All Goals in Life Are Problematic — Except One

I have a couple of notebooks in my bed, and I caught a glimpse in one of them: love one day at a time.

It seems that society conspires against the peace that comes from the way of living: society wants you to chase something far away, and while you chase it, make vision boards, mind movies, bombastic declarations, and get caught up in the Desire Trap, which I"d like to rename Wanting Trap.

And although the best things come to you as side effect, not as results of goal setting, although what works in like is taking care of the process, keeping your eye on what you are doing, not concerned with big goals, or the future, most people today are caught up in the Wanting Trap, and live a life of unhappiness, and underachieving.

I am not saying that having goals give you inspiration, far from it, but having goals is better than having none.

I have only one goal: bringing the divine to everything, to penetrate the invisible for new clues what I can see to take humanity, or at least some of my students to "heaven on earth".

I don"t even have a "mental representation" of how that will look, I am choosing moment to moment to follow my inspiration.

Yesterday I had a Juice session with a student, one of the rare students who have the courage to find out what lights them up.

We were kicking the questions around, and came up with an idea: to be a channel for the divine... whatever that means. He is testdriving it, to see if it really excites him, and if we need to, we"ll tweak it.

Finding out what gives you juice, the pursuit of what activity that can make you happy and excited, turned on, moment to moment, is the most important thing you can do for yourself.

For Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize winner in physics, interesting was what gave him juice.

I have had clients who found that adventure was floating their boat. Discovery is another popular juice giver.

Having a life guided by your juice is a life that doesn"t wait for a goal or a dream to come to a fruition, instead it gives you moment to moment happiness and purpose.

It is an attitude more than anything, not something to have... like the pursuit of happiness, or even peace of mind. They are side effect, and cannot be achieved directly.

OK, here is a great article worth reading

All Goals in Life Are Problematic?—?Except One

by Zat Rana

The late physicist Richard Feynman famously won a Nobel Prize for his work on quantum electrodynamics. But here’s something most people don’t know about him: He was also a world-class safecracker.

In the 1940s, in the New Mexico Desert, Feynman was bored while working on the Manhattan project that would birth the atomic bomb. Naturally, then, he decided to occupy himself by pulling pranks on his colleagues.

Knowing that most of them were relatively careless when dealing with the safes that stored top secret documents?—?whether forgetting to lock them, or leaving them on factory settings, or choosing obvious dates as their codes?—?he began leaving notes in the place of their work like:

“I borrowed document no. LA4312 - Feynman the safecracker.”

Eventually, he got so good at it that the Colonel in charge of his unit began advising people that if Feynman had been anywhere near their safe, it was a part of their job to change their combination lock once more.

This story is one of many stories Feynman tells in his autobiography Surely, You"re Joking Mr. Feynman!, where his playful nature gets the better out of both him and his attention.

One of the things I"ve personally always admired about Feynman is that he was so deeply curious about things that the only purpose behind what he decided to commit himself to was what he found interesting.

He had general aims, I"m sure, and given the complexity of the work he put out, he was obviously an insanely focused person, but the orienting impulse that guided him was beyond goals and simple ambitions. He was far more interested in getting somewhere past the known.

Goals as orientation are common in almost all of our pursuits. We look ahead, predict what may make us happy in the future, and we then narrow down towards something specific. But what if that"s not the way?
Is Living Goal to Goal the Answer?

When dealing with the future, an orientation of some sort - however vague or specific - is necessary. If we didn"t have one, we would be entirely shaped by the current of luck and randomness, which isn"t always a blessing.

To exercise some semblance of agency over our lives, then, we often resort to goal-setting. We are taught to do so early on so that we can keep up with the world around us. Later, corporations, for example, even have acronyms, like SMART goals, that have us continuing to do so.

Now, whether we are setting SMART goals or personal ones under our own framework (or no framework), the one thing that they have in common is that they are relatively concrete. You want to be married by 30, earn an executive position by 40, and be retired by 50. That"s how they usually go.

For the most part, my inclination is to say that having these is better than not having any, and certain people have a genetic disposition to find satisfaction in specific accomplishment more so than others, but there are also problems that come with spending an entire life living goal to goal.

For one, it attempts to predict an unpredictable future. Who is to say that what you want tomorrow or the year after is the same thing you want right now? More critically, what if what you want right now isn"t even oriented in the right direction over the long-term and you"re actually going the wrong way? Life changes, we change, and none of this is evident without hindsight.

Secondly, and just as importantly, it creates an anchor: You bind your expectations of happiness and contentment onto something so singular that you often forget that other things in your life are capable of adding just as much joy to your experience than the thing you"re so fixated on.

Everybody knows that the ultimate reward is the process, not the goal, but what we forget is that the virtue of even having goals makes it very hard to stay honest to a process that often deviates day to day.

This creates a strange tension: On one end, goals of some sort are necessary, and giving the future its due attention is the right thing to do; on the other hand, the act of creating these goals and worshiping them, as we often do, leads to a conflict that we can"t easily get away from.

To solve this tension, we have to move towards something more nebulous.
The Pursuit of Interestingness

The really fascinating, and even admirable, thing about Feynman was that if he ever had a goal, it was simply this: to learn as much as possible in any direction that his innate curiosity took him.

For brief periods of his time, working on one problem or the other, he may have had more specific goals, sure, and he certainly took the time to focus on them as he needed without distractions. But broadly, his orientation was pointed towards the most interesting thing he could find.

The pursuit of interestingness, I think, solves the predicament that is inherent in goal-setting. It"s vague and nebulous enough to be honest about the unpredictability of the future, without being hopelessly lost in the chaos of pure luck and randomness.

Throughout life, we all see things, learn things, and pursue things. This process is different for each of us, but as we do so, we also develop a very strong intuition of what we, personally, find fascinating about the world - something that aligns with our deeper nature while respecting that we change over time as human beings, letting us adapt accordingly.

Interestingness isn"t hedonism or materialism or the chase of anything new and shiny that seeks to distract us. It"s deeper than that. It"s taking on that random project you had no plan to take on because you have a feeling that you might just learn something you didn"t know about yourself. It"s seeing a person you just met not as a potential partner or someone who can do something for you but simply as an individual who may open up a new, unknown, and unique dimension in your life.

