■ GO WITH
THE FLOW:
HAPPINESS / INNER HARMONY MIGHT BE DESCRIBED AS a condition of "FLOW," achieved by:
a. ASPIRATION, setting personally challenging goals;
b. CONCENTRATION, total immersion in reaching these objectives, thus even making small steps or common tasks along the way extremely engaging; and,
c. MINDFULNESS, drawing the maximum out of the immediate experience to be really there "in the moment."
“FLOW” is focusing on one’s core self, immersed in it, living true self-interest; purposely stepping outside of one's own “ego” whose shortsightedness must be ignored.
“FLOW” is learning by looking beyond sudden, disruptive negatives that only disorganize consciousness.
“FLOW” is often experiencing the archetypal, caught in life's currents or patterns, like a rolling stone, sometimes affirming, other times churning.
"FLOW" stretches the mind for accomplishing the difficult and worthwhile, automatically pushing aside all worries and even a sense of time.
■ PSYCHIC
SELF
“WITHIN YOU THERE IS A STILLNESS and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at anytime and be yourself.” – Herman Hesse
■ FOUR PILLARS
OF LIBERTY:
POWER, distrust it... let ideas, individuality flourish --free-minds & free-speech ("natural rights") …
POLITICS, redefine it... toward systems of strong individuals providing service to the community, while encouraging self-determination, self-reliance, self-expression, and self-knowledge (e.g., supporting economic ideas of "spontaneous order", "creative destruction" etc.)...
PERSUASION, pursue it... via self-learning: thoughtful listening, questioning, understanding ...
POSITIVE, build on it... tapping strengths to overcome weaknesses; cultivating a genuine sense of gratitude; disregarding small-minded, short-term ego to always favor long-term (big) true-self picture.
■ INDIVIDUAL
FREEDOM:
“THIS I BELIEVE: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.” -- John Steinbeck
■ NATURAL
RIGHTS:
"WHAT IS INDIVIDUALISM? Individualism is a view of life that identifies the proper role of the self in the universe. It postulates that the individual is supremely important, that the individual life is an end in itself, not to be used by collectivist leaders for the sake of "common goals."
Individualism says more than "just be yourself." It says that as an individual human being you are a rare and unique entity. It says that no one has the right to defile you, to suppress you, to manipulate you, or to force you. It says that you have the right to blossom as the individual you are, to pursue and achieve your potential. It says you have the right to do whatever your mind selects so long as that action does not violate the rights of others. It says that your freedom is yours --by right, not by privilege, not by the dispensation of a collective. It says that you can be different-- that difference is what makes you what you are.
More than this, it says that you have no choice about being different--you are already a unique individual who must learn about your difference and its expression. It says that you are beautiful and that beauty, if allowed to flower, will take you to heights of wonderment, joy and happiness, so long as you do not allow it to be tainted by otherism (The “collective”) --the branding iron of which is made up of conformity and mediocrity and likeness and promiscuity." - Roberto Diego
■ PSYCHIC
REALITY:
"… ABSURD PREJUDICE TO SUPPOSE THAT EXISTENCE CAN ONLY BE PHYSICAL.
As a matter of fact, the only form of existence of which we have immediate knowledge is psychic [i.e., in the mind]. We might as well say, on the contrary, that physical existence is a mere inference, since we know of matter only in so far as we perceive psychic images mediated by the senses."
■ BEYOND
EGO:
"THE MORE YOU LOSE YOURSELF in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have"
-- Norman Vincent Peal
■ NUMINOUS
SELF:
"EVEN THE ENLIGHTEN PERSON REMAINS WHAT HE IS, and is never more than his own limited ego before the ONE who dwells within him, whose form has no knowable boundaries, who encompasses him on all sides, fathomless as the abysms of the earth and vast as the sky." - Carl Jung
■ WHOLEHEARTNESS:
“NOTHING IS AS CONTAGIOUS AS
enthusiasm.”— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
■ FREEDOMS
FORMULA:
"CONGRESS CAN MAKE NO LAW respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." -- First Amendment
■ CHALLENGE
OR INCONVENIENCE:
EVERY PROBLEM, ANXIETY, OR STRESSFUL situation can be viewed (&, thus, more easily handled) as either a “challenge” or “inconvenience”.
If it's an “inconvenience”, it's temporary and easily handled.
If it's a “challenge”, it can be embraced as one more fascinating pursuit
or lesson. In either case, it is conquered by immersion in "the flow” of life.
■ LIFE'S
PATH:
"TRUST THAT WHICH GIVES YOU MEANING and accept it as your guide." - Carl Jung
■ EMBRACE
HERE & NOW:
DON’T WORRY, BE HAPPY..."Now these problems either have solution – or they don't. Either you can do something here and now – or you can't. If you can do something here and now about them, then do it – even if it's just a step. It zaps your energy to be worried or anxious about a problem. Do what you can do – but don't be addicted to results or you will create more worry for yourself. If you can do something about a problem here and now, then why make yourself uncomfortable and drain energy by worrying about it? "It's part of the here and nowness of life.
