Where do you want to be?
It’s not the matter of where you have been or where you are now, but where do you want to be.
Welcome
Whether you came here on purpose or by accident, I thank you for visiting “Turning Inspirations into Aspirations”. I opened this site with the invaluable assistance of my friend, Kevin Day (who created this website vehicle). My purpose is to provide a platform to reach out to people and share my thoughts, experiences, ideas, suggestions, whatever, to help people identify and act on those dreams that lie within them. The “act on” part being the most difficult piece of the pie, however, in order for any of us to get where we wish to be in life, we need to create goals and execute those goals which will lead us to realizing changes in our lives and achievement of our dreasms.
Have you ever spent time on Someday Isle?
Who hasn’t had dreams that shoulda been, woulda been or coulda been realized if only . . .? Someday Isle is that place most people go to for relief from a reactive, fragmented, hurried lifestyle. Unfortunately, on Someday Isle plans stay just that, plans. There is an alternative and you will read about that alternative and take away a strategy for doing what most people don’t do, Dream Big and take a good life and make it a better life.
Now, not all dreams can become realities but one must believe that some can and a belief in yourself to be the driver of your dreams is the key to staying off of Someday Isle!
Someday Isle is now available!
Drop Ron an email at ron@rongrusy.com to let him know of your interest in having your own copy of Someday Isle or you can purchase online through the Buy Now button in the right column.
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These are on my reading list, what’s been on yours?
As I continue on my journey of fulfilling my dreams, I rely on the thoughts and ideas I glean from reading a variety of books. Below are the most recent books I have read and my comments about them. I hope you find some interest in them as well. Click on the Amazon link to learn more about these and other thought provoking books.
Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior. HJ Kramer, revised edition 200.
This is one I have to re-read. It was a ‘can’t put it down’ type of book the first time through. The peaceful warrior wages this spiritual battle within himself. Following the spiritual teachings of the Peaceful Warrior from the ‘Socrates’ in the book is a truly fascinating journey.
Azim Khamisa and Jillian Quinn. The Secrets of the Bulletproof Spirit. Ballentine Books, 2009.
The theme is how to bounce back from life’s hardest hits. The hits come at us emotionally, financially and physically. They occur more often to some than others but none of us escape hits now and then. At the end of each chapter the authors provide a few ‘boot camp’ suggestions to help the reader strengthen his/her bulletproof stature. While the spiritually bulletproof person does not deny normal human responses, he does hold to Thoreau’s statement that “it’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see” in life and what you take from the hits upon you.
Michael Beschloss. Presidential Courage. Simon and Schuster, 2007.
From George Washington to Ronald Reagan, the author provides us insight into the decision making process and internal conflicts that several Presidents went through to make precedent setting decisions. The stories include the character of perseverance, insight, political and moral strength that led them to their decisions. They often had to weather storms of intense criticism but with their own inner courage as a primal personality feature they forged ahead on a course they knew was correct. Not only good history but also good study in ’staying the course’ as we make our own decisions.
Kouzes and Posner. Leadership Challenge. Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2007.
The authors rely on 25 years of executive research into what it is that people felt when they were at their ‘personal best’ in leading others. The results were five practices of exemplary leadership: model the way, inspire a shared vision, challenge the process, enable others to act, encourage the heart. Leadership is a relationship between those who aspire to lead and those who choose to follow. Leadership is not reserved to the few charismatic top of the organization principals, it is found in all places at all levels of most organizations. I took from this as being a modern day ‘7 Habits of Highly Effective People’.
Viktor E. Frankl. Man’s Search for Meaning. Beacon Press.
In only nine days Frankl pulled this miraculous book together. Once one gets beyond the horrifics of Frankl’s days in the concentration camps, the reader can settle down and listen to Frankl’s philosophies on how to bring meaning to the questions of life. In the camps he spoke to others about the trivial comforts they had, the future, the past and the opportunities to give meaning to life and sacrifice. A key concept he puts forth is that man can answer to life by being responsible, by creating a work, experiencing something or encountering someone and by the attitude he takes toward unavoidable suffering. Another book so full of thoughts and ideas that pertain to all of us that my copy of the book has numerous page corners turned back for future reference.
