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Quotius #6

by David

Each week I intend to dispatch my pent-up creativity by creating a new version of something I call a “quotius”. (Learn about the genesis of it here.)

Say what you mean …Mean what you say. (No attribution. I couldn’t find any.)

When I was starting out this blog some three years ago I was writing away and constantly I struggled for clarity. My job, as I saw it, was to describe a long-lived mystery. Over the centuries great thinkers tried to bring us closer to the truth of it but still it retained its core secret.

It’s the mystery that would describe the properties of the energy that causes persistence, determination, or perseverance to exist.

For a long time I had a hard time trying to say what I meant to say. It took me till now to find enough clarity. Even then I didn’t find it in words only. I found it in a simple little three-dimensional model made of a long thin strip of paper. When I eventually learned to use video and upload it to my blog I combined the use of quotes together with that little three-dimensional model to help me up the ante in the delivery of my message.

Now that I’ve been doing this for awhile the meaning of my message has become a lot more penetrating and fun to understand.

So here’s the take away:

Do you too have trouble finding the words to tell your story?

The fact is that words, while known to be powerful, can only realize their full strength if they are so skillfully used that the message within them finds its rightful home in your accepting audience. [Personally I love to read words when arranged this way. That’s why I’ve long appreciated some of the creative I’ve seen in certain advertising campaigns over the years.]

For myself though I simply didn’t feel I was quite that good at it. I figured I needed more. That’s when I did something different. When I devised a demonstration, then added words into the mix, it delivered the meaning of what I meant to say in the fullest measure that I could muster. It may not be prefect yet but, as they say, immediate action blows away meditation any day.

So, if you’re having the same trouble “saying what you mean and meaning what you say” you might like to create a simple demo the next time you need to communicate your idea too.

More power to you.

PS: Have you noticed that a lot of personal development methods no longer pack the punch they once did? Could be the times. I went ahead and invented this simple little brain tweak that makes a huge difference in leveraging your efforts for creating a better version of yourself. Want more? Check out my FREE webinar here.

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Quotius #5

by David

Each week I intend to dispatch my pent-up creativity by creating a new version of something I call a “quotius”. (Learn about the genesis of it here.)

This is not your normal run-of-mill Quotius posting like I usually do.

Okay, it is a quote, well, sort of in a way at least it is. I mean, I’m quoting a collective group of people here but no one person in particular so there will be no attribution attached.
This is not only ground-breakingly different for me but I saved printer ink too because I just did it by hand with a marker.

The group I’m referring to, if you can believe it, is the population of biology researchers laboring away at labs all over the country.

I’m using a short list. I’ve stripped out everything extraneous so that all I’m left on it is six basic items. The professionals I’m quoting probably wouldn’t have done that themselves. They like long reports and white papers. They need those to justify their research funding.

The list includes the six main elements that make up the bulk of all living matter on planet earth: Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Sulfur and Phosphorus.

In the video I’m keeping with my usual theme of showing my inherent lack of respect for a circular-shaped thinking pattern. As usual I make sure it meets with a quick if not painless end.

In the circular thinking model I show what the problem is. You can only read half of the items on the list. The other three appear upside down on the inside of the band. They are separated and alone.

With only three items instead of the required six you can’t end up with a living organism. If you work in a lab and these three are all you have you may have something organic but it’s most likely not living or breathing nor will if fetch a stick.

Nevertheless science has a name for it… It’s known as “dead”.

The same can be said of the pattern of circular thinking itself. All that one can do when you’re caught up within it is stay trapped in an endless spiral going further down the road of frustration and time loss.

So who am I to make such critical observations?

After all the closest I ever got to being a scientist was watching Star Trek on television after school more than forty years ago. But for the last two decades I’ve closely watched the way circular thinking has taken hold in so many people’s lives. Promoted by the rush and demands of life these days it has stolen more of its portion of our joy and happiness. If they would just slow down enough they would appreciate the fact that they can see their own potential and build a deep self-belief on that hard-evidence-based vision. All it takes is a simple little brain tweak and the direction we all desperately need can begin to come into focus.

