Respect Your Fellow Voters

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Election day is just around the corner. Barry and I voted early. There have been problems with voter intimidation in our state, but fortunately not in our county. The thing is everyone of us has a different set of values, which is fine. But I can’t make you adopt my values if yours are different than mine and visa versa. So, the voter intimidation thing is not only illegal, it’s also useless. I mean, the people being intimidated are putting their ballots into the drop boxes. They already voted and sitting there with an automatic weapon trying to get them to not drop their ballots into the box is pointless. I’m not sure what the people with the guns, and masks, think they’re doing. Do they expect the voters to be so afraid that they tear up their ballots? Not likely. Fortunately, they have been reported and measures are being taken to stop them.

Shortly after I saw the stories about the men with guns, I also saw a meme that I love. “WE all do better, when we ALL do better.” This is an idea I come back to over and over again. If everyone on the planet had a roof over their heads, food on the table, meaningful work and the chance at the education of their choice, the world would be a happier place in which to live. We wouldn’t need to be in competition with each other. Because this is what I hope we finally get to, equity of money and opportunities, I feel sad for the people who don’t understand that there is enough to go around for everyone. 

Stephen Colbert had a sad and funny segment this past week about the ultra-wealthy trying to figure out how to extend their lives and keep their wealth for themselves alone if some apocalyptic event happens. This was based on an article by Douglas Rushkoff in The Guardian, “The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse”. As Stephen shared the details of the article and made jokes about the absurdity of these ultra-wealthy men’s plans, all I could think was, “How did they lose their humanity?” But the thing is, when we get paralyzed by fear, we do stupid things.

I ask myself, what can I do to dispel the terrible fear that is gripping so many people in the world right now? The only answer I have come up with is to be calm and reasonable myself. If enough of us turn away from desperation to realize that we’re all in this together, eventually we’ll live in a better world.

That’s all for today. I’m busy putting the finishing touches on my online course videos so I can upload them next week.

By the way, I’m looking for students willing to test it out for free. The title is, “Saving the World One Story at a Time.” It’s 17 sessions. Most videos are between 10 and 15 minutes long. There are fun action steps for you to do, like watching the opening sequences of a movie, or telling the class members about your favorite characters and what you learned from them. If you’d like to take the class for free, let me know. I’ll send you a coupon code once it’s up and running on Ûdemy. All I ask is that you write an honest review or give the course a star rating.

Thank you all for reading, liking and commenting. I appreciate your time.

Lucinda Sage-Midgorden © 2022

The Space Between Time

Lucinda is the author of The Space Between Time, an award finalist in the “Fiction: Fantasy” category of the 2017 Best Book Awards.

Have you ever experienced life shattering events? Yeah, after the last few years, most of us have. In The Space Between Time, Jenna Holden gets slammed by her fiancé walking out, her mother’s untimely death, and losing her job all in one week. But she receives unexpected help when she finds her three-times great-grandmother’s journals and begins the adventure of a lifetime.

The Space Between Time is available in all ebook formats at Smashwords and for Kindle at Amazon, or you can find the ebook at iBooks or Barnes and Noble. If you prefer a physical copy, you can find a print-on-demand version at Amazon. Stay tuned for news when the audiobook version is published.

Lucinda is also the host of Story-Power a podcast where she and her guests discuss their creative endeavors, and/or the stories that have changed their lives. It’s available here on Sage Woman Chronicles and on Apple, Google, and Spotify podcast apps. Please rate and leave a review. It helps people find me.

Patreon

I’m so passionate about stories that I created the Story-Power podcast and Patreon communities so I’d have an excuse to talk story with other story lovers. If you’re passionate about stories too, and want to talk about what you’ve learned from your favorites, come join me at patreon.com/StoryPower.

PodMatch

If you are a podcaster, or have a message or fantastic product you want to share with the world, I encourage you to check out PodMatch. Use the affiliate link and tell them, Lucinda sent you. Then contact me so we can set up a Story-Power chat.

