An Open Book 3: My Story

BOOKS BY CRAIG LOCK

https://headbraininjury.wordpress.com/2014/08/03/an-open-book-3-my-story/
Here’s a short extract…

PROLOGUE

I came across this fine bit of writing, which I could closely relate to in those dark days in -. Diana’s words describe my feelings better than I could myself… so here they are…

“People speak glibly about life changing moments. Some truly qualify. You propose marriage and are accepted. You hear, ‘You’re hired’ or ‘You’re fired’ and your future shifts instantly. The doctor says ‘malignant’ (or something else life-changing) and everything is different. But anyone who has ever lived through it will tell you: It is profoundly shattering to learn, in one instant, that everything you thought was true about a loved one (my words: or perhaps your own life) is actually a lie. (Your entire world is turned upside down – what you thought about yourself, and what gave meaning to your life). The world rocks on its axis; when it is…

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“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.”

BOOKS BY CRAIG LOCK

via “What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.”

And when we bring what is within us out into the world, then miracles happen.

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“I make art out of chaos… or should that rather be chaos out of art?”

Craig's Quotes

pic (not your nose, please) from https://www.nicolebreit.com/your-rare-phenomenal-gift-writer-making-order-out-of-chaos-transforming-experience-into-art/

“I make art out of chaos… or should that rather be chaos out of art?”

picture (below) from https://thedriverthenurseandthewriter.wordpress.com/

and

http://www.lifeisgodsnovel.wordpress.com

“Art imitating life… or life imitating art.”

???

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IF (by Rudyard Kipling): If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you…”

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via IF (by Rudyard Kipling): If you can keep your head when all about you  Are losing theirs and blaming it on you…”

http://www.inspiringvideo.wordpress.com

and

http://www.championdad.wordpress.com

As with Michael Caine, my dad often repeated Kipling’s words of wisdom to me as a young boy

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“The traumatic brain injury (TBI) would have rendered my life pointless… if I had let it.”

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI

“The traumatic brain injury (TBI) would have rendered my life pointless… ifI had let it.“
– Max Mteliso

The Invisible Rain Cloud

Also see

https://www.headway.org.uk/about-brain-injury/individuals/brain-injury-and-me/max-mteliso/

and Max’s FB page at

https://www.facebook.com/maxwell.t.mteliso

IF

from https://craigsquotes.wordpress.com/2019/10/31/if-by-rudyard-kipling-if-you-can-keep-your-head-when-all-about-you-are-losing-theirs-and-blaming-it-on-you/

and

https://craigsbooks.wordpress.com/2019/10/31/if-by-rudyard-kipling-if-you-can-keep-your-head-when-all-about-you-are-losing-theirs-and-blaming-it-on-you/

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“Information and Inspiration Distributer, Incorrigible Encourager and People-builder” *

* not bridges (thank goodness)!

Well my family and friends say I’m “safest” just writing and sharing

Still

Driven to share, uplift, encourage and (perhaps even) inspire

SHARE, INFORM, IMPACT, UPLIFT, IGNITE, ENCOURAGE and (perhaps even) INSPIRE

Share, encourage, uplift and help spread hope, love and light

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The Pinnacle of Life: “The pinnacle of life is not living in a good world, but building a good world.”

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via The Pinnacle of Life

“The pinnacle of life is not living in a good world, but building a good world.”

http://www.beyondboundarieslimits.wordpress.com

SHARE, INFORM, IMPACT, UPLIFT, IGNITE, ENCOURAGE and (perhaps even) INSPIRE

Share, encourage, uplift and help spread hope, love and light

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Real life story on how hardship & challenges can help you travel deep down inside and find your true potential

http://www.shatteredbrokendreams.wordpress.com
http://www.itsalwaysdarkestbeforethedawn.wordpress.com
and
http://www.fromdarknesstothelight.wordpress.com

Motivation & Environment

It is quite common for people to leave things undone when they are supposed to do them and elevate themselves to a higher position. Many people who leave things undone, also don’t listen to good advice and recommendations from other people.

Generally, most of us procrastinate and forfeit the internal journey to our true potential. We must all travel that internal path which will certainly lead us to discover of our true potential—if only we are serious about it.

Your true potential is your real and eternal identity that’s waiting to be motivated enough to come alive

The journey to self-discovery or true potential is one that every man and woman must take alone—by themselves—and in combination with the harmony between them and the universe which is their eternal home.

Some people who fail to find their true potential, consider themselves a failure at life’s calling because they’ve been unable…

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