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Word is great, beautiful, and oh so fascinating

By In blog, words, you

Word is great, beautiful, and oh so fascinating that some readers might expect it to be true.

Well, word is even greater, beautifuller, and fascinatinger than that.

Among the fascinating features of words is that’s what you’re looking at since this article began to the end, from its headline to its takeaway, and of course everything in between — nothing but words.

You can see them but you cannot touch ’em

As you read on, should you mistake my use of words to contain any truths, relax, it‘s a common mistake that happens in the best of families.

There are no truths here to be found.

The only thing you’ll find here are words.

More than a thousand in fact.

What you do with them is all up to you.

You’re in control.

Truth

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

If despite this you believe what’s told at kindergartens, schools, and universities, that means you’re among the many who believe in a beginning without an end.

That means you believe in the beginning is a big bang, a fictional character, or a mystery.

Though a beginning without an end is impossible, you won’t be arrested by the police. On the contrary, it only means that like the police you’re part of the majority.

Only if you’re part of the minority do you practice active noticing of what’s going on within you and without you.

Only a minority of word-users know how within you and without you began.

In the beginning is the word

That in the beginning is the word can be denied only by confirming it.

In other words, you cannot deny a word without using it.

But even so, a question remains for those of you who find it hard to believe in a beginning you may not have heard about or thought of previously.

“In the beginning of what?”

Naturally, the answer is “In the beginning of everything you have a word for.”

Other than that?

Other than in the beginning of everything we have a word for, what else is word?

Before you can even begin to understand word, there are two steps you might find hard to take.

  • Accept there is a difference between what word is, what word does, and what word has.
  • Accept there’s no difference between word and words.

In singular and plural they is/are, does/do, and has/have the identical.

When you accept that word and words are the same, you then also understand that how one word works is how all words work.

You are naturally free to not accept the two steps most word-users find hard to take, if at the same time you also accept that you won’t understand word and words in exchange.

You may even ask why which words allow given that why is among them.

One step at a time: Words ARE

Words are the latest in the chain of inventions made by the four elements — fire, wind, earth, and water — that also invented the planet, the cells, the plants, the animals, the eyes and the brains, before they proceded to also invent the words and us, the word-users.

I hear you.

“If so, how can the word be in the beginning?”

The word is in the beginning of words, also known as in the beginning of the After Words, and in the end of wordless, also known as in the end of the Before Words.

Put differently, the word is in the beginning of everything you know.

Everything you know

You know beginning because you know what beginning describes.
You know Mount Everest because you know what Mount Everest describes.
You know screw because you know what screw describes.
You know driver because you know what driver describes.
You know tool because you know what tool describes.

And so it is with everything you know.

What else?

Maybe the fact that the word is in the beginning (of everything you have a word for) doesn’t answer every question you might have about words.

Perhaps one more question remains at the back of what many word-users consider the back of your mind (whatever that is supposed to be).

“What else can you show me?”

Well, In addition to in the beginning, words are a tool.

Like any tool, words can work for you or they can kill you.

But that has got nothing to do with the tool. It all depends on what you do with it.

It’s not the word. It’s the user.

You’re in control.

Keep your word and many decisions are already made

In that sense, the word is no different to your ears, eyes, brains, hands, hair, and feet.

You are in control.

Better act as if, or you will be constantly getting in your own way which will wear you out in the long run.

Or “assume the virtue if you have it not” (William Shakespeare).

“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” (William Shakespeare)

And so it is with words.

A word by any other name is still a word.

While this applies to each of the “collins.co.uk analytical database with over 4.5 billion words”, it also particularly applies to the ones below.

Able, actual, anecdote, answer, artifact, belief, bible, break, change, chat, comma, communicate, concept, conspire, consult, context, contrast, contranym, convention, converse, conversation, correspond, co-respond, data, dictionary, discussion, encyclopedia, epic, fables, fake, frame, god, gossip, grammar, grammatic, grapheme, graphic, high, history, hyphen, I (capitalized 750 years ago to mark it as a word), information, intelligence, internet, isolation, james bond, jargon, key, knowledge, label, language, legend, letter, lie, life, linguistic, literally, me, meme, meaning, metaphor, morpheme, name, narrative, news, normal, note, objective, ortho, para, parable, paragraph, parser, period, phoneme, phonetic, phonologic, phrase, play, practic, private, public, secondary, sequence, speech, spoken, question, quote, really, reality, report, response, saga, school, sentence, silence, stimulus, sound, statement, story, symbol, synonym, talk, testament, text, theory, theoretic, thesaurus, thing, think, thought, truth, understand, unique, universe, university, uttered, value, verb, verse, vocabulary, wisdom, wise, wordless, work, world, worm, worry, worth, write, yarn, and you, to name a few.

Words are not

To see what words are not, click https://tinyurl.com/ytasu8cf

More

More about words — what words do and what words have — will be topics of upcoming posts.

In the meantime, if you have any clues, ideas or insights, please let me know.

Thank you in advance!

Takeaway

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A thousand questions remaining. Exploring the origins of feel

By In blog, words, you

The origin of feel

Feel has fascinated the word-users ever since one of our ancestors described with feel what s/he saw for the first time 750 years ago.

We do not know what our ancestor described. The reason is simple. The witnesses are gone and the English dictionary hadn’t been invented yet.

I’m talking about the word-users as opposed to the wordless.

Because to the wordless — also known as nature — feel doesn’t make any difference as they don’t use words for self-evident reasons.

That said, when feel was invented 750 years ago, this happened just 0.00002% of the total 4,650,000,000 years ago when Earth was invented.

Put differently, feel didn’t exist during the first 99.99998% of Earth-Time.

How in the world did nature — the wordless — exist without it?

This is just 1 of the 1,001 questions remaining.

If you know the answer, please let me know.

Mystery

750 years later, in 2023, everbody can of course look up the origin of feel, its use, and how it is spelled on their smart phone thanks to the internet.

The Google Ngram Viewer is an online search engine that charts the frequencies of words in printed sources published between 1500 and 2019 in Google’s word corpora.

But all else is among the 1,001 open questions that remain shrouded in mystery to this day.

Among them, what feels, and why?

What feels, and why?

Sure, one of our ancestors invented feel.

But does that mean we are the only specie that feels?

If so, does it mean that nature — the wordless…

…don’t feel?

All will be revealed in an upcoming post.

In the meantime, if you have any idea or even know the answer, thank you for letting me know in advance.

How it all began

The mystery of feel gets us back to how it all began.

In the beginning is the word.

Though the word is in the beginning, it doesn’t describe the world.

The word describes only how each word-user sees the world, and so it is with feel.

Feel is no exception

0.00002% of Earth-Time ago, when feel was new, how many varieties did its inventor offer to its word-users?

We shall never know for the dictionary hadn’t been invented yet and the witnesses have died.

What we do know is that feelings have been around for thousands of years.

Though much water has gone under the bridge since, we still describe feelings in much the same way as the Greeks described theirs 2,800 years ago — comedy, tragedy, and drama to name a few.

The gods have different colors and genders and have been renumbered, renamed, and remade, but how we describe feelings today remains unchanged.

I don’t know about you, but I find this suprising.

Be it as it may, thanks to the contstancy in feelings, as opposed to the inconstant gods, we still know what feelings have been felt 2,800 years ago.

Strangely enough, we may feel our feelings are ours. That only goes to show how wrong feelings can be.

Feelings are in fact everybody’s.

Feelings are shared.

It’s been that way since before the invention of words 13,750 years ago.

More than anyone can feel

In 2023, there are more feelings on offer, with more added as we speak, than any word-user can feel between birth and death.

Instead of letting you get pulled down in yet another rabbit hole of more than anyone can handle, remember what counts.

The important

The only important feeling are good and bad.

Feel good, or bad.

By the end of the day, that’s all that counts.

Before you go to sleep, forget the rest.

You’ll be happy you did on the morrow.

Good versus bad

You need a new feeling only if you’re unhappy now.

If you feel serene every time you wake up, you’ll never need another feeling.

Feel the weight off of your shoulders?

(Feeling) good is better than (feeling) bad for several good reasons.

  • When it’s time to decide between feelings and logic, feelings almost always win.
  • Your feelings aren’t decided by what’s going on without you.
  • If that were the case, all word-users would feel the same.
  • Your feelings are decided within you.
  • It’s what you feel, not what you think, that determines what you pursue and what you avoid later today.

We buy on feelings and justify with logic.

What you feel is in the beginning and at the end of each of your stories, and the cycle begins anew.

Decide

Decide once and for all what you want to feel about anything and any event.

By that I mean what you feel or may feel about the world, the state the world is in, you, life, your life, circumstances, accidents, surprises, sailing, shipwrecks, freedom (or the lack thereof), other word-users, worries, crises, and whatever else you can think of.

Come rain or shine, anything at all.

Then decide.

Once and for all is more important than the decision.

Decide to feel eager for the moment, optimistic for the future, confident in that you are exactly when and where you are for more good reasons than you can imagine. The feeling that precedes breakthroughs, conquests, and euphoria. The feeling that makes dark days lighter and light days brighter.