The Power to Speak Naked

Sean Tyler Foley is an accomplished film and stage performer and has been acting in film and television since he was 6 years old after his father passed away suddenly in a motor vehicle accident. He has appeared in productions including Freddy Vs Jason, Door to Door, Carrie, and the musical Ragtime. Tyler is passionate about helping others confidently take the stage and impact an audience with their stories. He is currently the Managing Director of Total Buy In and author of the #1 best-selling book The Power to Speak Naked.

Tyler is a father, husband, son, and performer, in that order. Some days he feels like he has dabbled in every industry on the planet, from oil and gas, to aviation, to film and television, but that diverse experience is what has made him so versatile!

Regardless of the industry or the titles he has held, what they all had in common was promoting and encouraging people to be heard and understood. The skills and resources he has garnered along the way have enabled him to become an entertaining professional speaker and a knowledgeable trainer, who inspires others to reach for their dreams.

With his distinct and direct style, Tyler is emerging as one of North America’s sought-after leaders in the field of public speaking for personal and professional development and would welcome the opportunity to be on your show and discuss the lessons he has learned and the grace he has discovered in each event of his life!

Sean Tyler Foley’s Website, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Book: The Power of Speaking Naked

Tony Robbins, Motivational Speaker Website

Les Brown, Motivational Speaker Website

Harv Eker, Business Speaker Website

Maren Ord Burnham, Feather Pen Fairy Tales, YouTube

Star Trek: The Next Generation, “Darmok”, (1991) Season 5, Episode 2

Michelle, Reiki Master, Crystal healer, Health and Vitality Coach, and more.

Brandie Sedore HeartMath Mentor/Coach @HeartMath

Gregg Braden, Secrets of the Lost Mode of Prayer

Willy Taylor, Drag Queen Mentor

“Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories.” ~ Roger C. Schank, Cognitive Scientist

PodMatch

This episode is brought to you by PodMatch, the dating service for podcasters. They introduced me to Tyler Foley, and I’m so glad they did. I hope you’ve enjoyed our conversation and remember that if you have a podcast or something to share with the world, check out PodMatch and tell them Lucinda sent you.

Patreon

I’m so passionate about stories that I created the Story-Power podcast and Patreon communities so I’d have an excuse to talk story with other story lovers. If you’re passionate about stories too, and want to talk about what you’ve learned from your favorites, come join me at patreon.com/StoryPower.

Our Thoughts Create Our Reality

Human Brain Thinking

“Change your thought and you’ll change the world.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” ~ Wayne Dyer

You know how you hear a maxim and it resonates with you, but it’s difficult to implement? Well, the maxim that I’ve been trying to implement for years is “Our thoughts create our reality.” 

Just this morning I was thinking about my morning thought routine and realized that if I want to have a better life, I have to think differently. It takes diligence to switch to a new thought playlist. I don’t know about you, but I’m rather attached to my playlist. It’s familiar and in a way comforting. But my playlist is made up of stories I made up in my head long ago that weren’t true and I never thought to challenge, until now. 

I’ve been taking “quests” with Mindvalley and each quest has shaken up my thinking so that now I’m looking at my playlist and realizing that it has held me back for a long time.

I’m nearly finished with the editing process of the 19 videos for my online course, “Saving the World One Story at a Time.” And one thing I kept hearing myself say in those videos was that we make up stories in our heads and think they’re true, when most of the time there not. I guess what I said in those videos hit home for me, because today, I’ve decided that I’ve got to make a new, more positive thought playlist so I can expand my influence, and even my prosperity. Staying at home creating is nice, but at some point I will need to go out and connect with a broader group of people. 

My thoughts not only create the reality of my personal life, they create what’s going on in the world as well. Collectively our thoughts create the events that are going on in the world around us. I hope we start seeing the world as a friendly place rather than listening to the news outlets that get ratings by shouting about all the bad things happening in the world. When we do change our thinking and begin to see the neighbors next door, or the people we work with, our family and friends, or even our public leaders as beings of light rather than as people with lots of problems, or as scum bags, the world will change. Everyone has their struggles, and everyone has opportunities to heal and grow. I want to encourage all of us to heal and grow from our mistakes, and thus change the way we think.

