January 17, 2012
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Making a new beginning
Making a new #beginning
Triad: Raidho, R-Pertho, R-Berkana
The Art of War by Lao Tsu taught me that preparation wins the battle. You must know what you want to achieve, what the environment looks like and what will resist you from achieving #success. Whenever you set out on a path to do something these three basic questions must be answered in part in your mind. The answers is never static for it will change as you venture closer towards your aim. Great generals were continuously aware of how things change so that they can spot #opportunity to get to their aims more quickly. When starting out with something new, a lack of effort to know at least the basic answers, will often lead nowhere real.
You must leave as little as possible to chance, so that chance becomes your ally, rather than your enemy. The unpredictable must become the doorway for new strategies towards the same aim. However if you have no strategy you will not be prepared to use opportunity to fast track yourself to the desired results by grabbing the opportunity. Be sure to think wider than just what is but also consider what might be. When things look like it can not happen, when you are stuck...then it is time to look at alternative scenarios's.
What are the "musts" and assumptions that had become constraints. Assumptions are dangerous slopes that often can be proven false. "Musts" are often due to rigidity in our own thinking. Unmask the assumptions with clarity and challenge the "musts" with vigour and you will find that problems have weaknesses. The creative man can not be stopped. The creative man stretches forward into the unknown...pushing the boundaries of his mind continously outward.
Comments (10)
I loved it.
Life indeed is a battlefield where at least somekind of plan of action must be set. If not, we will remain adrift on a sail boat of life without a sail , with a wind and with a destiny.
In Through the Looking Glass, the queen says, "sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before
breakfast." Sometimes we have to think impossible things in order to get past the borders of our minds, our assumptions, and our 'musts'.
I often think about chance/opportunity. Our society tends to advocate seizing opportunities as we see them arise, but not everything that appears as an opportunity is one. Part of the trick is to recognize opportunity for what it is rather than what I hope or expect. Castaneda's Don Juan spoke about the warrior's constant vigilance for "the cubic centimeter of chance" that must be seized the instant it pops out from the center of one's forehead – a very mysterious idea. FYI The Art of War was written by Sun Tzu, not Lao Tsu (the author of the Tao Te Ching, who lived about 500 years earlier).
so true. Our teacher, Yogi Bhajan, always said when we meet opportunity with preparedness we achieve success
great words Zeal! thanks!
@PatentMagician - Glad you did
@The_Eyes_Of_A_Painter - Ha ha, we must get a an small engine just in case the sails gets lost
@C_L_O_G - I think I must take up the Queens words as my morning mantra.
@dirtbubble - Thank you for the correction,...I always confuse the the two authors.
@wiccanadri - Good advice...maybe that is a good definition of success?
@Zeal4living - I've considered that too.
I love this, especially those last two lines. Very inspirational to me. Thank you for sharing this.
@RavynsEcho - Thank you for reading and commenting
@Zeal4living - It's always Some Zoo or another, right?
Don't tell nobody I tried a pun.
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