Yes! That feeling, the feeling of serenity.

Well, what are you waiting for?

It doesn’t just come to you because you ordered it.

You must give it to yourself.

No other word or word-user can do it for you.

The fast track

  • Decide to feel serene before you need it, ahead of time.
  • In the evening, decide to feel serene tomorrow.
  • Instead of planning your days by what to do, plan your days by feeling serene.
  • Avoid word-users that feel great by making others small.
  • Repeat twice daily.

Should what you feel now differ from what you wish to feel by the end of the day, simply feel the end of the day now.

Takeaway

I’m not saying that feelings should be the purpose of existence.

All I’m saying is give feelings a chance.

If you don’t trust your feelings, who will?

Don’t forget

  • Feelings are among the greatest ever inventions.
  • Feelings serve knowing what’s going on within you and without you.
  • Thinking (about) feelings is a poor substitute for feeling, and if feelings were to be understood, they’d be called understandings.
  • The only time feelings are felt is now. Waste your nows but don’t waste your feelings.
  • Want to know what you feel? The answer will always come faster than you can ask the question from within.
  • Who decides what you feel? If not you, you know what you must do.

You can change your feelings as often as you like.

It’s easy to do which explains why many word-users do it several times a day, but don’t let that be your guide.

Feel serene all the time.

Be the master of your moments.

PS.

If you suffer from feeling depressed, you must seek professional help. It is hard to get out of depression on your own. Only your doctor can give you medical advice, for which this post is neither qualified nor designed.

Word is great, beautiful, and oh so fascinating

Word is great, beautiful, and oh so fascinating that some readers might expect it to be true.

Well, word is even greater, beautifuller, and fascinatinger than that.

Among the fascinating features of words is that’s what you’re looking at since this article began to the end, from its headline to its takeaway, and of course everything in between — nothing but words.

You can see them but you cannot touch ’em

As you read on, should you mistake my use of words to contain any truths, relax, it‘s a common mistake that happens in the best of families.

There are no truths here to be found.

The only thing you’ll find here are words.

More than a thousand in fact.

What you do with them is all up to you.

You’re in control.

Truth

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

If despite this you believe what’s told at kindergartens, schools, and universities, that means you’re among the many who believe in a beginning without an end.

That means you believe in the beginning is a big bang, a fictional character, or a mystery.

Though a beginning without an end is impossible, you won’t be arrested by the police. On the contrary, it only means that like the police you’re part of the majority.

Only if you’re part of the minority do you practice active noticing of what’s going on within you and without you.

Only a minority of word-users know how within you and without you began.

In the beginning is the word

That in the beginning is the word can be denied only by confirming it.

In other words, you cannot deny a word without using it.

But even so, a question remains for those of you who find it hard to believe in a beginning you may not have heard about or thought of previously.

“In the beginning of what?”

Naturally, the answer is “In the beginning of everything you have a word for.”

Other than that?

Other than in the beginning of everything we have a word for, what else is word?

Before you can even begin to understand word, there are two steps you might find hard to take.

  • Accept there is a difference between what word is, what word does, and what word has.
  • Accept there’s no difference between word and words.

In singular and plural they is/are, does/do, and has/have the identical.

When you accept that word and words are the same, you then also understand that how one word works is how all words work.

You are naturally free to not accept the two steps most word-users find hard to take, if at the same time you also accept that you won’t understand word and words in exchange.

You may even ask why which words allow given that why is among them.

One step at a time: Words ARE

Words are the latest in the chain of inventions made by the four elements — fire, wind, earth, and water — that also invented the planet, the cells, the plants, the animals, the eyes and the brains, before they proceded to also invent the words and us, the word-users.

I hear you.

“If so, how can the word be in the beginning?”

The word is in the beginning of words, also known as in the beginning of the After Words, and in the end of wordless, also known as in the end of the Before Words.

Put differently, the word is in the beginning of everything you know.

Everything you know

You know beginning because you know what beginning describes.
You know Mount Everest because you know what Mount Everest describes.
You know screw because you know what screw describes.
You know driver because you know what driver describes.
You know tool because you know what tool describes.

And so it is with everything you know.

What else?

Maybe the fact that the word is in the beginning (of everything you have a word for) doesn’t answer every question you might have about words.

Perhaps one more question remains at the back of what many word-users consider the back of your mind (whatever that is supposed to be).

“What else can you show me?”

Well, In addition to in the beginning, words are a tool.

Like any tool, words can work for you or they can kill you.

But that has got nothing to do with the tool. It all depends on what you do with it.

It’s not the word. It’s the user.

You’re in control.

Keep your word and many decisions are already made

In that sense, the word is no different to your ears, eyes, brains, hands, hair, and feet.

You are in control.

Better act as if, or you will be constantly getting in your own way which will wear you out in the long run.

Or “assume the virtue if you have it not” (William Shakespeare).

“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” (William Shakespeare)

And so it is with words.

A word by any other name is still a word.

While this applies to each of the “collins.co.uk analytical database with over 4.5 billion words”, it also particularly applies to the ones below.

Able, actual, anecdote, answer, artifact, belief, bible, break, change, chat, comma, communicate, concept, conspire, consult, context, contrast, contranym, convention, converse, conversation, correspond, co-respond, data, dictionary, discussion, encyclopedia, epic, fables, fake, frame, god, gossip, grammar, grammatic, grapheme, graphic, high, history, hyphen, I (capitalized 750 years ago to mark it as a word), information, intelligence, internet, isolation, james bond, jargon, key, knowledge, label, language, legend, letter, lie, life, linguistic, literally, me, meme, meaning, metaphor, morpheme, name, narrative, news, normal, note, objective, ortho, para, parable, paragraph, parser, period, phoneme, phonetic, phonologic, phrase, play, practic, private, public, secondary, sequence, speech, spoken, question, quote, really, reality, report, response, saga, school, sentence, silence, stimulus, sound, statement, story, symbol, synonym, talk, testament, text, theory, theoretic, thesaurus, thing, think, thought, truth, understand, unique, universe, university, uttered, value, verb, verse, vocabulary, wisdom, wise, wordless, work, world, worm, worry, worth, write, yarn, and you, to name a few.

Words are not

To see what words are not, click https://tinyurl.com/ytasu8cf

More

More about words — what words do and what words have — will be topics of upcoming posts.

In the meantime, if you have any clues, ideas or insights, please let me know.

Thank you in advance!

Takeaway

2 free flip-books of quotes worth reading twice selected for you by SchindlersWord for you to keep

https://tinyurl.com/3vpxsr9d
https://tinyurl.com/4dc9y8by

Words are not

Words are not what the world-wide-web, the internet, and the smart phones are telling you

Here are a few examples of many

Wikipedia (the free encyclopedia & world’s most-read reference work with 2.5 billion unique visitors a month)

“Word: Part of a series on Linguistics, General linguistics, Applied linguistics, Theoretical frameworks. In linguistics, a word of a spoken language can be defined as the smallest sequence of phonemes that can be uttered in isolation with objective or practical meaning. In many languages, words also correspond to sequences of graphemes (“letters”) in their standard writing systems that are delimited by spaces wider than the normal inter-letter space, or by other graphical conventions.[1] The concept of “word” is usually distinguished from that of a morpheme, which is the smallest unit of word which has a meaning, even if it will not stand on its own together or in other small words. In many languages, the notion of what constitutes a “word” may be learned as part of learning the writing system.[1] This is the case for the English language, and for most languages that are written with alphabets derived from the ancient Latin or Greek alphabets. There still remains no consensus among linguists about the proper definition of “word” in a spoken language that is independent of its writing system, nor about the precise distinction between it and “morpheme”.[1] This issue is particularly debated for Chinese and other languages of East Asia,[2] and may be moot [clarification needed] for Afro-Asiatic languages. In English orthography, the letter sequences “rock”, “god”, “write”, “with”, “the”, “not” are considered to be single-morpheme words, whereas “rocks”, “ungodliness”, “typewriter”, and “cannot” are words composed of two or more morphemes (“rock”+”s”, “un”+”god”+”li”+”ness”, “type”+”writ”+”er”, and “can”+”not”). In English and many other languages, the morphemes that make up a word generally include at least one root (such as “rock”, “god”, “type”, “writ”, “can”, “not”) and possibly some affixes (“-s”, “un-“, “-ly”, “-ness”). Words with more than one root (“[type][writ]er”, “[cow][boy]s”, “[tele][graph]ically”) are called compound words.” Words are combined to form other elements of language, such as phrases (“a red rock”, “put up with”), clauses (“I threw a rock”), and sentences (“I threw a rock, but missed”).”

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary

“Word: A speech sound or series of speech sounds that symbolizes and communicates a meaning usually without being divisible into smaller units capable of independent use.”

The Oxford Learner’s Dictionary

“Word: A single unit of language that means something and can be spoken or written.”

Etymology Online

“Word: Speech, talk, utterance, sentence, statement, news, report, word.”

Thesaurus

“Word: discussion. Synonyms for word: conversation, talk, chat, chitchat, colloquy, confab, confabulation, consultation, discussion, tête-à-tête.”

