© Copyright 2018 Joe DiBello
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: 2019932355
ISBN: 978-0-9801431-3-3
ASIN: B07S3115MT
First Edition: January 2019
All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America.
No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without permission.
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Everything in my life has put me on a path of experiences, challenges and positive outcomes. This journey has led to my desire to find new ways to express my thoughts and provide inspiration.
I’ve had a love of words since childhood. At a very young age, I was asked to study words and their meanings. As a student, I became enamored in understanding words and how we are able to convey an idea, a thought and our feelings.
I realized early on the innate power of all words. It took many years and experiences to evolve the inherent and undiscovered opportunity to channel that power into something new.
After college, my experiences were diverse working in the business, finance and accounting worlds and with clients and peers of varying demographics. Then I suffered a serious accident, and it motivated me to start off in a new direction. I began my studies at naturopathic school, leading to a successful and rewarding career as a total health care trainer. I realized early on the innate power of all words.
My tenure as a trainer and intense interest in biomechanics evolved into creating the concept of LIFEFIT™. LIFEFIT™ was developed to nurture the body and spirit through exercise. The traditional and dated concepts of training seemed static and uninspiring to me. People were not moved by memorizing facts, coupled with rote passive answers and predictive dogmatic directions.
The dynamics of educating a person as whole-brain, long-term and experiential beings is one of pure potentiality. The power that exists is broad, deep and exploratory.
I felt compelled to continue my work with the spiritual aspect of the body, and I rediscovered my love of words. I massaged them into other unique and positive words with new meanings and they gained strength.
This process included the idea of a word, then taking each letter in that word and adding an entirely new set of words. By doing this, I was able to put a spin, or a new definition, to that word, to convey a deeper meaning for that particular word. These new extended words were coined: Companionyms™.
I started sharing my Companionyms™ and they were well received. These new constructs have helped many to give greater meaning to words, allowing the words to come to life in a unique fashion for each person reading them.
I took a word, with a negative connotation, and associated a more positive slant to them. In a world imploding with negativity, everyone needs more words of positivity and possibilities.
It’s a pleasure creating these Companionyms™ and sharing them with those of you who love the written word and all of their – fascinating potential.
“Words are powerful tools to delight, stir our imagination and inspire. Companionyms™ are an intelligent and thoughtful play on common words with inspired interpretations. Get ready to have some fun and have some aha moments!!”
I wish to convey my deep felt gratitude to CarolAnn Tutera for your patronage, ideas, guidance and perseverance. Thank you, Terri Andrade, for your brilliance in choosing pictures & artistic guidance that match the deeper meaning of the Companionyms™. And finally, thank you Dani Morgan for your guidance in the world of social media and fun.
