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The boy with the wishful eyes

Back when the ponies ran, when the girls were young and the odds were there to beat, my little personal winning streak ended as it had begun, naturally, without my being aware of it.

Why me?

Why not someone else who deserved it?

My winning streak ended like a black-feathered bird bursting the sky had landed on me.

With no odds to beat left, the only thing I clearly see is my journey on a downward spiral.

It feels like in the dead of night. I’m at the steering wheel of a speeding car crashing down a steep ravine. Trees out of nowhere in the car’s headlights. With nothing left but a single wish, the wish to survive even if it costs me my life

down
down
down

After the crashing down comes to a halt, there’s nothing left but me and a gate Bob Dylan built.

Bob Dylan’s gate

I’m on the outside of the gate.
On the inside is a devil my neighbors, preachers, and teachers want me to believe.
There’s nothing else and nobody else near, so I can tell what I’m supposed to believe is looking at me.
What does it want?
I have no clue.
Perhaps a piece of me?
Could it be my heart?

You think I’m kidding, aren’t you?
Well, I’m not kidding at all.
Instead, I do a u-turn never to re-turn again.
I’ve once seen a torero perform u-turns before a bull.
When the bull was dead I vomited wishing the torero were dead instead.
Such a u-turn I do now

run
run
run

I’m walking down the highway into a town ravaged by a thausand-years war.
I enter a burned-out house that looks familiar.
At the end of a blackened corridor, a burned-out room.
A boy looks out of a shattered glass window.
His back is turned to me.
Suitcase on the floor.

away
away
away

Guided by ignorance, I walk up to him and hold his hand in mine.
He’s looking at me with wishful eyes.
I can clearly see his eyes are mine.
We’re one and the same.
Together we step into street flooded in lightyears of energy from the sun above

thankful

I can clearly see things from different perspectives now.
See the wishful, see what is.
If there’s a difference between religion and the bird, believe the bird.
For birds don’t have religion/s.
They wouldn’t know it if you showed it to them

thankful
thankful
thankful

Thanksgiving.

Celebrated here twice daily.
Giving thanks twice daily for the wishful and giving thanks for what is.
Giving thanks twice daily for the boy with the eyes and giving thanks for being here.
Still.

Don’t give up

In this world of never-ending responses to more information than any word-user can handle — but that’s nevertheless a mere walk in the park for the wordless fire, wind, earth, and water — it ain’t easy to be the master of your moments.

All I’m saying is it doesn’t have to be that hard.

The minute we decide to not give up, we muster unexpected strengths to accepting the world as it is, not as we wished it were. With the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, the courage to change the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference, the walk in the park can at least be imagined.

But without a strong why, it is difficult to persevere.

Why

Without a strong why, standing out from the majority of word-users can be a daunting task, but without it, you’re a part of what you don’t want to be a part of.

If you don’t have a strong why to begin with, the decision to never give up feels like climbing a mountain.

What happens when you get a pebble in your shoe? Do you give up?

If so, this post isn’t for you.

A compelling why is essential, but you don’t yet know if it’ll be enough to overcome the obstacles on your journey. To find out, you’ve got to take the first step knowing you’ll never give up. Come rain or shine, keep a close eye on what the other captains do, not for knowledge, but it helps.

When you keep your word, many decisions are already made.

When you don’t lie, you don’t have to remember anything.

On this proud planet we grew up strong, wanted, needed, taught to compete, to fight, and to win.

With no fight left, we never thought it possible to either fall or fail.

A word-user whose dreams have all deserted, I changed my words, my face, my name.

No one wants you when you lose.

Don’t give up

Because you’re not beaten yet. You have friends. You know you are the elements. You know you are the wordless fire, wind, earth, and water, knowing full well you can do as good as they can.

You see it all around you, thinking you’d be last to go.

You never imagine that you could be affected.

The way things turn is so magical.

I returned at night toward my home, the place where I was born, on the lakeside.

As daylight broke, I saw the earth as though for the first time.

Bursting the sky arrives a black vulture, wings spread. I see it circling, close, with eyes of rubies and feathers the colour of night. A forehead of a thousand lights, a blue diamond for a crown.

With a rustle of its wings, the vulture lands.

The trees burned down to the ground.

Don’t give up

You still have us.

