How you do anything is how you do everything…
Money, as an area, is no different.
How you deal with money is how you deal with people, with everything.
Find out how that is… and what is possible for you if how you deal with money isn’t getting you what you want.
The attitude…
Read the original article: Money Attitude Workshop on Monday at 4
I am reading many books, many articles. They all say that my life could be better, would be better if I just looked at the bright side of things. But that… looking at only the bright side of things, actually leads to a boring, inauthentic life. What makes good good is the contrast… No bad? Not looking at it? there suddenly isn’t good either… only boring, dull, dead. And you can’t sleep… ((Just listen to 99.99% of the gurus. Their soothing breezy/breathy speaking gives them away. They may have even studied NLP or hypnotic suggestions… And you eat it up… soooo sooothing… must be true! lol))
Moreover, if the purpose of life is to become all you can be, to see all you can see, then what helps you most is seeing what is not so great about you.
My base nature is to see what is off. In anything, anywhere.
It is not pessimism, because I don’t think it is something bad. It is what is off. It is not negativity, because I don’t limit my looking and I don’t limit my seeing to only what doesn’t work: I also see what works.
Life is dull when you see only one side of things…
There is pretense gratitude… just like there is pretense humility. Ultimately your actions tell the real story.I have been having shorter or longer conversations with people who ask for their Starting Point Measurements.
It’s, as it is usual with me, an experiment. I ask for my time at $200-$250 an hour, and I give away 3-4 hours a week in strategy sessions. I am starting to feel the tiredness… in fact this morning I woke up exhausted.
For most people time is just time… not any currency… but for me it is the most valuable non-renewable resource. It is not just time, it is all I have… And it is hard on my brain, hard on my body, hard on my nervous system as I am giving all I have to a client.
Normally, when I talk to someone, they politely thank me for my time. Each time I get a stab of pain, sadness, when someone thanks me for my time. Continue reading
I love Rob Brezsny’s horoscopes. They are a weekly wakeup call… a few lines of text that grab me by the nape and throw out into the real world, to come to my senses.
Here is what he writes about it:
Many of us are essentially asleep, even as we walk around in broad daylight. We’re so focused on the restless narratives and repetitive fantasies unfurling in our heads that we only dimly perceive the larger story raging in all of its chaotic beauty around us.
To have any hope of permanently breaking out of our fuzzy trance, we require regular shocks. A single jolt might cause us to briefly come to attention and see the miracle of creation for what it is, but once the red alert has passed, we relax back into our fixation on the dreamy tales our mind never stops telling us.
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I read some new self-growth suggestions, some new methods to grow yourself from the series of books I am reading.
I’ll mention three of those in this article.
On my way home, climbing the long steps off Euclid Avenue, I was listening to Step 21 of the 67 Steps. It’s about a superpower of being able to get into a relationship with people because you can recognize how their machine works, and because therefore you can speak their language.
I have been resigned about my ability to get better at dealing with people. Resigned means: I have a fixed mindset about it, that says: it may be possible for you, but it’s impossible for me.
But being resigned doesn’t mean I have given up. I haven’t. But every time I read someone’s stuff, or watch someone’s stuff who is good at it, and maybe that is their superpower, I resent them. I do. Not nice, I know, but it’s how it is.
It goes hand in glove with resignation. Continue reading
I have two articles ready in my “pipeline”, but this topic is pushing its way in… What do you do, where do you go, when life seems to tell you that you are not enough? And feel pushed into overwhelm ((overwhelm: bury or drown beneath a huge mass…. defeat completely.))
I think I am becoming more empathic. I think I am becoming more sensitive to your unhappiness. Maybe even more compassionate?
Compassion is seeing where you are at, seeing that I’ve been there before, and offering a helping hand to help you get through it. ((The dictionary says something that is pity, not compassion. Well, compassion is active… not “sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others.” Claiming compassion, speaking compassion isn’t. Unless you are willing to DO, you are just pretending.))
This is not how you had it, am I right?
A one time classmate of mine’s nick name is Csiga… Snail. And Easter and bunny rabbits are inseparable… right? So this is the Snailrabbit.
Of course Jews don’t eat bread during Passover. But pretty is pretty…
Read the original article: Snailrabbit… Happy Easter and Happy Passover to everyone.
I haven’t been feeling well. I feel dumb, I don’t remember what I am talking about, I am foggy. I don’t remember names like normal, and in the evening I just want to sleep, instead of reading.
I could be worrying, and I am hovering on the border of worry and “this is what it is”…
I could ask “what’s wrong”, but that would lead to a fix-it mode… and I am not interested in that.
Instead I am saying: this has been an experiment, this is an experiment, albeit an unplanned one… Let’s see what we can see, what we can learn from this experiment?
Obviously this is not a question most people think to ask. In the age of reacting, in the age of thinking we know everything, we are asking stupider and stupider questions, and get ourselves into deep trouble.
So, if you can learn my methodology: that methodology, that attitude is the key that whatever and whoever has been trying to kill me, hasn’t been able to. Had it been you, I assert, you would be dead already. Or wish you were…
OK, so here is what I have done: Continue reading