The great thing about pursuing this kind of interestingness is that it has a far shorter feedback loop than specific goals. You keep doing something for as long as it"s interesting, but if you were mistaken about your initial impulse, you move on, without too much lost.

Naturally, not everything or everyone is interesting all the time, but generally speaking, if something maintains its interest over a period of time, it"s likely worth dedicating some energy to.

By making interestingness the goal, you give your actual goals a fluidity, one that can better accommodate new information. This also better amalgamates the goal with the process, rather than the goal being a distinct thing that battles to keep your attention off of the process.

More than anything, however, the pursuit of interestingness honors a simple truth about the human experience: The best things in life are by-products. They come when they come, as you commit yourself honestly to a process, not when you spend time striving for imagined perfection.
The Takeaway

The future demands attention, and while focusing all of our energy on it is self-defeating, we do need to be intentional about directing some of our effort towards it as we orient ourselves in the world.

Goals are one way to do that. They give us a way to make concrete what is otherwise uncertain so that we can make progress without losing ourselves to anxiety. The problem, however, is that they often mistake what exists to provide orientation as a thing of value in itself.

The best way out of this trap is to pursue what is interesting - to use our intuition for what it is that we find novel in this world to make the process and the goal one and the same thing; to continually update our sense of what is worth pursuing without being confined to false certainty.

Interestingness seeks out the riddle of life. It gives us a reason to turn the next page, to see the next scene, to give form to the unknown.

Feynman embodied this, but he also once said something that captures what it is that differentiates such a pursuit from mere goals and certainties:

“I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives… In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.”

Goals, incorrectly, assume that we already know what it is that we want. Interestingness is more humble. It makes up its mind as it moves, slowly blowing from one thing to another, until it eventually grasps something that lies beyond prediction.

Looking ahead, imagining scenarios that we think may be worth our time, has a place, but at the end of the day, what is most relevant is unfolding around us right now, and it doesn"t care what we thought about it yesterday.

If you would like to find out your juice, your one thing, please email me for more information

All Goals in Life Are Problematic — Except One

I have a couple of notebooks in my bed, and I caught a glimpse in one of them: love one day at a time.

It seems that society conspires against the peace that comes from the way of living: society wants you to chase something far away, and while you chase it, make vision boards, mind movies, bombastic declarations, and get caught up in the Desire Trap, which I"d like to rename Wanting Trap.

And although the best things come to you as side effect, not as results of goal setting, although what works in like is taking care of the process, keeping your eye on what you are doing, not concerned with big goals, or the future, most people today are caught up in the Wanting Trap, and live a life of unhappiness, and underachieving.

I am not saying that having goals give you inspiration, far from it, but having goals is better than having none.

I have only one goal: bringing the divine to everything, to penetrate the invisible for new clues what I can see to take humanity, or at least some of my students to "heaven on earth".

I don"t even have a "mental representation" of how that will look, I am choosing moment to moment to follow my inspiration.

Yesterday I had a Juice session with a student, one of the rare students who have the courage to find out what lights them up.

We were kicking the questions around, and came up with an idea: to be a channel for the divine... whatever that means. He is testdriving it, to see if it really excites him, and if we need to, we"ll tweak it.

Finding out what gives you juice, the pursuit of what activity that can make you happy and excited, turned on, moment to moment, is the most important thing you can do for yourself.

For Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize winner in physics, interesting was what gave him juice.

I have had clients who found that adventure was floating their boat. Discovery is another popular juice giver.

Having a life guided by your juice is a life that doesn"t wait for a goal or a dream to come to a fruition, instead it gives you moment to moment happiness and purpose.

It is an attitude more than anything, not something to have... like the pursuit of happiness, or even peace of mind. They are side effect, and cannot be achieved directly.

OK, here is a great article worth reading

All Goals in Life Are Problematic?—?Except One

by Zat Rana

The late physicist Richard Feynman famously won a Nobel Prize for his work on quantum electrodynamics. But here’s something most people don’t know about him: He was also a world-class safecracker.

In the 1940s, in the New Mexico Desert, Feynman was bored while working on the Manhattan project that would birth the atomic bomb. Naturally, then, he decided to occupy himself by pulling pranks on his colleagues.

Knowing that most of them were relatively careless when dealing with the safes that stored top secret documents?—?whether forgetting to lock them, or leaving them on factory settings, or choosing obvious dates as their codes?—?he began leaving notes in the place of their work like:

“I borrowed document no. LA4312 - Feynman the safecracker.”

Eventually, he got so good at it that the Colonel in charge of his unit began advising people that if Feynman had been anywhere near their safe, it was a part of their job to change their combination lock once more.

This story is one of many stories Feynman tells in his autobiography Surely, You"re Joking Mr. Feynman!, where his playful nature gets the better out of both him and his attention.

One of the things I"ve personally always admired about Feynman is that he was so deeply curious about things that the only purpose behind what he decided to commit himself to was what he found interesting.

He had general aims, I"m sure, and given the complexity of the work he put out, he was obviously an insanely focused person, but the orienting impulse that guided him was beyond goals and simple ambitions. He was far more interested in getting somewhere past the known.

Goals as orientation are common in almost all of our pursuits. We look ahead, predict what may make us happy in the future, and we then narrow down towards something specific. But what if that"s not the way?
Is Living Goal to Goal the Answer?

When dealing with the future, an orientation of some sort - however vague or specific - is necessary. If we didn"t have one, we would be entirely shaped by the current of luck and randomness, which isn"t always a blessing.

To exercise some semblance of agency over our lives, then, we often resort to goal-setting. We are taught to do so early on so that we can keep up with the world around us. Later, corporations, for example, even have acronyms, like SMART goals, that have us continuing to do so.

Now, whether we are setting SMART goals or personal ones under our own framework (or no framework), the one thing that they have in common is that they are relatively concrete. You want to be married by 30, earn an executive position by 40, and be retired by 50. That"s how they usually go.

For the most part, my inclination is to say that having these is better than not having any, and certain people have a genetic disposition to find satisfaction in specific accomplishment more so than others, but there are also problems that come with spending an entire life living goal to goal.

