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Kim Possible's best friend (since pre-K), Ron
Stoppable, wants to be a reporter for the Middleton High school
newspaper. Kim agrees to be interviewed by Ron for his story.
Later, when going over what Kim said, Ron decides the interview
was not interesting enough. So he edits Kim's words so that what
he writes is different than what Kim actually said. During the
interview Kim said that, "Brick Flagg was totally hot in
last weeks game." Ron edits it so it comes out, "Brick
Flagg is HOT!". The story makes the school paper and Ron
becomes instantly popular, while Kim is put in a tough situation.
 Kim:
"All right, lets get this hard hitting interview over
with."
Ron: "So… What is it like to
be you?"
The interview goes on…
 Later
that night at Ron's house, he goes over the recording of the interview
and edits away to make the story more interesting.
Kim finds out about the story, the edited interview in the paper,
from Her fellow cheerleader and rival Bonnie.
 Bonnie:
"Kim, I think it's so great what you did."
Kim: "Which was…?"
Bonnie: "I mean to risk utter embarrassment
and total rejection like that."
Bonnie hands Kim the school paper with
the front page headline:
"CHEERLEADER KIM POSSIBLE THINKS QUARTERBACK
BRICK IS H.O.T. by Ron Stoppable"
 With
the printing of the paper, the untruth spreads like wildfire,
now everyone in Middleton High is under the misconception that
Kim likes Brick. (Including Brick!) Kim tries to clear things
up, to no avail.
Later... Kim confronts Ron...
 Kim:
"So… I think Brick Flagg is hot?!!."
Ron: "Did you see it? My name in
lights! Well in ink actually, but still!"
Kim: "RON!!! You ferociously misquoted
me!"
Later Ron prints another story, true this time,
that exposes tv stunt sensation Adrenel Lynn as a fraud who fakes
all her stunts. Adrenel Lynn loses her TV show. After revenge
Adrenel Lynn goes after Kim and Ron using Brick as bait. (Whom
she thinks Kim likes because she also read Ron's misleading article.)
 Adrenel
Lynn captures Brick, and later Ron in an attempt to lure Kim into
the trap. After some struggle, Kim frees Brick and Ron and Adrenel
Lynn is taken away by the police.
 Kim:
"Listen. I'm sorry you almost plunged to your death on
world wide television."
Brick:
"Kim. Stop. I get it now."
Kim: "You do?"
Brick: "Sure... You had that skinny
guy expose Adrenel Lynn so she'd freak out and setup this whole
'save Brick thing', just to prove you dug me. Kim, you're nice
and all but you try too hard. If you just asked me out, that's
cool, but this is too much. I'm sorry, but it's over."
Ron to Kim: "I 'can't believe it."
Kim: "I know."
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Being Grounded means not allowing your
Self to be defined
by the words or the beliefs of others.
Not only was Kim "ferociously" misquoted by Ron, Her
feelings towards Brick were now ferociously misunderstood by all at
Middleton High.
There are times when others will intentionally,
or intentionally,
misunderstand where your coming from, who you are.
They will try to paint a picture of you that is false or misleading.
In the midst of the misunderstanding of others you must continue to
be Grounded in your Self.
Learn who you are, know who you are.
As the winds of change blow around you,
keep your feet on the ground and remain Grounded; Then they will not
blow you over.
Kim doesn't allow what others think
to deter Her from the greater good, in this case, saving Brick and Ron
(who of course wrote the misleading article).
For what Kimness is all about is defending the greater good.
She demonstrates that even when others ferociously misunderstand you,
you should continue on your path and let your actions define who you
are.
Irregardless of the high waves and blowing gale around your ship,
keep a steady hand on the rudder of your Self.
Being Grounded will get you through any storm.
Humility is a key to staying Grounded
and centered.
With Humility there are no extra handles or buttons attached to your
persona for others
to grab onto to pull you around or buttons to push to get amped up
over.
Be Grounded in your Self and continue on your path,
fore there is no one that can define you or your path, but you.
Be Like Kim, Stay
Grounded Even In the Midst of the Storms of Others' Misconceptions!
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While Kim and Ron are in Paris the power goes
out and there are rolling blackouts all over Europe. They go to
a small private island where the huge power drain seems to coming
from and come across the estate of Senior Senior Sr. (SSS) and
his son Senior Senior Jr.
 Kim:
"That's a reeeeally big light bulb!"
Ron: "No wonder there is no power
in Europe."
Later when they are inside the huge estate…
 Kim:
"I guess what I'm saying is: Energy is a precious resource.
It's up to each and every one of us to do our part. So a little
ECO awareness might be in order here."
