Purpose in life

Higher Purpose

Skills, Talents, and Joy

Introduction

In the first chapter an outline of this book was presented and it was explained then that affluence would be the opening subject and of considerable development; it was explained then that the subject of higher purpose would wait until now.  It is now time to direct your efforts towards the joy of discovering your higher purpose in life.  You have put forth a good deal of quality effort to reach this part of the system, and it is because of the work you have already undertaken, because of your understandings, beliefs, choices, and your actions that you are now ready to find and resonate with your higher purpose.  You will soon learn to draw this life-changing purpose from within you.  That is the truth!

By working with the ideas contained in this chapter, you will find and foster a persistent and vibrant energy source that is associated with having a higher purpose; you will soon experience this rich splendor each day, for all time.  Really and truly, as you believe it will transpire.   Through the simple elegance of this system you will actually learn to find the higher purpose that is within you, and with a quality purpose in your life, you will constantly generate quality energy, and through the application of this energy you will constantly evolve your life towards positive increase that is both transformative and exciting.

The source of power found in your desire for, and through working on your higher purpose in life is a clean burning, renewable resource.  It is manifested from resonant energy found deep within you, as the source of your higher purpose is found at the center of your being.  It is a source of power that will be there with you through struggles and it will consistently provide a rich context that will inspire you to see a meaningful picture of your life, no matter the circumstances.   When purpose is combined with growing affluence, you will have activated two giant generators within you that will symbiotically vibrate massive amounts of energy and subsequently provide the conditions for you to receive enormous returns on your efforts.  Purpose effects affluence and affluence is made stronger and of a higher quality when it is combined with the actions of an authentic higher purpose. 

You will now begin to learn how to draw out and construct your higher purpose through engaging with this chapter; the tools herein have been designed by connecting and synthesizing some of the most important works of psychology, self-development, and philosophy ever produced.  This part of the system will work for you also; trust yourself and believe.

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life changes…

Of all things known to be true… it is that change is constant.  Some will try to lock into a certain pattern or routine, and they may be successful for a while.  Ultimately, however, life changes.  What’s next? 

From my personal systems perspective, it’s like this: life and living are like the amplitudes of a radio wave, undulating up and down but with a central line that is the median of the lows and highs.  So, we have ups and downs, but all the time there is the ‘through line’ that is the median of all experience.

This median is tantamount to understanding good living.  This is the ‘way’. 

It is here where experiences are met for what they are.

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Systems Thinking in Education

Systems Thinking in Education… Now, there is a great idea!  BUT, it’s not new!  Educators already use systems every single day.  At least the successful ones do!  Routines and Procedures… these are systems.  Stating objectives, anticipatory sets… those are both part of systems.  The design of course material and the layout of each lesson… all systems.

All educators need to do is get in control of ALL the systems they use!  They can… thankfully.  And, when they do… the POWER is huge!  Have a look at the wonderful work of Systems Thinking and Instruction at www.edu.systemsandsynergy.com.  The Edu.Systems Approach to Instruction is quite exciting and there are two Free reports to read, so you have lots of opportunity to make a decision before buying.  Enjoy!

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Systems Thinking and Instruction & Learning… benefits?

What are the benefits of using a visual image oriented systems thinking approach to instruction and learning?  That can be quickly answered by asking you to do one simple thing: “tell me about your kitchen.”  Sounds absurd?  Think about it for a moment….  When you get ready to tell someone about your kitchen, or a movie you just went to, or about a place you love… do you see a paragraph in your mind?  Really.  Do you see words, or do you see the image and then convert that image into words?   You use words to communicate with another person, sure.  But it is in the hope that your words create an image in that person’s mind that is roughly similar to yours.  We think on a highly visual level.  We communicate on a highly visual level.  So, what is instruction and learning other than communication?  At its best, instruction and learning is highly developed communication.  Communication that is authentic, visual, and effective (cave).  Have a look below…

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Systems Thinking Graphics

These are great graphics that outline the Edu.Systems approach to instruction.   Edu.Systems is great for a systems thinking approach to instruction, a systems thinking approach to coaching, a systems thinking approach education… however you want to say it, this is a great approach and a great lense for looking at how you teach and learn. 

Click here to go straight to the link that has a complete set of excellent graphics.

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A GREAT NEW SITE: Systems Thinking in Instruction

Link over to www.edu.systemsandsynergy.com and check out the Edu.Systems Approach to instruction!  It integrates systems thinking with teaching ANYTHING to ANYONE.  If you are a teacher, coach, parent, student… you will benefit from this approach to thinking, teaching, and learning. 

