"Skin that Smoke-wagon..."

Johnny Tyler, "Madcap," gets a spanking
from Wyatt Earp to open the show, it's
a nice scene, as it gives us a sense of how
much Wyatt wouldn't put up with.  What
he knows is that Johnny will talk a good
fight, but when it gets to doing something,
he hesitates, Wyatt won't.

That's Hollywood, movies,
and actors, real life, takes a
bit more, and it's often just as
quick and challenging as when
Wyatt dares Johnny to "Skin it-
skin that smoke wagon and go to work."
It's quick, and if the wrong choice
gets made, it can be, unforgiving.

A Detroit cop told me one time that
they had a saying, "don't pull it if you
ain' gonna use it."  Pretty similar to
what Wyatt was saying- we all sort
of understand that there are some
places we go, that lead one way,
some decisions we make that run
one course, and once we make them
we better be in for the whole show
including the intermission.

The power that drives such decisive
behavior comes from a place inside
the person; a place where you know
ahead of time what you will and
won't take.  That sort of character
inside is what we need to hold onto
when times get tough.  What you

may find useful is to figure out
ahead of time, where you stand
on simple issues, like truth versus
lies, honesty versus dishonesty,
the essentials. Once you determine
how you will relate to those,
the decision which isn't quite
so cut and dried, won't throw
you nearly as far, nearly as hard.

You Matter - The World Didn't END!!!!

OK- it sounds like one of the those
"HEY- be positive" pitches, don't it?
But it's not- although it could be, that
title could mean, YOU - matter.
See it's all in how you see it, isn't it?
On the other hand, that title could also
be played with a bit to mean,
you - MATTER- as in, there is some
special stuff in the universe and it is
made out of you?  Clever though
that may be, close to the truth,
it may also be.

The bigger truths in this
world are coming down                                                                  
to the smallest elements of fact,
what matters, you matter.
Because as the world becomes much
more of a globe than a flat
fighting plane, and the
battles become much more
global in nature, such
as "will we have enough air,
water, earth? That we will survive?"
You become much more of
a factor in how that all comes out.
So pay close attention to this
next paragraph, it's important.

Since we know that the U.S.
is one of the most information
based countries, it's important to
understand how developing economies
within that information based system works.
So we have a federal level economic
development program, it branches down
to a state level economic development
program which then branches down
to a regional within the state system,
which then branches down to
a municipality or city level economic
development system.  It is a gigantic funnel
that produces more and more creatively
energized business concepts and ideas
to flourish within the information based
business of the U.S.

Why is this so important?  You matter, and
in the U.S. we must make the switch from
being a production based, manufacturing
based economy, to a consultive, thought
and information based economy, within
which we will discover enormous amounts
of business opportunities that at present
we don't even see.  So now, do you get
why - you matter?

Please Get Real - Please

What happens with the Doppler effect is familiar to
anyone who has ridden in a car, as you look out the
window, the pavement below appears to be flying bye;
let your eyes drift up, things are going a bit slower,
and in the distance, the trees at the edge of the
field, seem to not be moving much at all? You've
probably seen this, but, have you seen it in life?

Ever have a friend who was in a crappy
relationship, and they choose, constantly
to stay there? Ever ask them why, to get
told, "well, what else am I going
to do?" It might make you bit mad,
as you think, "well dad gum, anything
would be better than this?"
Guess what, the Doppler effect, your up close to
the difference, they can't see it, their life isn't
moving that fast, the Doppler effect?

Recently we experienced a local election
where new representatives were voted in.
 Right after that, the Doppler effect took
over, and they, can't see it.
The difference between what we need in leadership
with guts, talent, brains and the ability to study
their way into new and dazzling futures for us;
and what we got- well, let's call it the Doppler
effect- they just can't see it.

Neil Young, ever the easy to understand poet,
put it this way in his song "Hey, hey, my, my
(Into the black)..."it's better to burn out
than fade away." Seems pretty clear
that Neil hit the Doppler effect right
on the head. Leaders, especially, political,
not religious, or corporate, but political,
need a dose of "burn it up- buck-"O"."
Only, where they gonna get it? They seem
scared to bust a move, scared to receive
a little negative flack back? The Doppler
effect, it's gettin' to us all...

Are You Changing Direction - Not Course?

Ever hear someone say, "we've done this," or, "we're saying the
same thing over again," or, "we've had this same fight for the
last three times," or words to that effect ( I know most of you
never let conflict get out of hand to the point that you fight
with someone, certainly, not your mate, but let's hypothesize
because we know such can happen).  Ever wonder why it is
that when that isn't pleasant you participate in it, anyway?
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Seeing the direction as being the focus, in a slightly different
way, may help, in these times when so many seem so stressed
it makes sense to learn different approaches and see if they
will work.  If you see this situation in a slightly different
way, you begin, right away, to see how it is also, easily
avoided.  "But if that's the case, why do people not do
this naturally?"  My sense is that after you see what is
taking place in this different light, that question, which
is a good one, will seem to have a new direction to it.

Imagine that you are at a race, a foot race, and you see
the runners all poised to take off, the tension is in the
air, they're poised ready to run, and you notice one,
is facing the wrong way?  The gun goes off and sure
enough, the runner facing the wrong takes off going
the opposite direction.  A half hour goes bye and some
of the runners are coming in, and there he is, mister
going the other way, as he crosses the finish line his
timer starts, "this is the Finish line, isn't it?"  He asks
the race manager, who, perplexed at the situation
has to say, "you never crossed the start line to begin
your timer..."  If he'd been standing on the other
side of the line, who knows...running totally opposite
all the others, might've still gotten him a time.  So it
wasn't the course, it was the direction.  Not the course,
the course was the same, either way, two hills, eight
turns, 3.5 miles, either way, but the direction- well,
that had an enormous amount to do with getting
credit for the course.

Changing direction isn't hard, but the course, that's
a different matter.  Sure it's a sort of silly story, we
all know, nobody is dumb enough to run a race
backwards, but you have to wonder sometimes, at the
way folks dwell in the past, which direction they
believe they are going?

Levels

Ever watch young people playing Wii?
They get into it, and they aren't distracted
by anyone standing by them,

Link to image Wii

they are into the game. My daughter
bought a game for her Nephews
(that is her story and she's stickin'
to it)called "Donkey Kong." I love to
play the game but on Wii it's a bit
of a challenge for me, that
seems to be an age thing. Anyway
let's not digress, so the Nephews are
playing the game, the house could
have caught fire and burned down, they would still
be pushing them buttons as fast as they could, and
into the game. Which is when it hit me...

What if we taught math that way? Hey, wait a minute,
there are some programs that do...what if we taught
English that way? Hey wait a minute, there are
programs that do...So does your local school system
employ this sort of advanced learning? Tony Robbins
I've got to believe would call it, immersion style,
learning, Mari Smith, would call it, immersion
style, learning. Immersion, getting so deeply into
the learning experience, having so much fun doing
it, that, you don't even realize you are learning.

When it comes to getting beyond
the problems that are in our future
about the change from petro based
lifestyle to other based lifestyles,
can we make the transition by actually
taking six months to
develop programs which would
teach the necessary skills to exist
in that world? Someone might,
the question might be, can it be
made to be as much fun as a
Gorilla going after Bananas?

New in the New Year

Year is a long time, twelve times as long as month, 365 times as long as day, and that's if we stay simple and plain in numbers that my simple head can relate to.  New; in that year is something that might happen; but how many years have you lived that have only been partially new?  How many more are you going to live, before you really, actually begin to live the year, new?

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