kstevedahl@whomi.org
208-303-0289
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I am an effective and dynamic teacher, counselor, explorer
and student of life.
No
matter what experience in this life I have desired I have been able to
create. I have experienced, accepted and enjoyed poverty, wealth, boredom,
adventure, abuse and love. I am living a life that many feel I am lucky to
have, but I know that every situation in my life is my creation from my poor
and abusive childhood, to the love and adventure I am experiencing now. I
have learned to accept and embrace every experience of life for what it is.
I know, I have had
experiences that many would consider horrible, but I have fond memories of
most of them, from being washed up on a beach during a hurricane to being
stranded in the mountains of Tennessee for a couple weeks with individuals
that reminded me of the characters
from “Deliverance”. I have to admit that I don’t have many pleasurable experiences
from my childhood, but I accept and embrace those experiences for helping
shape who I AM.
Even when I was 17, my
wife’s mother asked me what my plans were for my life, with out hesitation;
I told her I planned to retire at 30. She was polite, but I could
tell by the look in her face that she knew I was just a dreamer. But I did
retire at 31.
I cannot think of an
experience in life that I have desired that hasn’t occurred in my life. I have
been a child, husband, parent, student, farmer, engineer, machinist,
factory laborer, carpenter, entrepreneur, electrician, teacher, banker,
executive, sailor and many others, most of these experiences occurred before
I was 30 years old. I have experienced them all and I look forward to many
more adventures.
Every moment of every
day, we are given an array of opportunities to choose from that will determine our path
and define who we will BE. Most of us just let things happen to us without
consciously choosing them. Not making a choice is still a choice. Most
of us live 70 or more years just surviving, bouncing from crisis to crisis
and experiencing unhappiness. This when happiness and even joy is our human
birthright.
Most of us spend our
entire lives working to pay for a mortgage, a new car, and new clothes. We
often forget that we are here to enjoy the wonderful experiences available
to us on this Earth, no more no less. We find ourselves trying to make this
life so complicated, looking outside ourselves for happiness.
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