GRAND VITALITY:

A Personal Quest for Zest  

in Body, Soul, and Wallet

November 2, 2017

Welcome to GRAND VITALITY. Thanks for coming aboard and sharing my journey!

I think you’ve come to a really good place, because out of all the gazillions of websites in the world I want this one to be…undeniably different.

Hi, I’m Greg Austin, and I hope you’ll share my passion for a unique place on the web that you love to visit because it does for you what no other quite does. 

It offers you help, specifically, toward gaining…

GRAND VITALITY

“What, exactly, is that?” you ask.

Well, it’s all about the interaction and unity of three things: your body, your soul, and your wallet. Pretty important stuff, wouldn’t you say? And what if ZEST in each of them helped ALL of them?!!!

That’s my quest, so I offer GRAND VITALITY as the shared gift of a deep-thinking but very practical Creative Lone Wolf personality. I’m unrelentingly interested in true zest for body, soul, and wallet — all three at the same time!

CAVEAT: I chose this blog title/theme before I ever learned that there was a canned animal food with the same name.

Not changing it!

Let me self-reveal a little more.  I’m a former theology/philosophy/literature student (B.A. and Masters) as well as a sports lover who was a Youth Minister for years. Then I turned small business owner for quite a while (landscape maintenance then direct sales with jewelry…go figure!).

Finally, at age 61 and approaching my golden years, I’m a blogger/novelist/copywriter. And I believe I can honestly say…

…that all my life has led to this, the burning quest for GRAND VITALITY.

Sincere confession: Formerly, I stumbled badly in life. Totally lost my way. Suffered major setbacks — for lack of grand vitality. For lack of empowering truth to live well. And I don’t want that kind of defeat in my life any longer. Even having to endure mediocrity or the same-ol’ same-ol’ any further just doesn’t appeal.

If life’s gonna be bland and boring, let alone a losing proposition, just go ahead and shoot me.

In fact, as a quintessential Baby Boomer, I’m secretly a happiness-and-fulfillment-seeker deluxe, almost to a fault.

Though I was never introduced to drugs, and though I’m a little chicken of super-fast cars and of falling off a roaring motorcycle, and though I get a little queasy at the thought of skydiving or riding on wild rollercoasters…

Still, I love excitement. I love the thrill of being totally alive (like I felt in the early 70’s on the athletic field as a high school football and baseball player!). I love what I call “soul energy”…

…that thrilling exaltation that charges up within us at events like great concerts or fun Saturday night dances or college football games or even evangelistic crusades that rock our world with transcendent spiritual truth among the hum-drum of an otherwise mundane existence on this star-crossed planet.

I don’t know about you, but I’m striving for a life that is unique and powerful and…shot through with spine-tingling Yyyyeessssss victories! If I have in the past endured some abject and even poisonous failures (more than once inflicting my transgressions on others), that is NO indication of what I want to be about in the future.

I passionately, even desperately, want the rest of my days to be marked by…

GRAND VITALITY!

“So,” you say, “tell me a little more about this excitingly unique purpose and passion with your website that’s somehow different from everyone else’s?”

And you ask: “How can you address body, soul, and wallet all at the same time?”

My Answer: The mind-buzzing idea for my website theme and title was partly inspired by famous copywriter Bob Bly, who taught me through his training literature that you need an idea for your first website that is vitally central to all you are and do. All you value wholeheartedly.

What a simple but fundamental discovery! Thanks, Bob!

But the bigger idea for GRAND VITALITY came from this:

Given that I love excitement…

And given that earlier in life I played a whole lot of baseball…

And given that, perhaps like you, I still love what we call America’s pastime…

  Go, Colorado Rockies!

I remembered that in baseball the biggest, baddest hit is a Grand Slam. It just doesn’t get any better than that. The roar of the crowd at a homer with the bases loaded proves it.

Okay, I thought about those two things...

First, a website that I can connect with everything I greatly value and want to write about or do a video for. Vitality!

Second, the most thrilling part of baseball, a Grand Slam.

Put the two together and…Voila!

There it was, my theme:                                                

“In life, the best way to live is to have…

GRAND VITALITY!” 

GV can be defined as an extraordinary zest of life based on the synergy of three kinds of health feeding off one another and creating something amazing for you:

Body health

Soul health

Wallet health

…working together!