ChatGPT

“A word is a unit of language that carries meaning and consists of one or more spoken or written sounds or symbols. It is the basic building block of communication and allows us to convey ideas, thoughts, and emotions.”

Also

Words are not language.

Who mistakes words for language doesn’t know the first thing about eihter

Note

This “Words are not” page has last been updated in October, 2023.

A thousand questions remaining. Exploring the origins of feel.

The origin of feel

Feel has fascinated the word-users ever since one of our ancestors described with feel what s/he saw for the first time 750 years ago.

We do not know what our ancestor described. The reason is simple. The witnesses are gone and the English dictionary hadn’t been invented yet.

I’m talking about the word-users as opposed to the wordless.

Because to the wordless — also known as nature — feel doesn’t make any difference as they don’t use words for self-evident reasons.

That said, when feel was invented 750 years ago, this happened just 0.00002% of the total 4,650,000,000 years ago when Earth was invented.

Put differently, feel didn’t exist during the first 99.99998% of Earth-Time.

How in the world did nature — the wordless — exist without it?

This is just 1 of the 1,001 questions remaining.

If you know the answer, please let me know.

Mystery

750 years later, in 2023, everybody can of course look up the origin of feel, its use, and how it is spelled on their smart phone thanks to the internet.

The Google Ngram Viewer is an online search engine that charts the frequencies of words in printed sources published between 1500 and 2019 in Google’s word corpora.

But all else is among the 1,001 open questions that remain shrouded in mystery to this day.

Among them, what feels, and why?

What feels, and why?

Sure, one of our ancestors invented feel.

But does that mean we are the only specie that feels?

If so, does it mean that nature — the wordless…

…don’t feel?

All will be revealed in an upcoming post.

In the meantime, if you have any idea or even know the answer, thank you for letting me know in advance.

How it all began

The mystery of feel gets us back to how it all began.

In the beginning is the word.

Though the word is in the beginning, it doesn’t describe the world.

The word describes only how each word-user sees the world, and so it is with feel.

Feel is no exception

0.00002% of Earth-Time ago, when feel was new, how many varieties did its inventor offer to its word-users?

We shall never know for the dictionary hadn’t been invented yet and the witnesses have died.

What we do know is that feelings have been around for thousands of years.

Though much water has gone under the bridge since, we still describe feelings in much the same way as the Greeks described theirs 2,800 years ago — comedy, tragedy, and drama to name a few.

The gods have different colors and genders and have been renumbered, renamed, and remade, but how we describe feelings today remains unchanged.

I don’t know about you, but I find this suprising.

Be it as it may, thanks to the contstancy in feelings, as opposed to the inconstant gods, we still know what feelings have been felt 2,800 years ago.

Strangely enough, we may feel our feelings are ours. That only goes to show how wrong feelings can be.

Feelings are in fact everybody’s.

Feelings are shared.

It’s been that way since before the invention of words 13,750 years ago.

More than anyone can feel

In 2023, there are more feelings on offer, with more added as we speak, than any word-user can feel between birth and death.

Instead of letting you get pulled down in yet another rabbit hole of more than anyone can handle, remember what counts.

The important

The only important feeling are good and bad.

Feel good, or bad.

By the end of the day, that’s all that counts.

Before you go to sleep, forget the rest.

You’ll be happy you did on the morrow.

Good versus bad

You need a new feeling only if you’re unhappy now.

If you feel serene every time you wake up, you’ll never need another feeling.

Feel the weight off of your shoulders?

(Feeling) good is better than (feeling) bad for several good reasons.

  • When it’s time to decide between feelings and logic, feelings almost always win.
  • Your feelings aren’t decided by what’s going on without you.
  • If that were the case, all word-users would feel the same.
  • Your feelings are decided within you.
  • It’s what you feel, not what you think, that determines what you pursue and what you avoid later today.

We buy on feelings and justify with logic.

What you feel is in the beginning and at the end of each of your stories, and the cycle begins anew.

Decide

Decide once and for all what you want to feel about anything and any event.

By that I mean what you feel or may feel about the world, the state the world is in, you, life, your life, circumstances, accidents, surprises, sailing, shipwrecks, freedom (or the lack thereof), other word-users, worries, crises, and whatever else you can think of.

Come rain or shine, anything at all.

Then decide.

Once and for all is more important than the decision.

Decide to feel eager for the moment, optimistic for the future, confident in that you are exactly when and where you are for more good reasons than you can imagine. The feeling that precedes breakthroughs, conquests, and euphoria. The feeling that makes dark days lighter and light days brighter.

Yes! That feeling, the feeling of serenity.

Well, what are you waiting for?

It doesn’t just come to you because you ordered it.

You must give it to yourself.

No other word or word-user can do it for you.

The fast track

  • Decide to feel serene before you need it, ahead of time.
  • In the evening, decide to feel serene tomorrow.
  • Instead of planning your days by what to do, plan your days by feeling serene.
  • Avoid word-users that feel great by making others small.
  • Repeat twice daily.

Should what you feel now differ from what you wish to feel by the end of the day, simply feel the end of the day now.

Takeaway

I’m not saying that feelings should be the purpose of existence.

All I’m saying is give feelings a chance.

If you don’t trust your feelings, who will?

Don’t forget

  • Feelings are among the greatest ever inventions.
  • Feelings serve knowing what’s going on within you and without you.
  • Thinking (about) feelings is a poor substitute for feeling, and if feelings were to be understood, they’d be called understandings.
  • The only time feelings are felt is now. Waste your nows but don’t waste your feelings.
  • Want to know what you feel? The answer will always come faster than you can ask the question from within.
  • Who decides what you feel? If not you, you know what you must do.

You can change your feelings as often as you like.

It’s easy to do which explains why many word-users do it several times a day, but don’t let that be your guide.

Feel serene all the time.

Be the master of your moments.

PS.

If you suffer from feeling depressed, you must seek professional help. It is hard to get out of depression on your own. Only your doctor can give you medical advice, for which this post is neither qualified nor designed.

The science of getting what you want – the friendly way

If you’re not familiar with the science of getting what you want, not to worry. It happens to the best of families.

Simply join the club of the unfamiliar and learn what the science of getting what you want is all about instead.

The science of getting what you want is not about the short attention spans we’re getting used to more than ever before or so it seems.

On the contrary, knowing the activities or topics that interest you, engage you, or even excite your passion for the short run is a waste of energy and time as the short will be over before the week is over and then you have to do it all over again.

Knowing what interests you, engages you and ignites your inner flame — the experience you deserve for the rest of your journey between birth and death — makes sense only if done for the long run, for your entire journey. You want it to last once and for all.

Many word-users that struggle with knowing what they want. For them, it feels like climbing a mountain.

I should know what climbing a mountain feels like for I’ve been among the confused for a long time myself.

Beyond every horizon there is always more to see, and so my activities, topics of interests, and passions changed accordingly.

“What win I if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy?
Who buys a minute’s myrth to wail a week, or seeks eternity to get a toy?
For one sweet grape who will divine destroy?” – Shakespeare

I know from personal experience that the short run will only wear you out in the long run.

Finally, to get a grip on what I want beyond the shadow of a doubt, I’ve read the self-help books and attended the motivational speaker seminars so you don’t have to.

Now I’m a motivational coach myself that’s telling you that the science of getting what you want is not a mountain to climb.

On the contrary, it is effortless if you hang on to the end of this post.

For your benefit

Take note that this post contains no truths, only words, and what you do with them is all up to you.

I can help for I know my words well before I write them, but I can’t do it for you, nor can anybody else.

When it’s time to decide what words are true or not, there’s no candle in the window.

You’ve got to find your own way home.

Belief

What do you better accept about belief?

Well, you better accept that:

  • Nothing happens until it is believed
  • Nothing is believed until it’s true
  • The only one who can believe whether it is true (or not) is you
  • Nobody else can do it for you.

Nothing happens

When you envision what you want daily and you believe that it will manifest sooner or later with all your heart, and when in at least some small way you prepare for its arrival, yet still nothing happens, then you know as the stars above, that this won’t happen in a million years.

Once you have decided that you are eager enough to achieve what you want…

  • To be what you want to be
  • To do what you want to do
  • To have what you want to have

…means that you will take baby steps in the direction of what you deserve, rather than face another day without.

When it’s true that what you seek is seeking you, then you can’t help but open the floodgates.

“The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves, too.” – Johann Wolfgang Goethe
“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King Jr

The 5 hour rule

Many of the constant learners abide by the 5-hour rule:

  • 1 hour a day on every weekday.
  • Wake up early to read and write.
  • Set personal-growth goals and track the results.
  • Create/maintain a club for like-minded word-users that hope to help improve themselves and others.
  • Turn your ideas into experiments.
  • Plan your next day before you go to sleep the night before.

Each time the constant learners take time out of their busy days to follow the 5 hour rule, they accomplished less on that day. But in the long run it’s the best investment of the energy and time you can make.

“When there is no wall, there is no need of a window.” – Rumi

What you want

To understand what you want, waking up was a good first step, highly recommended, but not enough.

