Dr. JJ's Rule #10: Be a Creator, not a Critic

In the history of mankind, Dickens' famous quip: "It was the best of times,
it was the worst of times" has never been truer than NOW.

In a previous article, Dr. JJ's 13 Rules for Living were shared.

Click HERE to access JJ's 13 Rules.

This week's blog post addresses Dr. JJ's RULE #10, which states:

Be a DOER, not a drag; a CREATOR, not a critic; and an EXAMPLE, not a judge.*

As a token of my commitment to be an example of a DOER and CREATOR, pick up at least one piece of trash each day that I did not throw down and read, write, recite, or do at least one thing each day that contributes to my own (or someone else's) personal wisdom, freedom, and Existential Growth. 

Click HERE to read The Power of Picking up Trash, a previously published Freedom Focused blog post.    

Freedom Focused Agents are BUILDERS

Our world is filled with finger-pointers and critics. We need more creators who take complete responsibility for everything in their OWN lives and careers.  

There are plenty of people ready, willing, and eager to play the blame-game and tear down other people and things. 

We need more courteous, confident, courageous, compassionate, and constructive builders.

Freedom Focused is an organization of builders. We do not seek to bruise or bully, but to bolster and build. Our desire is not to add to the current chaos, but to contribute to causes worth living for. Our aim is to use our education, expertise, and talents to craft something truly magnificent in our nation—and beyond.  

How do we strive to accomplish such lofty aims?

For starters, we begin early, often, and always by.....  improving OURSELVES.   

What Our World Needs...

Our world has too many leaners;

It needs more LIFTERS.

          Our world has a crass cache of critical curmudgeons;

          It needs more CHEERFUL CREATORS.

                    Our world has a surfeit of finger-pointing judges.

                    It needs more authentic EXAMPLES of personal HONESTY and EXCELLENCE.  

                              Our world has too much debauchery and drug abuse

                              It needs more DISCIPLINE and DELAYED GRATIFICATION.

                    Our world is too oft marked by hatred, division, and vicious vitriol. 

                    It needs more LOVE, UNITY, and volitional VIRTUE.  

          Our world is plagued by partisan politics and puerile polemics

          It cries out in desperation for more STATESMANSHIP and BALANCE

Our world has so much potential yet to be realized;

What are YOU doing TODAY to help it yet rise to that potential?

When the flames finally grow too hot,
Freedom Focused is here to help

At present, our world is on fire. For three decades, FREEDOM FOCUSED has been storing up ENERGY and WATER to combat the inferno through EXAMPLE and EDUCATION.

We stand READY, WILLING, and ABLE to boldly confront and successfully combat whatever comes our way...

          

          Just as soon as we are called upon to serve.     

NOTE: This article is the 12th in a series of 22 articles on the subject of LIFE RULES.

Click HERE to access quick links to the other 21 articles.   

-Dr. JJ

December 15, 2021

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, USA

Author's Note: This is the 243rd Blog Post Published by Freedom Focused LLC since November 2013. 

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Notes: 

* Quote from Stephen R. Covey ("Be a light, not a judge")

I'd Rather See a Sermon

I love poetry.  One of my favorite 20th Century quatrains comes from a stanza of Edgar A. Guest's verse.  It reads:

I'd rather see a sermon
Than hear one any day;
I'd rather one should walk with me
Than merely tell the way.

These famous words of Guest's explain why I chose to include such intimate details from my own life's Self-Action Leadership journey in my new book -- Self-Action Leadership: The Key to Personal, Professional, & Global Freedom.

Me as a teenager: pale, lanky,
 homely, nerdy, and goofy;
 but extremely driven.

Ever since I was a teenager, I have felt a powerfully compelling -- even an obsessive -- need and desire to positively influence other people.  By the time I was in my mid-teens, I knew I wanted to someday write a best-selling self-help book.

Over time, however, I found that I would never successfully accomplish my goal of "talking the talk" until I had actually "walked the walk" over a long period of time.

Unfortunately, or fortunately (depending on how you look at it), the past 20 years of my life has afforded me the painful opportunity of facing three separate sets of deep and penetrating trials the likes of which I, as a boy, never would have imagined I'd face in the future.

Life is often like that -- full of unexpected adversity and other crazy twists and turns such that real life sometimes ends up being even more interesting and dramatic than the most dramatic presentations of the cinema, or the printed page.

I wouldn't wish the crucibles I've been through on anyone.  What I do know is that everyone ends up facing their own, unique challenges in life.  We are all alike in that way.  You can try and run from your problems, but in the end, you can never completely hide.

It is often said that hindsight is 20/20.  In hindsight, I wouldn't trade my struggles for anything because of what they have helped me to become.  Nor would I wish to ever return to the hellish onslaught they brought into my life.  Perhaps you can relate as you've struggled to work through your own issues in life.

Dr. Jordan Jensen's New Book

I wrote Self-Action Leadership in hopes of giving the world a new kind of self-help book -- one that provides as much empathy as it does instruction, and one that seeks to help others by sharing what I've learned from spending the past two decades studying and working on MY OWN problems.

I still have a LONG way to go in my own SAL journey, but I can say with satisfaction that along the way, I have discovered the existence of a few priceless principles that are universal in nature and can lead us human beings out of the mangy morasses we often find ourselves mired in during our mortal sojourn upon this Earth.

Perhaps my experiences -- and the lessons I've learned through studying and working out my personal and professional problems -- might in some way be of service to you or someone you love, care for, or work with.

If you are interested in learning more about what I've both experienced and learned, I invite you to read my new book, which shares all of these things.

The world is full of big talkers.  Heck, I am one of them.  But, if you are looking for a self-help guide that strives to "show the way" rather than merely tell you what to do, be, and where to go, you might find this book a worthwhile read.

Dr. Jordan Jensen Today

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Click HERE to read about Dr. Jensen's Challenges with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (Part 1)

Click HERE to read about Dr. Jensen's Challenges with OCD (Part 2)

Click HERE to read about Dr. Jensen's Victories over OCD

Click HERE to read about Dr. Jensen's Rocky Road of Romance

Click HERE to read about Dr. Jensen's Career Crucibles

Click HERE to buy an E-version (Nook) of Dr. Jensen's BOOK