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Life Is About Choices; I am pleased that some of you have chosen To read my blogs these past five years in your conscious choosing to live your best life possible.
Our very existence is based on a choice, a choice typically made by our parents at a time called conception. Consequently, the lives we lead now are based on what we choose and when we choose it. Who you are today, is based on your choices about yesterday. Who you become tomorrow, is based on your choices made today.
I am humbled if these five years of blogging have brought to you articles that allowed you to consider and enact powerful Ideas. Articles for some of you, (from what your emails tell me) had arrived, just at the right time, and that you were able to consider or even alter the direction of your life.
Timing is everything, this goes for ideas also, there are those ideas that operate in the background, acting as assumptions. Assumptions that have influences on your decisions, the conundrum is whether they are true or false, useable, or incapable of having an intended outcome.
I think we can all look back, to a number of ideas that shaped the movements of our lives. Some are seen in retrospect. Others took a great amount of time and pain to learn.
I would like to share some of the ideas that have impacted my life journey.
1. Reality is pliable. It is more than three dimensional, which means it can stretch or bend back on itself, or turn, bow, or twist. With knowledge of this and paying attention to your ideas and directing your actions, you can determine when and how slow or fast to enact your ideas or concepts and to be amazed at what you can accomplish.
2. It is that combination of ideas and the effort to begin the Actions, that produces an outcome. Thinking up a new life for yourself or thinking about your authentic self, does no good, without follow-through. Know that the vehicle for change is not ideas but the action that follows the idea.
3. An important realization I try and keep in mind is that between 80 to 90 percent of our life actions are done unconsciously, they are automated. Essentially much of our actions are performed without conscious thought or reflection. Meaning we have patterns of how we do things that endlessly repeat, and in that repetition, so our lives are lived.
Therefore, to have change, it is going to take conscious activity to alter automation.
Real change to happen takes more than a single exertion, but a continual awareness to rewrite our scripts.
The idea is that you commit yourself to a particular daily habit, doing it long enough to make the habit feel comfortable, yet short enough that you can commit to required efforts.
4. I tend to forget this one, and have to remind myself, that ‘Progress tends to Slow at times, and at other times seems to Accelerate.’
Progress is nonlinear or in equal steps.
Gravitational Field by Sam Farrand
Our efforts tend to be like dance steps, forward and some back. These movements are operated by two different forces: diminishing returns and compounding growth.
Diminishing returns happen when efforts are overextended. Such as when new joggers in a long-distance race hit their first mile of running, they find that it is their most energetic, but by the fifteenth, they are exhausted. As efforts become increasingly unproductive, a key realization is to know when enough is enough.
Compounded small steps propel you forward, then growth is occurring with each past improvement, helping to build the next step in further growth. What initially looks like a trickle will end in a stream.
The problem often is mustering up one’s patience for the process. Since efforts, in the beginning, will seem unrewarded, that is where many people often abandon their process before they can really start to receive the benefits.
Understanding what kind of growth process you’re facing, prepares you to make the progress or have success. There’s no way to rush this kind of a journey, especially since it has just as much to do with your mentality as it does your physicality. One has to commit to sticking it out for the long haul, the underinvestment in compound growth is the culprit in the abandonment of the process.
Diminishing Return is when we try and renew past accomplishments using the same approach, techniques, or systems that brought us to this point when a new approach, technique, or system is needed to take us further or make the next step towards our goal or success. Many people find themselves overinvested in diminishing returns, trying to renew past accomplishments
Understanding the highs and lows of your growth cycles prepares you for progress. In general, we underinvest in compound growth because it looks like a waste of time. We overinvest in diminishing returns when trying to renew past accomplishments.