We’re all in this together.

It takes more to know what you want.

To know what you want beyond the shadow of a doubt, you must learn active noticing, which includes active listening, because it is the quickest way to pay the bulk of your attention to noticing what’s happening within you and without you.

When you do, you clearly see or rediscover, as the case may be, that you’ve responded to your most pressing wants since before you arrived into this world.

The ability to respond

Not only have you responded to your most pressing wants since before you were born, you’re doing it now, 100% of the time, whether you know it, are aware of it, or like it or not, or you wouldn’t be here.

Therefore, it follows that to know what you want, all you you’ve got to do is figure out what your most pressing wants will be for the rest of your journey because the only way to influence the rest of your journey is by the decisions you’re making today.

One of the big benefits of knowing WHAT you want is that many HOW decisions are made already before they even have a chance to show up.

What you want, part 2

We all want our sugar sweet, our salt salty. In other words, everything you can want, and then some, is on a permanent buffet far beyond anything you can imagine. That’s because the buffet has got nothing to do with our fleeting existence. It’s been there for as long as anyone remembers.
From this buffet of infinite possibilities, you can want to…

  • Be somebody else (they’ve got to walk in their own shoes)
  • Be free
  • Own it all (where would you put it?)
  • Have everything money can buy
  • Have certainty (in an uncertain world)
  • Make the world a better place
  • Make you a better you
  • __________________________________________(fill the blank)

Nobody said it would be easy, but as you can clearly see, it isn’t hard either.

There is a space between each of your wants and your response. In this space you are free to decide your decision. That is where your freedom is.

You can even ask why, of course, that’s the beauty of freedom.

Never back down or compromise?

To get what you want, is it better to hold fast and never back down, or to compromise?

I think it’s best to hold fast when you can, and to compromise when you need to, but maybe that’s more than you asked for.

Simply do what’s right at the right time.

Step 1

The first step to getting what you want is having the courage to leave what you no longer want.

On top of that, it’s also wise never to ask another for what you want. Don’t ask me. Don’t even ask yourself. Just give thanks instead, in advance, as if you already had whatever the old you would have asked for.

Energy

Everything is energy.

Everything energy invented…

At the end of the chain of evolution, you explains why you respond 100% of the time, too. Like everything before you.

Like everything before you, the ability to respond is not something you had to learn.

On top of that, you’re 70% water.

An like the water before, you dance to music long before you know that it would later be a word.

We’re all in this together.

I could be wrong as I have been so many times before.

Can you feel it, too?

Tallyho.

Communication techniques for achieving what you want

Communication is a fundamental aspect on your journey from birth to death. What do birth and death mean? What does what you want describe?

The most important communication by the use of words is with yourself. Other communication techniques are important too, but nothing trumps communicating what you want with yourself.

If you don’t love yourself, asking for somebody else to love you instead would be asking for the impossible which everybody knows isn’t fair.

The same applies to what you want. Expecting others to know what that is, would be disrespectful.

Actions speak louder than words

Non-verbal communication, such as body language and facial expressions, can have a significant impact on how what you want is perceived.

Pay attention to your non-verbal cues. Listen with a smile, concentrate on having fun, relax and maintain an open posture. By utilizing actions that speak louder than words, you can enhance how what you want is getting across to others.

Empathy

Developing empathy is crucial when aiming to get what you want in a friendly manner.

Put yourself in the other word-user’s shoes. By seeking to understand their motivations, concerns, and limitations, you show that you value their perspective and are willing to find mutually beneficial solutions.

Empathy fosters healthy relationships, making it easier to work towards your desired outcomes together.

Negotiation

Negotiations with yourself and others is often an integral part of getting what you want, especially when dealing with conflicting interests between you and the world.

However, negotiation does not have to be confrontational or adversarial.

By employing getting to yes negotiation skills, you can facilitate a win-win outcome that satisfies all parties involved, and the chances of you getting what you want.

Takeaway

Getting what you want in a friendly way involves active noticing.

That is the quickest way to knowing what’s going on within you and without you.

That is what you respond to.

100% of the time.

The rest — response-ability, choice, compromise, step 1, energy, communication, actions, empathy, and negotiation — is technique.

Active noticing is what getting what you want is all about.

Hold on fast. I’m about to dish out the exciting details about the first and cleverest sign in the Chinese zodiac, the rat!

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My Chinese zodiac sign is the rat which is the first and cleverest sign of the Chinese zodiac twelve-year cycle.

I find the rat — an animal — describes me well. It is an accurate personality test and my character is, indeed, a classic zodiac type rat.

One of the rat’s chief traits is an exaggerated duty of care for the world within and without.

For most word-users born in the year of the rat, this usually extends to both the wordy (the word-users) and the wordless also known as nature.

However, as a researcher and author, this concern for the well-being of others appears to extend to all things within and without.

In essence, SchindlersWord and Limitless Opportunities, for better or for worse, is a weird paternal instinct to combating ignorance, gone berserk.

Another impulse

I also have another impulse which I hope is more common, and that is to treat everything with equal respect, regardless of wordless or word-user, and if the latter, regardless of age, race, gender, or sexuality.

That said, I make an exception for word-users bent on returning us to the dark ages of religion — as if the year 2023, and human rights, and those of us fighting for them, were just a pipe dream. I’m not ready to die for what I know.

The dark age of religion and of religious despots beheading their people remains a fact of life in far too many places on planet Earth today.

The best place on Earth

I reside in one of the best places on Earth to reside

However, I find it difficult to accept that even in a place like this, parents who beat their children will have questions to answer to the police.

Yet religious parents who enforce the wearing of headscarves on their girls — parents who degrade the dignity and self-esteem of their children routinely — run free at the same time with no end in sight.

Why would parents who never graduated hold on to religious beliefs taught at schools?

Isn’t graduation a hallmark of adulthood?

Church and state

I defend the separation of church and state, and also everybody’s rights, of the wordless and the word-users alike.

Naturally, I see the world as a collection of individuals that are unique like every other individual.

I look at every word-user behavior as either a caring response or a cry for help.

All word-users are unique in their brokenness and have at their core the same belief that everybody and everything is a diamond in the rough.

The state of the world

I am ever so slightly uncertain as to where I am supposed to stand on the state of the world.

It seems to me that the word-users are the most insane species.

They worship an invisible god and destroy a visible nature, unaware that this nature they’re destroying is this god they’re worshiping.

In other words, the word-users are currently waging war against nature that if we win, we are lost.

Why stand?

I’m also not sure why I am supposed to stand anywhere.

I’m not saying that treating everything with dignity and respect is easy. All I’m saying is it doesn’t have to be this hard.

I care for and wish everything the best. I feel toward everyone that same duty of care that I feel toward all that exists within my sphere. I also wish for everything — wordless or word-user — every right to exist with dignity and free, devoid of violence and prejudice.

As a researcher and author, it is a privilege to express myself in writing, inclusive of the vitality that words offer, and to observe myself and others transcend themselves.

It moves me to witness and understand that each of us is uniquely strange in our uniqueness, yet under the sway of a greater intelligence than any word-users can imagine — the intelligence of fire, air, earth, and water.

That is the research and the words great gift and revelation.

Think about it, in the beginning is the word.

More about it at my upcoming seminar

The beauty of simplicity: Understanding the past through the lens of stimulus response

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The vast expanse of Earth’s past can be written in a simple little formula.

Stimulus, Response.

Creation, Evolution, Invention

The events that have transformed our planet can be described as creations, evolutions, or inventions.

Who says de-scribe says it takes a scribe to de-scribe anything, and the only specie on Earth that uses words to de-scribe creations, evolutions, or inventions are we, the word-users.

Everybody knows that words don’t de-scribe the world, but that words only de-scribe how the word-users de-scribe what we’re looking at.

This is why the events that led up to you and me are de-scribed as creation, evolution, or inventions, that the world is de-scribed as inexistent, flat, round, small, or what’s next, and why you is described as inexistent, ancestor, human, homo sapiens, word-user, or whatever will be next.

Don’t underestimate the impact of words

Don’t underestimate the impact of words on you, which is easily done by those that ignore that everything they know is a word.

Words decide how you see you, and that when you change how you look at words, you change.

Stimulus response

Stimulus and our responses do not only explain what’s going on right now, but they also explain everything that happened in the past 4.65 billion years. By examining the past through the lens of stimulus response, we can understand the otherwise difficult to understand events of the past and how they continue to impact the world today.

The past

When we delve into the past and present, it becomes clear that there is a Before Words and an After Words.

The Before Words has taken up the first 99.9997% of the 4.65 billion years since the invention of Earth.

That means the After Words has been around for the most recent 0.0003% of the 4.65 billion years only.

In other words, the words and word-users have been invented 3/1000th of an Earth-Time second before midnight only.

To see what the words together with the word-users have achieved in these 3/1000th of an Earth-Time second, it’s enough to watch the news.

Past analysis

When we undertake an analysis of what happened in the past 4.65 billion years, we start to see what Vilfredo Pareto already saw 137 years ago, namely that roughly 80% of the responses come from 20% the vital few stimuli (stimuli being the plural of stimulus).