My point, if I may say so myself, is visually well made. Thinking like this is as dead as the organic waste that only three basic elements can make. It’s thinking that needs to be changed.

In this video I reconstruct this old model by it taking apart and by giving one end a little tweak by twisting one end of it 180 degrees (like the coil in a DNA) before joining it with the other end.

We now see something new.

It’s a model of a mobius strip of course but, at the same time, it’s also a 3D illustration of a reciprocal system of thinking. Now in this form we can easily read all six elements one–by-one because this new strip only has one side and one edge. With this complete list of six items we have just about everything that’s needed to define every living organism in the physical world.

We also have a very elegant metaphor for the shape that this new thinking pattern takes on. I have been helping people for a long time to make this type of change and it doesn’t take long to do. One day at the most. The rewards are a greater self-confidence, less stress, and a much clearer pathway to get out from under the weight of the world.

And it’s all because of a well placed little twist and a little tweak.

More power to you.

PS: Have you noticed that a lot of personal development methods no longer pack the punch they once did? Could be the times. I went ahead and invented this simple little brain tweak that makes a huge difference in leveraging your efforts for creating a better version of yourself. Want more? Check out my FREE webinar here.

Quotius #4

by David

Each week I intend to dispatch my pent-up creativity by creating a new version of something I call a “quotius”. (Learn about the genesis of it here.)

“I’m glad I did… I wish I had.”

I’ve been around long to enough to have learned that life is all about living with the outcomes of our earlier decisions. We become one of two people:
• Someone who has true satisfaction in their accomplishment
• Someone who has regret for things they could have done but never did

For example, once I started down this road of research and discovery concerning human self-belief, I got to a point where there was no turning back. Didn’t matter how hard or difficult it got I kept working at it.

I was hooked.

My siblings thought I was crazy. I wasn’t making much money so they looked justified in their assessment whereas I didn’t.

This went on for decades but I couldn’t shake the truth of the clear vision I had before me. Now every time I work with someone who’s doing H.E.R.O. and they begin to realize that same truth in themselves that’s when I feel validated for taking the path that I did.

Happens every time.

If I have any regrets at all it’s that I didn’t start sooner. This is no truer than in my attempt at becoming a masterful writer. I always thought it would be too much work and, since I’m a bit lazy and get distracted easily, the river of time continued to flow by and now at age sixty two I really need to just get on with it.

Although to this day I have not yet produced an actual book at least I do have one in the works now (and, yes, it is as tough as I thought when you first start doing it).

Years ago I was of the mind that believed that there was a lot of things I couldn’t do. That there are things that just can’t be done (at least by me).

I didn’t have the university degree
I didn’t have the money
I didn’t have the gift of oratory
I wasn’t an effective enough communicator
(and on and on…)

I’ve managed to perish most of those old ideas. They really aren’t that useful.

So now, as I start to see things beginning to move forward in my chosen business, I remain more convinced than ever that a deep self-belief powers good decisions.

And I have to say with the utmost certainty of a person who now feels more like a winner every day: “I’m glad I did.”

Quotius #3

by David

Each week I intend to dispatch my pent-up creativity by creating a new version of something I call a “quotius”. (Learn about the genesis of it here.)

“Change the way you look at things .. and the things you look at change” – Wayne Dyer
In this quotius I dissect Dr. Wayne Dryer’s famously well known message.

In a Youtube video he states, while pointing to his chest, that what this means is that “It’s all in here”. I certainly can’t disagree with that but I have some trouble with his using such a broad brush. There can be a lot of stuff happening “in here”.

I know a lot of people think Dr. Dyer is fantastically brilliant and I don’t totally disagree with that either but I think we need more from this than what I see so far. A little closer more detailed look might change what we see.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I certainly agree it’s “all in here” for sure. Change must come from within and everything. But we suffer from the “where have I heard all this before?” and the… “Tell me something I didn’t know” type of cynicism.

