Taking Care of Your rent

by David

Mobius Monday Minute

# 12 – Feb 14 , 2011 [display_podcast]

A rent is another word for a tear or rip in a fabric — Photo: Morgufile

Are you taking care of your rent?

No, not the stuff you’re compelled to fork out every month to your money-grubbing landlord. Not that rent.

I’m talking about the “tear” in your motivational fabric every time you have one of those events we all call a ‘failure’.

Of course I’m playing with words here because, in case you didn’t get the mildly insane insinuation, a “rent” is another word for “tear”. But this is not meant to be a lesson in etymology.

No, not at all. It’s a comment about what happens to our mindset after we experience something that we tried and that didn’t quite make the grade. The “f” word is of course almost always a reflection of how we judge our past actions that didn’t render the result we had in mind. It’s really nothing else.

Upon closer inspection we can even get some good learning juice out of it if we dare to look for it. He wasn’t alone in this but a guy by the name of (all things) Samuel Smiles the author of the classic 1882 book SELF HELP once said:

“It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.”

Now, those 33 words alone may not help you completely recover from the battering you gave yourself after the fact, but at least you should feel a little bit better knowing that many others have ventured down this dark road before you.

I suppose that there is one thing I should add to this tidbit of information here. It’s this: The hurt you feel when bad things happen is like a bruise on an apple. Except being in the thinking it’s not a physical bruise like one in the meat. It’s an emotional or an ethereal one. These typically take way more time to mend. Maybe that’s why your mother may have advised: Sleep on it. It’ll look better in the morning.

Sure mom.

I don’t know about you but after a day of blowing it big time I never could sleep it off. It wasn’t till years later when I came upon the concept of mindset immunity something that took me down another interesting rabbit-hole, the understanding of which, has since become a huge part of my life’s work. Once I realized that there appears to be another immune system that does for the thinking what the other one does for the body I was hooked.

Makes a nice bookend for the fact that humans have two sets of brains – one that thinks but doesn’t feel, and one that feels but is not designed to think much at all.

This is sort the kind of things I like talking about on this blog. So if you have any questions or comments I’d love to see them. Just put whatever you’d like to say in the box below.

More power to you.

Happiness Question

by David

Mobius Monday Minute

# 11 – Jan 31 , 2011 [display_podcast]

On my Roboform web file manager I have a folder labeled “Happiness” and it’s filling up fast lately.

Just in the last few days I’ve added three more entries. One was for Dr. Robert Holden’s “Happiness Project” one for Lord Richard Layard’s movement for social change “Action for Happiness” and the other was for a guy named Ludwig.

Staying Close To Mean

by David

Mobius Monday Minute

# 9 – Jan 10 , 2011

Mood Temperature Guage — Your mood temperature should stay in the “mean”

Mean is a word that can have some very diverse definitions, even alarming ones.

The first that might come to mind is the one associated with all the vile stuff we hear about on the evening newscast.

But that’s not what I want to talk about today. You get enough of that in other media so here’s a little break from all that.

The word I’m using today is just another way of saying medium. You know. Not too hot and not too cold but just right. Sort like Goldilocks and the 3 bears sort of thing.

This right in the middle thing is sometimes looked at as the “average” on a certain scale.

And while “average” can accurately describe the position of being in the middle there is another derivative of that word meridian.

This has a famous connection to it as in the prime meridian. This is the invisible line that runs north and south and divides the globe into two distinct hemispheres of east and west.

The prime meridian has a historical connection to the Royal Observatory in Greenwich in London. In fact it’s drawn right through the center of it. If you go there you’ll see a line painted on the floor.

This is the same observatory that used to be the keeper of the measuring of time for the rest of the known world. Greenwich “mean time” was the standard for the world’s clocks for many years until it was replaced by Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) for scientific purposes.

But Greenwich mean time is still the time for you and me and is based on the sun’s position at a particular point as it passes over the earth’s meridian.

But what’s all this got to do with my main theme for this blog which is Mindset Immunity?

Glad you asked.

It appears that there is another important mean measurement term that I haven’t yet introduced you to.

I’ll refer to it as the “mood mean” It’s a state of mindset equilibrium. It’s kept nearest it’s middle point thanks to something I call mindset immunity.

Let me describe it this way.

The body maintains its temperature at approximately 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Much hotter than that and you probably should stay home and drink plenty of fluids. Colder than that and you’ll be in a chill that could have serious consequences unless you get yourself cozied up by the fire or head off to the nearest hot tub.

It’s well known that a natural state of good physical health is largely maintained by the built-in mechanism provided by the immune system. It automatically works on three levels:

to protect
to heal
to remember

Mindset immunity provides similar protection except it does it for the thinking mindset. In other words it keeps your mood closer to “normal” so that you can function and make good sound decisions even in the face of ever-changing realities.

But there is a problem.

I believe that, the average human today has a mindset immunity that is moving at a snail’s pace. That account’s for why it takes so long for many of us to get over a situation that was not seen as positive.