When read from top to bottom, the above depicted events are in complicated ways de-scribed as creation, evolution, or inventions.

But when read from bottom to top, the same events are simply the response to each preceding stimulus.

“Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections, and you can keep your sterile truths for yourself.” – Vilfredo Pareto

The complicated explanation of the past leads to intricate webs of cause and effect that underlie the stimulus response throughout time, realms, primary sources, scholarly research, subtle nuances, social, cultural, and political dynamics, deep layers of complexity beneath the surface, diverse perspectives, psychology, multifaceted responses, beliefs, adversity, ideologies, and comprehensive narratives that shed light on the motivations of creation, evolution, or inventions depending on how this chain of events that led to today — including the Before Words and the After Words — is de-scribed.

To each their own. I think inventions de-scribes it best when I’m the scribe.

The beauty of simple

Down the path less traveled it’s obvious that each step is simply the response to the preceding.

In this way, the beauty of simplicity that emerges.

Among the chaos, we find that the most impactful events — such as the invention of the words which revolutionized evolution — are rooted in the simple yet powerful formula of “Stimulus, Response”.

This simple formula is the driving force behind all creation, evolution, and inventions.

The beauty of simplicity is not limited to the Before Words (99.9997% of Earth Time) or the After Words (0.0003% of Earth Time) but can be observed across the entire 4.65 billion years since the invention of Earth.

It applies equally to the invention of the brains in response to the earlier invention of the eyes, as to the invention of liberty-equality-fraternity in response to the French revolution.

By embracing simplicity, we gain a better understanding of how it all began, of what happened since the beginning, and of what’s going on as we speak.

The beauty of simple reminds us that intelligence is not within us, in our heads, but without us, in the energy of the fire, air, earth and water that invented Earth and everything that followed, including us.

Takeaway

Should you against all expectations not sing along to this hymn of all things simple, then perhaps the things that others are saying about simple may motivate you to join the choir.

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Decision-making: A guide for those who can’t decide whether they want to read this article or not

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While there is no one-size-fits-all approach to decision-making, if you ask the internet, ChatGPT, or other forms of AI, they will want you to believe that decision-making is a complicated, complex, multifaceted process.

I’m not saying decisions are easy. All I’m saying is it doesn’t have to be this hard.

Good and bad

Between a bad and a good decision is no difference. They both feel equally right at the right time.

With hindsight we convince ourselves, and others, that every bad decision was caused by something bad in turn. But when we pay attention to the road ahead, we accept that we will never know what’s up around the bend or behind a new horizon.

Therefore, relax. Had you ever made a bad decision on your journey between birth and death before, you wouldn’t be here.

Take a deep breath and let’s dive right in.

The good news

The good news is that we can get better at our decisions. All it takes is more bad decisions. If you make enough bad decisions, it is inevitable that some good decisions will slip through which isn’t known to ever have failed yet.

Learn from mistakes

Wrong decisions are an inevitable part of the get-it-right process. Remember you learned to walk by falling.

Dwelling on the falls will only wear you out in the long run.

Big vs small

All decisions are not the same. On the contrary, the vital few are a few and far between, and the majority of decisions are small and unimportant.

If that reminds you of the Pareto principle which states that the vital few outcomes will always come from a few causes, great! If not, “Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections, and you can keep your sterile truths for yourself” (Vilfredo Pareto).

What

Your vital few outcomes will always come from a vital few decisions.

These are your BIG decisions from atop the pyramid.

BIG decisions are about the WHAT and about the long term (as opposed to the cursed HOW and the short term).

Unless you want to start with the HOW decisions at the bottom of the pyramid, let’s begin with your WHAT decisions first.

Know what you want

For that it helps knowing that you’ve responded to your most pressing wants since before you were born. And you respond as we speak — whether you know it, are aware of it, or like it, or not.

In other words, to get your BIG decisions made, all you must do is figure out your most pressing wants for the later part of your journey. Not because it will be later, but because the only way to influence your later is by your decisions now.

When you know WHAT you want, many HOW down the road are already decided before they show up.

What YOU want

What YOU want is the BIGgest decision atop the pyramid.

Everything you want to imagine is on a permanent buffet free for the taking far beyond anything you can imagine.

It’s permanent because it’s got nothing to do with whether you and me exist or not.

What’s temporary is your existence, hence your decisions. You only exist once and there’s no freedom in whether you decide or not. Every time you don’t decide, you’ve already made a decision anyway. You can ask why of course, because that’s the beauty of no freedom.

This explains, among other things, why you’ve decided your most pressing wants since before you were born, and why you’ve been doing it ever since, 100% of the time.

At the risk of repetition, you are not free to not decide, and that’s whether you love it, know it, or are aware of it, or not. There’s nothing you can do about it, or you wouldn’t be here.

What YOU want: Part 2

You may want to…

  • Own it all (where would you put it?)
  • Know it all (knowing there’s always more to know)
  • Have everything money can buy
  • Be somebody else (they’ve got to walk in their own shoes)
  • Be certain in an uncertain world
  • Be free
  • Make the world a better place
  • Make you a better you
  • ________________________ (fill the blank)

Nobody said it would be easy. But it doesn’t have to be this hard.

All you’ve got to do is decide once and for all.

The common mistake

The common mistake word-users make with decisions is deciding them over and over again. If that’s you, then your decision-making process looks like the one on the right.

I don’t know you. I don’t know how long it will last. But the graph on the right will wear you out in the long run.

Freedom

There is a space between the demand for a decision and your response. In this space you are free to decide your decision. That is where your freedom is.

Feel

To take advantage of your freedom, trust your feelings.

Your feelings decide what you go after and what you avoid. That’s because when we must decide between feelings and logic, feelings almost always win.

Heart

To be free, also embrace your heart.

“Where is fancy bred… in the heart or in the head?” – Shakespeare

What about in crisis mode?

Is a fresh crisis brewing? Good!

You have survived every crisis to-date, with a 100% success rate to boot, or you wouldn’t be reading this.

In crisis mode – with your back against the wall – you don’t decide based on what you know. In a crisis, you decide based on what you re-member only.

The best thing about crises is they are devastating only if you believe they will last forever and you know from personal experience they never do.

Why wait for a next crisis? You can focus on a small sphere and achieve a 100% success rate anytime. If that’s what you want.

Seek advice

When faced with a difficult decision, don’t be afraid to seek advice from friends within and without your family, but be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt. That said, even the internet can offer fresh perspectives you may have overlooked.

Most important

When it’s decision time, it’s all up to you. No other word and no other person can decide for you.

At decision time there’s no candle in the window. You’ve got to find your own way home.

Takeaway

Congratulations! You’ve made it to the end of this decision-making guide for those who couldn’t decide, a couple of minutes ago whether they wanted to read this article or not.

With words I can help, after all that’s what im here for, but the decision of what you do with them is all up to you.

Whether you’ve gained any useful insights or are now even more confused than before, remember that no other word nor other person can make decisions for you.

There’s no one-size-fits-all approach. The most important is to have fun along the way.

There’s more

To get even better a decision-making, consider taking part in my seminar that will also be offered as an online webinar in the not too-distant future.

How to overcome doubt in what you are

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Many word-users are still in doubt about what they are.

The perfect storm

It seems the perfect storm is upon us.

“Nothing endures but change. Change alone is unchanging.” – Heraclitus

Sure, but right now things are changing faster than ever before and artificial intelligence is just another spike in the wheel of change that’s turning at incredible speed as we speak.

Perfectly unprepared in their abilities to respond, an ever-increasing number of word-users don’t have a clue of what the changes are, let alone how to keep up with them.

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin

All this for a simple reason.

Word-users in large numbers don’t remember where their ability to respond comes from.

Ashes to ashes

“Ashes to ashes” and alternatively “dust to dust” are the most successful and longest-lasting lies ever repeated, to ensure all listeners believe it, even the liars themselves, with no end in sight.

Once a lie is a habit, everybody knows what that means.

You can’t tell the difference between what is and what is not.

If that’s you

If you can’t tell the difference between the lie and what is, you might take comfort in knowing that you are energy, fire, air, earth, and water.

By stating what is (as opposed to a lie), my days as a member of the “Popular Word-Users Club” are numbered. I know and accept it as the price to pay for stating what is contrary to lies.

As you might guess, I don’t care much for popular belief for it was adopted long ago with no thought and that’s where lies got us.

I don’t mean the world, as beautiful as ever. I mean what we’re doing to it. And to each other.

“There is a war between the rich and poor.
There is a war between the man and the woman.
There is a war between the left and right.
There is a war between the black and white.
There is a war between the odd and the even.
There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.”
– Leonard Cohen

“Currently, man is waging war against nature. If he wins, he is lost.” – Hubert Reeves

The subject matter is quite well-known.

Energy

Everything being energy it’s only natural that our planet has been created by the energy of the sun transformed into the four elements that created our planet — the fire, air, earth, and water.

Everything after that, also known as evolution, is also the work of fire, air, earth, and water.

