Become all you can become with Sophie
He that won't be counselled, can't be helped
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I sleep poorly the night before every Playground session. It takes me hours to fall asleep, and I have trouble-filled dreams.
So when I got up this past Saturday, it was freezing cold, in the single digits outside… single digits in Fahrenheit is very cold… double digits in the minus in Celsius.
So I pondered what I had to look forward that day. Continue reading “Define what is success for you, to become successful”
…poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau said.
Continue reading “People don’t care how much you know… really”
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So you want to be important… liked… relevant… belonging.
This issue is coming to the forefront… This expectation of be made important, liked, relevant, belonging by other people, or by some job, of by association, or by some success.
Or to be liked by behaving in a certain way, be liked by other people because of something you do or don’t do.
It is an aspect of being an effect… not a cause. Little explored by anyone.
Continue reading “So you want to be important… liked… relevant… belonging.”
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I participated with Landmark Education in all kinds of positions, participant, coach, trainee, leader. After 26 years I quit.
I quit for the same reason I quit Emotions Anonymous, and ACOA, Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families.
I quit because they were stuck. Stuck in the ordinary world. Stuck in the ordinary mindset. The participants, the leaders… they never moved out of the deep misery… so they were going back, year after year, “sharing” the same stories with the exact same words, with the exact same emotions they shared the year before. Continue reading “When you go beyond the horizontal plane…”
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Sometimes people get an idea of activating a capacity that is so alien to their culture, it takes a good 5-10 minutes for the history channel, the ancestors backwards, to build.
No one in your ancestry possessed that capacity… so it has been non-existent for you even culturally.
It is so unfamiliar that ego doesn’t even know to protest. It is like a way of being that is totally unfamiliar… you can’t see other than special people, like kung fu fighters, or shaolin monks to demonstrate it. And, of course, Aikido. I have a book, Aikido in everyday life… illustrates how this principle looks in real life… brilliant.
Flexibility is also the capacity to be able to keep your balance even though the world is pushing you hither and thither… Continue reading “More about flexibility… What is it? How you get it?”
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Your worldview is hidden from your view, hidden from your awareness.
And it is, of course. Worldview is how the world IS for you, not how it seems.
If you have a fixed worldview, than all the King’s Horses and All the King’s Men Could Not Put a new worldview for you… unless you are willing to become flexible.
Cognitive flexibility has been more broadly described as the ability to adjust one’s thinking from old situations to new situations as well as the ability to overcome responses or thinking that have become habitual and adapt to new situations. Continue reading “Are you flexible?”
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Should I be funny? Should I be kind to get you to do what is in your self interest?
As a ‘writer’ I struggle with one thing: It is hard to be funny in writing. For me.
I can be funny in conversation, but writing is different: I imagine the echo. And imaginary echo doesn’t echo, does it? lol Continue reading “Do you know what is your self-interest? In action?”
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“I have always felt if you know what you’re going to do in advance, then you won’t do it,” he says in the video, promoting his (Frank Gehry) tutorial series for the Masterclass online learning provider. “Your creativity starts with whether you’re curious or not.”
It says two things…
1. You won’t do it, if you built an imaginary future with all its glory in your mind, then your desire number is too high, while your ambition number is too low. Continue reading “What you dream about you can bring about or not”
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Most of us have two modes when we think about things:
I remember when it was like that for me. And, to be quite hones, it is still work to dislodge myself and think of the in-between.
Without working TOWARDS something, it is natural to fall into the same old, same old, or good enough is good enough. The rut.
I only have to observe myself for a day to see how fast it sets in, and how automatic that is. Continue reading “Most of us have two modes when we think about things:”
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I live on the edge of a forest in the middle of a city. There is wildlife, deer, skunk, raccoon, millions of squirrels, lots of birds, including birds of prey.
So, of course, we have field mice. No, let me correct that: I have field mice.
So I have a stash of 12 mice cubes, they have proven themselves over and over again in the 16 years that I have lived here.
And I have peanut butter for bait… Continue reading “This mouse KNOWS what I am going to do…”
