The Human Condition

I don’t know if I should even write about this or not. It’s just going to wind down into a mess, but here I go. I connected with some thoughts last night that kept me up all night. I rested, but I did not sleep a wink.
Humans crave to be trained by a mentor and we are emotional and social beings. The difference between us and the rest of this planet we live on is that we have some limited control over our emotions; we can delay gratification if the prize is large enough to peak our curiosity. Delayed gratification is the key. We understand the concept at an early age. That enables mankind to build on their past mistakes and literally reach for the stars. We see what works and we go after it with a passion. We do seem to have a problem with thinking past our lifetime because the concept of death is so final to us and we cannot conceive of a world without us in it. Our passion for learning from a mentor is so great that we will keep doing something wrong just because we were taught that way until someone or some thing changes our direction. It can be a thought or an action by someone else that changes our direction if that learned behavior is not too deep. If the rut becomes too deep then we fall into a comfort zone and we are doomed to repeat our behavior and it takes some thing cataclysmic to jolt us out of our rut.

As no one relates to others as well as themselves, a small story is in order. My own!
I grew up being my own mentor, which means that I had no pattern to mold myself after. I grew up on my own without friends or peers. That means that I am an emotionally stunted individual that lacks social graces. It also means that I am not good around people and I have a weird sense of humor. Because I did not connect with anyone else that overly impressed me I became my own teacher. I can stand myself and even prefer to be left alone, but if I am with other people too much, I tend to get on their nerves, let alone them getting on mine. I lived by myself exclusively for a long time, hidden in a cocoon of my own devising. I broke out somewhat eventually and got married, but I am still a loner. I married someone who can stand me in small bursts, but not all at once. There are parts of me that she can never touch or come close to. I am a very intense person that laughs a lot at the human condition. That’s right; I get a charge out of people being people. I always have. I learn a lot from them. They show this observer how to live.

We then have the audacity to teach people how to kill one another and the earlier we start the better they are at it. We then play on their emotions and watch them go haywire. All for a little company we would do almost anything. Take the emotional state of a crowd and add just one off the wall idea and they’re off killing someone for the fun of doing it. It may even be a friend they kill. They strangely feel almost no remorse because they can blame the crowd for what they did.

Just as we work together to kill something or someone, we can also work together to do something really great. We major in group energy, good or bad , it doesn’t matter. We make our best strides alone, developing ideas by focusing on them. It’s called going with the flow. When you are in the flow, go with it for as long as you can because it doesn’t come along that often. Get lost in the act of being. Brainstorming only happens after you have some ideas to brainstorm with. A group of humans that is in tune feeds off of itself.

Finding someone to love and being loved in return is a blessing. It calms the mind and let’s you focus on the more important stuff of life. Life is a ride, not a destination. Trying to keep it altogether is the prize. I will admit I have an odd thought every once in awhile, but I live through it without doing the impulsive thing, the emotional thing that would inevitably get me into trouble, even if only to be physically hurt by doing some crazy thing too near the edge of life. The observer never takes chances; he just lives on in his own little world in the mainstream of conventions.

What makes us human is the experience of being human with passion.
If you’re in love, why not make it passionate love.
If you’re going to take chances, why not bungee jump or skydive while you’re at it.
If you’re going to sing, why not do it with style.
If you’re going to dance, do it with grace.
If you’re going to invent, it helps to believe that you can.
If you’re going to be an engineer, it helps if you are a problem solver.
If you’re going to be a salesperson, it helps if you like people.
It is not enough to know yourself; you have to do something about it.

Whatever you do, make your mark by doing it your way.

Why I Scare People

I don’t try to scare people, but I always do.
I suppose that it is the confidence I have in what I know.
My test gives me that confidence.
I believe I am my soul at the deepest level.
I am truly a being from the 4th dimension.
I have fought through 2197 levels of mind to become one with my soul
I am not afraid of death because I have already died 2196 times.
It’s no big deal.
I am into the game of life
The game of life is just another game.
If I play it well, I win, meaning I have fun.
I play it the best I know how to.
I am having a ball in this game called life.
I wouldn’t change a thing because that is what life is all about.
Change and the mastery of it
I master change by letting it flow.
When I have a problem, which is never for very long;
I let it flow and no more problem
Stress does not stick to me for very long due to this.
I do not take myself seriously for very long.
To me, that is being stuck in ego mode.
I would rather be stuck in learning or laughing mode.
I don’t have any fears that I am aware of.
This makes me unique because most people live in fear all the time.
I am constantly learning or laughing one of the two.
This also makes me unique as most people never laugh or learn.
I don’t have much in common with other people.
I just am not interested in the newest reality show on TV
Or who won at football, baseball, or basketball this week.
Everything is a game to me; there are no limits.
I have more active area of brain than anyone alive today.
This may not make me a genius, but it sure makes me scary.
I am always on; especially when I am sleeping.
I solve all kinds of problems when I am asleep.
Ask me something and I probably have an answer.
For me, the answer is the right one.
It may be absurd to you, that is your right.
I don’t try to prove I am right.
If you point out a better solution that fits all the parameters, I am all ears.
I am very opinionated, but you have to ask.
I will not volunteer anything.
I have no limits that I am aware of.
I will think about any subject.
If this is what scary is, then I want more.