With the exception of WORDS, but that’s a different story entirely that I’ll get around to telling another day.

You

That means you are energy, fire, air, earth, and water, too.

Among other things, it means that you are intelligent.

Intelligence

Where do you think your intelligence comes from?

You had the intelligence to make yourself from scratch when you were still just a single cell that split itself in two. Despite that, do you think your intelligence comes from books or from what you learned at school?

Or do you think your intelligence is in your head and can be measured?

When I was just a child, many moons ago, I thought so too.

I thought my intelligence was in my head in the same way as music was in the radio. So I took my mum’s knitting needles and stuck them into my family’s then-modern radio. Convinced that there was a tiny symphony orchestra inside that tiny radio, I believed my innovative use of my mum’s knitting needles would sooner or later cause someone to screech “Stop it! It hurts!”

I didn’t.

In the meantime, I learned why that is.

Takeaway

Your intelligence is the intelligence of the energy in the fire, air, earth, and water in you, yet it’s not within you. On the contrary, it’s without you and cannot be measured.

Intelligence is infinite.

And so are you.

“If you make friends with yourself, you will never be alone.” – Maxwell Maltz

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Are you missing this work-life balance essential ingredient?

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All stories — be it the story of how it all began, the story of you, or the story of anything else — have one thing in common.

They are best understood by the simple formula of “Stimulus, Response”.

“Stimulus=Response” is never-ending.

That’s because the universe is energy which responds to itself.

You and your work-life balance are no exception.

You respond

Like everything else you have a word for, information is stimulus to which you respond.

You respond to information within you and without you, at the same time.

Information from within you may include your blood flowing, your heart beating, or your lungs breathing. Much of the time you’re not even aware, but had you failed to respond to every exhale with an inhale within minutes, you wouldn’t be here.

Information from without you is identical, everything you have a word for.

Many word-users don’t like to admit that we respond to words that may include things such as quiet, news, fake news, stories that happened, stories that didn’t happen, words that happened, and words that didn’t happen, to name a few.

Ignorance isn’t a choice

You can be ignorant any time. The same is true for any word-user. That’s because ignorance isn’t a choice. Ignorance is a decision.

When you decide to ignore the fact you’re in a constant state of ”Information=Response”…

…means you’re missing an essential ingredient to your work-life balance.

Because the results you achieve on your journey depend entirely on your ability to respond to information, your ability to respond is the bottleneck on your journey so to speak.

All of your other abilities together — of which there are over 500 in total, if you trust the dictionary, which I don’t recommend — have only one purpose, to serve your ability to respond.

Your ability to respond to information is on top of the totem pole.

When you increase your ability to respond, all of your other abilities follow suit, meaning they also increase, if you’re lucky at the same time.

Information

Information can be measured, they want us to believe.

I don’t know about you, but I believe that all the truths on our planet add up to one big lie

In the unlikely event you’re not familiar with bytes, we the people operate on words — letterally made of letters as opposed to literally made of liters, but the machines operate on qubits — a basic unit of quantum information made of strings of 1 and 0 that can be both 0 and 1 at the same time — dubbed “Spooky action at a distance” by Albert Einstein.

These qubits of information are stored in machine units that go by the name of bytes.

1 byte = 1 byte
1 gigabyte = 1,000,000,000 bytes
1 exabyte = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes

Should you wonder what all of this means, as I did only to discover that if 1 gigabyte is the size of Earth, then an exabyte is the size of the Sun.

The Sun is 1,287,000 times bigger than the Earth

Those who want you to believe that information can be measured say that billions of people rely on more than 2.5 exabytes of information generated every day and that by 2025, that number is expected to climb to 463 exabytes of daily information.

They’re also proclaiming that all of this information will need somewhere to go.

It better not be you

It better not be you because you’re obviously unable to respond to daily exabytes of information today.

It’s not just about you of course. We’re all in this daily information avalanche together.

Do you think you can respond to even more information tomorrow, and if so, how does thinking such thoughts work for you and your work-life balance?

Do you believe more information than you can handle is a good passenger to have on your ship? Or do you think it will wear you out in the long run?

Who is putting on who?

Is it the people who want you to believe that information can be measured?

Or is it you who believe it?

Who is putting on who?

Relax

It doesn’t matter.

Your ability to respond to information is on top of the totem pole.

When you increase your ability to respond to information, all of your other abilities follow suit.

Your ability to respond, no other ability even comes close.

What happens just before a beginning?

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In the beginning is the word

I don’t remember exactly the first time I’ve heard it said that in the beginning is the word.

I was young, Everybody older than me knew about it but didn’t seem to care. When I asked “What does it mean?” the word-users around me yadda-yadded as usual but offered no answer

Many beginnings have gone under the bridge of tradition since, but it’s still only the young ones that ask “What does in the beginning is the word mean?” The grownup still do their yadda-yadda while conveniently forgetting they’ve asked that same question when they were young themselves.

You

After a bunch of brainless cells — how did they know without a day at school? — made you from scratch, you learned to be born, to walk, to word, and finally to ask why.

During your why-days that drove everybody around you crazy, you had no idea that in the beginning is the word. That’s not something the parents say to their children after they have only just learned their first words

And when you asked what happened just before the word during your school days, nobody told you because the story of words isn’t told at school. The school boards continue to be run by word-users that read only one book, and the subject matter of religion is rather well-known.

Trying to add 1+1 together, I concluded there was no beginning before words. With beginning a word, how could it have happened?

The word

It’s rumored that in the beginning is the word was written down 1711 years ago, presumably on paper that in turn had been invented 1918 years ago.

1711 years ago, in the beginning is the word was written in words other than English because Modern English words got invented only 1261 later, 473 years ago.

Be it as it may, “there is magic in every beginning” said Hermann Hesse some 123 years ago. I can but speculate it was this type of magic when in the beginning is the word was recorded 1711 years ago.

Our ancestors knew

When 1711 years ago, our ancestors wrote for everything that could read to clearly see that in the beginning is the word, they knew beyond the shadow of a doubt exactly what they were talking about.

1711 years later, we’ve still only just begun to rediscover that in the beginning of everything is, in fact, a word.

  • Everything you can think of — a word.
  • Everything you have a word for — a word.
  • Everything you know — a word.
  • Everything you respond to — a word.
  • Everything you respond with — a word.

It’s not just about you of course.

We’re all in this together.

Call it a dream, it makes no difference,

2016

Back in 2016, I rediscovered that everything is a word and have since written books about it.

Imagine that!

When I don’t research and write my books, I have a habit of asking my fellow word-users what difference it would make if they thought about their words as much as they thought about their thoughts.

How much thinking would it save them?

How many decisions would already be made?

I’ll work till I fall doing what I do best only for the sensation while doing it till I can do it no more.

Almost no one is interested and most of them turn their backs on me.

I meanwhile clearly know it’s because while everybody has heard that in the beginning is the word, nobody knows what it means, and using words makes it a hard message to get across.

“What a word is, a sentence cannot say.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating.” – Patrick Rothfuss

At the risk of repeating myself

I recognize the treasure I have in front of me.

Now I am left for what according to some of my friends has been written in the stars long ago, that I’m strong enough to get the job done, and that I will not rest for there’s never been anything like it.

To get the job done, my last Limitless Opportunities seminar has only just ended and the next is already in preparation.

8 hours in total, spread over 4 days in November 2023.

The available seats will be limited so I have enough time to dedicate to each participant, to ensure it’ll be like personal coaching rather than a seminar.

When you change how you look at words, you change

To understand words and how it all begins isn’t easy. It doesn’t happen by accident.

That said, what can be grasped immediately is not always the greatest of qualities. After all, all that glitters…but you know that stuff.

My seminars are for word-users who know you cannot learn less.

Not sure what you’re made of? Try this (some may find it disturbing)

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Not sure what you’re made of?

Well, different things are said about you depending on what is saying them.

Your smart phone says

“You the second-person pronoun.” – Wikipedia
“You can refer to one or more people and is used as the subject of a verb or the object of a verb or preposition.” – Collins Dictionary
“You the one or ones being addressed.” – The Merriam-Webster Dictionary
“You the person or people being spoken or written to.” – The Oxford Learner’s Dictionary
“You the dative and accusative plural of þu.” – Etymology Online
“You About 25’270’000’000 results (0.43 seconds).” – Google
“You I am ChatGPT, an AI language model created by OpenAI.” – chat.openai.com

I say

  • “You is an English word.”
  • “You is what English-speaking word-users use to describe you.”

Nothing happens

Nothing happens until it is believed, and nothing is believed until it is true.

It’s not just about you.

All of these are true:

Whether you believe your smart phone or me doesn’t make a difference to me.

It also doesn’t change you.

It only changes how you look at you.

That’s how the cards are dealt.

What to believe is a question of character and personal preference, to each their own.

There’s nothing new about it. It’s been that way since the beginning of words.

You = Word

That you is a word can be denied only by confirming it.

You cannot use you without using it.

You are, do, and have.

What you are, do, and have are different stories, not different yous.

This post is about what you are, so let’s forget about what you do and what you have for now.

You are

Different things are said about what you are depending on what is saying them.