For one, it attempts to predict an unpredictable future. Who is to say that what you want tomorrow or the year after is the same thing you want right now? More critically, what if what you want right now isn"t even oriented in the right direction over the long-term and you"re actually going the wrong way? Life changes, we change, and none of this is evident without hindsight.

Secondly, and just as importantly, it creates an anchor: You bind your expectations of happiness and contentment onto something so singular that you often forget that other things in your life are capable of adding just as much joy to your experience than the thing you"re so fixated on.

Everybody knows that the ultimate reward is the process, not the goal, but what we forget is that the virtue of even having goals makes it very hard to stay honest to a process that often deviates day to day.

This creates a strange tension: On one end, goals of some sort are necessary, and giving the future its due attention is the right thing to do; on the other hand, the act of creating these goals and worshiping them, as we often do, leads to a conflict that we can"t easily get away from.

To solve this tension, we have to move towards something more nebulous.
The Pursuit of Interestingness

The really fascinating, and even admirable, thing about Feynman was that if he ever had a goal, it was simply this: to learn as much as possible in any direction that his innate curiosity took him.

For brief periods of his time, working on one problem or the other, he may have had more specific goals, sure, and he certainly took the time to focus on them as he needed without distractions. But broadly, his orientation was pointed towards the most interesting thing he could find.

The pursuit of interestingness, I think, solves the predicament that is inherent in goal-setting. It"s vague and nebulous enough to be honest about the unpredictability of the future, without being hopelessly lost in the chaos of pure luck and randomness.

Throughout life, we all see things, learn things, and pursue things. This process is different for each of us, but as we do so, we also develop a very strong intuition of what we, personally, find fascinating about the world - something that aligns with our deeper nature while respecting that we change over time as human beings, letting us adapt accordingly.

Interestingness isn"t hedonism or materialism or the chase of anything new and shiny that seeks to distract us. It"s deeper than that. It"s taking on that random project you had no plan to take on because you have a feeling that you might just learn something you didn"t know about yourself. It"s seeing a person you just met not as a potential partner or someone who can do something for you but simply as an individual who may open up a new, unknown, and unique dimension in your life.

The great thing about pursuing this kind of interestingness is that it has a far shorter feedback loop than specific goals. You keep doing something for as long as it"s interesting, but if you were mistaken about your initial impulse, you move on, without too much lost.

Naturally, not everything or everyone is interesting all the time, but generally speaking, if something maintains its interest over a period of time, it"s likely worth dedicating some energy to.

By making interestingness the goal, you give your actual goals a fluidity, one that can better accommodate new information. This also better amalgamates the goal with the process, rather than the goal being a distinct thing that battles to keep your attention off of the process.

More than anything, however, the pursuit of interestingness honors a simple truth about the human experience: The best things in life are by-products. They come when they come, as you commit yourself honestly to a process, not when you spend time striving for imagined perfection.
The Takeaway

The future demands attention, and while focusing all of our energy on it is self-defeating, we do need to be intentional about directing some of our effort towards it as we orient ourselves in the world.

Goals are one way to do that. They give us a way to make concrete what is otherwise uncertain so that we can make progress without losing ourselves to anxiety. The problem, however, is that they often mistake what exists to provide orientation as a thing of value in itself.

The best way out of this trap is to pursue what is interesting - to use our intuition for what it is that we find novel in this world to make the process and the goal one and the same thing; to continually update our sense of what is worth pursuing without being confined to false certainty.

Interestingness seeks out the riddle of life. It gives us a reason to turn the next page, to see the next scene, to give form to the unknown.

Feynman embodied this, but he also once said something that captures what it is that differentiates such a pursuit from mere goals and certainties:

“I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives… In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.”

Goals, incorrectly, assume that we already know what it is that we want. Interestingness is more humble. It makes up its mind as it moves, slowly blowing from one thing to another, until it eventually grasps something that lies beyond prediction.

Looking ahead, imagining scenarios that we think may be worth our time, has a place, but at the end of the day, what is most relevant is unfolding around us right now, and it doesn"t care what we thought about it yesterday.

If you would like to find out your juice, your one thing, please email me for more information

Stuff we see we solve, the stuff we don"t see kicks our ass

Turning the impossible possible.... results in flow

I have been listening to a podcast... two and a half hour long, so I can take only a half hour here, a half hour there...

The sentences above are from that podcast... a conversation about how to get into your flow state.

Because I have client with a half-done Juice Exercise call, I am looking for some help in that podcast... some more inspiration than I already have... More faith, more confidence...

...while I am pondering why don"t more people apply, apply in droves, to see what gives them juice?

Because once you see it and see it accurately, bring it out of the invisible, you feel that you have to.

Let me ask you a question? When you are hungry, do you feel that you have to eat? Of do you feel that you want to eat? That eating is good for you?

Can you see what I am saying? The Juice Exercise brings to light what gives you a sense of joy, what allows you to feel energized, hooked up, alive, turned on... by allowing you to see what it is.

And yet you and the 99-percenters opt to remain blind. Opt to cut your nose in spite of your face.

Because once you know what gives you joy, you want to bring it to all of your life, to every aspect of it.

And that may mean bringing it to every area of life, as a context, consciously.

My example: I found that what brings juice for me is bringing the divine to everything. Every action, every aspect of my life, to all of life.

So, in practice this means that the most menial, most mundane, or maybe even painful activities that one must perform to live, can be turned into a spiritual experience, a source of joy.

There are a ton of activities I don"t like... but I can bring the divine to it, and then it"s enjoyable. Doing the laundry, feeling another"s pain, even doing the Juice Exercise... not fun.

The Juice Exercise, for example, is probably very enjoyable for the client: after all we dig into what they like and why, their experiences, and everyone loves to talk about themselves.

For the practitioner it is not fun. The conversation is almost exclusively about things that are not relevant, that are happenstance, that are not real sources of joy. Trudging, trudging, and hoping.

And then, as if the sun came out from a cloudy sky, accidentally, some light shows up, and then the conversation takes a turn: we are in the finish line.

Most clients go away happy, but I know better.

Insights are a dime a dozen, really.

Unless insights are turned into a new context for life, and it takes time, the insight: what gives you juice, is limited to itself... a bright spot in a night sky...

