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Creating Space for Transformation: Overcoming Obstacles on My Grail Quest

What are your biggest challenges?


As I continue my Grail quest—my journey of self-reinvention as I approach retirement—the biggest obstacles I face revolve around space, resources, and tools. Each of these challenges touches on my aspirations to establish a meditation school, enhance my rune carving practice, and step fully into my role as a Rune Master.

Dream: Establishing a meditation room



At present, I lack a dedicated physical space to bring these dreams to life. For meditation classes, rune carving, or even teaching students locally, I have no functional area where I can fully immerse myself in these activities. Without a proper space, it’s difficult to create an environment conducive to learning, teaching, and growth. The challenge lies in either finding a new space that meets my needs or transforming an existing area into one that can serve multiple purposes.

Beyond physical space, I face significant technological limitations. I lack high-quality equipment for content creation, such as proper microphones, cameras, and editing software. My current tools are not sufficient to produce polished content that aligns with my vision. While I could invest in better technology over time, I must also find ways to work within my current limitations. This means creating content that prioritizes authenticity over production value and learning how to make the most of the resources I already have.

A studio setup would also be ideal. The ability to adjust my background and create versatile settings for recordings or classes could enhance my reach and professional presence. Yet, this remains another area where I need to learn and grow—mastering editing tools and improving my technical proficiency are critical steps forward.

Lastly, my outdated computer poses its own set of challenges. A reliable and powerful computer would streamline my workflow, allowing me to focus more on content creation and less on navigating technical difficulties.

Each of these obstacles—space, technology, and skills—represents a stepping stone rather than a roadblock. My goal for 2025 is to tackle these challenges head-on, starting with practical solutions and incremental improvements. By addressing these foundational needs, I aim to create a sustainable path for transformation and establish a strong framework for my Grail quest.

This journey is as much about learning as it is about creating. With persistence, creativity, and a focus on progress over perfection, I believe I can turn these obstacles into opportunities for growth and, ultimately, success.

© Jurgens Pieterse. All rights reserved. 2025

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Blogging with intent

I dedicate this blog to contain the most noble thoughts possible. I will fill this blog with my contemplation of life and my meditation on higher concepts. This blog will reflect my discoveries and understanding of my true nature as I continue to grow my thinking and experience. This blog is aimed to inspire the soul and embrace beauty, harmony and coherence. Here my heart will meet my mind and those two aspects of self will combine. This is for the upliftment of my own soul, my wings for my spiritual journey.

Here I will entertain only that which is uplifting and encouraging for the self. This is a private exploration that will pioneer deep within the self. An inner communion that only the true mystic will understand. I do not concern myself here with grammar nor spelling but with the focus of intent. The deepest truths will be my diamonds – and I aim to build a treasure chest and fill it to the brim.

Love, hope, faith will combine here with rationality and clarity. This is me for myself and this is where the ego can be put to the side so that the voice of the soul, the archangel, the master within or the true magnus can emerge. This blog is an invitation to the higher self to find a free flowing channel through which the soul can be expressed.

Whatever the circumstances the soul is present within at all times. This path can only be traveled by myself, within myself. It is the path where I enter into the mystery of being. I dedicate this blog to be a training ground for the mind to lead me through emotion and action to the most significant life possible. I am to evolve my life to embed more virtue in every aspect of being. A state of mind that is positive, active, creative, purposeful and productive. This is also a commitment to live with full consciousness in every moment. My life has got purpose, meaning and I will give expression to it.

Copyright: Jurgens Pieterse 2022

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Habit building for skill development.

Today my challenge is to break through a blogging blank. Time and again I get this ideas of what I need to blog about but when I sit down to blog I actually sit with a blank. The reason for this is simply being exhaustingly busy at the moment. My world is racing forward with multiple different streams of momentum in a conjecture at this moment in time. I should not be complaining about it, it is actually one of my most fortunate times and times to really make a difference.  My work projects are ramping up and my personal life is also ramping up in the flow of fundamental change.