Ashes to ashes

Word-users that read only one book say you are ashes to ashes dust to dust.

Why do they lie? Well, the subject matter is quite well-known.

The one book these word-users read is designed to instill fear, so it’s only natural that those that believe in fear should instill fear too.

Ashes to ashes and dust to dust is designed to make you believe that’s where and how you began and where and how you’ll end. At the risk of repeating myself, the subject matter is quite well-known.

The origin of humanity

The author of THE ORIGIN OF HUMANITY, I say you are made of the same elements that the planet is made of. Because there are no other elements to be found anywhere.

Naturally, so is everything that follows evolution.

Naturally, that includes you.

A closer look reveals you are 70% water, 30% fire-air-earth, and 100% cells.

The numbers don’t add up. Don’t worry, they will when they come together over you.

70%

Like your ancestor, your body weight is 70% water.

Like our ancestor, you’re Nature’s child.

Like our ancestor, you’re an animal with words.

Unless the first that spoke the first (word) was a butterfly, a plant, a tree, a mountain, a lake, or something yet to be discovered.

Water

Water is infinite wisdom.
Some call it intelligence beyond words. The same thing.
“Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?” – Marcel Marceau
Water has the perfect memory, always finds back to itself, and cannot be fooled, created, or destroyed. It responds to being observed before being observed, which means every decision a word-user can make, water has already made it. Water buffers the fluctuations in our planet’s temperature and separates the oceans below from the skies above.

Water to water

Forget the fearmongers.

Forget the ashes to ashes dust to dust bullpoop.

You are 70% water

70% of you is taken care of ahead of time.

Permanently.

It’s a circle game.

Don’t worry

Die happy.

Now or later, there is nothing to be feared.

In the meantime, to keep your inner mounting flame burning takes air.

Make sure you keep breathing.

Thank you for reading. I hope you had a good time. See you again soon.

PS.
Like all my posts, today’s contains no true or truth. The only thing you find here is what you’re looking at — words. What you make of them is a different story entirely over which I have no control.

Succeeding on having words work for you is simple. Just attend my seminar.

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In less than 3 weeks, I’ll host my first Limitless Opportunities seminar

Who’d have thought so seven years ago?

Because it’s been seven years since I decided to dedicate my work to words. During that time almost no one has been interested, and to tell you all, I was able to count the number of interested word-users on the fingers of just one of my two hands.

Yet I slave away until I fall simply because I recognise the treasure I have in front of me.

It doesn’t matter to that I’m the only one. It doesn’t matter to me, and near as I can tell, by the end of the day that’s all that counts.

I would rather experience one year of intense happiness than have the happiness spread over my whole existence.

Well, my wish has been granted, for I now had my intense happiness spread over seven years instead of just one.

Now I am left with duty.

Nothing predestines me for such a task.

The discovery that in the beginning is the word only costs and brings in zilch, not even the cost price.

It is against all reason. At times I feel sad. Temporarily. The bad thing is that at my age it’s hard to start something new.

The origin of humanity

The key to understanding the origin of humanity, in fact, the key to understanding everything you have a word for, including you, as well as the key to understanding everything you and I know, without exception, it’s in The Origin of Humanity for everybody to see. In a nutshell, as opposed to in a book, here for everybody to see it even more clearly, beyond the shadow of a doubt:

In the beginning is the word

There’s never been anything like it.

It’s the only key you and I will ever need. The key to everything, including nothing.

You will never look back for you will see there’s never been anything like it and that there shall never be anything like it again.

As many word-users as possible

My passion is to show it and make sure it convinces as many word-users as possible. I do everything I can to fulfill this task.

How can I lead my fellow word-users to realise what a treasure they have in front of them, but can’t seem to see?

Especially the influential know-it-alls who boast about their superior knowledge of how it all began.

This contempt is not new. I have rebelled against convention and authority throughout my existence. And paid the price.

Much of what I started, I broke off.

And until 2016, it’s proven to be of no use.

Now is different

But words still don’t find an audience.

So every time that happens, I change my tactics.

I will not rest.

Describe me as a goofball nice to have around or whatever else comes to mind, but I can respect and understand that it annoys the other word-users when I get on their nerves with a subject they know nothing about.

Assume I’m a nobody, a romantic, a naive, or that getting advice from me is the equivalent of being measured by the undertaker, that I’m patronising and contemptuous with the pessimistic stance comparable only to my co-pessimistic co-word-users, or that in the beginning is the word is nothing more than kid’s talk.

I am sadly aware of it.

I might well at once be too simple and too subtle for the contemporary mind shared by of the defenders of the status quo.

I will never be fully understood, except by the happy people — the children that haven’t already gone through the homogenizing hopper called school into which we toss our integral tots for teaching falsehoods from the start.

Work keeps me in balance

I dream of being the one who helps the new way of looking at words to break through worldwide.

That’s how I want to go when my time will have come.

But until then, now that The Origin of Humanity is out, I will do my best at a seminar at a time, with the first you may want to attend coming up on October 1st, 2023.

My view — on the origin of everything, this is on in the beginning is the word — will probably scare all those who normally get their money’s worth from the established views defended by the church/es and state/s.

My seminars are intended for those who still believe what can be grasped immediately is not always of the greatest quality.

All that glitters is not gold.

Furthermore, it is addressed to all those who admire my work, and also to those who already believe in my passion but are not yet convinced of my work.

How to get better at opportunities? Try LIMITLESS (opportunities)

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In less than 3 weeks, I’ll be hosting my “LIMITLESS OPPORTUNITIES” live seminar, as opposed to an online webinar, answering questions and connecting people to get serious in discussing the new way of looking at words.

After the seminar, the participants will have replaced the old way of how word-users looked at words.

In other words, the old way of looking at words will be a thing of the past that the participants will be happy to forget forever and a day.

Limitless Opportunities

Limitless Opportunities will change the world and, hence will be transformative with a money-back guarantee.

Because when YOU change how YOU look AT WORDS, YOU change.

Limitless Opportunities does it for you. As you partake in the seminar, new landscapes will unfold that participants will discover have been there all along.

The unfolding is you.

Limitless Opportunities is based on The Origin of Humanity, my new book which as you’d expect covers how everything began — not only humanity, but also you, and everything else you have a word for.

In the beginning is the word

How everything began — and what words are, what words do, and what words have — isn’t taught at learning institutions such as homes, kindergartens, schools, and universities.

Therefore, graduates don’t think of you, or of themselves, as a word.

“The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.”
– Marshall McLuhan

A quick reminder for those who haven’t had a chance yet to read my previous posts — here or on my website: You is a word.

And like every other word you have ever heard of, including you and humanity, it couldn’t be anything else if it tried.

Since 2016

Since 2016 I’ve written more books about words than any other author. Part of that is simply longevity, persistence, and showing up. But most of it is your doing.

The loyal readers of my books, posts, and blog — more than seven years of going tough while the going gets tougher — are the foundation of my career as a words-author.

I remember it well.

Now that my book is out, hosting a live seminar, with a face-to-face audience asking and answering questions, in the town where I care and reside, in Biel-Bienne, Switzerland, seems like a good idea.

That said, you can of course order my book at any time of the day and the night. For that, it will always be the right time.

Takeaway

If you live in or near Switzerland or know anybody who does, I hope you and your friends can make it to my Limitless Opportunities seminar on October 1st, 2023.

Thank you.

Don’t know how to live without limits? Here’s an evergreen piece of advice:

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You are looking to live without the limits imposed on you by others.

There’s just one obstacle in the way.

You don’t know how.

Therefore, your first instinct might be to enter “live without limits” on your smartphone.

If you’re lucky or unlucky — a question of perspective, to each their own — to stumble upon the Google search engine to find the results you’re looking for, Google will tell you there are about 1,530,000,000 of them. 1.53 billion results for 1 question.

In 2023, that’s called normal and obvious. As opposed to contrarian.

If you invest in the obvious, as opposed to contrarian, and you spend just a second to find what each of these 1.53 billion search results mean, you’ll be 49 years older by the time you’re done, 49 years without any sleep nor toilet breaks.

You’re free to go for the obvious of course.

But you also know that while nobody says living without limits is easy, I’m here to tell you it doesn’t have to be this hard.

In fact, if you’re looking for limitless opportunities, all it takes is to read on to discover the evergreen piece of advice that I promise in the headline.

My evergreen piece of advice is not obvious, it’s contrarian.

I know what I’m talking about.

Everything comes down to how it all began

Everything comes down to how it all began, and in the beginning is the word.

You might have heard of in the beginning is the word before. Perhaps you’ve read it in a famous book written 1,711 years ago.

That famous book is still found, in many times since translated versions, on the shelves of word-users that believe any story as long as it’s told by the RITA method…

R epetition
I ntensity
T iming
A uthority

…except for the story of words which is what in the beginning is the word is all about.

Because those that have written in the beginning is the word into their famous book written 1,711 years ago, don’t want the word-users to know about the story of words.

In the beginning is the word.

There is no other beginning

Beginning is an English word.

