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Welcome to Google Mail on 2006-12-19
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Are You A "Crocodile Hunter"? (dirtSimple.org) on 2006-10-04
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And when you learn to use your feelings correctly, you'll realize a bad feeling means it's time to change your thinking. To stop thinking about what you don't have, or how difficult it will be to get it, or what you think you have to settle for instead of what you really want. And to replace those thoughts with new thoughts about what you do want, and how good it will be to have it. And then you'll get different feelings. Ones that will lead you to take action, instead of just thinking about how bad things ar
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If you're using your feelings correctly, you'll realize that when you have a bad feeling, it doesn't mean that life is bad, it means you're doing the wrong thing
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Because for life to not suck, you have to actually do things
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thoughts lead to feelings lead to actions
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patrickrhone.com: Org-Fu Überpost - Productivity Whitepaper on 2006-09-19
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All items, no matter what they are, are treated as items to be processed
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Creative Observation on 2006-09-18
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So even though this particular point may not be what I want, I imagine it as part of a line that’s sloping towards my goal.
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I accept the situation as it is, so there’s no denial, but I’m imagining it getting better at the same time
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do my best to look for any shred of hope for improvement and focus on that. I keep observing with a positive bias, always asking, “What’s good about this?”
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You’ll achieve your goals if you observe your present reality with a positive momentum in the direction of your goals. But if you set a goal and observe your present situation with a negative or neutral bias, then your goals have no power to induce change.
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Hold that hope as a general positive expectation rather than becoming attached to just one way your positive intentions might manifest
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There’s always the possibility of turning things around.
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Clearly the positive one bias is the way to go
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you’re also also expecting one of three things to happen: (1) the situation is improving, (2) the situation is declining, or (3) the situation is stable. This expectation may be subconscious much of the time, but it’s always there in some form
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ust three general biases: positive, negative, or neutral. All observation can be assigned one of these three bias values.
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The key is that when you observe your current reality, you always observe with a bias.
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All that matters is that it’s real right now, so acknowledge and accept your current situation honestly, even if you don’t particularly like it… even if you downright hate it.
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The mere act of observing it will perpetuate it
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There’s no such thing as observation without creation
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f you’re in a situation you don’t want to be in, and you observe it or notice it, you’re thinking about it. That means you’re intending its continuation
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How to Overcome Distractions Anytime on 2006-09-14
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The reason these things are attactive is because they either give us pleasure or take some pain away
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The Island Within (dirtSimple.org) on 2006-09-11
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Magnetic north will jitter and shift as you move about the
globe, but true north is always in your heart.
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only place where truth is fixed is inside
us
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As for me,
I'm now thinking about how I can use anticipation to make additional
improvements. The trick seems to be that you need something you really believe
will or can happen, but it doesn't necessarily need a concrete time frame to
happen in. And it's helpful if it's connected to the processes of your life, so
that you can experience at any moment a connection to that dream and believe
you're moving towards it
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But if
you can make this a part of your understanding of life now, then you can
really feel how worrying saps the life out of you piece by piece, and
you can become aware that the worrying is nearly always worse than whatever
you're worrying about.
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your quality of life was already affected by your thoughts before
you ever acted on them
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So, to the extent that we
assign the meanings, we control the meaning and quality of our lives, in an
emotional and spiritual sense at least
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On the other hand, self-delusion is a
relative concept. The truth is that the messages our senses receive are
always subject to interpretation. What we think an event "means" is
inherently delusional, in the sense that our interpretations were never
reality to start with. Does a problem in the middle of your attempt to do
something "mean" the effort is doomed to failure? That you should try harder?
That you should think smarter? Every answer to the question of what an
event "means" is ultimately a delusion!
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By now, however, it has
become clear to me that appropriate self-delusion isn't just a good idea, it's
pretty much a necessity for actually accomplishing anything!
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T
he flip side of anticipation, you see, is that it
supports
involvement
in what you're doing and how you live your life
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gives you a chance to see the island
and
to be thoroughly invested in
your swim towards it
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he flip side of anticipation, you see, is that it
supports involvement in what you're doing and how you live your life
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It
gives you a chance to see the island and to be thoroughly invested in
your swim towards it
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what makes the most rational sense for improving the quality of
your spiritual and emotional life, regardless of whether you actually solve the
problem or not
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it's the
journey, not the destination"
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The secret, I think, is that when
we imagine the future -- whether good or bad -- we leave out a significant
amount of context. We see only the bad thing or the good thing itself,
floating like an island in the oceans of our consciousness. We don't see
ourselves fixing a problem, we just see the problem itself. We don't
look at the drawbacks or limitations of an anticipated future either, like kids
not thinking beforehand about having to clean up all the wrapping paper and
boxes on Christmas day.
