Life As...

Do you have a plan for your life-
which you may be thinking, "no,"
who has time to plan?  Or you
may find yourself thinking,
"used to, but it's changed so
many times,"  or you may find you
do have a plan but now you're wondering if
it's been followed, done as it was planned.  If
you have no plan, you are actually living out
a plan, just not one that you put in place, so in
some sense you've just taken your hands off
the wheel and you're saying to some mysterious
force, "I trust you to drive now, rather than me
to plan and steer the trip."  Does that seem to
make sense for you, to get in the car, start it
up and then not touch the steering wheel?

An acquaintance once told me that you have
to put the key in the lock and turn it before
you can open the door.
Not bad thinking,in fact it's going to
some day turn out to be
a writing; but in the meantime, think of how
funny it would look for someone to walk up
to a locked door, not put the key in and turn
it and expect the door to unlock?  That sort
of thinking doesn't make a whole lot of
sense at all, does it?

So as we wrap up this beginning session
with each other, let's think through two items,
one, you do need to plan and stick to your
plan, for your life.  Two you need to put
your hands on the steering wheel and guide
your life just like you guide a car.  Then
when you get ready to open new doors with
unfamiliar keys, you may not find the
experience so - ...well, we'll talk about that
one, next time...

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?