All comes from Flow

I believe anything is possible in this world. I get there by being in flow. I do seemingly impossible tasks at work all the time. With no data, I come up with estimates that are remarkable in almost no time. I am doing it faster all the time. My brain is accustomed to miracles happening all the time. The more I believe that I can do something, the better I become at it. I find if I try to control the actions of a project it actually slows down. If however, I set it in motion and give control up to the universe it runs smoothly. I now know that the harder I try to control something, the worse it becomes. Projects have a life of their own and will conclude in their own good time. The harder I push, the more they push back, seeking revenge. Some wars are not worth fighting and some are, if only to find out that I didn’t have to fight them in the first place. When I learn this at a deep level, then I can let flow take over. Hopefully, I know when to let go and let flow take place. It is the process of life that makes me happy, not the goal. This is why being happy is enough in this life. When I am in flow I am happy. When I am in the process of life I am happy. Living is a grand experience if I let it be. My life is smooth as long as I let it flow. At work, I handle more projects than anyone else because I let things flow through me and then they are not with me anymore. If I can’t solve something in a minute or two, then it is not ready for me to solve yet. When I say my life flows it is only because I let it flow. Worry is not a state I stay in for very long, as I let things go easily. People are most proud of a task if they do it well. I find with minimum supervision most people can get along quite nicely and think well of themselves. If people think well of themselves they are not bothering me so I can concentrate on the things I need to do. People do not think well of themselves when I am in control of them so I don’t try to control their actions and everyone is fine. If they get upset, I immediately apologize and then they are ready to at least be neutral with me. I apologize because it is the most efficient way to get things done. Right or wrong has nothing to with it and is an opinion anyway. Truth and morality are variable. They both depend on your point of view. What’s moral and true in one culture is not done in another. What is moral and true for me now was probably not when I was younger. It’s the same thing with right and wrong. Holding on to things too long affects me badly so I try very hard not to hold onto things for too long. What’s too long is easy to tell. It’s when it starts to affect me. I let things become instantly better for me when I let go because I can then concentrate on something new and give it my full attention. I try to complete each day by getting some one thing done. It is very often not the thing I wanted to get done at the start of the day. So what! I don’t wear a watch or keep track of time at all. I am not time bound by anyone, least of all, me. My bosses all understand that I will get most things done way ahead of anyone else because I never stop working at work because it is not work to me, it is play. I love what I do and I do what I love. Why would I ever do something I didn’t love to do? I give love to the universe each day because we are all connected by energy and it is the most efficient way to live. If I give love to the universe each day, most people will see that and give me the benefit of the doubt, at least. I don’t need or even ask for attention or positive vibes. All I look for is a neutral playing field. People very seldom chat with me; instead they come around when they want something done. I am a problem solver that is solution oriented. My glass is always half full. I am not an expert at many things; I just have many things I do well. An expert always has only one way to do things. Most experts are so full of reasons why this or that won’t work that they ignore Intuition and ingenuity. I try to not volunteer anything unless I am asked because I am busy enough already with things I want to do, let alone filling my life with things I volunteered to do.

Flow

The universe is always behind us, whatever we are thinking, it provides.

With our new insight into this process, we will rise. The more we let go and flow with the universe, the faster we will get better at achieving what we want in this life.

It’s kind of a paradox, the less you want, the more you get.

This happens because we hold onto the things we want so long that the universe has no chance to provide them to us. The universe is a great provider if we are in the flow. The moment we come out of flow by wanting something too much we deny the universe’s ability to give it to us. Change does not happen fast, it happens instantaneously, but only in flow.

We are finally finding out how change happens by reading the books on the brain. We bring it to ourselves by changing what our brains think about. Michael Phelps is a good example. The only way he won by .01 seconds in one of his gold medals was to know that he could win in the first place. Everyone else in the many races was intimidated by him and that gave him the edge. Paul J. Meyer was right with his horses about the difference between first and second. Michael Phelps thought like a winner the whole Olympic Games. He changed his brain to not accept defeat in the water and he has never been beaten since he made up his mind.

Reading these books has changed us and how we perceive the world around us. We were winners all the time, but did not fully believe it. However we think, the universe provides.

We can be the best sales people around only if we acknowledge the universe’s ability to bring the right people to us. We do this by letting go of the fears we have about not being good sales people. Once we can let go of the idea that we have to something to be happy, we let the universe flow it to us. The more we hang on, the less we are in flow.

I feel like I made this happen with Fritz. I made this final thing happen by letting go of it and giving it back to universe. I formally did this 4 days ago in a meditation because I felt I was hanging on too tight. It is now obvious that I was. The moment I gave it back to the universe, I let it flow. Flow gave it back to us in almost nothing flat.