Always Starting

Category: Human Potential

  • Seeking Normal – Day 15

    Day 15 prompt: Anjali Kumas said, “At the most fundamental level we are all the same.” What do you see as those fundamentals? My answer: It has never been more obvious than now what those fundamentals are as we are all reduced to the same situation. We are human first and foremost. We are reminded…

  • Seeking Normal – Day 14

    Day 14 prompt: How do other people affect your normal? How do you control those affects? Do you choose who’s in your life and what role they play? My answer: Other people affect our lives in all roles we play. While we would like to believe that we can control everything, we know better, and…

  • Seeking Normal – Day 13

    Day 13 prompt: How much effort do you put into normal? Is it a routine, discipline or a “flying by the seat of your pants” kind of normal? My answer: Well as I have previously indicated, I put a lot of work into normal on a daily basis. I like rules and routines and thrive…

  • Seeking Normal – Day 11

    Day 11 prompt: How many variations of normal do you have in your life? For example today you may be happy or sad or ill – are they all “normal”? My answer: Interesting topic as it may be it about what is YOUR normal and my normal is obsession over diet and exercise and anxiety…

  • Seeking Normal – Day 10

    Day 10 prompt: Is crisis normal for you? Are you creating crisis in your own life? In the lives of others? Are others creating crisis in your life? How do you begin to change that? My answer: Crisis is not normal for me. I am someone that has anxiety without crisis so to feed into…

  • Seeking Normal – Day 9

    Day 9 prompt: People talk about the “new” normal. What was the “old” normal? Did that label ever fit you? My answer: Well once again I could not have known when I wrote this prompt that I would one day be answering it in a world where the “new” normal is a daily condition. My…

  • Seeking Normal – Day 8

    Day 8 prompt: Is wanting control in every single aspect of our life normal? Control over every emotion, person, stressors, etc. that are in my life… My answer: I could not have known a year ago when writing this prompt journal that it would be put to the test in a pandemic that has taken…

  • Seeking Normal – Day 7

    Day 7 prompt: Is your normal the same as someone else’s? Why? How do you separate the expectation? How does someone else’s normal inspire, intimidate or disappoint you? My answer: I like this prompt as much of what makes something normal is that it is what everyone else has, does or is. The very act…

  • Seeking Normal – Day 6

    Day 6 prompt: Contentment is a state of being but how does it relate to normal? Is “normal” having routines or is it simply being satisfied with our state of being at that moment? Is it wrong to long for contentment beyond this moment? Is this where lacking gratitude begins? My answer: This is a…

  • Seeking Normal – Day 5

    Day 5 prompt: Why is normal even a “thing”? Does “normal” really exist? In what context have you used it in your life? My answer: Normal is how we describe life as it is agreed upon. Normal life is sleeping at night, working during the day, having a job, weekday, weekends, grocery shopping, cleaning, going…