I discovered my Juice about 10 years ago. It"s taken me many years to integrate my life around it. NOT integrate it into my life... NO! the other way around.

I made it the context, the organizing principle of my life. It was especially needed in areas where I didn"t already have that.

• Where I was out to prove that I was smart...


• where I was superior...


• where I felt activities were below me...


• where I felt that the circumstances needed me to fit in...


• wherever I was less than I wanted to be.

It was the guiding light that showed me and helped me, in the right context, make the changes I needed to make so I can truly bring the divine, not the idea of the divine, but the divine itself, to life.

I have clients whose life seemingly turned around after the Juice Exercise, but at some point that "seemingly" collapsed into itself.

What happened is this: the Juice turned into an activity, instead of an organizing principle.

Is it their fault? Maybe.

Is it my fault? Certainly. Especially if I was in a position to regularly and diligently nudge them to integrate their lives around the Juice.

Why didn"t I do it?

Honestly? You want me to be honest, right? Righto...

I didn"t know it.

I am not an all knowing, blameless, son of god guru.

I am an ordinary human, who learns as they go.

I listen to my old recordings, and I can hear it. Clearly. I get frustrated at people"s insistence to do nothing, to remain locked into the small box, at their refusal or reluctance, or belligerence to be inspired.

From my vantage point the most important starting point measure is the measure that shows how inspired you can become and how inspired are you now? ((1. your vibration (1-1000):
2. your overall intelligence, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, body, relationship, etc.:
3. the number of spiritual capacities you have:
4. your soul correction (your machine): https://www.yourvibration.com/sc
5. do you have attachments?
6. the level of your health (1-100):
7. the level of your cell hydration (1-100):
8. your relationship to feedback and instruction:
9. The level of discomfort you are willing to allow w/o trying to fix it. This is your TLB score...
10. The size of your vocabulary: the number of words you can use accurately:
11. Your about-me score, also the inverted number of humility:
12. # of fixed mindset:
13. Ambition:
14. Desire:
15. Degree of inauthenticity/pretense self overall:
16. Level of integrity 1-100, the relationship between you and you:
17. how enslaved are you to memes? (what percentage of your life is run by memes?)
18. do you have a bridge between your precious "I" and your actual I? What is your level of delusion
19. To what degree you have access to your adult capacities %
20. How teachable/how coachable are you?
21. The level of your awareness?
23. the percentage of time you spend in the mind:
24. the percentage of input that gets through to you.
25. How inspired can you become? And what level are you now
26. To what degree you honor your feelings as reality?
27. What is your cone of vision in degrees? this tells me whether you can connect the dots...


))

This measure shows me how much energy I need to lead them. How much elbow room I have to work with. Also, how much difference the Juice Exercise can make for them.

By the way, the how inspired can you get measure is suppressed by the desire number, which I should rename "the wanting number", and the Desire Trap I should rename the "Wanting Trap", because the word wanting expresses clearer what we are talking about. Desire is actually sacred.

One of my students caught herself envying a friend of hers. She is in the Playground, so she ended up looking at reality, and she saw that envy, in the Reality space, is a guidance feeling: showing you what you desire, instead of just a sinful feeling. And very astutely she wrote down: my desire, my ambition is to take myself to a place where I can have that, do that, achieve that.

Most people I muscle test have 10% for "how inspired you can get" and about 1-3% of how inspired they are now.

Not a lot of elbow room to grow.

And then there are others with 30-50% as the higher number, and 10% or less as the lower number, and I can inspire them to bring those number closer to live a blessed life through finding out their Juice.

Closer... not to match. What animates a human is the gap between those two numbers. But unless the natural, innate, divine Juice is distinguished, the animation goes towards stuff that causes more grief than pleasure.

Some people suppress inspiration, because it has already been declared frivolous and impossible. Their past failures are projected into the future. And in spite all appearances, I need to bring the divine to our conversations to inspire them, to help them release the divine in them.

That is one of those "jobs" I don"t like, and don"t do very well, or very consistently.

If there is one thing I envy the famous motivational gurus for is their abundant ability to look at people and see reality: they say: if you are breathing, you can be inspired.

It clashes with my soul correction, but I am working on getting better at it... even though I still see reality as a "Forget Thyself" person sees reality.

But whenever I was willing to inspire: it paid dividends, and seemingly hopeless people started to move up the scale.

I am willing to be wrong about reality... And allow the divine to call the shot.

There is a gap still between willing and able... so I have a lot to grow.

I have recently declared: no one left behind! And if it is really up to me, as it probably is, and if it takes inspiring people so they can live out of a higher reality than they have, then I"ll do it.

It feels, at this stage, that I have to turn myself inside out.

But then I remember what drew me to Landmark Education (it was Werner Erhard and Associates back in the early 80"s) it was the slogan "Creating a world that works for everyone, with no one left out".

I sure felt left out, hopeless, and alone, with no one claiming that I matter and show that the world could work for me too, not just for other people.

This is why I threw myself into assisting, and doing all the programs of the wea... because I saw that it is not other people"s job to create the world where I belong, it is my job, it is every person"s job.

Belonging is up to you. No one can make you feel that you belong, only you.

I have never stopped creating the world where I belong, however obnoxious methods I have used...

This past week I must have turned a corner in that, because two people looked at me differently...

You see, when you belong, you give people permission to belong too.

One of those people was my older brother who thanked me for the conversation. It happened once before, but that was about three years ago.

I guess I wasn"t focusing on what I wanted to say...

I will have to experiment more, what creates a sense of belonging in people. But I am almost certain that bringing my Juice, bringing the divine to the call had a major role.

I have always said: what you see drives your actions. What you don"t see can"t...

So my most important job is bringing the divine to seeing... so I can see more of reality.

Stuff we see we solve, the stuff we don"t see kicks our ass

Turning the impossible possible.... results in flow

I have been listening to a podcast... two and a half hour long, so I can take only a half hour here, a half hour there...

The sentences above are from that podcast... a conversation about how to get into your flow state.

Because I have client with a half-done Juice Exercise call, I am looking for some help in that podcast... some more inspiration than I already have... More faith, more confidence...

...while I am pondering why don"t more people apply, apply in droves, to see what gives them juice?