So today I am simply sitting down and I am writing what is coming up in my mind to simply  keep building the habit of blogging. I am still smitten by the idea of building my skills through developing healthy and uplifting habits. In a sense a focus on good habits ultimately crowds out bad habits because there is less time and attraction for bad habits to be perpetuated.

Some people see that my tracking of habits is pedantic. I track my habits in an app called “Mastery”. It is a very simple App but it is effective in tracking my daily habits and it takes about a maximum of 10 to 15 entries a day with most habits and skills already preset. I am tracking currently 5o skills accross 15 skill development areas:

  1. Dancing
  2. Divination
  3. Finances
  4. General
  5. Home
  6. Mindfulness
  7. Off Roading
  8. Professional
  9. Qi-Gong
  10. Reiki
  11. Mysticism
  12. Tai Chi
  13. TRE
  14. Writing
  15. Yoga

These areas are likely to increase. It helps me to understand how I spend my time and what skills I am developing. This approach has significantly changed my approach to how I plan and view my work. For example I am no longer just attending meetings in my workplace but I am looking at attending meetings as a skill. So now my approach is to look at how I want to improve my skill. Rather than just attending a meeting I view the meeting as an opportunity to become better at contributing to meetings. So besides just documenting that I spend 180 minutes in meetings today I look accross those meetings and I evaluate at the end of the day my skill within meetings. Did I communicate more effectively, how well did I contribute. So having logged the habits I spend my time on assist me to evaluate if I am just doing the habit as a matter of course or if I am consciously improving how I approach that habit to turn it into a skill. One person can attend a thousand meetings without any skill development but another who is conscious of that as a skill development opportunity will experience a vase differnce between the first and the last meeting.

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Blogging review – Week 11

I am maintaining now varius blogs with specific themes rather than a single blog where I cover all my activities. I have found that my readers mostly has one or two interests in my writing and not by default everything I write about. So I created blogs for all my interests. Now a person can simply be focus on following a particular blog and keep informed of only that which interest them. This blog is a more personal blog along with some random thoughts and ideas that does not always fit into a nice little neatly defined box. I must confess I have not work to hard at making beautiful and accompanying themes accross all my blogs. For me it is more important to write about my journey through life. I do not have the aim to attract hordes of followers or readers but I would like to make life easier for whomever, for whatever reason, decides to read one of my blogs.

The Zeal4Living project is about encouraging people to share there passions…the lessons that works for them and how to promote a living a life fully with enthusiasm.

So here are some recent entries I made:

  1. Yoga:
  2. Reiki
  3. Stoicism
  4. Jeep
    • 4×4 Recovery training – Sharing what I learned during a 4×4 recovery training with the Jeep club of South Africa.

 

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Being creative 

Once again I  mourn the neglect of my blog.  Once again I am making the resolve to return to daily blogging.  My blogging is not to build up a following even of it is a worthwhile goal.  I need to learn the joy of expressing my life and to process the experiences I have.  What might be mundane for others often is a source of discovery for myself.  I live with the aim of living a quality of life that is independent of circumstances and unperturbed by fate.  In my search I have not lived the best life but I did acquire the tools to live a better life.  The greatest reward is probably that of equanimity.  I face troubled waters without sacrificing my inner peace.  Blogging was always part of the discovery process,  the shifting through ideas and the formulation of what works for me.  I would have liked to follow a more scientific approach but have to be satisfied with the anecdotal conclusion.  At least it can be tested through personal experience.  If lessons learned work for self and is shared it might just be of a blessing to others as well.  Maybe rather than trying to discuss the details in a structured format an automated flow can be used to allow ideas to grow. New ideas are spawned by a free thinking mind that is allowed to go freely in unknown territory. I must just unleash the force of creativity even if it creates havoc in the world we call normal. If I truly belief that man is connected to the Creative then creativity should be allowed through me.