That's what it is – here and now. Worry, anxiety or other unpleasant emotions are absolutely unnecessary – and simply lower your insight and the effectiveness of your actions." --from Handbook of Higher Consciousness by Ken Keyes, Jr.
■ TRANSCEND
EXACTING:
LIFE IS DIFFICULT... "This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we know that life is difficult – once we truly understand and accept it – then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters... " -- from The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck.
■ NEVER
"POWER":
“WHERE LOVE RULES, THERE IS NO
WILL TO POWER, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.” - Carl Jung
■ LIMITS:
"TIME AND SPACE ARE MODES BY WHICH WE THINK and not conditions in which we live." -- Albert Einstein
SENSIBILITIES... from the Importance of Living is Living Itself
Reality LESS Dreams = Animal
Dreams LESS Humor = Fanaticism
Dreams PLUS Humor = Fantasy
Reality PLUS Dreams = Idealism
Reality PLUS Humor = Realism
Reality PLUS Dreams
PLUS Humor = Wisdom
DIRECTION ... based on Servant Leadership
1. Serve, not necessarily seeking formal leadership positions ...
2. Transfer "power and purpose" into "service and accountability” ...
3. Rely upon persuasion, rather than positional authority (non coercive, creatively supporting) ...
4. Change notions of “centralization” and “decentralization” into ideas for “streamlining” and “networking” …
5. Encourage collaboration, understanding, empowerment, uniqueness, and contribution of the individual ...
6. Know that much has been lost in recent history by the shift from local communities to large institutions as the primary shaper of human lives.
TOUGHMINDEDNESS!
Making other lives richer by the richness of one’s own life.
1. People differ from one another.
2. People have a need for spiritual guidance and belief.
3. People will usually do the thing that promises benefit to them, but human judgment often errs in determining what actions will yield this result.
4. To savior life you must work hard and toward real accomplishment. Unused iron becomes rusty – stagnant water becomes murky.
5. True happiness only comes through giving to others – of knowledge, of encouragement, of guidance, of constructive criticism, of faith, of some material things.
6. Over the long haul it is impossible to give away more than you receive.
7. Dignity is a way of life, not a convenient façade.
8. Intelligence expressed within a framework of self-interest alone is almost always futile when the end of the story is reached.
9. Untapped potential lies dormant in just about everyone.
10. Sacrificing individual liberty for collective “security” never has produced real value.
11. Self-interest is normal and natural but can be fully realized only through and by the development of others.
12. We have strengths and weaknesses, but concentration in increasing the strengths will usually correct the weaknesses.
13. Education is not a destination but a continuing journey.
14. The highest level of mental hygiene derives from an attitude & feeling of gratitude – felt and expressed, spoken & understood. Depression and mental illness cannot coexist with it.
PRINCIPLE_CENTERNESS:
Continual learning, learning, listening, asking questions....
Service orientation, seeing “ life as a mission, not as a career."
Radiating positive energy, being cheerful, pleasant, happy, optimistic, positive, upbeat, enthusiastic, and hopeful.
Believing in people, not overreacting to negative behaviors, not carrying grudges, and not labeling, stereotyping, or prejudging people.
Leading a balanced life, temperate, moderate, wise, sensible, simple, direct, non-manipulative, physically active, socially active, and well read. (Not a zealot, fanatic, martyr, or addict; not a brooder.)
Praise and blame taken proportionately while genuinely happy for others' success.
Viewing life as an adventure, being courageous, unflappable, totally flexible explorer who savors life. Acting as a synergist, and a productive, "smart working" change catalyst.
Engaging in physical, mental, an emotional exercise for self-renewal, like reading, writing, and creative problem solving, being emotional but patient, listening with empathy and showing unconditional love.
EXCELLENCE
(Tom Peters) ...
PURSUE ALTERATIVE RHYTHMS…
Read odd stuff. Cultivate odd hobbies. Work with odd friends. Boring folks, boring ideas.
1. Constantly investigate. Mix. Match. Try different combinations to shake things up.
2. Don’t hang with all the rest. Forget the same tired associations, talking with the same tired people about the same tired things.
3. Listen to everyone. Ideas come from everywhere. Only insecure people operate in a vacuum.
4. Don’t listen to anyone. Nurture intuition. Interesting ideas don’t come from rational plans!
AT-BATS...
More times at the plate, more hits.