SSS: "Oh,
but I am but a simple multi-billionaire. I can't believe that
what I do has any effect on anyone."
Kim: "Yaaaa, ummmmm. Your house
sucks up so much power it's causing blackouts all over Europe.
...There's a ton of things you can do to make your house more
efficient."
And later at the Possible home…
 Tim:
"Why didn't you beat him up?!!!"
Kim: "I'm not going to beat up a
guy just because he uses too much power."
Jim: "You could have kicked him."
Kim: "I left him some pamphlets."
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Being Grounded means not overreacting to situations
or using force
that would be inappropriate for the situation.
Appropriateness is using the least amount of force to correct an imbalance.
Kim uses calmness and reason in an attempt to teach
and also redirect the behavior of Senior Senior Sr. to be energy conscious.
The course of action advocated by Kim's two young brothers would be
to resort to violence. Violence is rarely the appropriate response to
many situations and
should always be used as only the very last resort.
Instead Kim demonstrates that there are other more
peaceful ways to redirect
inappropriate and harmful behavior.
Kimness is using the least amount of force to redirect bad behavior
to a more positive direction and shows that you are
Grounded in your Self and Confident in your abilities without the need
to overreact.
Be Like Kim and When Needed;
Use the Least Amount of Force to Redirect Bad Behavior!
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 Drakken
is finally getting cable tv. But while the cable guy is doing
the installation, he accidentally connects the pan-dimensional
vortex inducer which Drakken had earlier stolen, to the cable
box. When Shego fires the laser cannon at Kim and Ron, the signal
goes through the tv and rips a hole in the time space continuum
and everyone is sent off to different dimensions.
 Kim:
"Woa!"
Commander Kane: "Lost ensign?"
Kim: "Ummm, No... Yes. Uhhh, not
sure really."
Commander Kane: "You must be a transfer
from the Zigalon sector."
Kim: "Um, Ok, playing along."
 Commander
Kane: "Well ensign, your aboard the XMS Revenge. A punisher
class cruiser. Our mission is to brazenly go wherever we want."
Kim: "I'm in…space?!"
Commander Kane: "Battle Stations!"
Kim: "Battle Stations?"
 Kim:
"Wade… He'll know what's going on."
Wade: "Kim. Come In Kim!"
Kim: "Talk to me Wade."
Wade: "Good thing we were linked
when that vortex opened. It gave me a signal to trace."
Kim: "You'll never guess where I
am!"
Wade: "Trapped in a tv show."
Kim: "No. I'm in outer…Wait…
This is a tv show?"
Wade: "Kim! That was Commander Kane.
You're on an episode of Space Passage! Can you get me an autograph?"
Kim: "SCARING ME!"
Kim continually gets pulled into different
tv shows, one after the other.
Kim goes through another dimensional vortex and
finds herself on 'The Real North Pole' reality show. She gets
voted out of the igloo and is told she has to turn in her fish.
Being pulled through the vortex again, Kim now finds herself with
Shego in a Medical drama show. Back through the vortex, Kim finds
herself on 'Evil Eye For The Bad Guy' where Dr. Drakken is getting
a makeover. Later, after Drakken serves lunch, he tries to use
his dimensional compiler to get back to reality, but uses the
wrong frequency and causes a new problem. Ron orders Nacos,
grande size, in a Bueno Nacho commercial that gets pulled into
their reality. Then Kim finds herself in a disco being attacked
by some girl in a wig. Next a tv stunt reality show comes to Kim
and Shego. And finally in another show, Kim saves Ron from a monkey
stampede on the Simian Channel.
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A vacation or a road trip to a new place is exciting.
New things to see, new things to do and to experience.
What makes it exciting is that new places, ideas and even new people
give us the opportunity to grow and learn.
When you are Grounded and centered you have no fear of new experiences
and can
take the opportunity to learn new things and expand your paradigm.
The world as you see it, as you understand and interpret it,
as you would describe it, is your reality, your paradigm.
We interpret the world around us based on what we know, understand and
can categorize. Those experiences not within the domain of our paradigm
and
can not be defined by us, are usually filtered out.
Back in the days of tall ships a captain took his ship
to the remote islands of the South Pacific. When they landed on the
shore, with their rowboats, the islanders who came to greet them asked
how they came to cross the large body of water surrounding their island
in such little boats. The captain pointed out the three masted ship
a couple of hundred yards off shore. The islanders could not see the
ship just off shore. The captain again and again pointed to his ship,
but the islanders just couldn't see it. The ship was so far removed
from the normal frame of reference, the paradigm, of the islanders that
they simply could not see it.
