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Here’s a thought.

Unrestrict people’s behavior.  Let people do whatever they want.  Given one caveat:

They have a pure value set.

Pure value set = the force = opposite of the dark side.

Absence of fear and anger, abundance of love and truth.

What would the world be like?

4 hikers, Optimist, Pessimist, Positivist, and Negativist  are summiting a mountain.  They are running late descending the mountain, and there is possibility that they may not make it back down before nightfall.

Pessimist says: “We are probably not going to make it down before nightfall.”

Optimist says: “We can make it down before nightfall.”

Negativist: “We are lacking supplies to survive through the night.”

Positivist: “At least we can make it out by simply following the trail.”

Our reality is comprised of yin and yang, positive and negative.  Optimists and Pessimists live in the future, each on one side of the balance.  Negativist and Positivist live in the present, each on one side of the balance.

To live in full awareness and growth, one must be aware of all four states.  An optimist with no acknowledgement of a pessimist’s perspective lacks the full picture, and may make over-confident judgements.  A pessimist that lacks an optimist’s perspective also lacks the full picture, and will miss out on winning opportunities.

However, what we choose to manifest is a choice of ours.  We can be a Pessmist-Positivist, a Optimist-Negativist, a Pessimist-Negativist, or an Optimist-Positivist.  Which perspective do you spend the most time in?

Old Paradigm of Protection Values		Emerging Paradigm of Growth Values
Safety: Avoiding risk.  Protection via external restraints and constraints; Rules, burglar alarms, and borders to define the places safe from danger, “us” versus “them”; survival is a goal.		Spontaneity: Freedom, Willingness to risk and move into the unknown, Survival is assumed.
Comfort: Avoiding pain, threats to belief systems, or contradictions; Strive to maintain the status quo at all costs.		Meaning: Willingness to confront life as it is, including uncomfortable contradiction and/or paradox.  Tolerance of ambiguity.
Image: Meeting or exceeding cultural expectations; Conforming to norms and fitting oneself to the “job description”; Status and role valued.		Authenticity: Meeting or exceeding one’s own expectations; Willingness to diverge from cultural norms out of integrity and/or curiosity.  Flexibility; Acceptance of other’s nonconformity.
Self-control: Ability to restrain one’s emotional responses and control of the situation.  Repression of anger, fear, sexuality, sentiment.  Self-indulgent, an anesthetic against fear for people.		Self-knowledge: Awareness of feelings and their role in behavior; Transformation of fear and anger thru self-understanding and trust; Inner confidence  from having let go of illusions and survived fear.
Ego defenses: Protection of one’s self-image by making others wrong or by rationalizing one’s behaviors and beliefs.  Feeling right or righteous.		Vulnerability: The “transparent self” that acknowledges its weakness and draws from its strong points.  It does not identify with the ego’s need to be perfect.
Permanence: Effort to memorialize or freeze the past. Longevity, preservation of traditions, long-range commitments, repeating and recalling past triumphs.		Potential: Recognition of the dynamics and flux of life, the impossibility of holding the present moment; Belief that change represents possibility, a future whose capacity to surprise is relished, not feared.
Information: Having answers, facts, training, experience, data; Being sure.		Insight: Asking the right questions, eager to learn; Acceptance of uncertainty.
Adjustment: Human beings are seen as limited in what they can accomplish; Effort if futile; Poverty, starvation and war are inevitable. Belief in human limitations, which excuses from effort.		Aspiration: Human beings have built great cathedrals, flown to the moon.  Any of us might accomplish something beyond the ordinary; belief in unlimited human potential.
Power over others: Being boss, top dog, judge, authority, or being helpless, manipulative, flattering, coercive.		Power with others: Cooperation, mutual support, communications, alignment.
Feeling superior to others: More attractive, intelligent, successful and/or harder working.  Protection from feeling inadequate by being special.		Feeling connected to others: Total acceptance of oneself; Identifying with all human traits.
Freedom from responsibility: Sense of impotence,Scapegoatology; What ever happened was the fault of others, social forces, and/or fate.  Feelings of Woundology.		Freedom in responsibility: Sense of one’s personal self-empowerment.  Past choices acknowledged, and sense of being able to choose in the future.  Power to change based on taking responsibility.

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Downtime = any period of time that is non-productive.

(Productive = creates physical, mental, or spiritual growth)

Goal is to turn downtime into Uptime – upward growth in an area.

Examples of downtime: sitting on a toilet, waiting in line, walking to your car, waiting for a computer to boot, etc

Question: What are things you’ve done to turn downtime into uptime?

What we meditate on is our work.
Be in a state of moving meditation.

Out work is our creation.
Be constantly creating.

Kobe Bryant is Rich.

The guy that pays Kobe Bryant is Wealthy.

Living off interest from your principal is Rich.

Living off the interest off the interest from your principal is Wealthy.

Choose wealth over richness.

Time leverage is a key component of success.  You only have 24 hours in a day, and can only work at 100% efficiency.  However, leveraging other people’s time (OPT), you can accomplish vast more tasks then on your own accord, even with management time involved.

Consider somebody who is 1/3 as effective as you, meaning they would take 3x the amount of time to complete the same task you would. If you hire 4 of these people, and spent 1/2 your time managing them, you would accomplish 1.5x what you can do on your own.

Case 1:

YOU (100%) efficiency, 9 hours producing.

Case 2:

YOU, 4.5 hours producing, 4.5 hours managing.

/                   |                 \

Person A       Person B       Person C

3 hours producing by each person, = 9 hours OPT.

9 Hours OPT + your own 4.5 hours = 13.5 hours producing = 1.5x more production output than you alone.

So this illustrates the value of connecting with others.  What if you became a hunter of human excellence, and could find people 1.2 times as efficient as you at a particular task?  That is, they could complete something you would do in 20% less time?  Then they would accomplish 10.8 hours of work in your 9 hours of time.

Case 3:

YOU, 4.5 hours producing, 4.5 hours managing.

/                   |                 \

Person A       Person B       Person C

10.8 hours producing by each person, = 32.4 effective production hours.

32.4 Hours OPT + your own 4.5 hours = 36.9 hours producing = 4.1x more production output than you alone.  That is several orders of magnitude more that you can accomplish alone!

Of course, the less effective the people are, the more time you spend managing and vice versa.  So become a hunter of human excellence, and leverage OPT to success.

EVE ratio: the amount you spend on education vs. the amount you spend on entertainment.

In a day you have 24 hours.  Within the usable hours, people will conduct activities which result in their senses receiving one of two  types of information:

1. Entertainment – information that shifts emotional state, but yields low long-term resuable value.  Eg, TV, clubbing, video games, etc.

2. Education – information that may or may not shift emotional state, but yields high long-term reusable value.  Eg, ‘how-to’ books, informational blogs, academic courses, etc.

(there are also activities that are neither entertaining nor educational, but we usually minimize these.)

Success is largely correlated with people that have an EVE ratio of greater than 1; they spend more time on education activities than entertainment activities.  Yet most people have an EVE ratio of much less than 1.

What is your EVE ratio?

“Whenever you set a goal, it must follow with creating a plan.

Whenever you create a plan, you must do the plan.

You now achieve your goal* and decide on a new one.  Repeat.

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