Because once you see it and see it accurately, bring it out of the invisible, you feel that you have to.

Let me ask you a question? When you are hungry, do you feel that you have to eat? Of do you feel that you want to eat? That eating is good for you?

Can you see what I am saying? The Juice Exercise brings to light what gives you a sense of joy, what allows you to feel energized, hooked up, alive, turned on... by allowing you to see what it is.

And yet you and the 99-percenters opt to remain blind. Opt to cut your nose in spite of your face.

Because once you know what gives you joy, you want to bring it to all of your life, to every aspect of it.

And that may mean bringing it to every area of life, as a context, consciously.

My example: I found that what brings juice for me is bringing the divine to everything. Every action, every aspect of my life, to all of life.

So, in practice this means that the most menial, most mundane, or maybe even painful activities that one must perform to live, can be turned into a spiritual experience, a source of joy.

There are a ton of activities I don"t like... but I can bring the divine to it, and then it"s enjoyable. Doing the laundry, feeling another"s pain, even doing the Juice Exercise... not fun.

The Juice Exercise, for example, is probably very enjoyable for the client: after all we dig into what they like and why, their experiences, and everyone loves to talk about themselves.

For the practitioner it is not fun. The conversation is almost exclusively about things that are not relevant, that are happenstance, that are not real sources of joy. Trudging, trudging, and hoping.

And then, as if the sun came out from a cloudy sky, accidentally, some light shows up, and then the conversation takes a turn: we are in the finish line.

Most clients go away happy, but I know better.

Insights are a dime a dozen, really.

Unless insights are turned into a new context for life, and it takes time, the insight: what gives you juice, is limited to itself... a bright spot in a night sky...

I discovered my Juice about 10 years ago. It"s taken me many years to integrate my life around it. NOT integrate it into my life... NO! the other way around.

I made it the context, the organizing principle of my life. It was especially needed in areas where I didn"t already have that.

• Where I was out to prove that I was smart...


• where I was superior...


• where I felt activities were below me...


• where I felt that the circumstances needed me to fit in...


• wherever I was less than I wanted to be.

It was the guiding light that showed me and helped me, in the right context, make the changes I needed to make so I can truly bring the divine, not the idea of the divine, but the divine itself, to life.

I have clients whose life seemingly turned around after the Juice Exercise, but at some point that "seemingly" collapsed into itself.

What happened is this: the Juice turned into an activity, instead of an organizing principle.

Is it their fault? Maybe.

Is it my fault? Certainly. Especially if I was in a position to regularly and diligently nudge them to integrate their lives around the Juice.

Why didn"t I do it?

Honestly? You want me to be honest, right? Righto...

I didn"t know it.

I am not an all knowing, blameless, son of god guru.

I am an ordinary human, who learns as they go.

I listen to my old recordings, and I can hear it. Clearly. I get frustrated at people"s insistence to do nothing, to remain locked into the small box, at their refusal or reluctance, or belligerence to be inspired.

From my vantage point the most important starting point measure is the measure that shows how inspired you can become and how inspired are you now? ((1. your vibration (1-1000):
2. your overall intelligence, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, body, relationship, etc.:
3. the number of spiritual capacities you have:
4. your soul correction (your machine): https://www.yourvibration.com/sc
5. do you have attachments?
6. the level of your health (1-100):
7. the level of your cell hydration (1-100):
8. your relationship to feedback and instruction:
9. The level of discomfort you are willing to allow w/o trying to fix it. This is your TLB score...
10. The size of your vocabulary: the number of words you can use accurately:
11. Your about-me score, also the inverted number of humility:
12. # of fixed mindset:
13. Ambition:
14. Desire:
15. Degree of inauthenticity/pretense self overall:
16. Level of integrity 1-100, the relationship between you and you:
17. how enslaved are you to memes? (what percentage of your life is run by memes?)
18. do you have a bridge between your precious "I" and your actual I? What is your level of delusion
19. To what degree you have access to your adult capacities %
20. How teachable/how coachable are you?
21. The level of your awareness?
23. the percentage of time you spend in the mind:
24. the percentage of input that gets through to you.
25. How inspired can you become? And what level are you now
26. To what degree you honor your feelings as reality?
27. What is your cone of vision in degrees? this tells me whether you can connect the dots...


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This measure shows me how much energy I need to lead them. How much elbow room I have to work with. Also, how much difference the Juice Exercise can make for them.

By the way, the how inspired can you get measure is suppressed by the desire number, which I should rename "the wanting number", and the Desire Trap I should rename the "Wanting Trap", because the word wanting expresses clearer what we are talking about. Desire is actually sacred.

One of my students caught herself envying a friend of hers. She is in the Playground, so she ended up looking at reality, and she saw that envy, in the Reality space, is a guidance feeling: showing you what you desire, instead of just a sinful feeling. And very astutely she wrote down: my desire, my ambition is to take myself to a place where I can have that, do that, achieve that.

Most people I muscle test have 10% for "how inspired you can get" and about 1-3% of how inspired they are now.

Not a lot of elbow room to grow.

And then there are others with 30-50% as the higher number, and 10% or less as the lower number, and I can inspire them to bring those number closer to live a blessed life through finding out their Juice.

Closer... not to match. What animates a human is the gap between those two numbers. But unless the natural, innate, divine Juice is distinguished, the animation goes towards stuff that causes more grief than pleasure.

Some people suppress inspiration, because it has already been declared frivolous and impossible. Their past failures are projected into the future. And in spite all appearances, I need to bring the divine to our conversations to inspire them, to help them release the divine in them.

That is one of those "jobs" I don"t like, and don"t do very well, or very consistently.

If there is one thing I envy the famous motivational gurus for is their abundant ability to look at people and see reality: they say: if you are breathing, you can be inspired.

It clashes with my soul correction, but I am working on getting better at it... even though I still see reality as a "Forget Thyself" person sees reality.

But whenever I was willing to inspire: it paid dividends, and seemingly hopeless people started to move up the scale.

I am willing to be wrong about reality... And allow the divine to call the shot.

There is a gap still between willing and able... so I have a lot to grow.

I have recently declared: no one left behind! And if it is really up to me, as it probably is, and if it takes inspiring people so they can live out of a higher reality than they have, then I"ll do it.

