"He's Back!"

Chances are you did not say: "He's back!" when you realized that i posted another blog entry, but in case you did I'll be sure to include a joke so that i don't disappoint you. This is a good one that i heard recently and have since told to many people:

Person A-"How do you get Pikachu onto an airplane?"
Person B (bald)-"I don't know...how?"
Person A-"You POKE-EM-ON!"

I know i know, hilarious right? Your abs will recover i promise.

So here i am blogging once again. I have learned and grown quite a lot since the last time i blogged and i have found a new desire to post my thoughts and ideas on this virtual and very public cyber journal. Again, this is not so much for you but for me and my own benefit (wow that sounds selfish) but i hope that you can benefit in some way. One thought that really inspired me to begin blogging again was the idea of Desire. I once learned a model about becoming that goes like this:

• Know 
• Do
• Be

The idea is that there are several steps (not always in THAT order i might add) that allow for us to grow. I have kept this model on my mind every since i learned it and it has served me well. But something that was troubling to me was that sometimes we are in a rush to get from knowing to doing and yet have little or no desire to do so. I know i need to exercise and eat right to maintain my physical health yet I will regularly down a greasy, love-deprived hamburger without a second thought. There are many things in our lives that we Know we need to do yet often the desire to Do them is absent. 

Well a little while ago i had the opportunity to attend Sunday school with a dear friend in Logan. I didn't realize that the lesson would drastically change my life and the way i viewed both Desire and Becoming. The teacher was assigned to discuss Conversion and put up on the whiteboard the following model:

• Know
• Feel
• Do

And it finally hit me...a big piece to the often troubling desire-puzzle is Feeling what you know to be true and allowing the principles to cultivate the motivation inside you that moves you to action. As i thought about it more i tried to dissect some of the reasons that this might be true. I came to the conclusion that Pondering concepts allows for them to sink deep into your heart and subconscious and nurture the desire to put them into practice. Yet again another reason why i see value in Journals and BLOGGING.

I look forward to Pondering, sharing, and capturing my thoughts here with you, unless of course there is no one following my blog, in such a case i am addressing myself :) hopefully my thoughts are intriguing and my poor habit of not capitalizing my i's did not infuriate you too badly, until we meet again!

-neal *"You're back!" He says to himself* hooper