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Posted on 19/10/202118/06/2023 by Frank Smolle — Leave a comment

Hero’s Journey Step 8 – Descent into the underworld

Knowing one’s self is to know the depth you have gone and how much worse you are capable of. The descent is a process of working out your emotions. When we do have an emotion we work out what that emotion is. There are but a few emotional driving neurotransmitters or peptides that the neurons…

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Posted on 16/08/202113/02/2023 by Frank Smolle — 1 Comment

Hero’s Journey Step 7 – Death

Looking at that heading, this may sound like a terrible subject. It is not, this is about a metaphorical death. The death of a pattern of behavior, A habit or a death of a self belief, or even a removal from the world for a short time.  The metaphorical death is the death through departure. going…

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Posted on 19/07/202113/02/2023 by Frank Smolle — Leave a comment

Hero’s Journey – Trials – Part 3: Approach

I like metaphors and I will be using a few in this post. The Approach to a situation that we encounter is the key to many of the development arch of Heroes in stories. Because, the you have to see the Hero fail to learn that some approaches just do not work.  This is how…

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Posted on 15/07/202116/02/2023 by Frank Smolle — 1 Comment

My Raspberry Pi 4 Desktop

My New-look Raspberry Pi 4 Look. I have been using the Pi4 for some time now for my Stock inventory and Picture Gallery for this website. It feels so much more protected with the new case from PI-Mania for $51.85. Then there is the Raspberry Pi4 8Gig  that you can get from the same place…

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Posted on 01/07/202113/02/2023 by Frank Smolle — Leave a comment

Hero’s Journey – Trials – Part 2: Personality Within

As we start to get familiar in spotting other peoples personalities we can now start to recognize those personalities that live within our-selves.  Every Stereotypy, or Architype lives within us. But how do they manifest? By mood. We are a slave to our emotions and each subtle emotion has an architype that is just waiting…

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Posted on 26/06/202110/05/2023 by Frank Smolle — Leave a comment

Being a Rock

When you feel week and want to run away and give up. Others rely on you to be a rock in their life.

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Posted on 07/06/202113/02/2023 by Frank Smolle — 1 Comment

Hero’s Journey – Trials – Part 1: Personality

When talking to phycologists mainly in Australia, they like talking about the Big 5 personality test. where as at work we use the DOPE personality test to teach clients about how to communicate with others.  Personally I like viewing personality as dynamic and we flow in and out of Archetype. However, I think that we…

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Posted on 06/06/202113/02/2023 by Frank Smolle — Leave a comment

Hero’s Journey – Step 6 – The Road of Trials

Trials and temptation are always around in life. While the hero is within the magical place, learning lessons for life, these are hampered by old ways of thinking and the temptations that were an every day thing will become one’s down fall. I could end the post here, because this is the take home message…

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Posted on 23/04/202116/02/2023 by Frank Smolle — Leave a comment

Fencing and Repair

During the wet weather that we had, one of the strainers started coming out of the ground. This lifted the fence up by about 2 foot. This allowed the sheep and a goat out of the paddock. A Mate came around and instructed me on how to fix the problem. Wiggling Don was the man…

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Posted on 16/03/202113/02/2023 by Frank Smolle — Leave a comment

Old Video from 2017 – our old shop

I forgot that I made this back in 2017 when I had a shop and it was up on YouTube. I enjoyed my time running the shop. But those days are over. It is all online now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-yjfF7jKDI

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