Here is a little description of what you will find.   ps. Don’t forget to get your two FREE reports while you are there. 

“The Edu.Systems approach designs and aligns course material using top professional tools and techniques.  It’s composed of brain-based research, foundational psychology, best-teaching practices, and selected systems thinking tools.  The system is clear and concise, and it is supported with simple examples, useful tables, and powerful graphic organizers.”  

Edu.Systems: using systems thinking to design, align, and deliver excellent instruction using powerful tools and practices.

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How Do You Remain Present While Planning Your Life?

A great question.  How DO you remain present, centered, living in the moment, while living a fast paced life? 

A friend asked me this question not too long ago. 

I though of how to explain it… And thought some more.  Then, I just let go and the answer came.

It’s like this.  Think of your biceps.  Most people know about biceps, so its a great muscle to think of for this example.  (These are the two muscles in the front portion of your arm, used in alomost anything you do with your arms or hands).

So, your biceps are used a lot when you lift up a cup or a heavy weight with your hands and arms; they are used much less so when you walk, but they are still used a little as, of course, you move your arms a little while you walk.

Well, what does this have to do with being present?

Your brain is a lot like a bicep.  You use it a great deal when thinking about solving a specific problem or when planning a specific course of action; you use it less so when completing a repetitive task or strolling through the park or breathing….

So, like a muscle in your body, the brain is used more and less so, more and less deliberately depending on what you are doing.

Remaining present is a lot about shutting off the brain, or you could say its about calming the parts of the brain that are constantly chattering…. The story of the Ego, Ekhart Tolle calls it. 

Calm, serene, peacful, satisfied with life and the moment you are in… that’ s a nice state and is what is meant by being present.

But, what’s for dinner?  Who is picking up the kids?  How will I plan for retirement?

Here’s my answer to the quandry:

Use your brain for what you need to use it for, then stop.   Focus on the task or tasks at hand when you are doing them.  If you are planning, do that.  Make plans.  Just like the biceps, however, if you are not using them… don’t use them.  Turn off.  It would do us no good at all to walk around all day shooting our hands up in the air like a keen student burning to answer a teacher’s question.  It would also look a little funny.  :-)

SO WHY DO WE USE OUR BRAINS WHEN WE DO NOT NEED TO?

Dunno…. sloppy skills is the best I can come up with.  We tend to use our physical muscles in greater and lesser degree as needed.  We tend to let the brain addle on 24 /7 full blast and at high speed.  The problem with leaving it ‘on’ all the time is that it often gets up to all sorts of bad things, such as thinking negative thoughts, thinking about things that haven’t happened, or things that might never happen, or re-living things that have happened and have already passed…

We don’t use the biceps unless they were neeeded to do something.  The same needs to be true for the brain.

The answer to the question posed in the title of this article  is… use your brain only when it is needed and only for what it is needed for when it is needed…. In this way, the powerful brain is used for what it is was designed for; thought, planning, analysis, learning etc.   And, when it is not needed in full power… just be.  Let it rest.  Let you rest.  Just be and enjoy the moments as they come and as they pass.  Its a liberating way to live.  And, you can do it too.

I hope you have found this useful

all the best

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SYSTEMS IN EDUCATION

I have been working on a systems in education package for quite some time now.  It is nearly finished.  Have a look at my site and see if You see the application of this style of thinking…. 

www.edu.systemsandsynergy.com

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It is what it is….

So much of what we think is packaged.  Free running thought is sometimes enjoyable, sometimes frustrating; all in all, it is what it is: “unbridled”. 

 

While the rippling enthusiasm of a young colt bounding and kicking, sprinting and zig zagging in a summer-lush field is sport to watch, it is only what it is… unbridled.  The colt’s purpose, though it has no knowledge of this, is to develop muscle and reactions that will serve in a contest for a mate or in a flight for survival.  The colt’s joyful actions are taken in service of an — though unconscious — anticipated need for reaction.

We are like that.  We have body, mind, and spirit too.  All of which from time to time have enthusiastic flexing, movement, and joy.  No real reason at the time, but reason enough in design.  The mind needs to be quick, as well the body in times of need.  In times of reaction.  The spirit is sometimes assuaged as well.  It has to have depth and stolid consistency to deal with times of hardship, and to have the resiliancy to withstand the tests then flourish once again in times of joy. 

