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.

Connections and High Performance

You know about systems of government, circulatory systems, systems of thought, the educational system….  On and on it goes.

When someone or some group maximizes the potential of one or many systems in concert to create amazing results, they are synergizing their systems for high performance.

The Synergy in Life System and the central concepts of GreenSeed Consulting have come to be as a result of my experience, training, observation, and thought in several diverse areas. These are: systems of team play used in sport; systems of thought from both psychology and philosophy; systems of individual human performance from the study of physiology; systems of education; physical and mental systems from martial arts… and systems of management and leadership. 

It was the study of systems of management that started me looking closely at the profound connections within and between systems.  I knew from experience that all systems have aims or objectives and that creating synergy within and between systems is where high performance is born.  When you look at it in a general sense, everyone knows this but just might not use the same vocabulary to explain high performance.  For me, it was when I started to study the area of Systems Thinking — interestingly, it has roots in electrical engineering — that the power of finding and creating connections within and between systems began to establish as at first a thought and now as a FACT in my mind.

For example, there are connections between systems of play in sport and the systems of physiological training used with the athletes on a team; they also require systems of thought that are geared to performance… and this requires a vision or a system of philosophy.  That same team requires training and learning derived from and brought forth through systems of education…. On it goes. It’s all connected.

How about your group or team?  Are there connections within and between systems?  How about you?  Do you have a system of thought that creates a state of high performance? 

What lays at the base of all the systems that exist in our world?  What is the connection that underlies all things?  Energy.  That is a statement of scientific fact.  Energy is our one substance.  Create a philosophy or psychology that is hopeful and has an aim, and you will create a resonant physiology of health — based on your use of and direction of energy.  Create a system of education that is natural, flowing, and in concert with psychology, physiology, social systems tendencies etc. and you will have a recipe for potential high performance because of the use of and direction of energy.  Everything is connected in energy, through aims and objectives, and most importantly through our ability to synergize individual and corporate systems to meet those aims and objectives.  That’s high performance!  This is fascinating.

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The Grameen bank and You

The Synergy in Life System — Section 20

Ever heard of the Grameen Bank?  No collateral, No legal instrument, No group guarantee or joint-liability.  And… unlike many banks right now, this one is doing FANTASTICLY well!

If there was ever a story worth telling it is of the Grameen Bank and Professor Yunus.  He is a pioneer or magnificent magnanimity.  Below is the 20th excerpt from my book The Synergy in Life System.  Please read about this Nobel prize winning professor and how he helps others.  It has a bearing in your life too.

Helping Others

Some will say that they cannot or should not have affluence because there are so many poor and unfortunate people in the world who have nothing other than misery in their lives.  As you likely are deeply concerned about the plight of poor and unfortunate people, you should spend some of your time helping them.  You can help them best, however, not by giving them some form of material things that will keep them in their place, but through giving them the power of hope and by developing pictures of affluence in their minds, and by helping them to realize their deserved expression of life.  Read the rest of this entry »

What is Systems and Synergy.

There are always good questions and comments regarding Systems and Synergy.  Orlando recently checked in with a nice comment.  In my daily life, people keep asking me questions like: ”So, just what is this systems and synergy you write about.”  I always try to explain with… well, too many words. Then I realized just the other day that to have a practiced, concise answer to this good question is not slick or glib.  I realized that a precise and concise answer is important and necessary.  Here is the answer: Read the rest of this entry »

You are Who You are … Now

Section 19 of The Synergy in Life System.

You are Who You are Now – Not Who You Were

No matter what you believe you were, you must understand that you are only who you are right now.  Now is the only true reality, and the only moment that actually exists.  You are not the story of your past.  If you do not like your past and perhaps think you are unworthy of affluence then change your now, as you cannot change your past.  You have only NOW to be.  You are not your story, your past conditioning, or the past.   Read the rest of this entry »

Principle Centered Leadership :-)

Stephen Covey wrote a great book… a great big book many years ago.  Principle Centered Leadership.    Here’s what it means to me…

Covey expends a great deal of time and effort focusing the readers attention on natural metaphors.  The enduring law of the farm is the grand, guiding theme of this book.  The first sixteen chapters focus greatly on the development of self, and they culminate in a management model called the Principle Centered Leadership paradigm. It is constructed on the following foundations: the alternate life centers of security, guidance, wisdom, and power; the characteristics of highly effective people; the resolutions of discipline, character and competence, and service; integrity, maturity, and abundance; growth; moral compassing; Principle Centered Power; communication; influence; and balance.  What does all of this mean to me? Read the rest of this entry »

Systems Thinking in Daily Life: A to B

Proactive systems thinking is the best kind of systems thinking.  If you can make a change in a process or situation or system so that you don’t have to ‘react’ later on, then you are using systems thinking to your best advantage.  Sure, systems thinking can be used to ferret out problems and solve problems, but its that ‘problem’ word that we would like to get rid of because if you are not dealing with problems, then you are able to focus more of your energy on opportunities.

