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		<title>Mobius Monday Minute #5</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists are finding strange new things that are forcing change in the acceptance of what is possible right here on earth. Can the theory of mindset immunity really sound all that strange now? <a class="more-link" href="http://mobiusman.com/mobius-monday-minute-5">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><div style="clear: both; min-height: 1px; height: 3px; width: 100%;"></div><div class='shareaholic-like-buttonset' style='float:none;height:30px;'><a class='shareaholic-fblike' data-shr_layout='button_count' data-shr_showfaces='false' data-shr_href='http%3A%2F%2Fmobiusman.com%2Fmobius-monday-minute-5' data-shr_title='Mobius+Monday+Minute+%235'></a><a class='shareaholic-fbsend' data-shr_href='http%3A%2F%2Fmobiusman.com%2Fmobius-monday-minute-5'></a></div><div style="clear: both; min-height: 1px; height: 3px; width: 100%;"></div><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p><strong># 6 &#8211; Dec 6 , 2010</strong><br />
 In this edition I&#8217;ll speak about how recent scientific discoveries make my own discovery of &#8220;mindset immunity&#8221; seem even more acceptable than ever.</p>
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<p>More power to you my friends.</p>
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<li><a href='http://mobiusman.com/what-me-worry' title='What, me worry?'>What, me worry?</a></li>
<li><a href='http://mobiusman.com/shooting-the-head-negs' title='Shooting the Head Negs'>Shooting the Head Negs</a></li>
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		<title>Thinking too much</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Research shows (and I have no idea how they count this stuff) that the average person thinks about 12,000 thoughts per day. If you’re a really deep thinker it could be as much as 50,000 per day. And how many &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://mobiusman.com/thinking-too-much">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>Research shows (and I have no idea how they count this stuff) that the average person thinks about 12,000 thoughts per day. If you’re a really deep thinker it could be as much as 50,000 per day.</p>
<p>And how many of those many thoughts would you say are productive?</p>
<p>Really?</p>
<p>That’s what I thought.</p>
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<p>All that thinking “produces” all right but what is produced is not always useful to our purposes is it? In fact researchers say up to 80% of our thoughts are downright negative.</p>
<p>So negative it’s keeping a lot of us up at night. What would that do your mindset?</p>
<p>Here’s a solution to getting around all that.</p>
<p>Have you ever noticed that when you “don’t think” about something, like playing a musical instrument or even writing a quick first draft of a blog post for example, you do better?</p>
<p>More dramatically, when a person who is seen as a &#8220;hero&#8221; because they spontaneously risked their own life to save another they consistently report: “I didn’t think about it. I just did it.”</p>
<p>When it comes to not thinking this could be one of those times when not doing something is actually way more beneficial for you and for the world. By extension, by actually doing nothing you become the change that you’d like to see in the world.</p>
<p>Because if you’re not thinking about what ever it is you lac (and feeling crappy about it)  you’ll automatically take on an air of abundance that others will find quite refreshing &#8211; especially these days.</p>
<p>We’ve all heard the old saying “it’s not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters”.  Indeed, reactionary thinking is often the culprit here. The universal phenomenon of taking action without thinking could be a real key to dramatic results IF it could somehow be brought to bear at the exact time (and every time) when it was needed.</p>
<p>That was the sort of stuff that I was looking at when, several years ago, I came up with the <a href="http://www.mobiusman.com/hero">H.E.R.O. eMachine.</a></p>
<p>Over the past 12 months I’ve been working seven days-a-week to put together a cogent way of explaining how a stupidly simple little on-line “clinic” that, in a little as 24 hours, could form a powerful link between your intellect and a natural phenomenon that’s been living inside of you since birth.</p>
<p>It was a ton of work because H.E.R.O. uses your thinking (memory) to lock on to something that is in you but is outside of your physicalness (although you can feel it physically). This may sound weird but this is emerging as being closer to a new type of “immunity” than just another new thinking method.</p>
<p>Try and explain that one!</p>
<p>In any case it seems to stop all that constant mind-chatter cold in its tracks. That leaves you with thoughts that are really objective. For many it could be the first time that’s been available for a long long time.</p>
<p>I’m just now putting the finishing touches on a new video that will blow you away. But I’m not stopping there.</p>
<p>Because this is still the H.E.R.O. beta I’m going to be giving away up to 25 complete H.E.R.O. Discover eMachine personalized one-on-one sessions for the low low price of… FREE! (One session per customer is all that&#8217;s needed.)</p>
<p>Yes indeedy I’m not kidding.</p>
<p>You’ll get me personally guiding you through the process right on your own computer wherever that might be in North America.</p>
<p>Just the two of us for the day. Only an internet connection away.</p>
<p>If you can’t wait till the video is ready just comment below and I’ll get back to you to arrange your free session ASAP.</p>