Packaged thought is disconnected yet necessary.  I have to do this NOW. Whatever that is — groceries, pick up the kids, go skating… whatever it is, that is what it is at the time.  The art of living comes in drawing connections, or is it in managing connections, between one time an the next.  The art of living is in connecting, relating, pulling the experience of the past into the fore when needed, laterally drawing like experiences together when needed…. connecting the packages.  Bridling the unbridled for the purpose of being free.

The discipline of living free.  A paradox.  An oxymoron.  Discipline — free.  Juxtaposed… or not.  Freedom does have a ‘price’ we might have heard.  It does have a cost in action, for sure.  But energy is abounding, so where to put our energy except into actions that free us?  There’s no other reasonable answer.  Put energy into bondage?! Not a good answer.  The packages of thought, the boundaries of the moment are put to service in the well led life.  They are moments to be consumed, as they are because they are what they are.  There is not another moment to supplant the one you are in, so live it and be it and do what it is that moment demands, or wants, or requests, or needs.  That package is the present.  The one you open only now, and now, and now again.  The precious ‘present’ that we are given to live and connect and to find freedom within.

Unbridled, bridled.  It is what it is.

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When GOOD turns to Dissapointment

“How We Too Often Make Our Good Feelings Turn Into Dissapointment”

It is really easy to do and we so often do it without even noticing.  Follow this and see if you are one of these people, even some of the time.

So, you get a good feeling, maybe a gut instinct and you feel like something good is around you or going to happen to you.  That’s a nice feeling! 

What do you — we — often do?!  We LOOK for confirmation.  We buy a lottery ticket, start dreaming of what would happen if….  We imagine that NOW is the time our ship will come in etc. etc.  Guess what?  When those things don’t happen, we get dissapointed, we even get depressd: “how come other people have this or that and I don’t…?”  “How come I didn’t win this or gain that?” 

Of course, the next thing that happens is… well, the good feelings are gone and we have served only to prove the good feelings false.  Not a great reinforcing cycle.

WHAT TO DO?!

As the Beatles said, “let it be”.  If you feel good or feel the presence of good, let it be!  If you do that, and DON’T look for anything the feeling lasts a long long time. 

My oldest daughter said to me at dinner tonight, after I was informing her about some writing I have been doing lately, “Dad, sometimes we weren’t meant to look too hard for things; sometimes we just have to let go and let things happen.”  She is right.  We then had a good talk about what I have just written for you to read.  We had a laugh and then agreed: “Let it be, and good things last so much longer… maybe your whole life long…”

Namaste

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A daily task and a simple list

A Daily Task

In the paradigm of Inner Management, after beliefs are formed thought and feeling are the dynamic duo.  This is why the action of building images with deeply associated feelings is so important.  Using this knowledge you have a small task to complete daily: from now on, if you feel bad, notice.  Check your thoughts.  Let negative go, detach from it, and let good flourish.  If you feel good, notice.  Check your thoughts or your deep state of awareness.  Let feeling good prosper as your natural expression, as the good states of being provide nourishment to the body, the minds and to life-force.  Feel the power of the minds, as every thought has a response in the body, and every feeling has an associated thought.  Align and reinforce good thought with good feeling.  Remember this too: the higher the vibrating frequency of any given thing in our universe, the closer it is to the vibration of light.  Light vanquishes all darkness, as you know.  The thoughts and feelings you want, the one’s that feel best, are of the best quality and are also closer in vibration to light.  Love and gratitude are the strongest and most positive of feelings and thought.  Feel them often as they never wear or fade – except through lack of use.

A Simple List

It is time now to make a short list of the positive emotions and feelings you enjoy most as well as the simplest, most natural and direct routes you have of achieving them through choice and action.  This is a simple list, not an elaborate one.  Using Action Tool #4, list and develop ways of tuning in to positive emotions and feeling – as much as possible without the use of ego.  List simple activities you have done in the past and can do now that bring you towards the expression of light and towards harmony.  Make this list uncomplicated, short and sweet.  Ask, what are the simplest activities you can enjoy that bring forth positive emotions?  How about talking to a positive friend, enjoying a sit in the sun, gardening, writing, a silent cup of tea, running, cooking a healthy meal…; do any of these resonate with you? Write out a short list of simple and wholesome activities that bring forth in you the natural positive emotions and feelings you enjoy most.  Undertake one or more of these activities every day, if only for a few moments.  Bring this quality of being to your life, as you deserve and were intended for the full and natural expression of life – and a quality life has an authentic simplicity at the core.  There is so much joy around us when we are able to find it.  Find yours in the simple things on your simple list; then share your joy with others.

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