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So, whether the thing you're imagining
is good or bad, the result of doing it repeatedly is to magnify the effect of
the experience on your life, if only because of the repetition
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When you
anticipate a thing, you follow the exact same structure as worry: you imagine
something you think might happen, and then feel how you think you would
feel if the real thing happened
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If your life
experience can be so thoroughly overwhelmed by worry about negative things,
could you equally overwhelm it with positive ones?
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Except that next it's triple, then quadruple, quintuple,
and
so on, each and every time you worry
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And
it's an even worse ratio if the worrying is more painful than the actual
thing you're worrying about
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t doesn't matter how hard you swim away from the island,
it still remains within you. But if you cross over the island, you'll
leave it behind you when you go
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I acquired a personal
perspective on that old saw about the coward dying a thousand deaths, and the
brave man only one
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Sure, that stuff's all bad,
but the worrying has been much worse, in terms of quality of life. Those
things, if they happen, will only happen the once, but our worrying has been
weekly and sometimes daily, for most of the year!
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sometimes it's better to believe a
false good thing, than to believe a true bad one
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How to Decide What You Want (dirtSimple.org) on 2006-09-07
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but they aren't any substitute for practice. Practice makes perfect. Practice pays for all. Practice what you preach.
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Accept your fears and you will move past them.
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Love is a verb, and love conquers fear
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"Living your dreams" does not mean making life into a perpetual picnic, or even that you get to do what you love to do all the time. Rather, it means that
you must
bring
your love
into
whatever needs to be done
, as the little prince cared for his rose
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you must bring your love into whatever needs to be done
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This is how you build character, and confidence, and everything else that is worthwhile to have in yourself
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That's why goals are valuable: they call on us to care for, and thus make us care about, not only the subject of the goal, but ourselves.
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In every moment that we live, we decide what the meaning is. There is no "right" meaning. There is no "wrong" meaning. Whatever we devote ourselves to, becomes our devotion. What matters is what we care for -- actively, not passively
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You see, it is not the purpose of life to provide us with meaning. Rather, it is our purpose to supply the meaning to life, by our actions. And what we choose is our meaning
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t's not like there is some already-existing thing floating around out there that you want, if only you could find it! Rather, it is the act of choosing that makes it matter!
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If you are trying to "figure out" what to decide, you are missing the point altogether
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When you don't decide, your consciousness is divided and pulled in many directions. To decide is to live, but indecision is fatal.
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he problem is, these wants are often conflicting or contradictory
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If we can't get something, or it's hard to get, we may decide we don't want something that we really do want.
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we assume that there is a link between what we want and what we should try to get
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because your emotions respond to the perceived gap between what you want and what you care about having. You can't turn off this gap-measurement system
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To disconnect from pain is to disconnect from joy
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he truth is that we still like or want them, but we no longer "live" in the part of our brains that does the wanting
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so when you disconnect from pain, all you're really doing is deciding not to care about the thing that's important to you.
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Adam Khoo’s Philosophies & Investing Insights » Does it Take Luck to Succeed and Make it Rich? on 2006-09-06
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But being able to see the opportunity is NOT GOOD ENOUGH. You must, be PREPARED to take advanrtage of the opportunity in order to generate LUCK!
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Opportunities ALWAYS come disguised as PROBLEMS!!!
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Business luck is the OFFSPRING generated when OPPORTUNITY meets PREPARATION. In other words, BUSINESS LUCK = OPPORTUNITY + PREPARATION
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Well, I believe that there are two kinds of luck, ‘gambling luck’ and ‘business luck’
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Change or Die on 2006-09-05
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The frame that dominates our thinking about how work should be organized -- the military chain-of-command model -- is extremely hard to break
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What if you were given that choice? For real. What if it weren't just the hyperbolic rhetoric that conflates corporate performance with life and death? Not the overblown exhortations of a rabid boss, or a slick motivational speaker, or a self-dramatizing CEO. We're talking actual life or death now. Your own life or death. What if a well-informed, trusted authority figure said you had to make difficult and enduring changes in the way you think and act? If you didn't, your time would end soon -- a lot sooner than it had to. Could you change when change really mattered? When it mattered most?
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The Most Important Thing to Do: Stretch - Life Coaches on 2006-09-05
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Expanding the edges of your comfort zone is always going to be uncomfortable. This can be a good thing. How else will you know that you’re on the edge of another level-up?
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