In my perspective, which deeply involves the simple little brain tweak that I call The Mobius Effect, the story ends up looking like this:

You have a vast amount of potential in you. But the problem we have is that a lot of us don’t believe it. It sounds like another one of those positive affirmation thingies. But if we look at it a little differently it will change to be more like this:

The pattern of your potential is the largest pattern that exists on earth. It is so large a pattern that it cannot fit into the human brain. We can only talk about it hypothetically. We humans need things with reasonable hard edges. We need some sort of frame of reference for our visual field even if it’s something that’s in our perceptual thought field. With it we can see where the thing is, reference it to where we are, and then from there understand it as well as make use of it.

In my webinars I use this example: If you’ve ever looked up, to see a single cloud in an otherwise clear sky, you know what I’m talking about. You can see its outer edges, its place in the sky in relation to you being on the ground. But what if the cloud is now itself on the ground and is surrounding you? Well, for one thing we don’t call it a cloud any more…

We call it a fog.

If, like me, you’ve ever been out driving your car and became surrounded by a dense fog that has completely obliterated your vision you would know what that feels like. You feel terribly lost and you may even fear for your safety. You immediately pull over to the side of the road (where ever that is) and hope that no one crashes into you who’s as lost in it as you are.

So…how can we change how we look at things enough so that we install some sort of frame of reference?

Good question.

I have a surprising answer for it too. (That’s the kind of thing that I answer using words and pictures in my free webinars every week. )

But I don’t want to leave you just hanging here so, while I firmly believe you need more visual detail than I can give you in this blog post, I’m going to give you my short definition of what the Mobius Effect is.

The Mobius Effect is a phenomenon that happens when we implement a simple little brain tweak and almost instantly our perception is changed. Now we can grasp much smaller self-similar patterns in place the super huge host thereby making it much more accessible to our mind’s understanding.

It automatically allows us to change the way we see all things more intelligently. And that, as they say, changes everything.

Quotius #2

by David

Every week I intend to dispatch my pent-up creativity by creating a new version of something I call a “quotius”. To learn about the genesis of it go here.

To do is to be – Socrates To be is to do – Plato

This could easily slip into being one of those deep discussions. I think there is a two-hundred dollar word that describes what these two quotes are all about. The word is “existentialism”.

Now, if this big-ass word has you wanting to close this page right now then I can’t say I blame you. But, before you do, I just want to let you know that you don’t need to head to the hills. I’m not going to go down the long-winded road of some brainy intellectual here.

It’s just not me.

See I never went to Harvard. Never got invited to Cambridge or Oxford. Don’t even know what the inside of Yale or Stanford looks like. My last job was at a water park mixing concrete.

Hardly a prelude to the sacred halls of higher learning.

Nope. If you want the heavy on these quotes best to head on over to the search function at Google Scholar cause you won’t find it here.

All I know about these two quotes is that the two Greek geeks who first penned them were both famous for being head-brain heavies. I can’t hold a candle to them nor do I intend to even try.

I’m just a guy that likes the shape of the Mobius strip. I like certain quotes too so I just combined them to form a kind of word-sculpture that I call a “quotius”.

Demonstrating the kind of elegance that a two-in-one system gives us is why I like to put together these videos. To me at least they are almost self-explanatory in their simplicity.

If there is one thing I could say that would approach heavy it would be this: These two quotes are both about being and doing. Together they seem to be suggesting a systematic relationship with those two things. Since I’m well aware of my beingness I’ll have to lean toward the active side – the doing.

I’m not dead yet and I know I have a lot yet to do.

So, what side of the fence do you stand on?

More power to you.

PS: Have you noticed that a lot of personal development methods no longer pack the punch they once did? Could be the times. I went ahead and invented this simple little tweak that makes a huge difference in leveraging your efforts for creating a better you. Learn more right here.