We don’t need much of everything. Where would we put it anyway?

Somewhere there’s a place where we belong. Somewhere there’s a place where you can rest your head.

Let it be. You worry too much. It’s going to be alright.

When the going gets rough, you can fall back on us.

Don’t give up

Got to find the way out of here.

Perhaps there’s a path less traveled, a path least traveled naturally.

I can’t take anymore. A headlong circle game standing on that bridge right here keeping my eyes down below, watching where all rivers flow, yet the sea isn’t full.

Found the way out of here to another country. As if things hadn’t changed, for every job so many word-users. So many word-users no-one needs.

They’re calling for workers, word-users come, thanks to the schools the word-users built.

Much water has gone under the bridge. Much other stuff at the same time.

Things haven’t changed. Every truth adds up to a big lie.

The answers blowing in the wind, no candles in the window, you’re not the only one.

You still have us.

There’s no reason to be anything you’re not. There’s no reason to feel guilty.

Please don’t give up

You have friends.

We’re proud of what you are, what you do, what you don’t, what you have, and what you have not.

From personal experience you know it’s never been easy.

You also know it’s never going to be this hard ever again.

There’s a place where you belong.

There’s a place where we belong.

I believe it.

Call it a dream.

It does not change anything

The science of getting what you want – the friendly way

By In blog, you


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.

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.

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.

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.

When you believe you’re in control, what happens next?

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Hello word-user, I know that for us it’s tempting to believe that we are in control.

And to assume that with 20 years or more of school under our belts, we are not easy to fool.

Not by a priest, a politician, or a prankster anyway.

Other word-users might get bamboozled by a cheater or a con artist, but not us.

The contrary is true.

No one fools you more than the words you use.

We are easy to fool

Yup, we don’t fool each other.

We fool ourselves by the words we use.

Have you ever been fooled by fake news?

If you don’t recognize fake news, they are words.

If you’ve ever been fooled by fake news, then you know you’ve been conned by a con artist’s words.

In this case, it concerns a word-master that used to be the prez of a country that once was mine.

Emotional reactions

If you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you, you lose.

You lose because if words control you, that means everyone else can control you.

And everybody knows, you can’t win with a losing hand.

Mirror mirror on the wall

When you look in the mirror . . .

. . . do you see what others see? Or is your reflection like Narcissus’, far less (or far more) attractive than what others see when they look at you?

You may assume that you are so good and so useful that anyone who doesn’t see that is confused or misguided.

For all I know you may feel like a hypocrite, a trickster or an unseen genius…

These are all forms of self-delusion.

Let go

Letting go of self-delusion is the hardest thing of all to let go of.

A useful exit might be to ask if it’s working, or to ask if the opposite is true for a minute or two.

Self-delusion becomes a habit fast, but it’s not the habit.

It’s the user.

“Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.” – Napoleon Hill
“The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.” – Warren Buffet

What decides what you feel?

If not you decide what you feel, then somebody else is doing it for you as we speak.

In this case, you know what you must do.

But that doesn’t mean that you’ll do it.

Knowing what you must do doesn’t make you a better person.

Doing it does.

The marketplace

If the marketplace sees something of value, perhaps the marketplace is right.

And if they aren’t, you are free to develop the empathy to understand what’s missing in your story about what you do or how you do it.

Marketing to others begins with marketing to yourself.

Should self-deception be the rocket fuel to achieve your goals, it might be worth accepting it for a while, provided you remember that your ability to fool yourself at the same time disables your ability to create generous and useful work in the long run.

A delusional trance will eat away at your confidence and serenity.

I’m not saying it’s easy to see yourself as others do. All I’m saying is perhaps they’re onto something.

Words don’t make sense

To assume words make sense presupposes that they have the organs required.

I’ve looked at words from both sides now.

They don’t.

The one with the organs to feel, to smell, to hear, to touch, to taste, and to see — the sensational one — is you.

Freedom not used is freedom lost

Some word-users don’t want you to use your senses.

You probably know what I’m talking about. The subject matter quite well known. I’m talking about those that have been telling the world’s most successful lie for thousands of years with no end in sight because their business model depends on it. Those that want you to believe the truth is in a book of which they have a copy under their arm, to each their own, on the strength of which many have been, and continue to be as we speak, beheaded, tortured and — less frequent these days — burned at stakes,

Galileo saved his head by declaring that the same divinity that gives us the senses isn’t the same that doesn’t want us to make any sense until we die.

