When you learn a new word, it opens the world for you

When you learn a new word, it opens the world for you
Turning things around… creating a turning point

I have a potential turning point for how I teach and what I teach… I saw it yesterday.

It’s a potential turning point, because I am not sure I can do it. After all I would be teaching something I did not learn myself. So I don’t even know if it is teachable. But at least now I understand what is going on. Why the results are sporadic.

I’ll explain later, after the story… but let’s start with a story, OK? Continue reading “When you learn a new word, it opens the world for you”

The worst of the 7 Habits of Highly Ineffective People

The worst of the 7 Habits of Highly Ineffective People

I am on a quest to catch up to the culture

I came to this country in 1985. In all of my 38 years here I watched TV on a TV set maybe 10 hours total… Probably less.

So I haven’t been part of the ‘culture’. And being part of the culture is essential if you want to be in people’s world.

Everything is culturally defined. Love, sadness, tragedy, compassion, etc. Culturally defined. Continue reading “The worst of the 7 Habits of Highly Ineffective People”

What brings something out of the invisible?

What brings something out of the invisible?

What brings something out of the invisible? So you can see it. So you can stop it if it doesn’t work. Or have more of it if it does…

I have started to watch movies again, on Amazon Prime. Not Netflix? Not Netflix.

Anyway, yesterday I watched two Jesse Stone movies with Tom Selleck. Continue reading “What brings something out of the invisible?”

What you call things matter more than you know

What you call things matter more than you know

Just from this morning’s ‘crop’…

I woke up with the alarm. At 4 am… Then I fell back to sleep. I said: ‘oops, it is late!‘ and the whole world was now witness to me being a slacker whose word you can’t count on.

I made myself a cup of Tetley’s British Blend tea.

I am testing not using sweetener. My body is covered in hives…

Continue reading “What you call things matter more than you know”

We all have multiple personalities… One is delusional

We all have multiple personalities… One is delusional
We are in the midst of the Drink your food challenge.

I didn’t know what to expect. I didn’t know what will happen… what spiritual, what intellectual, what personality issues will be driven up.

Here is what I am getting: people find themselves in the GAP. The gap between who they think they are, and who they are proven to be by the challenge.

This article from 2018 will shed a lot of light on what’s going on. Continue reading “We all have multiple personalities… One is delusional”

What is different between the driver and a passenger?

What is different between the driver and a passenger?

What is different between the driver and a passenger of a car?

Now, you could say that their actions, but you would be both right and wrong…

The real difference is between the language they use.

The driver calls the shot… While the passenger goes wherever the driver takes them… and at best they can grovel.

I’d like to, I want to, I need to, I should. I will. Continue reading “What is different between the driver and a passenger?”

Becoming. A change of state through increase…

Becoming. A change of state through increase…

Water becomes vapor. A species becomes sentient. A person becomes a Man.

But the ‘gurus’ say: you are already god. You are already perfect.

Why? To stop you from becoming. To stop you from putting in the effort to actually become someone you can love.

The language is to blame… And, of course, the crab bucket. Continue reading “Becoming. A change of state through increase…”

People, language, conspire to keep you off the path

People, language, conspire to keep you off the path

I am re-reading the book Chop Wood Carry Water.

It’s a 3-hour read at my slow reading speed.

It is a veritable storehouse of all ‘mind bugs’…

You can use the book as a coach… by the way.

So let’s say you are bummed out. Discouraged. Down on yourself. ‘I am never going to succeed!’ says the little voice. Continue reading “People, language, conspire to keep you off the path”

Success doesn’t teach anything. Failure does…

Success doesn’t teach anything. Failure does…

Success doesn’t teach anything. Failure does…

But only if learning is welcome. Failure is deemed both wrong and unnecessary by today’s man.

Let’s look first what is the meaning of success and what is the meaning of failure, so we have the same picture of what we are looking at. Continue reading “Success doesn’t teach anything. Failure does…”

Why is winning harder than losing? Don’t say ‘of course!’

Why is winning harder than losing? Don’t say ‘of course!’
Why is winning harder that losing? And don’t say ‘of course!’

Even when I don’t think there is anything further to see… I find out: there is.

I have said before, but I don’t think anyone heard it.

The most EFFECTIVE way to deal with reality is dealing with things how they are and how they aren’t.

People, things, events.

Easier said than done. Continue reading “Why is winning harder than losing? Don’t say ‘of course!’”