But I’ve figured out a way to speed things up quickly and permanently. It’s a process that I call H.E.R.O.; an acronym for Honest Examination of Real Occurrences. It entails reverse-searching your past success history in a structured way in real-time in an on-line platform with a live guide to assist you.

Mindset immunity is everyone’s birthright. You have it now. All it needs is to get untied and it will do its magic as it should.

That means it can smooth out all those otherwise rough spots in your thinking so you have more energy to do better at living a quality life.

And that is no mean feat.

More power to you.

Placebo Mystery

by David

From time to time I rant on about how I believe that getting good advice from others is not always that great a idea. I usually wind up these rants by asking a question like this: “Do you need more advice or just more… immunity?”

What I’m saying is that whatever your decision is to do (or not do) a certain thing it has got to come out from inside of you anyway. The advice-giving “experts” are not as right as they would have you think.

I remember, back a few years ago, I somehow developed an immune system malfunction. Hyperthyroidism or “Graves disease” can be a serious problem and, if not treated in a timely way, it could even be fatal.

My doctor sent me straightaway to an endocrinologist for treatment and his idea was to apply the standard approach: a dose of radio-active iodine. It’s supposed to kill off a certain portion of the thyroid so that it can’t keep pouring so much of its hormones into the blood. Once they have that under control they give you synthetic hormone tablets which you must take for the rest of your life.

Now this treatment works for many people and I’m told it has saved lives. For me though it just didn’t feel right to actually have a radio-active tidbit inside my body. My dad, a doctor who had a busy practice for over 35 years, died of cancer not of old age. That’s not the plan I had in mind for myself.

A book titled “Blink” written by Malcolm Gladwell and published in 2007 is about a strange phenomenon that happens when someone get’s a “feeling” that something isn’t right and it turns out to be bang on.

In a way that’s sort of what happened with me except that the heightened and sustained belief that followed me for months and years after totally and absolutely had me convinced that I would be fine.

For treatment all I did during that time was to consume some high-grade supplements every day. The kind that you can’t buy in the health food store.

Now I don’t know if it was the placebo effect or what but as far as I’m concerned it doesn’t matter much. In the two years following my diagnosis the rapid weight loss abated, my energy and – factoring in for my age – a reasonable amount of my strength came back, and the best part I think is when my blood tests confirmed that everything had returned to normal all by itself.

Now I don’t suggest anyone should try this sort of thing and throw all caution to the wind. I was regularly monitoring things closleyby going to see my doctor and have my monthly blood tests read so that I knew I was making some progress.

Belief, especially if it’s triggered by tactile hard evidence is a very powerful thing. It can be used for good (as in my case) or it can be used for evil (sadly, we live in the age of the suicide bomber).

If my body’s immune system issue was corrected by something that triggered the mystery of what is known as the placebo effect then I think that’s something that should be looked at closer.

In my work on Mindset Immunity theory it certainly deserves some air time. I plan to do just that in my weekly webinars that I’m holding every Tuesday at 6PM Pacific.

You are welcome to join us for free. I’ll be putting up a special link here soon.

Until then…

More power to you.

Our Shiny History

by David

Mobius Monday Minute #9 – January 3, 2011

Memories of my first car going down the hiway — Memories may not be clear but they shine on - Photo: Morguefile

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I was listening to the radio the other day while I sipped my morning mocha. When a song came on that I recognized instantly as Neil Young’s “Long may you run”.

After it finished playing the announcer off-handedly mentioned that the song was about one of Young’s cars.

It surprised me. I never knew that.

Kinda made me think about the connections we make with things. I can certainly relate to what Youg must have been feeling when he wrote the lyrics to this song. I remember my first car. It was a Green 1962 MGA two-seater convertible sports car. Incidentally that’s the year mentioned in the song as the last year that he saw his car “alive”.

I was only nineteen back then when I first got it. I had a lot of good memories with it. It took me through my last two years of high school and through the accompanying summers. It was a wonderful time.

This car, despite it’s wonky mechanics, was at least a constant steady reality at a time of real change in my life. The biggest of course was when I moved out of my parent’s house for the first time. It took me to college in another city about 250 miles away and I remember running out of gas on the freeway that crossed the north end of the big city. I was only there for a few minutes when a tow truck pulled up in front of me on the shoulder of the road.

The driver got out and as I no sooner had described what my problem was he quickly took a gas can from his truck and was pouring i’s contents into my empty tank. He wouldn’t even take any money for it. Turns out he worked for the city and it was his job to keep things rolling on that busy stretch of highway.

Try that today eh? Good luck.

Lot’s was happening back then but, no matter what there was always that car.

But, just like the song says changes come and I eventually sold the car.

Funny isn’t it? How you can think of an inanimate object as some kind of important anchor point to memories long past their freshness date.

I don’t really know exactly how this ties in with my ongoing theme on this blog which usually talks about my theory of Mindset Immunity.

Perhaps it’s this admittedly very tangential refrain from the song itself:

“Although these changes have come.

With your chrome heart shining in the sun”

At least that’s how it is with the historical view of memory. The best one’s always shine on seemingly forever.

More power to you.