It feels, at this stage, that I have to turn myself inside out.

But then I remember what drew me to Landmark Education (it was Werner Erhard and Associates back in the early 80"s) it was the slogan "Creating a world that works for everyone, with no one left out".

I sure felt left out, hopeless, and alone, with no one claiming that I matter and show that the world could work for me too, not just for other people.

This is why I threw myself into assisting, and doing all the programs of the wea... because I saw that it is not other people"s job to create the world where I belong, it is my job, it is every person"s job.

Belonging is up to you. No one can make you feel that you belong, only you.

I have never stopped creating the world where I belong, however obnoxious methods I have used...

This past week I must have turned a corner in that, because two people looked at me differently...

You see, when you belong, you give people permission to belong too.

One of those people was my older brother who thanked me for the conversation. It happened once before, but that was about three years ago.

I guess I wasn"t focusing on what I wanted to say...

I will have to experiment more, what creates a sense of belonging in people. But I am almost certain that bringing my Juice, bringing the divine to the call had a major role.

I have always said: what you see drives your actions. What you don"t see can"t...

So my most important job is bringing the divine to seeing... so I can see more of reality.

"You can only kick with one foot at a time, Otherwise you fall on your arse."

"You can only kick with one foot at a time, Otherwise you fall on your arse."

You can only pick one thing that you want out of life, and if you pick the wrong thing, you"ll never be successful.

...Joel Salatin said, "the worst thing in life is to get older and realize you got good at the wrong thing."

You would think that the title is about multi-tasking. But it isn"t. It is a life that is un-integrated.

So what is an integrated life?

A life is like a symphonic orchestra.

Most people"s life sounds like the tuning the instruments phase of the orchestra: cacophony. Bad noise.

Only when the conductor shows up, raps his baton against the music sheets, silence, and music starts. All instruments read the same music sheets, all keep their eyes on the conductor... Integration happens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORjjLtOHGoI

An integrated life.

Yeah-yeah Sophie, but what is the music sheet? What should you organize your life around so you can live the integrated and therefore enjoyable life?

I am going to copy an email by Tai Lopez in the footnotes ((Most important thing you could ever learn.

If I could go back in time and learn one thing, it"s this:

You can only pick one thing that you want out of life, and if you pick the wrong thing, you"ll never be successful.

My mentor, Joel Salatin said, "the worst thing in life is to get older and realize you got good at the wrong thing."

I see people that are very wealthy, but I don"t admire them. I live here in Beverly Hills, and there are billionaires all up and down the street, but I wouldn"t trade lives with a single one of them. I call it the exchange test. Would you trade lives? The reason I wouldn"t trade lives with almost anybody I meet, is not because they"re not smart, it"s not because they"re not good people, it"s because they"re optimizing for the wrong thing.

So if you say, "I want to be an entrepreneur." That"s not something you should optimize for. That"s ridiculous. You have one life, and if you optimize for being an entrepreneur, what about your health? What about love? What about happiness?

I know miserable entrepreneurs that are fat and out of shape, I don"t want to be them. I know a dude, a friend of an entrepreneur friend, and this guy"s a billionaire, but he"s so fat he can"t get out of bed. He has two billion dollars and a private 747 jet, but he can"t get out of his own bed. So would I want to be him? No. He optimized for the wrong thing. He optimized to make two billion dollars, but he forgot about his health. Why would you want two billion dollars if you don"t have health?

Why would you give your health up to gain money? There"s a saying that when people are young, they lose their health to get wealth, and when they"re old, they use their wealth to get back their health. It"s circular logic. People are stupid. If I could go back in time, I"d realize most people are lost. Literally, most people are lost.

One of the people who"s not lost is Arnold Schwarzenegger. He was healthy, strong and helped change the world. He made gyms cool. Gyms come from Arnold Schwarzenegger, he made that shit hot. All these gyms all over America? That"s from Arnold f***in" Schwarzenegger. Now other people worked on it, but not like him. He motivated people and became a self made millionaire before 30. He even became an actor. I was actually in his kitchen not too long ago, just talking and smokin" cigars. He might not be, you know, academy award winning, but he"s a good actor. He"s got the good life. You"ve got to have health, wealth, love and happiness. If you optimize for anything that doesn"t involve all four of them, you"re making the biggest mistake in the world.

Entrepreneur people always say "I want become an entrepreneur." No you don"t, being an entrepreneur is a means to an end. You don"t want to live your life lifting weights. It"s a means to an end, to put on muscle and increase your metabolism. You don"t live a life to lift weights.

Entrepreneurism, capitalism, democracy, they"re all a means to the end - and there"s only one end, and that"s a good life. Now everyone will define good life a tad bit differently. For some people good life means you travel a lot, but there are some common factors that all people must have. You must be relatively lean with your body fat. I"ll make this real blunt. You cannot be overweight. I don"t care what anybody tells you. What will a smart scientist tell you? You have to be lean. You don"t have to be anorexic, but you have to be lean.

You have to optimize the right things in order to get the good life and have your hormones churning at the right pace to be happy. Your happiness is predicated on your hormonal balance. If you get too much estrogen, testosterone, cortisol, estradiol, these things mess with you. The simplest predictor of you having screwed up hormones are things like body fat. I"m not saying everyone needs to look like a runway model, that"s not even what you need to optimize for.

Let somebody else make two billion, and get so fat that they lay in a bed for the rest of their life, let them do it. That ain"t your concern. You can mention it, lend a helping hand, try to guide him back, but like Allan Nation told me: “don"t try to teach a pig to fly.” You can"t do it, and it bothers the pig. Most people aren"t going listen to this advice. It"s too good of advice. People are going get lost.

I"ve been an entrepreneur since I was 16. I"m qualified to tell you this. I have started many, many successful companies. Now there"s some entrepreneurs more successful than me, but I only judge them by the good life scale. Very few entrepreneurs that I meet have the good life. It"s not even me being judgmental, if I ask them, "do you like your life?" They"re like, "oh, I"m burned out, I"m dead, it"s takin" longer than I thought." So keep your health and make money a little slower.

In some ways, love, happiness and social life are even more important than health. If I had a choice between being overweight, and having a lot of good people around me, I would choose to have good people around me. Social skills are very important, but it"s not just how to win friends and influence people, it"s how to win friends and influence the right people.

