by Gary Powell

At full sail, we can realize and create our purest artistic vision at our highest performance level and understanding. We can then come to enjoy the benefits from the realization of working at that highest and best use. I’m suggesting that in between fate, hard work, discipline, luck, favoritism, and talent, we can occasionally find our wind and be at full sail. In these snippets of time when chance collaborates with our fullest and best expressions – we forget time, place and even the context of our artistic origins. Life floats on the gentle and effortless waves of creativity and success, and we have indeed found our wind.

This is a time when our individual character either out-smarts or out-works the stillness of misfortune.

Conversely, we more frequently find ourselves in a dead calm. While we own the best vessel with all our gear at the ready, we simply have no wind. These are the periods of Big Sails – No Wind, which can be most disheartening, or something worse altogether. Within this metaphor, rations become scarce, resources diminish, and emotions turn to despair. The solution is to absolutely know that this will happen and to provision for it. Before World War II, the precept of economic prudence was a core value of most Americans. Few of our grandparents ever bought anything on credit. Having a good credit rating is not a bad thing, but it is not provisioning for the dead calm.

The dead calm may also require the use of a paddle. This is a time when our individual character either out-smarts or out-works the stillness of misfortune. Regardless of whether the dead calm seems engineered through circumstance, is self-inflicted, or is being masterminded by people who would shield the wind from your sails, the antidote is to provision, provision, provision, and don’t forget to buy a paddle.

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At full sail, we can realize and create our purest artistic vision at our highest performance level and understanding. We can then come to enjoy the benefits from the realization of working at that highest and best use. I’m suggesting that in between fate, hard work, discipline, luck, favoritism, and talent, we can occasionally find our wind and be at full sail<\/i>. In these snippets of time when chance collaborates with our fullest and best expressions – we forget time, place and even the context of our artistic origins. Life floats on the gentle and effortless waves of creativity and success, and we have indeed found our wind. <\/p>\n

This is a time when our individual character either out-smarts or out-works the stillness of misfortune.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Conversely, we more frequently find ourselves in a dead calm. While we own the best vessel with all our gear at the ready, we simply have no wind. These are the periods of Big Sails – No Wind<\/i>, which can be most disheartening, or something worse altogether. Within this metaphor, rations become scarce, resources diminish, and emotions turn to despair. The solution is to absolutely know that this will<\/i> happen and to provision for it. Before World War II, the precept of economic prudence was a core value of most Americans. Few of our grandparents ever bought anything on credit. Having a good credit rating is not a bad thing, but it is not<\/i> provisioning for the dead calm. <\/p>\n

The dead calm may also require the use of a paddle. This is a time when our individual character either out-smarts or out-works the stillness of misfortune. Regardless of whether the dead calm seems engineered through circumstance, is self-inflicted, or is being masterminded by people who would shield the wind from your sails, the antidote is to provision, provision, provision, and don’t forget to buy a paddle. <\/p>\n

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