The Shield, The Brush & The little Stone: to protect & enhance on the journey to enrich your best self

By Johanna Valona

A magnificent journey to enrich what makes you special and unique, applying protection and enhancements on the way to becoming your best self. Using easy to understand and relatable metaphors the author describes how to improve, succeed and advance on the road of life. Introducing the reader to new concepts that will help craft the best you, using a Shield for protection and a Brush for enhancements; all to benefit the core of you, the little Stone. Its an amazing journey, this will benefit the traveler in accomplishing tasks to arriving at your beautiful destination.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tablo Publishing
• Release date: Oct 5, 2021
• ISBN: 9781685830144

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A Magnificent Journey

The road of life is a magnificent journey full of wonders and amazements toward our goals and dreams. Yes, the adventure can be fun and enduring even with traffic jams and red lights along the way. As you progress to your own destination you will be bombarded with decisions to make daily. What turns to take, what to eat, what to buy, where to go, how to live, how to love. Thankfully the control is in your hands, and the choice is up to you!

Each decision potentially has lasting effects and consequences to prevent us from reaching our destination intact? Still how do we best proceed, knowing one or too many wrong decisions can alter our path completely? To avoid getting lost with multiple U-turns and perpetual roundabouts the motivation for reaching the destination becomes just as important as the trip itself. 

Yet the speed and quality of travel depends largely on how well you know yourself, the traveler.

Understanding will help you make well informed decisions, but how can we know if those choices will advance or hinder our progress? As we take this trip, we shall gain understanding of some of the elements involved and learn more about the most important aspect. As the speed and quality of travel depends largely on how well you know yourself, the traveler.

To gain understanding of yourself. Your likes, desires, wants, fears, preferences and capabilities. Recognition of what makes you, you.  Acknowledgment of your path, where you are going and how you expect to arrive. A journey to identify and discover what makes you special and unique, applying protection and enhancements on the way to becoming your best self.

A journey to identify and discover what makes you special and unique, applying protection and enhancements on the way to becoming your best self.

A green turtle. That was the first pool our family ever had. A green turtle where the head was the slide. It was pretty small sitting out front since our back yard was a river. Yet pools can be inside & outside. Swimming pools inside are private with all season weather. Pools outside have fresh air and sun and are exposed to the elements. 

So, here comes choice. 

Choose to enjoy the comfort or withdraw from the beautiful power of the sun? This is the choice left to both sunbathers and travelers. 

As with the sun, as with ourselves, the key is to manage the exposure to injury. We add sunblock and glasses and careful rotation. Apply lotion and oil where we want to enhance and sun friendly outfits. Or naked if preferred!

Comfort and Risk. To what degree do we venture ourselves in caution and how much do we venture in risk? 

This is to manage today's tan, tomorrow's burn and future skin trauma. As people we ask a few questions, invest in clothes then run head on forward. What could go wrong? It is in fact the surprise that is most surprising. Is the unexpected so remote a possibility that its arrival is an actual shock? What we need is sunblock for travel with an SPF for Goals and Dreams. 

With so many variables unknown it’s imperative to know yourself. This will promote success both alone and in exchanges with other travelers. Knowing your perspective and the elements that enable your protection and growth. 

Let us make reservations for our future success on a journey to leverage our potential as we develop our best selves. 

Our best selves going on A Magnificent Journey. 

Your Beautiful Destination

At departure we look ahead and envision greatness at our destination. The feelings of accomplishment, the merits of achievement, the satisfaction of victory. So, what is this journey all about and how do we individually gauge its success? As we look at the various elements around and inside ourselves, we grow in understanding. 

The vault for greatness is deep inside us. Gathered in the heart, sifted through the mind, discussed with the soul, autographed by our unique essence. It is the very core of us. A miniature, condensed chunk forming a small rock or a little stone. This little Stone is the most unique, precious, intimate and private core of you. 

It is the little Stone that is the core of you. 

Past seasons, through the years, as moments add up, with experience, by love it grows. As we guard it and enhance it. You can see why it is so essential it remains protected. And equally important whom we allow access. 

Time and efforts are put toward the accomplishment of essential tasks. These goals associated with the female and male energies exist within all of us. Female energies to polish the little stone to a brilliant gem, male energies to shape the little stone into a heroic statue. This part of progress defines who we are, what we want and sets our destiny upon the world. 

In pursuit of these tasks we utilize elements that will help protect us. A familiar