In the diagram above a simple visual aids in explaining the benefit of understanding your system and using that knowledge to apply change effort strategically.  Here’s the basic idea:  you want to move the line from 1 to 8 over time.  The angle of change that you can employ is limited to one grid of ascension per grid of time.  So for you math types, its a rise and run equation.  For every cell moved along the ‘x’ axis you are able to move one grid upwards on the ‘y’ axis.  This is really simple but powerful.  Look.

 In instance ‘A’ they waited until the fourth unit of time before implementing the change at the prescribed angle.

In instance ‘B’ the change was made in the second unit of time to impliment the change at the prescribed angle.

Look at the difference!  In ‘B’, using the EXACT same angle of change as in ‘A’ you finish at 6 rather than 4!  Simple?  Yes.  So simple that people forget about the power of proactive change?  In way too many instances people do not examine their systems and find areas of influence.  Far too often, people wait until a problem occurs, thus using vital energy that COULD be used for increasing positive possibility.  All the best. 

Douglas Leadbetter  M.Ed.

Section 14

Gotta love the number 14.  So, this section begins to cover off for those of you who either on the surface or deep down just don’t believe that you should be healthy, happy, and wealthy.  There’s some good psychology here worth internalizing… enjoy Read the rest of this entry »

Using Systems Thinking Daily

In your daily life, you can use Systems Thinking.  It’s a helpful means of looking at things.  Let’s start with the “events”, “patterns”, “structure” pyramid.  Events are the top of the pyramid, patterns are at the middle, and then at the foundation is the structure.  It looks like this: your car breaks down.  That’s an event.  What do you do now?  Well, you have to react to the event.  That’s the smart thing to do.  Call a friend who knows cars, or call a tow truck, or in some way deal with the breakdown.  If you deal with events and only events, however, you don’t do much good for yourself.  Simply fixing the car doesn’t mean that you have fixed the problem — especially if the problem is that you never do maintenance on your car… but we’ll get to that in a minute.  Okay, so you have reacted to the event.  Read the rest of this entry »

Analyzing the Community Earth Council Movement

Analyzing the Community Earth Council Movement in terms of Systems and Synergy… of course!  Personally, I believe that this interactive web of ours with read and write content is developing the abilities of people to do good things.  (Yes, likely developing bad things too, but that’s not what we focus on here).  The ability of people to meet across distances, without concern for time or geography and start positive conversations, that’s the power of the web.  What is the power of the web in terms of The Community Earth Council Movement  (CECM) and the Systems and Synergy that this site is about?  

“On July 18, 2007, Nelson Mandela announced the formation of The Elders, an idea brought to him several years earlier by entrepreneur and adventurer Richard Branson and recording artist Peter Gabriel. According to Branson, since the world is now a global village, “it’s time we had our global village elders.” Among the group are Nelson Mandela, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Kofi Annan, Jimmy Carter, Mary Robinson, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Muhammad Yunus, and several others.
As President Mandela put it, “Let us call them Global Elders, not because of their age, but because of their individual and collective wisdom. This group derives its strength not from political, economic or military power, but from (their) independence and integrity…They can help foster and introduce innovative ideas and little known solutions to connect those who have real practical needs with those who have something to give.” ” Read the rest of this entry »

The Community Earth Council Movement

Margaret has provided the following comment:

“I would suggest anyone who is interested in the power of groups taking action to look in to the Community Earth Council movement.”

The Earth Council site welcomes you to their page with the following statement, followed by even more introduction:

Community Earth Councils (CECs) are groups of elders (50+) and youth (16-28) working together to address global environmental and social challenges at the local level. CECs build community, helping young people find meaning and purpose while providing elders with a way to give back, inspire, and impact the future. Participants in a CEC explore how, together, they can bring vision into action.

First, however, they spend time getting to know each other, sharing their stories, hopes, and aspirations. They then explore possible projects for addressing a community need, possibly by partnering with other individuals and/or organizations. After a period of planning, they move to implementation, working shoulder to shoulder.

Is this not worth doing something with… about?  Anyone with any connection to this that would like to comment.  I am watching the numbers on this site, and they continue to grow — a lot of onlookers?  Anyone have a contribution on this topic?