Become all you can become with Sophie
He that won't be counselled, can't be helped
I am reading an amazing AND disturbing book. Again.
I have been heeding the words of my teacher, Robert S. Hartman, that to fight evil, you need to know evil, intimately. Be able to recognize it everywhere… in yourself and in others.
Like yourself, I prefer to look at pretty, beautiful, harmonious, happy… But if you want to tell the truth, there is not much of that, at least where humans are involved. Continue reading “Why does the future of the planet look the way it looks?”
You and I spend most of our lives trying to fix something that never happened. Not only that it wasn’t wrong… but it never actually happened. Something that was never factually true. Even though you keep telling the story as if it were true. And you don’t know that you are lying.
Some people call these demons… even though there are no demons… but nevertheless, using the expression: fighting your demons is very accurate, if you don’t believe that demons are entities. There are no entities in the visible or invisible Universe.
And yet we are fighting… I call it an itch… a compulsion… something that makes you weird.
The ITCH that tells you that unless you get what you say you didn’t get in that story, at whatever price, even extorting it, you cannot be OK. Continue reading “Fighting your demons, expecting to win one day”
Everyone and their brother say you can’t change the past… But what if you can?
One of my favorite movies is ‘Back to the Future 3’
Somehow, by magic, our hero, whose name I forgot. Michael J. Fox plays the character. Yeah, I remember now. His name was Marty. Marty gets that when he hears someone call him a coward, a yellow belly, it makes him do things that destroy his life. So he makes a different choice, in that past, and changes his future… dramatically.
Every time I watch it, my eyes tear up… I find myself weeping. I am sooo proud of him.
Continue reading “One of the sticky issues in life is the past”
I am playing Freecell. I do that to learn pattern recognition, I do that to track how high or how low my intelligence is, given what I eat, or what I do. I do that because while I am doing that, inspiration strikes, more often than not.
So I don’t play Freecell to win, don’t play Freecell to entertain myself… not even close. It is not like youtube, or some other stupid social media, that wants to hijack your attention: in fact it gives my attention back to me…
So as I am sitting here, I remember a British TV show (The Paradise) about a department store and a young girl who becomes an entrepreneur. It was excellent, in spite of the soap opera elements… and then suddenly it ended before its time.
I guess any ‘soap opera’ show that is useful is not popular? Continue reading “The beingness of an entrepreneur… some Netflix examples”
I wrote this article five years ago. But it goes well with my next… so I am republishing it… so they can be read together.
Last night I finished watching the British series, ‘The Paradise’ about the first department store in London.
I learned something I probably would not have been able to learn anywhere else.
The series is mainly about two characters, the owner of the store who created it. He came from nothing, and is a true entrepreneur.
The other character is a small-town girl, who works for him, and discovers herself as an entrepreneur. Discovers is the key word.
Continue reading “The bliss of being who you are, the bliss of being your Self”
I did an unintended experiment on Monday and Tuesday.
I ate the equivalent of two three cookies in carbs and I crashed for two days… My intelligence, my balance, my mood, my muscle strength all gone, I walked around in my apartment like a 90 year old, holding onto furniture, walls, door jambs.
Wobbly, heavy, dumb. I went through hypoglycemia with headache and shaking hands…
Now, why am I sharing this?
Because my pancreas was in good shape, I have come out of it, after two days, fatter and OK. Packed on three pounds, but I am almost OK. My pancreas measures 10%…
Continue reading “Keto, your pancreas, your thyroid… no energy, no focus…”
Many people want to run their own business, they want to be entrepreneurs.
But when you observe their behavior, everything points to the fact that that is a pretense.
Why would anyone pretend that? Ultimately that is an expensive pretense… like the boy’s you cried ‘wolf’. Ultimately people stop believing you, and only people who are engaged in the same pretense will.
Simple: you observe yourself, jot down how much time and attention you give to each thing that occupies your day, and do it for a week.
What you want will stand out: that is what you give the most time to. Continue reading “You don’t want what you say you want… It’s inauthenticity that’s speaking”
Beware the barrenness of a busy life. ~ Socrates
There is never a time when new distraction will not show up; we sow them, so several will grow from the same seed. ~ Seneca the elder
You better train yourself to manage your attention. Focus determines the quality of your life
These above are all quotes… We read them we nod, or not, and we continue not having a clue why our life sucks.
Your experience is what you agree to attend to. Not necessarily with words: you agree with your actions, what you pay attention to. Continue reading “Authenticity: Beware the barrenness of a busy life… ~Socrates”
Authenticity examined through movies…
When I watch TV series on Netflix or Amazon, or read thrillers, I working… wouldn’t you like to get a job like that? lol.
When I was in high school, I joined every group, every course, went to every seminar that spoke about movie making, the art.
When I had my high school final exams, I got lucky and I pulled question #40 on movie making… I so fascinated the three teachers that were the “jury” that I upset the exam schedule…
The trick (what I didn’t know} was that I watched the movies on all levels, auditory, visual, and kinesthetic. I felt the feelings of the characters, while I saw them and while I heard them.
360 degree experience.
My experience is that I can go to the movies with anyone, and come out and find out that we saw two different movies… Very weird.
Anyway… One of the phenomenon I can see, hear and feel, that most people can’t, is authenticity.
Continue reading “Authenticity… your power belongs to you”
Your attention span is a reliable indicator of how well you’ll do in life
If you are not where you want to be, one possible way you can improve your lot is by increasing your attention span.
Most people have a lot of aspects to their behavior and thinking that are at odds with being happy, successful, joyful people.
A whole lot. I measure most in my Starting Point Measurements.
So the natural inclination is to declare it hopeless. And the second natural inclination is to want to handle it all at once.
This is when people spend a lot of money in one sitting… and then don’t know what to do with them.
And some people, the rare specimen, who asks: how should I start? What shall I do first? Continue reading “Increase this number and all other numbers will rise with it”
