Become all you can become with Sophie
He that won't be counselled, can't be helped
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You get nothing of what you really want…
Everyone tells you to be productive. Get up at the crack of dawn or before, and work work work.
And many do, getting a diabetes diagnosis, or dropping dead, or having to introduce themselves to their kids at their graduation or they would not recognize them.
But maybe that is not the purpose of life. Continue reading “What’s missing that in spite of all you do, you get nothing?”
Are humans even interested in transcendence?Transcendence is growing through and beyond. And whether anyone says it or not, you always go beyond a stage when it is considered by you handled.
I am reading a book by the same author who wrote about the predatory genes in another book of his.
He is a novelist, a fiction writer, so anyone who takes everything he says at face value is like the people who listen to Alex Jones and take it like the truth… I even know one personally… ugh.
Anyway, I am reading this new book that just came out a few days ago. After a boring 110 page preamble he gets to the interesting stuff… about sentient life in the cosmos… Continue reading “Does Alex Jones, like children, believe his own B.S.?”
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Let’s see if you have a sense of humor? If you don’t… stop here and go darken someone’s day
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. ~ Woody Allen
When I first came to the United States in late September of 1985, my trip was paid by a lawyer somewhere on the Palisades of NJ. I asked his secretary to type up my resume. She did it, on a computer.
There was something I wanted to change, so I asked for permission to go to the office and change that thing over the weekend. Continue reading “How I learn and other stories you can learn from”
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One person. Yup. One person. If you can’t make a difference for one person, then you seriously need to overhaul your entire operation, meaning your whole life… and start observing what it is about you and how you do it that leaves people … hm… (note: read the PS about this… please.)
So let’s look at what it means to make a difference, shall we?
I don’t know it exactly either, so we’ll look together. Willing?
OK, it came from Werner Erhard. Continue reading “If you want to make a difference you have to start with…”
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Let me tell you a little story. A little story that delighted me more than a whole New York cheesecake and left me wanting more. And left me wanting to share it.
The story goes like this:
There was once a man, we could call him Harold, but you would think I am still talking about Harold from Harold and Maude… So let’s call him Matthew.
Matthew was old and rich. He lived alone in his beautiful house in a similarly beautiful and rich neighborhood. Continue reading “Grow something… maybe grow some balls? Anyone?”
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It is becoming clear that the parts that maybe are the most important ones (to you) in my articles are too new for you to hear.
I didn’t realize that I need to bring special attention to them, explain them, or they will be lost, maybe forever. And give me an unwelcome experience: frustration.
This is a great opportunity to bring some clarity to the use of two words that you, mistakenly, have been taking ans synonyms… meaning the same. They don’t.
The two words are disappointment and frustration.
They feel similar, yes, but the underlying cause is different. Continue reading “Is it disappointed or frustrated? What is the difference?”
In a world where people resist learning anything, the ones that don’t resist are winners. Maybe even THE winners.
One of the things I notice is that when I sign up to a program, or buy a book, an equipment, I am excited. Until I get what I paid for. Then I am scared. Hesitant. Now comes the moment of truth.
It’s the 7 in my numerology, I think, trust. Trust in myself, mainly.
I don’t think the issue is limited to 7… Everyone has their own ‘reason’ to not pursue what they thought they wanted. 5’s, for example may have a weak ability to hold a vision of the future…
Whatever is standing between you consistently pursuing what you said you wanted is the most important thing, maybe even the one-thing that you should never forget to attend to. Continue reading “Why no one gets ‘choice’ in the Landmark Forum”
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There is a misunderstanding of how things work that clips a lot of people’s wings.
It comes from the ‘goalsetting culture’ that has proven itself a misery-maker. Being motivated with what you want…
You commit to a result.
But results are outside of your power. They will either happen if you do the right steps or they won’t.
Life is a lot more complicated than boiling water. You can promise that water will boil if you manage to give it enough heat that it reaches its boiling point. But if your promises are in that sphere of predictable, then you are not going to amount to much: you probably live a life of quiet desperation.
Anything you pursue is running from you.
The reason that of all the people on Earth the people of the United States are the most wretched is because of their pursuit of happiness. Continue reading “A misunderstanding that clips a lot of people’s wings”
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What are the questions that awaken and pull things to yourself to become cause? To get access to your personal power?
Agreement 1: Be Impeccable With Your Word: question: was I impeccable with my word?
Agreement 2: Don’t Take Anything Personally: question: did I take something personally?
Agreement 3: Don’t Make Assumptions. question: did I make an assumption?
Agreement 4: Always Do Your Best. question: did I do my best?
more questions to ask:
Until you get responsibility good and going, nothing else can change in your life. Continue reading “Questions that turn on your power, your personal power”
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Fix Broken Sh!t First; I got an email with that title this morning, so I am using it. This is the perfect title for this article…
You see, human nature is weird… It tries to fix everything by throwing stuff at it making it more broken. Add stuff…
When you have indigestion, or when you are sick, or when you are tired… You want to put food on it. You buy stuff… You throw sex on it. Coffee on it. Complaining on it. The kitchen sink on it.
I have noticed that anything anyone says about you or your stuff triggers a self-protection mechanism, as if you have anything about you that is not perfect means you are wrong, or don’t deserve to live, or maybe deserve to die.
Totally out of proportion reaction to the size of the threat. Continue reading “Fix Broken Sh!t First… AKA: remove what is broken”