“When you see a difference between the guidebook and the bird, believe the bird.” – Tara Brach

When Galileo saw the guidebook and the moon, he believed the moon

The sensational one

The sensational one — the one with the organs — is you.

Each of your organs’ senses — feel, smell, hear, touch, taste, and see — can be duped by optical illusions and virtual realities. There are many ways to do this.

Most of what can be seen, heard, and known, you do not see, hear, or know.

But if you have any reaction to fake news, only the word-master that invented it will be happy.

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

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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How to overcome doubt in what you are

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?

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?

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):

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.

When you believe you’re in control, what happens next?

Hello word-user, I know that for us it’s tempting to believe that we are in control.

And to assume that with 20 years or more of school under our belts, we are not easy to fool.

Not by a priest, a politician, or a prankster anyway.

Other word-users might get bamboozled by a cheater or a con artist, but not us.

The contrary is true.

No one fools you more than the words you use.

We are easy to fool

Yup, we don’t fool each other.

We fool ourselves by the words we use.

Have you ever been fooled by fake news?

If you don’t recognize fake news, they are words.

If you’ve ever been fooled by fake news, then you know you’ve been conned by a con artist’s words.

In this case, it concerns a word-master that used to be the prez of a country that once was mine.

Emotional reactions

If you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you, you lose.

You lose because if words control you, that means everyone else can control you.

And everybody knows, you can’t win with a losing hand.

Mirror mirror on the wall

When you look in the mirror . . .

. . . do you see what others see? Or is your reflection like Narcissus’, far less (or far more) attractive than what others see when they look at you?

You may assume that you are so good and so useful that anyone who doesn’t see that is confused or misguided.

For all I know you may feel like a hypocrite, a trickster or an unseen genius…

These are all forms of self-delusion.

Let go

Letting go of self-delusion is the hardest thing of all to let go of.

A useful exit might be to ask if it’s working, or to ask if the opposite is true for a minute or two.

Self-delusion becomes a habit fast, but it’s not the habit.

It’s the user.

“Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.” – Napoleon Hill
“The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.” – Warren Buffet

What decides what you feel?

If not you decide what you feel, then somebody else is doing it for you as we speak.

In this case, you know what you must do.

But that doesn’t mean that you’ll do it.

Knowing what you must do doesn’t make you a better person.

Doing it does.

The marketplace

If the marketplace sees something of value, perhaps the marketplace is right.

And if they aren’t, you are free to develop the empathy to understand what’s missing in your story about what you do or how you do it.

Marketing to others begins with marketing to yourself.

Should self-deception be the rocket fuel to achieve your goals, it might be worth accepting it for a while, provided you remember that your ability to fool yourself at the same time disables your ability to create generous and useful work in the long run.

A delusional trance will eat away at your confidence and serenity.

I’m not saying it’s easy to see yourself as others do. All I’m saying is perhaps they’re onto something.

Words don’t make sense

To assume words make sense presupposes that they have the organs required.

I’ve looked at words from both sides now.

They don’t.

The one with the organs to feel, to smell, to hear, to touch, to taste, and to see — the sensational one — is you.

Freedom not used is freedom lost

Some word-users don’t want you to use your senses.

You probably know what I’m talking about. The subject matter quite well known. I’m talking about those that have been telling the world’s most successful lie for thousands of years with no end in sight because their business model depends on it. Those that want you to believe the truth is in a book they have a copy under their arm, to each their own, on the strength of which many have been, and continue to be as we speak, beheaded, tortured and — less frequent these days — burned at stakes,

Galileo saved his head by declaring that the same divinity that gives us the senses isn’t the same that doesn’t want us to make any sense until we die.

“When you see a difference between the guidebook and the bird, believe the bird.” – Tara Brach

When Galileo saw the guidebook and the moon, he believed the moon

The sensational one

The sensational one — the one with the organs — is you.

Each of your organs’ senses — feel, smell, hear, touch, taste, and see — can be duped by optical illusions and virtual realities. There are many ways to do this.

Most of what can be seen, heard, and known, you do not see, hear, or know.

But if you have any reaction to fake news, only the word-master that invented it will be happy.

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

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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.

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