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Alphabetical Motivation

Kamál (Perfection), 19 Mashíyyat (Will) 175 B.E. - Monday, October 15, 2018

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Make an alphabetical list of 26 items starting with each letter of the alphabet.
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Alphabetical Motivation

It's Monday, October 15, the third Motivational Monday in October 2018. I've had a cinnamon roll and my first cup of coffee, which should be enough motivation to finish this list. I posted my goals list to "Weekly Goals"  and have a copy of it in "Weekly Goals for 2024" . That particular document has other things that I need to do, as well. The only things in "Weekly Goals for 2024"  that I seem to be able to do in a consistent basis is the weekly goals list, and cleaning out my writing.com inbox. The other thing I accomplish, on a semi-consistent basis, is write poems on "Themes For Poems and Blog entries" . The items on the list below, will end up in a poem, short story, or essay; unless I get distracted (a problem lately) and ignore them entirely.

A - Ascension of 'Abdu'l-Baha, November 28.

B - "Bring thyself to account each day ere thou art summoned to a reckoning; for death, unheralded, shall come upon thee and thou shalt be called to give account for thy deeds." Baha'u'llah1

C - Coffee and/or Chocolate.

D - Day of the Covenant, November 26.

E - Earth Day 2019: Protect Our Species2.

F - "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase." Martin Luther King, Jr.

G - Gratitude: appreciation, acknowledgment, obligation, recognition, thanks, appreciativeness, grace, gratefulness, honor, indebtedness, praise, requital, response, responsiveness, thankfulness, thanksgiving, and sense of obligation.

H - "Humanity is but a single Brotherhood: So make peace with your brothern." Quran 49:10.

I - I Am

J - Joy

K - Kiasu: "(of a person) having a grasping or selfish attitude arising from a fear of missing out on something"3.

L - Letters of the Living: The Disciples of the Bab.

M - Mashriqu’l-Adhkar: the Dawning Place of the Mention of God4.

N - Novel Writing Month: November.

O - One eyed, one horned flying purple people eater.

P - Phare: "a lighthouse or beacon to guide ships at sea"5.

Q - Qudrat: Power, might, authority, dominion, celestial might, omnipotence, transcendent power, indomitable strength, all-pervading power, ascendancy, divine power; Feast of Qudrat (Power); see "Themes For Poems and Blog entries" .

R - Ray of Sunshine.

S - Speech: words, testimony; see "Themes For Poems and Blog entries" ; Feast of Qawl (Speech).

T - Twin Holy Days: Birth of the Bab, November 9, and Birth of Baha'u'llah, November 10.

U - United Nations Day  , October 24.

V - Vanity of Vampires.

W - World Citizen Day  , November 4.

X - Xenophile: "a person who likes foreigners or things foreign"6.

Y - Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.

Z - Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah7.

I need to keep close track of my goals and motivation. I can do that in my pen and paper journal, and transpose it to my gratitude journal, as one of the things I am thankful for.

Footnotes
1  The Hidden Words, Part One: From the Arabic #31.
2  https://www.earthday.org/2018/05/19/earth-day-2019-campaign-save-endangered-spec...
3  https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/kiasu/?utm_source=wotd-english&utm_...
4  http://bahaiteachings.org/series/the-dawning-place-of-the-mention-of-god
5  https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/phare/?utm_source=wotd-english&utm_...
6  https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/xenophile
7  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah