White and Blue

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My mind wonders, attracted to the two beached boats on Positano’s beach. I think of companionship, advocacy, guardian angels, God’s guiding spirit. The white - the guide - support, not needing motorization. The blue - me, comforted, knowing there is more than me alone, to walk, sail, the course.

YOU’LL NEVER WALK ALONE from the Sound of Music resonates a note for me to ruminate: “Walk on through the wind, Walk on through the rain, Though your dreams be tossed And blown. Walk on, walk on, With hope in your heart, and you’ll never walk alone.”

In 2014, I put my strong feelings about the importance of having a personal advocate, in my client gift book, ADVOCATE PLANNING, TO DO WHAT YOU LOVE TO DO. The book discusses revelations, late to my professional career, including three principles intregral to living with purpose - Self-realizating, Connecting and Giving, (SCG). These principles are most effectively accomplished with you listening to your Inner Wisdom and having a personal, and a professional advocate, who know you better than you know yourself. My personal advocate - Patty, was a great advocate for me for over fifty years.

My 2014 dissertation fell short of expressing my strong feelings about the importance of SCG. I plan now to write an extensive preface to ADVOCATE PLANNING, and promote it to the fianancial planning profession. I tentatively call the script THREE PRINCIPLES TO LIVE WITH PURPOSE, a preface to ADVOCATE PLANNING, To Do What You Love To D

White and Blue