Everything's OK - by Lenka ~ Illustrations by Soomin Sook ~ I am obsessed with this song!

A little inspirational reading...

Standing in belief that all my needs will be met, I'm preparing myself to be at the Inspired Writer's Retreat next month in Utah. New York Times best-selling author M. Bridget Cook is hosting it and she has told me it is TIME to share my story. I've schlepped this Power to Write book around for 20 years. I think I'll start reading it right now! If you want to donate to my fundraiser, please go to www.rockethub.com/41988 Every dollar helps! Thank you!

Jesus Calling - April 7 - I Am the Potter, you are the clay

"My everlasting Love is at work in every event of your life...As you move through the turbulent stream with Me, let circumstances mold you into the one I desire you to be." #JesusCalling #SarahYoung #devotional

Me, A Spontaneous Idealist? Sounds just about right!

I love internet quizzes that show up in my Facebook News Feed. Like this personality quiz on ipersonic.com

This one really hit home in so many ways. The results told me things that people who know me have literally said to me before. I am open-minded and creative and I do have a zest for life. An extra-large zest, if you ask my Auntie J. I love to communicate and have been called a wordsmith. I become bored and need the thrill of a big, gorgeous city like New York or Chicago to feed my soul. But the thing that resonated the most was "You appreciate receiving new stimulation, meeting new people, and continuously collecting unique experiences." Can I get an Amen up in here?

Last summer my cousin Elaine had come to visit me in NYC and stayed for a few days. Long enough for her to observe me in my own natural habitat and to offer up the following theory. "You are a collector of things. You live to experience things and do new things and you collect experiences" she said to me as we were crossing Riverside Drive. "Finally!" I thought. Someone who I am related to actually "gets" me. Elaine had cracked the code. While she didn't refer to me as a Spontaneous Idealist, she knew my number and that was enough to make me feel validated.

You can go to http://www.ipersonic.com and take your own quiz!

The Spontaneous Idealist

• My Type

Spontaneous Idealists are creative, lively and open-minded persons. They are humorous and dispose of a contagious zest for life. Their enthusiasm and sparkling energy inspires others and sweeps them along. They enjoy being together with other people and often have an uncanny intuition for their motivations and potential.

Spontaneous Idealists are masters of communication and very amusing and gifted entertainers. Fun and variety are guaranteed when they are around. However, they are sometimes somewhat too impulsive in dealing with others and can hurt people without really meaning to do so, due to their direct and sometimes critical nature.

This personality type is a keen and alert observer; they miss nothing which is going on around them. In extreme cases, they tend to be oversensitive and exaggeratedly alert and are inwardly always ready to jump. Life for them is an exciting drama full of emotionality. However, they quickly become bored when things repeat themselves and too much detailed work and care is required. Their creativity, their imaginativeness and their originality become most noticeable when developing new projects and ideas - they then leave the meticulous implementation of the whole to others. On the whole, Spontaneous Idealists attach great value to their inner and outward independence and do not like accepting a subordinate role. They therefore have problems with hierarchies and authorities.


If you have a Spontaneous Idealist as your friend, you will never be bored; with them, you can enjoy life to the full and celebrate the best parties. At the same time, they are warm, sensitive, attentive and always willing to help. If Spontaneous Idealists have just fallen in love, the sky is full of violins and their new partners are showered with attention and affection. This type then bubbles over with charm, tenderness and imagination. But, unfortunately, it soon becomes boring for them once the novelty has worn off. Boring everyday life in a partnership is not for them so that many Spontaneous Idealists slip from one affair into another. However, should the partner manage to keep their curiosity alive and not let routine and familiarity gain the upper hand, Spontaneous Idealists can be inspiring and loving partners.

Adjectives that describe your type
spontaneous, enthusiastic, idealistic, extroverted, theoretical, emotional, relaxed, friendly, optimistic, charming, helpful, independent, individualistic, creative, dynamic, lively, humorous, full of zest for life, imaginative, changeable, adaptable, loyal, sensitive, inspiring, sociable, communicative, erratic, curious, open, vulnerable

As a Spontaneous Idealist you are one of the extroverted personality types. You enjoy working in a colorfully diverse group of people who interest and inspire you. Working in a “secluded room” is not your thing. Your sense for the motivation of others is almost eerie. You constantly observe that which happens around you and have no problems noticing all sorts of things simultaneously or communicating with several people at the same time.

My Career

Your enthusiasm is contagious to others and that is why your colleagues and friends all appreciate you as an important member of your team. Your articulateness and your sensitive ear for nuances in conversations with others obviously play a role. For you, this team-oriented environment is very important because you need to receive positive feedback and recognition like other people need air to breathe. It would be practically impossible for you to contribute everything you need to maintain your high ideals, by yourself.

Variety, challenges and fun are important ingredients of your area of responsibility. You appreciate receiving new stimulation, meeting new people, and continuously collecting unique experiences. However, too much routine, too much detail work and the necessity to stick with one project for a very long time is not your thing. Your strength are creative problem solutions, discovering new ways and opportunities, the conceptualization of new ideas on one hand, but not so much their concrete implementation on the other. Ideally, you have a staff of capable colleagues that takes over your concepts and runs with them.

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