Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Conceptually Thinking .... Do you know What??

Words. Set #40   and counting to zero

(Power) Merciful

adjective
  1. showing or exercising mercy.
    "it was the will of a merciful God that all should be saved"

(Force)  Permissive
adjective

  1. 1.
    allowing or characterized by great or excessive freedom of behavior.
    "the permissive society of the 60s and 70s"





    2  LAW
  2. allowed but not obligatory; optional.
    "the Hague Convention was permissive, not mandatory"

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Conceptual Thinking

I honestly never gave it much thought until the other day.
Actions that are permissible.  Mine were allowed IF I was considered valuable to team and mission.  

After that mission, not so much.
That is my theme. 
Being used for my learning until I've pissed off the last boss which was usually the next one who did not understand how to get things done.
I benefited every time.

I'm doing my best to set up the budget to be easy for my darling wife to handle when I'm doing the Walking Thru Forests, insanity tour to Hindsight 2020 by my 60th Birthday.  Abstract for sure.

In the process, I find that I am difficult to follow sometimes which is ... most times.
So, as with any conundrum that I encounter, I set it loose to the universe and "SQUIRREL!"
I do something different.

A while later .... I was watching Chick-a-dee, Wren, TitMouse, Cardinal, Purple Sparrow, Carolina Sparrow and about 30 Golden Finches eating at the feeder watching me from 4 feet away ... it dawns on me from some test in my past that I'm labeled a Conceptual Thinker. 
Concepts are how I arrange and do things mostly. 
Order, but order out of chaos is the best I can explain it.

So, now that I understand that cuz my mind (or something besides my mind) informed me of a trait of mine.  

Trait or Bent, it does not matter right not to me, I'll research it later, point is - I now can structure the transfer of knowledge by having the other create from my template in their thinking language by concepts.

That is how I created and maintained it ... concept of wanting to know what my ACTUAL balance was to the moment with a bunch of pending translations.  Nothing crazy but crazy enough for my Chemo Challenged friend.  It will be a good exercise and in all honesty, I could handle most of all our budget from the trail if needed.  Saul Good.


It was the Conceptual part that I never really paid much attention to because I just auto do it.

As for knowing "What?" my wife and I both do.
He was a hiking partner with Lion King one year as he was helping out a family hiker that needed help that goes by the trail name of "What?"  Good memories of good people.  



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Conceptual Thinking. Definition : The ability to analyze hypothetical situations or abstract concepts to compile insight. Conceptual thinkers have an astute understanding of why something is being done. They can think at an abstract level and easily apply their insights to the situation.

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If that is what the Navy did was make me a conceptual thinker, then I can now work with it better knowing it has a definition that is me.

There is a whole school on the subject I find online ... imagine that.
The complete leader course .... I didn't even know it was tied to leadership abilities or a class.
Now we both know.

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So a point to all of this dawns on me .... like those moments when you ask yourself a question and the response from your brain is ..."Huh?"

Pain pushed me.  Pain pushed me to do ANYTHING to remove it.
There was a point when I wanted to cut my head off at the shoulders because it would be the final removal for the pain in that area. 
Has any of you out there wonder what it must feel like for a person before and during beheading?   I have and I got my wish.  Many times.

Times when the lightening flash inside the head is SOOO BRIGHT that it must be that way when a spinal cord is sliced in half.
The Pain, although sharp is brief.  A great way to start each day for many years.  So, I continued forward as there was nothing else.

Dr's said: it's all in my head.  "Take this pill." 
"Red or Blue" I asked?  
Knowing full well I would not fill the prescription and if I did, I would eventually discard the remains.
I'm not into selling them on the street to buy weed ... many others I knew would.   
Mine go in a pill box down at the court house without a label .... the number on the pills is enough and if they really care who they are from, my prints are in the system, scars and all.

Hey!  Judge me only as Jesus would ... He hung with Sinners.  
Jus sayin.

So, I change jobs, vocations, learning ... trying to find an action I could repeat to be a productive citizen in this great land of ours again.
22 years of trying ... changing .... adapting .... moving forward by trying to make the last place I arrived, better when I left.

If you have been reading along since 2011, it has been a truly remarkable journey to me.  And that is all that matters.

I embarked, unknowingly where I would land or how I would get "To The Trail" 
1987 was the dream seed on a Carrier in Dry Dock in Philly.


I've decided to include a visit there in May.
I'll be visiting there due to a recent change in my hike as LIFE and FAMILY take center stages all in one area on one day ... I'll be there too as the collective of all is better to be experienced in person.


That DRY Dock is now a park.  Go Figure.
The last place my Dad served is a Museum (USS Midway) and there was talk of having the USS Kitty Hawk become a museum but having the Philly Ship Yard become one is even cooler!
The last navy junction for me is a museum housing the first navy junction for me the USS Boulder.
Since it all aligns that I will be passing thru Philly on my way to Roanoke for a Spring Wedding, I'll just take a day off there.
Who knows, I hear there's a great Italian Restaurant in the area. lol.

Y2K allowed for a career that took me closer to the trail at McAfee Knob and teased, tempted and enticed me with it's beauty.
2016 just about killed me and 2017 gave me little reason to believe it would ever happen ... but you know what? (and I do)  lol .....

Source energy provided a different wayward teen ... that has been abused more than I was in my younger life ... to show up one day, casing my joint to see what can be lifted easily for his new habit.

Then ... as life would have it ... the neighbor lady across the holler asked me if I could "Intervene" in the young mans life to hopefully give him a directional change.
Who am I to take on this challenge?   Hmmmm ... tough one.


A disabled pissed off old man on a hill side, that's who.
Who has a method that can get into the heads of the unjust and make them think about their anger and how it will not serve them as a disabled old man.

The one that Source KNEW could get into his thinker and change a few nuts and screws that came loose along his delusional way of present called East Possum Screw Kentucky.

It was a process for us both that will most likely become an H.R. Training for a corporation that wants to hire good people that need a chance.  Or a book .... most likely the book first.

Well, that's the teenager that most likely will be a man when he arrives on my "future" door step to see if I'm finally fit at 60.
If he does not arrive ... I still send thoughts out (prayers) and keep good vibes going out for him as we are all connected.
He understands that after becoming a hired hand to assist a disabled couple on a mountainside.  Once an employee ... my rules.
Learning is not an option ... my theme.

He most likely will be excited to tell of his adventures as he became a "Learn it All" from the "Know it all" that he was.
I look forward to the smile I'll have in listening to someone else besides myself for a change.

It's 7 AM and the US market is waking up as the Pound had it's normal whipsaw to clear the trades ... I'm in a pleasant little trade (ALL CHIPS I CAN FIND ARE IN) and the casino looses little while the gains are in my calculated favor ... just like the master taught ... 15 min ... follow the rules ... afterwards ... get back in the pool and relax ... calm ... cool ... collective.

Row, row, row ... gently.
Allow, receive all that it freely gives.

It could very well and should be auto botted by the time I walk.
Then it's a head clearing time, in my Cathedral the Woods to talk again with the one who made me and keeps my heart beating and my lungs breathing ... Robinson like.

Keep moving forward ... always forward.

~ Kindle