What we do not understand, that which does not fit
our paradigm we filter out.
It can be ideas or even objects as demonstrated above.
To incorporate new ideas into our reality,
our understanding requires what is usually referred to as a "paradigm
shift".
On a personal level, a paradigm shift allows us to integrate new
information that does not fit our old understanding.
Kim has found herself in situations where she was not
dealing with just new ideas and concepts, but was moved into totally
new realities.
Being able to interact successfully with entirely new realities and
not losing one's Self in the new paradigm requires that one be successfully
Grounded in one's Self.
Like a rudder of a boat in swirling waters, that keeps
the boat facing in the desired direction, being Grounded keeps you moving
in your desired direction
when things around you are changing.
When Kim finds Herself in a new reality,
even though She has no immediate frame of reference;
She is able to deal with and handle the new challenges and opportunities
put before Her.
Kim's Kung Fu training has given Her the Grounding and mental flexibility
to adapt to and overcome any new situation no matter how far removed
from Her existing paradigm.
No matter how great the change, new school, new house,
new friends;
being Grounded enables you to use the tools you have developed
to take advantage of new opportunities and exciting new paradigms.
Walk with Kim into the Opportunities
of New Challenges and New Paradigms.
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Lord Monkey Fist has escaped from prison and
has been spotted in China. Kim and Ron head to China and go to
the Hidden City Museum.
Monkey Fist breaks in to the museum but Kim and
Ron suprise him after he grabs the
Amulet of the Monkey King
Kim battles Monkey Fist in an effort to retrieve
the amulet.
Monkey Fist drops the amulet and it falls around
Kim's neck.
 Monkey
Fist : "The amulet!"
Kim: "Oh, was this whats your after?"
Monkey Fist: "I was to be the Monkey
King and so I shall be."
Kim gets zapped by a mysterious beam of light
while wearing the amulet.
 Ron:
"KP... You OK?"
Kim: "Ya. Hey
what happened. Ohh man."
Ron: "Kim,
that is sick and wrong!"
Later; Now, because of the amulet, not only does Kim have a monkey
tatoo on Her neck, Her eyebrows seem to have grown together.
 Kim:
"... This can't be happening."
Ron: "He KP,
you forgot your... ahh fuzzy catepiller on your face!"
Kim: "Please.
It's bad enough without you freeking out."
Ron: "No No,
the uni-brow works on you.
Kim: "Right.
Guys just love the unibrow."
 Wade:
"Kim. I need to talk to you."
Kim: "Good.
'Cause we've got an ugly sitch here Wade."
Wade: "How
Ugly?"
Kim: "This
ugly."
Wade: "Uh oh."
Kim: "Uh oh
what?"
Wade: "Well.
I checked out that monkey amulet. Turns out that Monkey Fist was
on to something. Legend holds that whoever wears the amulet becomes
the Monkey King."
Ron: "Love
the king part. Not so hot on the monkey."
Wade: "Actually,
it's more monkey than king."
Kim: "Great,
I'm gonna be a monkey."
More and more of Kim turns into a monkey as the
spell continues to work.
Later, Kim is captured by Monkey Fist.
 Monkey
Fist : "...The Monkey King Amulet has given you much."
 Kim:
"Like a tail."
Later, Kim uses Her new tail to grab the keys and make Her
escape.
 
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Life may sometime throw you a curve ball.
You can get an injury, you can loose something that you always counted
on,
you can move to a new place where all that was familiar is gone.
No matter what changes occur in your life,
if you remain Grounded and Centered in your Self,
you will be able to handle your Self with Confidence.
Center on your aspirations, your dreams and the goals
you have set for your Self.
These will provide the perspective on who you are and
keep you Grounded.
Even though Kim's life has been turned up side down
by turning into a monkey,
She still Focuses on the tasks at hand.
Getting free and getting turned back into a human.
Sometimes life can be one step forward and two steps
back.
(Though usually not back on the evolutionary scale!)
Life is an ever changing dynamic.
Like the ever changing and churning surface of the ocean,
sometimes the changes in life are small and sometimes they are big.
If you find that you have fallen in a hole that seems
too deep to climb from,
Center your Self, remain Grounded.
Don't "freak out".
Look around you. What you see is not you.
You have not changed just because your in a hole.
You are not your surroundings. You are still you.
Remain Grounded, asses your options, and choose which direction is best
for you.
Take the time to Center your Self and,
Always, Always Always keep moving forward.
Even when you think you have been dealt a setback,
your natural Kimness will give you the ability to
move forward through life with enthusiasm.
Center on Your Natural Kimness,
Keep Moving Forward!
