover what you love most about yourself. When you do this, you have a clear list of qualities that exist inside you that point to examples of your passions, what you admire, what you value, what you aspire most to be ... indeed, who you truly are. 

To be an example is to live. To be a good example is to live mindfully. We don't have to be perfect to be a good example. In fact, it is best if we trade perfection for exploration. If we do this, we will learn more, we will live more fully and our example will shine.

We are our own paradigm. We get to write our story, even though the settings and cast of characters might sometimes be chosen by another writer. Being an example can be an important position in life. When we are conscious of it, we seem to somehow alter the face of our example so it is best to think of it, take stock of where we are in the moment, make any repairs to our example, and move on. When we linger too long on the notion of what a great example we are, we become a new sort of example.

Time to make your list. You'll start and find you're smiling at the end. I'm guessing you'll also be inspired to be your best example. If you can, simply be your most happy self. Example promises to follow ...