Let"s be honest here, if you"ve been on planet earth for more than 10 or 15 years, you are highly aware of the fact that most people do not have your best interests at heart. If you talk to an evolutionary psychologist, we"re optimized to have about 150 friends, family, relatives, and acquaintances that will have our back. That"s it! It"s a very famous number, you can google it. A famous sociologist came up with that number. The reason is because you can keep track of 150 relationships and each of their relationships to the other 150 people. So your brain is actually tracking 10,000 combinations. No school will tell you this. No professor will tell you this. If at the end of your life you look back, and think to yourself "I had a good life," you won.

If you"ve deoptimized your financial life, you won"t have the good life. It"s all a balance. There are genetic factors that tell you what career you should choose. Most people pick the wrong career, because nobody told them. There"s parents out there telling their kids to become dentist so they"ll make more money, when the kid"s artistic. No! No no no. If you have kids, and they"re genuinely talented artists, let them be an artist. Parents interests are not always aligned with their children. You don"t believe me? Read Evolutionary Psychology by Dr. David Buss. Parents will often pick favorites, they"ll want to live out their fantasies through you. Being a poor artist is better than a wealthy dentist that hates going to work. Now, the good news for parents is, you can become an artist and still make a good living using modern entrepreneurial skills and social media skills. You might not be the next Bill Gates or Warren Buffet, but i f you"re doing what you love and what you"re good at, who cares?

What does it profit a man to have all the money in the world, but eat shitty food? First thing I did when I made money is eat better food. That"s the most primal need of humans. Buy a better mattress. f*** it, let your business be slower. People are actually out there telling you, to grind harder and sleep on a f***in" floor for years. It"s ridiculous. There"s a balance. You can be frugal, but don"t sacrifice your health. All you people eating ramen for five years…you"re fools. I don"t care if you become the next Steve Jobs or not. If you let your health deteriorate, and you become the next Steve Jobs, who cares if you"re dead? Nobody will care, you"ll be forgotten. Even if you"re not forgotten, who cares? You ain"t alive.

If you"re reading this, and you"re age 18, make sure you optimize for the day, that"s what I do. People say, "what do you do?" I say, "optimize my day." Each day. I don"t project out seven years from now. I might plan for seven years out, but you don"t optimize for seven years out. You optimize for the moment. I"m not the dumbest person in the world, I"m not the smartest. I"ve been in MENSA since I was six years old. I can hold my own intellectually. Disprove my theory. Show me why you should, when you"re 19, make your life shit so that hopefully your life will be better at 40. Prove it, why?

If you"re 19, why would you not optimize for 19? Then once you hit 20, you optimize for 20. Again, you should still plan for the future, and a wise person saves money for the future, but not at the expense of today. All that common sense stuff still applies within the world view and the frame that I"m giving you.

I am not saying do cocaine, I"m not saying you only live once. I"m saying you optimize for the moment, but in optimizing for the moment, you also predict that you"ll probably be alive tomorrow. So if you do too much cocaine, you"re not optimizing for the good life, because cocaine will increase your chance of, you know, f***in" dying tomorrow. It"s a balancing act of long and short term. Most entrepreneurs are very long term in their thinking. I"ve fallen in this trap, I"m as guilty as anybody. I"m telling you what I learned the hard way. I was lucky enough to find smart mentors so I didn"t learn as hard of a way as I could have.

Optimize for right now, go do something. Go do something that brings you the good life. There"s no perfect formula in an imperfect world, but there are the four pillars: health, wealth, love, and happiness. Health is pretty simple in the modern world, you have to stay lean and relatively muscular. As a guy, your BMI (body mass index) should be around 24 to 25. For girls, it"s a little bit lower. You can look it up and calculate it. There"s some variance for body types, but for the most part, you have to have a little waist. If you"re a guy your waist shouldn"t be more than about 32 inches. If you"re a woman, it"s even smaller, and that"s not so that you can appear beautiful, forget that. I"m not talkin" about societal norms, I"m talking about physiological norms. You have to do it if you want the good life. If you aren"t doing it, then you need to put tremendous power into doing it. Even if your career is pushed back and you make less money.< br />
I have a better life than almost any entrepreneur I meet. I"m not saying that to brag, I"m saying that to inspire you. If you follow smart principles, you will get a reward. You can have a much better life than me. I"m not perfect, but I"m focused. I can tell you with all certainty, the good life is the only noble target to seek. Not only will it improve your life, but it"ll help society, because as you make your life optimized, you rub off on other people.

When you only seek money, you"re going create a world where everybody is only optimized for maximum profit. It"s not good for society. That"s where mega corporations come from. People are optimizing to make the most money, but nobody"s thinking about the real quality of life.

My mentor Joel Salatin has the good life. He"s got money, health, wealth, love and happiness. He changed the world and he enjoys the moment. He has beautiful farms, married his high school sweetheart and they"re still happily married with kids. That"s what you want. Don"t believe the bullshit. It"s easy to make a social media video that makes other shit look glamorous, but at the end of the day, we haven"t even talked about happiness. Do you wake up feeling energized?

I"m not poo pooing people who make money. I make a lot more money than the average person. I"m just saying, it"s not the goal. It"s a tool I use to get the real goal. I like what makes me happy. I use money as an instrument to get that good life, and I try to bring a lot of other people into that good life too.

I don"t care how much money you make, it doesn"t impress me at all. You know what impresses me? Someone who is in good shape physically, is financially independent and has good people around them. That"s what matters.

I"m showing you what I wish somebody had showed me. Nobody teaches this shit in school. You learn about isosceles triangles, and f***ing retarded stuff. You should burn down most of the education system in most countries of the world. There"s great teachers, and there"s people with good hearts, but it"s the blind leading the blind.

We haven"t even gotten to happiness. You can objectively measure happiness. What your cortisol level"s like. You can do a saliva test. You spit in a vial four times in a day. It"ll show you your cortisol. Most people are in stage one, two, or three cortisol exhaustion. Once adrenals are exhausted, that"s the gatekeepers of your immune system, so it"ll mess with your health. People are very stressed. People don"t know how to meditate. Most people are full of anxiety, and fearfulness. A tremendous amount of the population is now on pharmaceutical drugs. Some people need to be on it, but most don"t.

