My friends are keeping me on track
A few weekends ago I did something called the landmark forum. It's difficult to describe, but I felt it was kind of like zen-light. I gained a lot of perspective from it and learned a few new tools (really the product of that perspective) for living life well, being effective, having integrity, being true to yourself and so on. It's way more than I can explain but many of my new posts will be a product of what I got out of that.
So since the landmark thing, there's been a whirlwind of things going through my mind. Gaining a new perspective on life can be kind of like sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, having a really good long, deep sleep and then just as you wake up and open your eyes you feel a little disoriented and have to take a moment to re-orient yourself and place everything back in order in your head. Have you ever slept at someone else's place or some hotel and woken up and at that very instant just expected you were somewhere else? It's like that. You look to your left but your nightstand isn't there with your clock on it, your closet isn't on the same wall with the same door as it is at home, for some reason your suitcase is sitting there open with a pile of clothes in it etc. and then you go "Oh yeah, I'm not at home in my bedroom."
This whirlwind is similar to that, I have some new ways I can look at things and when I do, they look different. So the whirlwind is caused by taking that all in, and sometimes that new way of looking at something makes you look at something else from a different point of view too, and so on and so forth. So yeah, my brain has been pretty busy lately going over those kinds of things.
That whirlwind is taking place even now as I'm sitting here typing this out. I'm going round and round thinking about this and that, trying to come up with what I'll write but there's no conclusion, I just keep thinking.
There were two points to my posting this update, and the first was just to say that it's great that I have friends who are helping me keep on track and that I'm working with to continue my positive energy so that it doesn't just disappear into the void.
The second point was to share the journey. The reason for that is so that A) I can share it with whoever reads this, and B) to perhaps help guide and inspire you in your own lives. Whether you share my purpose in changing the world or not, what you'll read here is what it takes to do that.
We're all humans, we all have our little quirks and foibles and none of us has exactly the same set, so even if you do share my same vision it's not going to happen the same for you or be experienced the same by you. The value however is that regardless of the details, all the stupid human tricks and problems and setbacks I'll be having are a part of what it takes to change the world. It's a daunting and overwhelming thing to undertake but you don't accomplish something daunting or overwhelming by standing there are wondering at how daunting and overwhelming it is. You accomplish it by starting where you are.
And that's where I am. So I hope you'll enjoy what you read and maybe once in a while you'll find it interesting or helpful or insightful and it'll spur something in your own life somehow and move on from there. I think that's all I have to say about that right now. My goal is to make these posts a regular thing from now on.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all!
So since the landmark thing, there's been a whirlwind of things going through my mind. Gaining a new perspective on life can be kind of like sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, having a really good long, deep sleep and then just as you wake up and open your eyes you feel a little disoriented and have to take a moment to re-orient yourself and place everything back in order in your head. Have you ever slept at someone else's place or some hotel and woken up and at that very instant just expected you were somewhere else? It's like that. You look to your left but your nightstand isn't there with your clock on it, your closet isn't on the same wall with the same door as it is at home, for some reason your suitcase is sitting there open with a pile of clothes in it etc. and then you go "Oh yeah, I'm not at home in my bedroom."
This whirlwind is similar to that, I have some new ways I can look at things and when I do, they look different. So the whirlwind is caused by taking that all in, and sometimes that new way of looking at something makes you look at something else from a different point of view too, and so on and so forth. So yeah, my brain has been pretty busy lately going over those kinds of things.
That whirlwind is taking place even now as I'm sitting here typing this out. I'm going round and round thinking about this and that, trying to come up with what I'll write but there's no conclusion, I just keep thinking.
There were two points to my posting this update, and the first was just to say that it's great that I have friends who are helping me keep on track and that I'm working with to continue my positive energy so that it doesn't just disappear into the void.
The second point was to share the journey. The reason for that is so that A) I can share it with whoever reads this, and B) to perhaps help guide and inspire you in your own lives. Whether you share my purpose in changing the world or not, what you'll read here is what it takes to do that.
We're all humans, we all have our little quirks and foibles and none of us has exactly the same set, so even if you do share my same vision it's not going to happen the same for you or be experienced the same by you. The value however is that regardless of the details, all the stupid human tricks and problems and setbacks I'll be having are a part of what it takes to change the world. It's a daunting and overwhelming thing to undertake but you don't accomplish something daunting or overwhelming by standing there are wondering at how daunting and overwhelming it is. You accomplish it by starting where you are.
And that's where I am. So I hope you'll enjoy what you read and maybe once in a while you'll find it interesting or helpful or insightful and it'll spur something in your own life somehow and move on from there. I think that's all I have to say about that right now. My goal is to make these posts a regular thing from now on.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all!