In other words, where English words are not used, the word-users use different words to say beginning. But no matter which word is used, if it wasn’t for the invention of the word, there’d be no beginning.

Since the story of words is untold and words aren’t taught at school or anywhere else, allow me to briefly explain what words are.

Using words to talk of words

“Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself.” – Patrick Rothfuss
“What a word means, a sentence cannot say.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein

I’m doing it anyway.

Words do nothing

By themselves, words do nothing.
They do not matter (words possess zero electric charge).
They have no meaning.
They don’t make sense.
They couldn’t if they tried.

With the help of word-users

  • Words revolutionized evolution.
  • In the beginning is the word.
  • From words, worlds are born.
  • Words work.
  • Everything a word-user has a word for is a word.
  • Everything a word-user knows is a word. Word and you included.
  • Words are a gift we’re meant to keep.
  • Words are a prison, but even a prison is a home if you have the key.
  • The key is in THE ORIGIN OF HUMANITY for everybody to see.
  • Words are what word-users respond to.
  • Words are how word-users aim at what they’re looking for.
  • Words don’t describe the world.
  • Words describe how the word-user sees the world, each their own.
  • Words have not only changed what we see but how we see.
  • Words are the limits of the word-user’s world.
  • Once the word-users see, the words cease to be the limits of their world.
  • If a word-user ignores what words can do to it, then it can have no empathy for what words can do to others.
  • Words can be denied only by confirming them.
  • Words defy our understanding of how the universe works.
  • Words tend to get mistaken for evidence, and we often treat them that way.
  • Word-users love to use their words.

How many words?

How many beginnings exist on our planet? How many words exist on our planet? Nobody knowns except that it’s the same number.

There are billions of words, hence billions of beginnings.

There are more words and beginnings than anyone to manage, let alone count.

But among the billions of beginnings and words, you are free as a bird to use any.

Limitless opportunities

As the founder of limitless opportunities, and therefore of life without limits, people ask me, Beat, if you were creating your program today, is there anything you’d update or change?

I am thinking about this and the topic that most interests me and many other people right now is the idea of awakening, also known as enlightenment, self-realization, soul integration, spiritual illumination, and mindfulness.

Something’s going on, no question about it, and I think it has to do with the blending of being driven by what we feel, compared to where we’ve been in the not-too-distant past, technology-driven.

I think that is something that will have offshoots that speak to cooperation, friendship, a lot more emphasis on joy, and maybe a greater emphasis on letting the details shake out.

Although I talk at length about the cursed how’s and not trying to force the who’s, the where’s, and the when’s when it comes to the manifestation of feelings, overall, there’d be a chapter or a whole tangent on awakening to what we are, what we do, and what we have.

I know how it all began.

I teach it in my courses and program as those who participate know.

In the beginning is the word is not wishy-washy. There are no two ways about it.

In the beginning is the word is not a movable feast, as those who have written it in their famous book want you to believe.

There are infinite roads to Rome, but none of those roads change that in the beginning is the word.

Having not awakened to what we are, what we do, and what we have means we have ways to go, much of it uphill and some of it through steep valleys.

In the beginning is the word is what I’m talking of in my LIMITLESS OPPORTUNITIES program.

Simple, not complicated

When you get to how it all began, it gets simple, not complicated.

You dispel confusion.

Through the dispelling of confusion, your life without limits shall come.

Through the dispelling of confusion, you will go out into the world dancing and your invisible limiting and conflicting beliefs will align.

The beliefs that don’t serve you, out of alignment with how it all began, will fall by the wayside.

A huge weight will be lifted off your shoulders.

This is your ticket and how the cards are dealt.

It’s never too late to be feelings-driven.

It’s never too late to do the right thing.

Succeeding on having words work for you is simple. Just attend my seminar.

In less than 3 weeks, I’ll host my first Limitless Opportunities seminar

Who’d have thought so seven years ago?

It’s been seven years since I decided to dedicate my work to words.

7 years ago, no one thought that I’d host my first words-based seminar on October 1st, 2023, least of all myself.

And almost no one has been interested. I’m not exaggerating as I was able to count the number of interested word-users on the five fingers of one hand.

Yet I slave away until I fall simply because I recognise the treasure I have in front of me.

It doesn’t matter that I’m the only one. It doesn’t matter to me.

When the day is over, that’s all that counts.

I would rather experience one year of intense happiness than have the happiness spread over my whole existence.

Well, my wish has been granted, for I now had my intense happiness spread over seven years instead of just one.

Now I am left with duty.

Nothing predestines me for such a task.

The discovery that in the beginning is the word only costs and brings in zilch, not even the cost price.

It is against all reason. At times I feel sad. Temporarily. At my age, it’s hard to start something new.

The origin of humanity

The key to understanding the origin of humanity, in fact, the key to understanding everything you have a word for, including you, as well as the key to understanding everything you and I know, without exception, it’s in The Origin of Humanity for everybody to see. In a nutshell, as opposed to in a book, here it is for everybody to see beyond the shadow of a doubt:

In the beginning is the word

There’s never been anything like it.

It’s the only key you and I will ever need. The key to everything, including nothing.

You will never look back for you will see there’s never been anything like it.

There shall never be anything like it again.

As many word-users as possible

My passion is to show it and make sure it convinces as many word-users as possible. I do everything I can to fulfill this task.

How can I lead my fellow word-users to realise what a treasure they have in front of them, but can’t seem to see?

Especially the influential know-it-alls, and the religionists who read only one book, who together boast about their superior knowledge about how it all began.

This contempt is not new. I have rebelled against convention and authority throughout my existence.

Much of what I began, I broke off.

And paid the price.

And until 2016, it’s proven to be of no use.

Now is different

But words still don’t find an audience.

So every time that happens, I change my tactics.

I will not rest.

Describe me as a goofball nice to have around or whatever else comes to mind, but I can respect and understand that it annoys the other word-users when I get on their nerves with a subject they know nothing about.

Assume I’m a nobody, a romantic, a naive, or that getting advice from me is the equivalent of being measured by the undertaker, that I’m patronising and contemptuous with the pessimistic stance comparable only to my co-pessimistic co-word-users, or that in the beginning is the word is nothing more than kid’s talk.

I am sadly aware of it.

I might well at once be too simple and too subtle for the contemporary mind shared by the defenders of the status quo.

I will never be fully understood, except by the happy people — the children that haven’t already gone through the homogenizing hopper called school into which we toss our integral tots to be taught falsehoods from the start.

Work keeps me in balance

I dream of being the one who helps the new way of looking at words to break through worldwide.

That’s how I want to go when my time will have come.

But until then, now that The Origin of Humanity is out, I will do my best at a seminar at a time, with the first you may want to attend coming up on October 1st, 2023.

My view — on the origin of everything, this is on in the beginning is the word — will probably scare all those who normally get their money’s worth from the established views defended by the church/es and state/s.

My seminars are intended for those who still believe what can be grasped immediately is not always of the greatest quality.

All that glitters is not gold.

Furthermore, it is addressed to all those who admire my work, and also to those who already believe in my passion but are not yet convinced of my work.

Little-known steps to get words to work for you forever and a day

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I never thought this would happen to me.

When it did, happen that is, as you’d expect, I was taken aback.

I was merrily jogging through the trees of my favorite forest when two young spandex speedsters blew by me on their $300 shoes.

For a moment, I was disheartened.

What’s the point–they’re fast like the wind?

I’m not.

Then I realized that it’s not a race.

It’s a journey from beginning to end, and as Yogi Berra has observed, “Predictions are hard to make, especially about the future.”

There is no winning, just feeling good.

The rest is technique.

How it all began

Those who read only one book have got how it all began down pat. They know, or so they say, knowing full well they’re lying all the way to the bank.

I read less and write more, hence I know that in the beginning is the word can be denied only by confirming it.

Without words, there’s no beginning.

In the wordless world of energy, fire, earth, wind, water, elements, cells, plants, and animals, beginning is absent for self-evident reasons. And so is end, and everything in between beginning and end such as jogging through the trees of my favorite forest.

In the beginning is the word

The only variable in time and space is the invention of the word. It revolutionized evolution and defies our understanding of how the universe works.

Everything else was designed a long time ago, but you are free to decide your words among the more than you could handle if you lived a million years.

Billions of words in English alone, claim those who claim to have counted them all, to which I say bullpoop.

All the truths in the world add up to a lie.

From words, worlds are born

The founder of the limitless opportunity challenge, people ask me, Beat, which limitless opportunities principle is your favorite?

To which I answer: 3 words.

Words become things.

I tell it in everything I do.

Words become things.

That is the secret.

That is my favorite talking point.

There’s no question about it.

You have to work hard to get your words clean to make it simple, but it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

That’s my favorite principle.

That’s the hook that I try to catch audiences on, early in the presentation.

This is the power of meaningful words.

And when you keep your word, many decisions are already made.

This is why I create visualizations, why affirmations work, and why showing up works.

Because our behaviors and our actions are our words in motion.

Never let “In the beginning is the word” out of your sight.

And let others do what they like instead.

Word and let word

Tolerate the words of others so that they will similarly tolerate yours.

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