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What I learned asking folks to do a "good thing"

1/29/2015

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Earlier this week I asked people to comment publicly, extolling the virtue of the author or simply offering a well-wishing.  The results were interesting.  The process illuminating.

Givens:
  • Most people with whom I have contact are reporting social media activity in the morning hours.
  • My gratitude journal was rather thinly populated as of late.
  • I found myself needing a refreshed perspective regarding resources, and simply decided to ask others to help me inventory
  • I wanted to feel good and wondered what it would be like to crowdsource it.



Interesting points in process
  • I hesitated multiple times in posting the question to please generate a message with the intent to create some Goodness.  It turns out one person assumed I was experiencing struggle or hardship.  That was an interesting assumption. 
  • The [internal] argument was basically the voice, "What will others think?"  Similar concern:  "People will think you're not at the top of your game." 
  • The next day the post was populated by so much generosity I learned how much [emotionally and energetically] greater I can start each day;  ingesting this positive feedback created an upwelling of highly energizing content that I drew from throughout the day.  
  • I populated my gratitude journal with all these wonderful comments, bulking it nicely.

Conclusion
  • I recommend everyone ask others to say genuinely kind things about you or your character
  • Small risk + unchecked internal dialogue = unnecessarily high levels of anxiety/hesitation
  • Asking for help is awesome
  • Be extremely thoughtful and protective of morning influences on rest of day.  If you don't have charging rituals to begin each day, I do not recommend a screen-based morning.  The power of this exercise really demonstrated and reinforced for me the importance of setting the day with intent, not agenda.
  • I received some terrific responses from people from whom I haven't heard in years. 




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Crisis of Significance, Crisis of Importance

1/12/2015

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When everything is equal,
when everything gets the same voice, we enter a
Crisis of Significance.

What is the Prime Directive today?

"I don't know, I'll do whatever I want to do."

The 18th century Enlightenment liberated the human from the Church-mind-worldview.
May the Rugged Individuals please rise.
Make your heads higher than the crowd so that we may take aim.

A cancer cell does not seek to liberate itself. 
Rather its natural intelligence--
collaborating purposefully for the healthy functioning of the organism--
has grown malignant

destructive to the organism

When the purpose has been lost, when the healthy functioning of the organism has been forgotten
there is a Crisis of Importance

To be an individual is one matter;
To be an individual with a forgotten intent
is to be a free radical
mal-aligned
poorly aligned

The way of Goodness is the way of Will, the way of action
the balance of Service and Stillness has been disturbed in malignancy

The way of Goodness is the domain of ethics, morals
It is the domain of "WE"
What ought we do? What should I do?
In the WE-domain, there is more than just "I"

When there is suffering in the action/stillness ways
when there is pain around the importance of what I do
Inspect the WE domain, and ask "What's really important," "What's the purpose," "What is the intent?"
May these questions elevate our actions.

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    Gwen

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