Context, Mindset, Backdrop… why should you care?

Originally posted 2010-07-11 09:40:03.

Context, Mindset, Backdrop… why should you care?

This is going to be a mind-bender, and at the end of it you’ll come up a lot smarter, and with a lot more power over your life… interested?

It is all about mindset! Context is decisive… but what the heck is a backdrop?

Let’s start with backdrop. Why? Because it’s the easiest to see what’s going on. Continue reading “Context, Mindset, Backdrop… why should you care?”

What is the ONE THING that decides your future?

one thing: attention storyOne day a Zen master told his students that he was going to teach a new technique of shooting an arrow.

He instructed his students to cover his eyes with a cloth and then he shot his arrow. When he opened his eyes, he saw the target with no arrow in it and when he looked at his students, they looked embarrassed because their teacher had missed.

The Zen master asked, ‘What did you learn?’ Continue reading “What is the ONE THING that decides your future?”

Why can’t you get from A to Z? Why does it look hopeless?

fall in love with the grindPersonal note: I have been in this transformation game since 1985. I never understood why the human condition was the way it was, why it was hopeless. I didn’t know about the selfish gene… I was completely ignorant.  Like most transformational teachers I was ignorant.

A little knowledge is dangerous in the hand of someone who only missed that little knowledge… a little knowledge is dangerous in my hands. I am now confident that with this new knowledge I can guide you to better to win in life.

If you are here, then I guess everything is not going as well as you’d like it to.

Continue reading “Why can’t you get from A to Z? Why does it look hopeless?”

Beyond the horizontal, beyond ambition, beyond desire…

climbing jacob's ladderI am re-reading Atlas Shrugged.

When the first two times I read it, I knew it was very important. but an essential aspect was missing for me. An aspect I just got a week or so ago.

This aspect, the difference between ambition and desire, that goes, hand in hand, with the word pairs, producer vs second hander, vertical plane vs horizontal plane. Continue reading “Beyond the horizontal, beyond ambition, beyond desire…”

The Masterskill… the secret nearly everyone misses

Mental Bandwidth and what to do to increase it

If you ordered a large pizza but you had to share it with everyone in your neighborhood, then even after ordering a hundred of those, you would barely get a slice, right? Some teenagers can eat half of a large pizza themselves, so unless you protect your pizza, you’ll remain hungry.

If an internet company sells you service, but they have all their thousands of customers want to watch a movie, you’ll get a spotty connection and miss half the movie.

That is bandwidth… it is limited and the more people use it, the less remains for you. Continue reading “The Masterskill… the secret nearly everyone misses”

Permission to be the way you are, warts and all

permission to growOnly when you have permission to be how you are, who you are, where you are, that you have permission to grow.

If you don’t, it you should be more, better, or different, then you can’t grow… because your starting point is that A should not be A…

In this work we attempt to change our genes so we can become all we can become.

I read this quote in an email today.

I have done nothing all summer but wait for myself to be myself again.‘ — Georgia O’Keeffe. Continue reading “Permission to be the way you are, warts and all”

Do you need passion to love your work? The right work?

Do you need passion to love your work? Purpose? Maybe the right work?

What is the truth about that?

One of my former students sent me an email today. He is a former student, because I could not get him to achieve any results whatsoever.

But he has sent me valuable information before, so I read the email. Continue reading “Do you need passion to love your work? The right work?”

Information is worthless. Only action is teaching

A very painful fact OF LIFE triggered today’s article. The fact that

…information doesn’t translate to KNOWLEDGE, information doesn’t cause any improvement in your life, in your results.

And thinking about anything, fretting, worrying, strategizing, conspiring neither.

But what does?

This is what today’s article is about… The what does… Continue reading “Information is worthless. Only action is teaching”

How to prevent a new project from disrupting your life?

humility prevents new knowledge from disrupting your lifeHow do you keep your focus? Keep your focus in spite of adding new tasks, new projects, new activities to your schedule?

How do you prevent it from disrupting your life? How do you become one of those people who can do more and therefore have more?

This is the question many of you have asked me.

Most people are unproductive. period. So this article is mostly for people who are productive in their main occupation, until… Continue reading “How to prevent a new project from disrupting your life?”

Changing your brain: can it change your life?

This is a long article. It spells out literally all the work I have been attempting to do change humanity’s future. To help homo sapiens evolve into the next evolutionary stage: human being. To bring in the One Thousand Years of Peace.

If the length of the article is already daunting for you… please stop here. Don’t read it. It is not for you. Continue reading “Changing your brain: can it change your life?”