Growth and Your Learning Curve.

Growth and the Learning Curve. Yours.

Growth is something best seen, say more easily seen at a distance, a long-term, "blue chip," say "far-eyed" view, a perspective that is not distracted by busy foreground. Complete objectivity is impossible our physics friends tell us, to where we can only see and hope to see as well clearly knowing only we are w/out absolute translation, an interpretation of an event(s). What I end up doing is put my best foot forward, plow ahead, know the steps I have to make to reach a goal, do the steps, taking the steps, pray I recall that it is process not always product where the gains are, the painful and pleasurable growth. Choose your goals, know what you can do, what you need to do to get there, ... . Along the way are changes, unpredictables, events that "fail," where we rise above obstacles, seize opportunity, despite "all odds" the lessons are learned. Like someone learning to walk again. And when you are not living life, not busy being "born," you are dying, dying and not aware of ideas like "how many times did I fall before I walked?" And no person was there w/ a red pen giving yo ua failing grade along the way. Now you are your critic. And we hope we are kind critics, not toxic, not poisonous. We are productive and the ideas we have are improvements, outside the box as well as possible, productive always aiming for growing, producing, making change, seeing it, able to measure it some way.

I like to journal my productivity, estimating a 1 to 10 scale, how far am I along. Growth most often comes in spurts, like after we see an inspirational movie, read a book, recalled a book that is still pertinent today. A friend shares something he's just gone through. You see when you did the same and understand your place in time. Life is more a one-room school house w/out walls. Along the way is intuition. You develop tapping into that more and more. The wind is what you hear, listening. Playing a numbers game, the project w/ the least change/growth gets the most attention. Your brain remembers strength-based practices. So you shame yourself for not feeding your goals where you are strongest. The neglected goal becomes the focus ... . The merry-go-round continues. Finally after some drafts, revisions, a friend checking it out, a professional, it is crossed off the list. Now what? Celebrate? Yes. Feel miserable you weren't this far already? No. Stick it in the proverbial "drawer," where it misses its time and place to be in its niche in society, shared w/ the right tribe, having a life of its own w/out its "maker." You accept/reject. You integrate into a culminating project. One life. Everyone had twenty-four hours today. I am on a learning curve. I am involved w/ actually many learning curves. There are my usual goals or anyway the last dozen years; music, writing, art. These have been mostly non-executive thinking skills, the actual playing, writing, painting, the mechanics. So now that I have the inventory now what??? There are other areas of growth I chase after, some impulsive and some more human-like. I try not to be the black crow that comes swooping down on any attracting, shiny object. I just do not get to a goal as the process. We are not impulsive animals; we are humans w/ the ability to see consequences, see the life's "next right move on the chessboard." Don't get me wrong, please. I still believe in awareness, mindfulness, focusing on breath. Transcending meditation is still my basis, practicing, sitting meditation. May you be in tune w/ the silent "om" w/in you. Practice and process/progress are so related. Tune into the event(s) in your life! Time is not the ticking of a clock. It is the occuring event that registers a change of the brain to a new event, letting go of the past! Jackson Browne on past,present, future; "The future hides and the past just slides ... ."

Along the way so much variety of experiences set ourselves on a learning curve. My latest has been added to; Scriviner (not the actual process of directly writing, say once removed. Our Cubase electronic studio (not the playing the klezmer, jazz, improv on violin, keyboard, flamenco on guitar). Art? I have been inventorying w/ my assistant the works;ink, wc, oil, acrylic, charcoal, conte. It is a juggling act. Just this last Friday I took five different postcards to a conference on recovery covering creativity for therapy. I had 250 ea. on the count, enjoying giving them away freely, fairly. I had done this before, and it is wonderful to see inspired people. Call it progress. It gave me ideas about marketing, questioning my "textbook" ideas and being more aware about good old-fashioned sharing w/ people. They say (Seth Godin, ... ) that the Info Age business model is going to be closer to the (Grateful) Dead model. The focus is being WITH the Dead Heads, w/ the music not the emphasis of the concert night. It is about people, over and over again. Dare to say, yes a paradigm shift. Is your Growth/Learning Curve on the path? Name five ways today where you have had growth in your goals and otherwise recently! And choose happiness, goals met or not. Yes!

Remember Suze Orman; People first. Then money. Then things. (Also try once you have met your basic needs to buy only what can bring you money some way. It might be rather a pivotal change of seeing everything.)

Thanks for the opportunity,

T.E.

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