<p>First come – first served. This offer will be gone when I reach<strong> 25 registrations. </strong></p>
<p>Like Nike says:  (Don’t think too much) “<em>Just do it!</em>”</p>
<p>You&#8217;ll feel better too.</p>
<p>..More power to you all.<br />
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		<title>What, me worry?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 18:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the last half-century or so an odd-ball spoof magazine has graced the news stands: Mad Magazine. I, like a ton of other young boys, became aware of it when I was still in grade school. On the cover was &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://mobiusman.com/what-me-worry">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><div style="clear: both; min-height: 1px; height: 3px; width: 100%;"></div><div class='shareaholic-like-buttonset' style='float:none;height:30px;'><a class='shareaholic-fblike' data-shr_layout='button_count' data-shr_showfaces='false' data-shr_href='http%3A%2F%2Fmobiusman.com%2Fwhat-me-worry' data-shr_title='What%2C+me+worry%3F'></a><a class='shareaholic-fbsend' data-shr_href='http%3A%2F%2Fmobiusman.com%2Fwhat-me-worry'></a></div><div style="clear: both; min-height: 1px; height: 3px; width: 100%;"></div><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>For the last half-century or so an odd-ball spoof magazine has graced the news stands: Mad Magazine.</p>
<p>I, like a ton of other young boys, became aware of it when I was still in grade school. On the cover was the magazine&#8217;s fictional mascot and iconic symbol: a zany spokes-guy by the name of Alfred E. Newman. Alfred&#8217;s favorite catchphrase &#8220;What, me worry?&#8221; was also featured somewhere on the cover of every issue.</p>
<p><a href="http://mobiusman.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/what-me-worry-graphic.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-517" title="what-me-worry-graphic" src="http://mobiusman.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/what-me-worry-graphic.jpg" alt="what-me-worry-graphic" /></a>As kids if we couldn&#8217;t remember his name it didn&#8217;t matter, we just referred to him as the &#8220;what-me-worry-guy&#8221;; everyone knew who you meant.</p>
<p>But despite all the years of clever satirical humor (often at the expense of those currently in the glow of the news or popular entertainment) the general population today is reportedly more worried now than ever.</p>
<p>Not surprising either.</p>
<p>In my local paper today is a good example of how the news media is playing us all into the worry hole.</p>
<p><span id="more-516"></span>It&#8217;s got a short article that has both the &#8216;f&#8217; and the &#8216;w&#8217; words in it. The headline screams: &#8220;Be afraid, just not about flu&#8221;.</p>
<p>The local media, being the media, has apparently upped the ante in the fear department. Now they&#8217;re telling us we don&#8217;t have to be worried &#8211; we have to actually &#8220;be afraid&#8221;.</p>
<p>The article says we need not just worry about the swine flu. We need to be afraid of all the other horrendous stuff going around in the world as well.</p>
<p>It goes on to list a sampling of some of the worst plagues to torment mankind.</p>
<p>Like the fact that every year around the world there are:<br />
-nine million new cases of tuberculosis<br />
-247 million new cases of malaria<br />
-nearly three million new cases of HIV infections</p>
<p>Now I hope you&#8217;re not reading this and trying to digest your breakfast (or lunch, or dinner). That might lead to other serious problems to add to this appallingly frightful list.</p>
<p>Problems that might really be closer to home. Problems of the gastrointestinal kind.</p>
<p>Look, I&#8217;m not meaning we shouldn&#8217;t be aware of what&#8217;s happening in our world. I&#8217;m not saying we should avoid the news or any other reality by sticking our head in the sand.</p>
<p>Not by a long shot.</p>
<p>The fact that there are lots of things all around us with the capacity to generate considerable genuine worry and fear in people is the reason that I carry on my life&#8217;s work.</p>
<p>That work is now morphing into a new social movement that I call &#8220;Mobiusmankind&#8221;. It will see a growing community of benevolent people who possess mindsets that, while they may not be satisfied, always experience a state of happiness despite difficulties. Those who have a mindset that are more interested in helping others get across the finish line than constantly striving to get over it first themselves.</p>
<p>It will consist of those who&#8217;s motivation is not driven by an attitude that says: &#8220;I will&#8230;&#8221; but a gut-level inner drive that says: &#8220;I must&#8221;.</p>
<p>My role in this new movement is to articulate and promote the use of a simple tool I developed that helps people unlock the phenomenon of a hidden energy that exists within all humanity. This energy is intelligent and is the source of human happiness, adaptability, resilience, and creativity.</p>
<p>An energy that is the source of what I call the &#8220;new immunity&#8221;. I call it that because it operates on your thinking much like your physical immune system operates in your body. It restores your state of normalcy. It cause your mindset to be so incredibly stable over long periods of time that I can only describe it as being &#8220;immune&#8221; to even failure itself.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not a therapist.  Those people are generally away smarter than I am. They  can prove it too. They have embossed credentialed and beautifully framed certificates decorating their office walls. They even have letters after their names for God&#8217;s sake.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t have any of that.</p>