5. Bias for action! Ready. Aim. Fire. (Instead of aim, aim, aim, aim…)
6. Do it. Try it. Fix it. Cut the baloney and get on with something. There’s always a better way to do things.
7. Take anti-NIH pills. Don’t let “not invented here” keep you from ripping off good ideas.
8. Make it pass the ‘wow” test. Try new things – innovate. Risk looking like a fool. So what? Have a total passion for excellence.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. - Steve Jobs
Some of Tom Peter’s favorite quotes…
“Do one thing every day that scares you.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” —Mary Oliver
“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.” —James Dean
“If you can’t state your position in eight words or less, you don’t have a position.” —Seth Godin
“Make your life itself a creative work of art.”— Mike Ray, The Highest Goal
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” —Oscar Wilde
“People want to be part of something larger than themselves. They want to be part of something they’re really proud of, that they’ll fight for, sacrifice for, that they trust.” —Howard Schultz, Starbucks
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” —Charles Darwin
“If things seem under control, you’re just not going fast enough.”— Mario Andretti
“I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living, or get busy dying.”— The Shawshank Redemption (Tim Robbins)
“Groups become great only when everyone in them, leaders and members alike, is free to do his or her absolute best.”— Warren Bennis and Patricia Ward Biederman,Organizing Genius
“Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.”— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“If you’re enthusiastic about the things you’re working on, people will come ask you to do interesting things.”— James Woolsey, former CIA director
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. -- Michelangelo
SPARKING CREATIVITY. Influence through design (based on study of 8,000 people visiting websites). FOCUS ON: PEOPLE (include real folk); POSITIVE (stay considerate, complimentary, no negativity); PROPOSALS (leave it open, as a question; let people decide).
COMMUNICATIONS ...
a dozen thumbnail ideas about effective learning, conversing, writing, & creating ...
PROBING. Ask:
1. What’s new? (with you, those around you, those affecting you?)
2. Feelings about it?
3. What does that change?
4. What happens next?
EXPLAINING. Suggest:
5. Telegraph message: be succinct.
6. Stress benefits: what is in it for others?
7. Keep it simple: presentation, explanation, etc.
8. Show or imply “action”, “humor”, and/or “drama” with words and/or graphic elements employed.
DESIGNING. Focus:
9. Frame: enhance subject.
10. Perspective: elements lead eye.
11. Divide: rule of thirds/ golden mean (roughly twice size of one before).
12. Ideal: include people and/or motion, actual or implied.
HARRY BROWN'S RESOLUTIONS for promoting liberty...
1.To persuade by appealing to the self-interest, rather than preaching to people.
2.To inspire, instead of proving people wrong or being drawn into arguments and debates.
3.To listen for wants and needs, and explain how ideas of empowerment can satisfy people's needs.
MIND & MOTIVATION GRAPHS
(Jung & Maslow).
1. Universe. 2. Mind.
3. Archetypes. 4. Motivation.
CLICK HERE for Maslow's heirarchy in more detail.
QUANTUM PHYSICS/ THUMBNAIL SUMMARY
Summarized from Nothing Is Solid & Everything Is Energy – Scientists Explain The World of Quantum Physics by ARJUN WALIA
“The world of quantum physics...
► “What we perceive as our physical material world, is really not physical or material at all…
“ … everything in the Universe is made out of energy...
► “Quantum physicists discovered that physical atoms are made up of vortices of energy that are constantly spinning and vibrating, each one radiating its own unique energy signature...
► we are really beings of energy and vibration, radiating our own unique energy signature -this is fact and is what quantum physics has shown us time and time again… If you observed the composition of an atom with a microscope you would see a small, invisible tornado-like vortex, with a number of infinitely small energy vortices called quarks and photons. These are what make up the structure of the atom...
► As you focused in closer and closer on the structure of the atom, you would see nothing, you would observe a physical void...
► The atom has no physical structure, we have no physical structure, physical things really don’t have any physical structure! Atoms are made out of invisible energy, not tangible matter…
“ … the universe is not an assembly of physical parts, suggested by Newtonian physics, and instead comes from a holistic entanglement of immaterial energy waves (that) stems from the work of Albert Einstein, Max Planck and Werner Heisenberg, among others…
“The Role of Consciousness in Quantum Mechanics...
“...many scientists… questioned the meaning and implications of what we’ve discovered with quantum physics. One of these potential revelations is that 'the observer creates the reality'…
“One great example that illustrates the role of consciousness within the physical material world (which we know not to be so physical) is the double slit experiment...
“ ...The ratio of the interference pattern’s double-slit spectral power to its single-slit spectral power was predicted to decrease when attention was focused toward the double-slit as compared to away from it...
► The study found that factors associated with consciousness, such as meditation, experience, electrocortical markers of focused attention and psychological factors such as openness and absorption, significantly correlated in predicted ways with perturbations in the double-slit interference pattern...
“ ...we are all energy, radiating our own unique energy signature… no doubt impact the external world around us, and influence how others feel as well.
