If I were you, participating in my programs, I would ask: what is the most important thing for me to practice and maybe even bring it to mastery.
When I look at the people I have the opportunity to observe, what I see is that they are mastering in:
resistance and
tish-tush. (avoiding responsibility)
This article will be about mastery… and the path to it…
Mastery is a missing distinction… as if really ‘aint nobody got time for that’. It is so missing that people don’t even hear me saying it. It is up with the idea of distinction… nobody hears that either.
But why are people not hearing me? So this article is going on a hunt, hunt not for Red October, but for the stuff that blocks even hearing… Ready? Let’s go.
Here is a ‘podcast’ I did back in 2018 right after I broke my left wrist…
Two years ago I took on going for mastery in writing articles. I spent a few thousand dollars on all kinds of training. Courses, books, newsletters. A few days ago I had to ponder if I was boring people. I wrote about it…
I got an email next morning from Hawaii.
Mahalo.. yes receiving them [your emails]… ??????
I am sure they are not boring.. you have great intelligence so [you] think and say stuff people aren’t open yet to …
I look forward to reading your articles.
She is pointing to a possible reason I sound boring to people. Or why people don’t hear a word I say. Why they ignore what I say.
One of my most visited articles is about speaking butterfly language AT caterpillars.
I am not sure who reads that article. Whether it is the self-appointed butterflies, or the caterpillars…
Often the people with the golden tongue are dabblers too. Dabblers, because they think they have achieved the peak. So they stopped climbing.
There is something beautiful that very few people ever experience. And that is mastery.
Mastering something. Consciously… not by accident.
I have had that experience, getting to mastery, with a number of things, and I am experiencing the lack of it in many more areas.
I know the difference, so I strive for mastery.
Sometimes I don’t know if it is available, and yet I am going for it.
Pit that against every single person I encounter: they just do things. Maybe even get things done. And they move to the next thing with their eyes on whatever…
You could call it perfectionism, but it’s not that.
Mastery is a process, and therefore you can always be measured on that scale wherever you are.
Perfectionism is a black and white, pregnant not pregnant thing… a thing is either perfect or not perfect. No scale.
You can get to mastery in anything life related. I endeavor mastering a lot of things… even though I am a shut-in. And I don’t leave the house any further than about a hundred yards in each direction. I am old and weak…
And I don’t have a car. Or a bicycle… lol.
When I had a car I didn’t even have thoughts of mastery… I was more like a dabbler, moving from things to things.
Why? What does a car have to do with mastery or the lack of pursuit of it?
This morning I suddenly saw that for mastery you have to have a vision. You have to have patience. You have
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If I were you, participating in my programs, I would ask me what is the most important thing for you to practice and maybe even bring it to mastery.
When I look at the people I have the opportunity to observe (not many), what I see is that they are mastering in:
resistance and
tish-tush. (avoiding responsibility)
The second word is Hebrew. It means that whatever you do you do to make it unclear to the observer that you don’t know, that you don’t care, that you don’t want to be called to account.
I don’t think it is very important to be called to account about past actions, past behavior, past anything. It is done and gone. The law says different, but Life is a lot more forgiving… if you did something horrid, or embarrassing, or stupid in your past… Life doesn’t care. The Statutes of Limitations of limitations is a legal term, not a life term.
Life is more interested in what you are doing now, and what you are committed, what you intend to do in the future.
Really.
So free yourself up, and say: The past is real. But the only thing that makes it predictive is if my behavior stays the same.
Society wants you to feel remorse for the bad stuff you’ve done… And that glues your eyes to the past, to the backdrop, and not surprisingly your behavior follows.
So, remember, the first thing is ‘see’ and everything follows after that. See in your mind’s eye, see on the backdrop, see it in reality… seeing is seeing.
I have a favorite saying by famed management guru, the ‘father of management’, Peter Drucker. He said somewhere: Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
I just looked it up… and it was Henry David Thoreau who said that. No matter who said it… that is the best quote to serve you.
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
Why? Because your past is all on the backdrop and it’s been your backdrop that kept you who you are, what you are. Resulting in you being miserable, resistant, and doing a version of tish-tush.
Instead look who do you intend to be? What do you intend to do? Really.
And for that you really really really need to master turning on your intention at will. Not hoping to turn it on. Not turning it on when I am watching. NO. For your own sake, for your own future… learn, practice, practice more, all the way to mastery.
Isn’t it more important to do what would make you money, earn you respect, more customers, more something?
No it isn’t. You see without something changing nothing will change… and without something on the seed level changing, nothing can change on the above-ground level. Cannot.
I know you are dumb and I know you don’t agree. I know you are sure that you can change the future by doing different things…
But what you have never accepted is that unless the seed level changes, the how and ‘to what end’, nothing will change, even if the actions are different.
You’ll continue doing everything to look good and to survive.
Confidence: firm trust, a sense of self, appreciation someone’s proven track record
If you look up the word in the dictionary, that is not what you find.
All dictionaries are now in step with the tendency to make words vague, not matching the reality… this word is a crucial word in your vocabulary. Unless you get this right, your chances of having a self, and thus the chance for self-confidence are between zero and none.
No one takes my Starting Point Measurements Seriously. How do I know? Because I have literally haven’t had anyone ask clarifying questions about certain key words that will make or break you… Not even one.
For example, no one has asked me what is awareness, really? Or what is trust? Or goodness… etc.
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