<p>The only kind of things I have on my wall is a few of my own hand-drawn cartoons stuck there by a few strips of green painter&#8217;s tape.</p>
<p>Because &#8220;therapy&#8221; is not what I do I can&#8217;t recommend the stuff that the highly educated types do in the therapy business. They like to talk about the many different types of mindsets. They have names to describe them &#8211; names like &#8220;fixed&#8221; and &#8220;growth&#8221;. They seem to like to suggest very complicated sets of instructions that only they (for a hefty fee) can help you understand.</p>
<p>Therapy gems like this:<br />
&#8220;&#8230;analyze the inner-dialog that your opposing mindset voices in your head are saying, then weigh the one against the other to&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Voices in your head?</p>
<p>Sorry.</p>
<p>Those of us with immune mindsets don&#8217;t have much of that going on anymore. Not during the day and not at night either.</p>
<p>If we did that might really be something to worry about.</p>
<p>Till next time&#8230; More power to you.</p>
<p>Are you in? Want find out more about how to make any mindset immune to worry, fear, and even failure itself?  Go ahead <a title="H.E.R.O. Discover eMachine" href="http://www.mobiusman.com/hero">click here</a>. It&#8217;s PHREE.<br />
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		<title>A Silly Little Paper Band and A Phenomenon &#8211; Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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<p>I&#8217;m willing to bet that the day he dreamed it up 150 years ago he never thought it would come to mean so much as it does today.</p>
<p>He was lucky though. It was a super- elegant design but was so simple that anyone could have thought of it but&#8230; no one did. I&#8217;m sure he would be pleased to see that so much is being made of his &#8221; little parlor trick&#8221;.<span id="more-5"></span></p>
<p>That&#8217;s what they said about Ferdinand August Mobius&#8217; little invention back in 1858. After all it was just a flat strip of paper with a half-twist in it and joined end to end. No big deal except it had some very cool and unusual properties. Only one surface and one edge!</p>
<p>Ferdinand was a mathematician and an astronomer who had a liking for forms and one-side<sub><a href="http://mobiusman.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/ferdinand-august-mobius.png"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-15" title="ferdinand-august-mobius" src="http://mobiusman.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/ferdinand-august-mobius.png" alt="Ferdinand August Mobius" width="123" height="150" /></a></sub>d objects in particular. By the time he discovered the strip that would bear his name he was becoming a recognized pioneer in the branch field of mathematics known as <em>topology</em> : the study of the properties of objects. He described his creation in typical scientific terms: a &#8220;linear fractional transformation&#8221; he called it.<!--[if gte vml 1]> < ![endif]--><img title="More..." src="http://mobiusman.com/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wordpress/img/trans.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t care about all that stuff though.</p>
<p>When I first laid eyes on the famous strip I was just twelve years old after all. I had received a subscription that past Christmas to one of those wonderfully produced book series by Time/Life. You know the ones. They had big easy-to-read pages with hard covers. They we&#8217;re loaded with lavish diagrams, illustrations, and photographs in full color. This particular one was on Mathematics and, while math was never my long suit, to me that book made a dry subject look absolutely fascinating. I immediately knew that the mobius was something special and unforgettable. When I actually constructed one myself I was hooked.</p>
<p>Years later I would recall that moment. There I&#8217;d be sitting in my bedroom looking at that page featuring the Mobius strip. To this day, now 57 years later, I still have one sitting on my desk. As it turned out it truly was unforgettable.</p>
<p>And impressive.</p>
<p>So impressive I even named my company after it: <em>Mobius Transformations</em>. For me it would come to be the perfect metaphor for the phenomenon I had discovered: the effect of two different things becoming one.</p>
<p>The mobius strip would be a perfect symbol of the transformation that takes place when the two most powerful motivational forces that operate all of humanity blend into one homogeneous system. It would demonstrate so elegantly how this phenomenon operates to naturally buffer the negative effects of the stresses of life <em>as they occur</em> in real time. I call it the &#8220;Mobius Effect&#8221;.</p>
<p>For me, and a few others who experience it, that effect was absolutely profound and life- changing. I&#8217;ve since come to understand that it&#8217;s what it does for the strength of one&#8217;s mindset and how it does it that is the really big story.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll be telling you a lot more about it in upcoming posts in this series so be sure to get back here often.</p>
<p>Part 2 will appear here in a couple of days.</p>
<p>I hope you don&#8217;t mind waiting.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sure Ferdinand wouldn&#8217;t.</p>
<p>More power to you.</p>
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