How many different valid interpretations can you invent?

How many different valid interpretations can you invent?

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Before you can get to anything new: more, better or different, you have to be clear of what is the old, what is already there.

So upon preparing for today’s Prisonbreak workshop (at noon EDT) I wrote an article, quite somber, quite hopeless, highlighting and analyzing why it is hopeless to do anything to get people out of their prison.

While I was writing it, one of my students offered to be a sounding board for me. Continue reading “How many different valid interpretations can you invent?”

How can a statement: ‘I cannot’ be a lie and truth as well?

How can a statement: ‘I cannot’ be a lie and truth as well?

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How can a statement: ‘I cannot’ be a lie and truth as well? And how can you tell the difference?

Most ‘I cannot’ statements are lies. They actually say ‘I will not’. I won’t even try. I didn’t care to do it.

The speaker may be you, someone else, or the little voice. Continue reading “How can a statement: ‘I cannot’ be a lie and truth as well?”

If you can’t appreciate slow… you will never get anywhere

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If you can’t appreciate slow… you will never get anywhere

If you want to go from zero to money, for example, fast, you’ll never do what it takes to make money.

But why? Why would you not do what it takes?

Almost any good why question takes you to an invisible dynamic, more often than not the invisible dynamic of the backroom dealings of an innocent looking deli.

In the front honest business is conducted, while in the back room anything goes.

You suspect it right: it is a Mafia type of business. And you are the mafioso. Continue reading “If you can’t appreciate slow… you will never get anywhere”

Self-control or Self-discipline? Which one is missing?

Self-control or Self-discipline? Which one is missing?

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It’s hard to believe that such a little thing, an innocent sounding activator would hold a huge size building of misery afloat…

Most people, myself included, would not guess correctly their linchpin.

And they would work on whatever they find most at fault.

And they would add to the weight of that huge building they built.

I bought and used those ‘original’ activators on myself, 20 years ago.

I was young-ish and arrogant. Continue reading “Self-control or Self-discipline? Which one is missing?”

What’s is it that if it were there life would be different?

What’s is it that if it were there life would be different?

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What’s missing that if it were there life would be different? Your life, not all of life…

In yesterday’s article I said everyone has a keystone. A keystone that if you remove it, the whole arch, the whole construct of your life falls. The construct of the life you lead that is not going anywhere.

So I offered to muscletest that keystone for people.

I admit that first some of the results were unexpected. But after the result of the muscletest it was like ‘of course! that is what’s been missing!’

Self-control missing has been the most unexpected result.

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Self-Control, Flexibility and emotional intelligence

Self-Control, Flexibility and emotional intelligence

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Our current worldview is as if we are backseat drivers, at best driving next to the driver.

All we can do is

  • observe
  • react
  • hope
  • suggest
  • protest
  • resist

but ultimately we feel we have nothing to say in the matter of where this life is going. That is our current view of the world.

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What makes you so angry that you can’t control yourself?

What makes you so angry that you can’t control yourself?

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angry-dogWhat pulls you out of your equilibrium? What makes you so angry that you can’t control yourself?

One of my students has fits of anger. Her life is going from anger to anger, with no chance for a break.

Now, I could be condescending, I could be unsympathetic, or helpful and compassionate. But I find it more beneficial for everyone involved, including you, if I share with you what I have done.

As a rule, I use my own life, my own experiences, as a laboratory, a test laboratory, to shed light to what happens to people when they are angry, resistant, unwilling, or any one of the frequent ways of being. Continue reading “What makes you so angry that you can’t control yourself?”

So you want to live long… let’s look at that, OK?

So you want to live long… let’s look at that, OK?

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Let’s get some clarity, shall we?

On longevity, or life expectancy…

There are all kinds of theories and hypotheses about the life expectancy of humans.

What do we know?

  • We know that some people, in spite of eating everything, in spite of smoking, drinking, they live a long life.
  • Others, in spite of every effort, they die when they die.
Most of the longevity theories are designed to fleece you.

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You Can’t Get Enough Of What You Don’t Want

You Can’t Get Enough Of What You Don’t Want

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you can't get enough of what you don't wantYou Can’t Get Enough Of What You Don’t Want

Warning: this is a very advanced article. You should probably start with the easier ones if you are here for the first time. OK?

An interesting glitch in the nature of reality is that our driving desire, the answer to our dreams, the one thing that would seem to fix our complaints doesn’t fix anything.

We could say that you can’t fix what’s not broken. and actually it would be a very astute remark.

But if that is the case, that the thing we are trying to fix isn’t broken, why does it seem that, what we most complain about not having, would fix it?
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Most things are only visible in hindsight.

Most things are only visible in hindsight.

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hindsightMost things are only visible in hindsight.

Good or bad things equally. Often when you stop…

    • My chiropractor has been unavailable Tuesday mornings for almost a month. By now I am hurting. I spent two hours last night trying to get comfortable before I could fall asleep.

I would have never know how much I needed regular adjustments without taking a long break.

Going there every week, kind of poo-pooing the individual experiences is what it’s taken me to become virtually pain free. I shared it with the chiropractor, because I thought that it is a good idea for his marketing: after all most people do not go to chiropractors, because they can’t even imagine that it can help… or they go when they are really broken.

A few years ago…
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