As I am getting closer and closer to see clearly what it is about my life that makes it enjoyable and what it is that makes it hell, I am getting more and more ready to train people to do what I do: turn their lives around on a dime… meaning fast and without much fuss.
The ultimate question I ask myself when my life seems to turn into crap: What is my life about?
Now, when someone asks YOU that question, you have no idea what to answer, so let me give you a few examples:
I thought I have written all I wanted to write today, but man plans, god laughs.
It’s Monday, time to read the Monday Morning Memo by Roy Williams… the highlight, often, of the week ahead.
Today especially, because what he is doing is echoing my own teaching: The main principle of Life is the Anna Karenina Principle: the principle of the strait and narrow…
Attention: I am trying to teach you how to see beyond the obvious, beyond the surface…
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I just had a client, he just left. During the conversation I kept on returning to his relationship with his wife. At some point I was clear what course of action he needs to take for his health.
I started to tell him… As usual, I was listening for the echo. The echo tells me whether I am getting through to him or not. I heard no echo.
Although he came to me, although he tried to, he didn’t trust what I had to say to the degree that he could even contemplate following the instructions.
You live in a world of your own design, of your own building. Everything you see, everything you do come from that world. It is a closed world, no words, no images alter its boundaries, alter its rules, its principles.
What Is The Difference Between A Caterpillar Becoming A Butterfly And A Human Becoming A Human Being?
If the caterpillar/butterfly analogy were a good one, every human would be on their way to become a Human Being. It would be a DNA imperative: you would go whether you want or not. Human Being is not coded into your DNA. The space is there, the potential is there, but you need to activate it.
Your outer world truthfully reflects your inner world.
But the question begs to be asked: what do you mean “inner world”?
People, teachers, even psychologists all talk about the mind, then they expand it to beliefs, but if that is your inner world, then you are stuck.
Nothing will change the mind, nothing will change beliefs, directly.
Also, trying to use the faculties to change themselves is pretty futile.
How you do anything is how you do everything
Today I had the insight of the century… It’s a potential breakthrough in creating Expanding Human Beings.
The source of the insight was a quote from Jim Rohn, “America’s foremost business philosopher.”
“Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you’ve got.” he said
Most of us treat fear as a valid indication, a valid guidance of what we should avoid.
Others never consciously experience fear.
I have done the “what’s missing” exercise this morning, while still in bed, in my head. I saw that what was missing that would make a difference in my life, right now, is courage.
Then I proceeded doing my day the way I have been doing it for the past month or so: No fear.
Then I had the thought that the fear we are talking about in the title only comes when we attempt something that is new, that has an uncertain outcome, where there is some choice.
The purpose of meditation is to be able to live in the present, powerfully. That is to say: not an experience, some some mystical “meditation experience” like you thought it would be. Meditation experience, if any, is the booby prize… and many fall into that trap… Clear indication that they went into some la-la-land, half-asleep, all mind-induced. I have students like this, they are miserable in their lives.
The purpose of meditation is to be able to live in the present, powerfully… and be happy, joyful, fulfilled… and all that lovely stuff you say you want.
What does it mean living in the present?
Note: I adapted this post using a salesy email I got this morning… I liked the questions… not the product… If it sounds a little bit salesy… I apologize. That was not my intention.
It is time to be brutally honest with yourself… just like spring cleaning, Passover cleaning, etc. You need to do a cleaning of your house at least once a year…
If life has lost its taste.
If life has gone hum-drum.
If you stopped really enjoying what is supposed to be enjoyable.
If the people in your life lost their beauty.
If food is only there to be eaten… but really who cares.
If you have become dutiful, duty-bound. If it is an effort.
If blessed sleep is valued more than your awake hours.
If being with yourself has become something to run away from.
What is the difference between you and someone who makes good decisions, understands the questions and issues, and responds in a way that the response produces the desired result?
That is what smart is, right?