It makes me sick that I have to say this talk. It truly does. There are so many smart people in the world, but nobody is using their intelligence for the most important thing. Why the hell are we on planet earth? What should you do on a day to day basis? I"m telling you, these are the real keys. Everything else is bullshit. Really. Find what you like and find the people you like to do it with. Get lean, get strong, get fit. I"m not talkin" about beauty. I"m talkin" about health. A doctor can tell you, if you are 80 pounds overweight, you are not optimizing your health. I"m not making fun of you, I"m encouraging you. Fix it. It"s all fixable. As long as you have breath, you can fix shit. Everybody here should have hope.

You follow this, you"ll be good, and if people tell you otherwise, they don"t know what they"re talking about. Simple as that. People will tell you to take the job that takes the most money. If you have two jobs that you like equally, then sure take the one that gives you the most money, but never pick the wrong career over money. I"ve chased after money. I"ve tested, I"m a mad scientist. Most anything you can think of, I"ve probably tested it, and this is the culmination of those years of advice, right here, in one email. For free. Sometimes people go, "you don"t give anything away for free." I just gave you the best damn thing for free right here, it"s all you need.

It"s not enough to read this though, you gotta go do it. Optimize for today. Before you go to bed, optimize. Sometimes it"s simple stuff. For example, I started going to movies. I like movies, I like going with some friends. It"s a good place to chill out and relax. It makes me feel happier. So I go to movies a lot. I have friends that"ll be like, "well you"ll make more money if you don"t." I"m like shit, I already got enough money. I"m sitting in an 18,000 square foot house right now. I"ve got a brand new custom made Rolls, a Lamborghini, a 450A Spider and a bunch of other shit. I"m not saying I"m the smartest person, or the wisest person, but on this subject, I am qualified.

That"s it man, there you go. The life manifesto. I gotta go to bed, it"s a lot of ranting.

Stay Strong,
Tai
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)) . Its truth value is 50%. I also put it into a pdf, converted it into audio. Why? Because of this change... the change this caused to Tai raised his vibration to 200... and if you can get it, if you can grok it, if you can follow the principle he espouses, he recommends, then you"ll raise your vibration too.

Because what he is telling you is how to pick the sheet-music so your life, your orchestra, turn out beautiful music... for you.

Now, he doesn"t say, but, of course, the individual musicians need to be good at their instruments. But once the individual musician knows what the music is about, their motivation to become good doubles, triples, grows tenfold.

Without knowing what is the organizing principle of your life, the sheet music, you live a disjointed life...

You have work and fun as two separate and competing parts of your life
You have sensual pleasure and being healthy at two extremes of your life
You have beauty, riches, and enjoying life at two extremes of your life

You are not happy. Cannot be. Your life is a mess and the fixes and tweaks you put in are ineffectual... because unless you make changes on the seed level, nothing actually makes a difference.

I used to be sick... and had no reason to get well, to change my diet, to change my habits.

Then I did a Landmark seminar "Beyond Fitness" and I saw that all my dreams to make a difference in the word are mute, will never be able to happen, unless I make a commitment to be able to work till 120 (that is a Jewish number).

So I re-organized my life. This was 20 years ago. It"s taken me this long to be almost perfectly well... I am at 80% now.

I maybe look my age, but I definitely don"t act my age. I see a lot of people my age, and they are not up to anything...

Your most important todo is to get well. Changing habits is tough and takes a long time to get it right, to adhere to it, to stick with it, to become a new person who doesn"t cheat.

Invent a context for your life and put health inside that context.

Then look at your work... and put that inside that same context. You may want to change what you do for money... but before you change, become too big for your current work. It develops capacities, the skill to put all power into all action, to do what you do with integrity, inside an empowering context.

If you switch to something more attractive to you, you"ll likely fail... 98% probability.

I now have two interns. They, somehow, got that to get to their work/livelihood destination, one must do zig-zagging, or they will get trapped.

No one talks about that, because everyone is only interested in the end result... But I read some of the book Principles by Ray Dalio, and he generously shares his zig-zags.

And I read Sam Walton"s autobiography... and he zig-zagged.

And I feel that Bill Gates zig-zagged, Steve Jobs zig-zagged, and I definitely zig-zagged.

Most likely there isn"t a straight line path to what will make you most fulfilled and what you are most suitable for.

Architecture taught me a lot I need today. Magazine publishing taught me a lot of what I need today. Being a massage therapist (what I did during my brain damage years) taught me a lot of what I need today, most specifically being able to be with undivided attention with a person. Being a webmaster taught me skills without which I would not be able to do my "job" today. So there you have it. My zig-zag path.

Life is like a river where you need to turn a corner to see what is coming next. And there is no jumping. I don"t mean you can"t jump, but it will always be a dead end jump...

NEW: Do you know enough?

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If you didn"t ask... "Know Enough For what?!" then you can consider that you are trapped, at the moment, by the question in the title.

That was the purpose of the title, by the way. To trap you.

While you read your article, to get the most out of it, allow yourself to find yourself in my experience, instead of agree or not agree... OK?

Every person with a mind (that is every person alive!) moves back and forth on a continuum (scale) of knowing enough or not knowing enough... Some days you feel you know everything, on others you feel you know nothing.

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NEW: How to Improve Your Perspective? Perspective Series Part 2

Imagine yourself driving down the road and you want to change lanes to the right. You look in the rear view mirror and you look in your side mirrors to make sure there are no cars. Yet there is a blind spot and you aren"t 100% sure it"s safe to move over. So you lean a bit forward – you lean a little to the right and it looks good. You check out the lane next to you from both angles. Then, signal flashing you speed up and start to steer right and just as you do – HONK!!!!

There, in your blind spot, is a car that you were about to roll right into. WHEW!

Heart racing you slow down a bit, steer back to your lane and let the car pass. Then going through the check again – check the mirrors, lean forward, lean to the right, This Time throwing a glance over your shoulder and when you are certain you"ve seen the road clearly, you switch lanes so you can arrive at your destination.

WHAT IF – you are going through your life and not seeing all the perspectives? What if?

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