So here’s my GRAND VITALITY philosophy: You can’t be totally full of life if there’s weakness in either your body, or in your soul, or in your finances.

They’re all necessary and they all affect each other.

For example, you might work out all the time and eat a fantastically healthy diet. But if at the end of each month you’re broke and not sure how you’re going to pay all your future bills and have little hope (given our tenuous global economy) of a truly secure financial future, the inevitable anxiety/fear of that situation literally wars against the total vitality of your being. You have no shot at enjoying GRAND VITALITY.

Kapiche?

But what if you’re rich ALREADY and have more money than you and your children and your grandchildren will ever be able to spend…but you have poor physical health and are on your way to an early grave? How smart or profitable is that?

Entiende usted?

Most importantly of all, if you have a wonderful body that’s full of health and vitality, AND you’re wallet’s fat, but you have no clue about how to be truly rich and happy in your soul, what have you gained? You’re lost in regards to your life’s potential, its real purpose in this brief life on earth we all share.

With a skinny or sickly or dying soul,

all your physical impressiveness and wealth

do you no real good!!!

GRAND VITALITY to the rescue!

Thus, my mission to find for myself — and help each of us attain — all three types of vitality so that we can all enjoy them working in fantastic synergy!

Here’s my commitment. I’ll carefully research for my bold articles in the months and years ahead. I’ll seek connections to the ultimate in idea resources and helpful services/products.

Result: All of us discovering a life much closer to the way it was originally meant to be lived. 

We all know that history’s tale is full of both wonderful delights and crushing troubles for people just like you and me. There have been diseases and plagues, slavery and wars, religious ignorance and oppression, economic failures and governmental theft, and many other sadnesses…along with the wonderful joys of our daily work and loving relationships and worshipful moments among family and friends.

But today in the 21st century, our circumstances have become…

darkly and deceptively vexatious!

It’s true for too many, as Henry David Thoreau said,  

Men (and women) are living lives of quiet desperation.

• Modern air pollution has come silently creeping into our homes and workplaces to penetrate our lungs and inflict debilitating allergies, asthma, and COPD, as well as listlessness/headaches/sickliness.
• Modern industrial food supplies have come wreaking chemical havoc in our bodies. It is well documented that Americans are overall the fattest, sickest people on the planet because of our pathetic diets and contaminated tap water.
• Modern marriage/family breakdowns and a lack of genuine human community with others has left us lonely and perhaps despairing. We’re “connected” electronically but feel alone.
• Modern economic realities have left us too often dead broke at the end of each month and anxious about the future. We all know this country could go bankrupt and fall completely into the hands of the global elite who want us all to submit to a kind of Marxist socialism.
• Modern uncertainty about ultimate eternal reality has left our souls confused, directionless, not knowing what to believe before we die or how to live before we quickly pass on from this brief life we’ve been given.

Let me assure you, my aspiration for GRAND VITALITY doesn’t mean I personally have all the answers already. Far from it.

As I said, I’m on a quest for those answers and I’m certainly NOT going to accept anything that is suspect or pie-in-the-sky.

Nope. I just want insights that really work. I’m looking for wisdom accurately attuned to our modern realities and struggles.

In a word, I want empowerment. And I want it to be real and lasting.

This calls for the very best of insights to help our bodies, our souls, and our wallets — with interwoven strategies that provide a transformative synergy for ENERGY we surely wish we already possessed!

As you launch with me, then, in pursuit of GRAND VITALITY, no  matter your current world view — whether totally secular or based on belief in a Supreme Being — I think you’ll agree with what I said earlier:

• Whatever affects you physically affects your total sense of well-being.
• Whatever affects you spiritually or emotionally (your very soul!) affects you completely as well.
• Last but not least, whatever affects your financial well-being also surely affects everything you are and do!

And now… you can come to a website where steady, ongoing research and comparisons of top resources in all three of these areas can help supply you with that most awesome of personal commodities…

GRAND VITALITY!

SERIOUSLY interested?…Yes?…I thought so!

So thanks again for joining me on the journey. Let’s prosper together in the days and months and years ahead as we seek out what we need for this most essential of prized possessions, GRAND VITALITY!!

Please Note: After joyously beginning this blog in late 2017, I soon became too ill with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome to continue. After learning more about proper treatment and rest, I have resumed again in April, 2020. That’s where I start my new beginning!