That’s all I have for today. Just sharing my current thought playlist for you.

Welcome to my new followers and thank you to all of you who read and like or comment on these posts.

Have a blessed weekend.

Lucinda Sage-Midgorden © 2022

The Space Between Time

Lucinda is the author of The Space Between Time, an award finalist in the “Fiction: Fantasy” category of the 2017 Best Book Awards.

Have you ever experienced life shattering events? Yeah, after the last few years, most of us have. In The Space Between Time, Jenna Holden gets slammed by her fiancé walking out, her mother’s untimely death, and losing her job all in one week. But she receives unexpected help when she finds her three-times great-grandmother’s journals and begins the adventure of a lifetime.

The Space Between Time is available in all ebook formats at Smashwords and for Kindle at Amazon, or you can find the ebook at iBooks or Barnes and Noble. If you prefer a physical copy, you can find a print-on-demand version at Amazon. Stay tuned for news when the audiobook version is published.

Lucinda is also the host of Story-Power a podcast where she and her guests discuss their creative endeavors, and/or the stories that have changed their lives. It’s available here on Sage Woman Chronicles and on Apple, Google, and Spotify podcast apps. Please rate and leave a review. It helps people find me.

Patreon

I’m so passionate about stories that I created the Story-Power podcast and Patreon communities so I’d have an excuse to talk story. You may have seen my Story-Power posts here. If you’re passionate about stories too, and want to talk about your favorite stories, come join me at either SageWoman.life, or patreon.com/StoryPower.

PodMatch

If you are a podcaster, or have a message or fantastic product you want to share with the world, I encourage you to check out PodMatch. Use the affiliate link and tell them, Lucinda sent you. Then contact me so we can set up a Story-Power chat.

Patience Pays Off

Smell the Roses

“Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.” ~ Joyce Meyer

“Sometimes things aren’t clear right away. That’s where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.” ~ Mary Pierce

I’ve had to remember how to be patient these past two weeks and I’m so glad I was reminded, because being patient helped me shift a major thought widget I have been holding onto for almost all my life. Which was, I have to rush to the finish line on projects or they won’t be successful. When I pay attention to one little segment that I’m working on that day fully, I’m more efficient. 

Let me tell you what happened. I’ve been making the videos for my online class, “Saving the World One Story at a Time,” and putting them onto our laptop computer. My desk top died a few months back. And, of course, the storage capacity on the laptop isn’t very large, because it was meant to be a back up or as our travel computer. Well, naturally, the storage space got filled up with all the videos and I was unable to do any work on my course until Barry had time to move the iMovie project off onto an external hard drive. That took about a week.

In the meantime, I got the October 12th Story-Power episode, “Armenian Genocide, Chronic Fatigue, and Creativity” edited and scheduled. But, on Wednesday it was published here, but not on Apple, Google, or Spotify. Thanks heaven I’m preparing this class. The bottom line of the class is that we can use stories to help ourselves become more emotionally intelligent. In other words, I managed my emotions and instead of yelling and screaming about this latest glitch, I waited for help, or inspiration.

I didn’t think of this until today as I write this, but one of the stories I reference in my course is Marry Me with Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson. I don’t usually watch or even read straight out romances, but I like both actors and there is something Jennifer Lopez says in the trailer that made me think this might be a different kind of story. She says, “If you want something different, you’ve got to do something different.” I liked that so I watched the movie and I have to say it was great, because Owen Wilson’s character says something that applied to my tech woe dilemma. He said, “When you have a problem, sit with it for awhile and the answer will come.” That’s what I did. I decided that Barry and I could figure out what had happened and eventually get the podcast episode up. And yesterday I woke up and thought, “I could just repost the episode and it would then populate my podcast hosts.” I tried it and, voila, it worked.

But back to the course I’m creating. If I had people to edit the videos, upload the details of each lesson, and the like, it would probably be launched by now. And yet, I’m kind of particular. I want to make it the best it can be, and even if someone else was doing the technical part of the job, I’d still have to watch each video, examine each document, and approve them. So, I have to trust that everything happens in its proper time. I’ll trust the Universe and get the course finished when I get it finished and that will be the proper time for it to go out into the world.

I’m actually looking forward to not putting pressure on myself to get the course up. Stress is not a good thing for anybody. And that was something else I realized. I put pressure on myself to get things done.

I guess that’s all I’ve got to share with you right now. It’s Saturday and I think I’ll have some fun.

Blessings,

Lucinda Sage-Midgorden © 2022

The Space Between Time

Lucinda is the author of The Space Between Time, an award finalist in the “Fiction: Fantasy” category of the 2017 Best Book Awards.

Have you ever experienced life shattering events? Yeah, after the last few years, most of us have. In The Space Between Time, Jenna Holden gets slammed by her fiancé walking out, her mother’s untimely death, and losing her job all in one week. But she receives unexpected help when she finds her three-times great-grandmother’s journals and begins the adventure of a lifetime.

The Space Between Time is available in all ebook formats at Smashwords and for Kindle at Amazon, or you can find the ebook at iBooks or Barnes and Noble. If you prefer a physical copy, you can find a print-on-demand version at Amazon. Stay tuned for news when the audiobook version is published.

Lucinda is also the host of Story-Power a podcast where she and her guests discuss their creative endeavors, and/or the stories that have changed their lives. It’s available here on Sage Woman Chronicles and on Apple, Google, and Spotify podcast apps. Please rate and leave a review. It helps people find me.

Patreon

I’m so passionate about stories that I created the Story-Power podcast and Patreon communities so I’d have an excuse to talk story. You may have seen my Story-Power posts here. If you’re passionate about stories too, and want to talk about your favorite stories, come join me at either SageWoman.life, or patreon.com/StoryPower.

PodMatch

If you are a podcaster, or have a message or fantastic product you want to share with the world, I encourage you to check out PodMatch. Use the affiliate link and tell them, Lucinda sent you. Then contact me so we can set up a Story-Power chat.

Armenian Genocide, Chronic Fatigue, and Creativity

Ashley Kalagian Blunt is the author of How to Be Australian, and My Name Is Revenge. Her writing has been published widely. An award-winning speaker, she has a Master of Research in creative writing. Originally from Canada, she lived and worked in South Korea, Mexico and Peru before moving to Sydney, Australia. She lives with chronic illness. 

Ashley’s Website, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter

  Books: My Name is Revenge, How to be an Australian

Armenian Genocide

Consequences of Denial by Aida Alayarian

German extermination of the Herero and Namaqua peoples of Western Africa

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Don’t Look Up, (2021, Netflix) Adam McKay, Director, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett

James and Ashley Stay at Home podcast on Apple

Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP)

Episode # 9 The Healing Power of Creativity with Karin Foxwell, Art Therapist

Sarah Sentilles, Stranger Care: A Memoir of Loving What Isn’t Ours

David Husk Wanbli Weiden, Winter Counts

Wind River, (2017) Taylor Sheridan, Director, Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, Graham Greene, Gil Birmingham

“Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories.” ~ Roger C. Shank, Cognitive Scientist

Patreon

I’m so passionate about stories that I created the Story-Power podcast and Patreon communities so I’d have an excuse to talk story with other story lovers. If you’re passionate about stories too, and want to talk about what you’ve learned from your favorites, come join me at patreon.com/StoryPower.

PodMatch

This episode is brought to you by PodMatch, the dating service for podcasters. They introduced me to Ashley Kalagian Blunt, and I’m so glad they did. I hope you’ve enjoyed our conversation and remember that if you have a podcast or something to share with the world, check out PodMatch and tell them Lucinda sent you.