"Long-term goals are for wussies. They are goals you believe are impossible in the short term.
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By writing about a clear, detailed vision of the future, the student becomes firm in her resolve to make a big splash in this world.
By writing about a clear, detailed vision of the future, the student shows the reader that she is one of those rare, highly motivated difference-makers who knows exactly what she wants to do.
The importance of short-term goals:
Long-term goals are for wussies. They are goals you believe to be impossible in the short term. A long-term goal does not make you feel and sense of urgency, but a short-term goal needs to be attacked right now. A short-term goal is the mark of a truly motivated person.
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Addicted to NOT Smoking:
A Hypnotic Trip into Cigarettelessness
Meditation, suggestions for transformation, spiritual renunciation, reading hypnosis… and there's a ninja! This book provides an introspective trip for smokers-trying-to-quit. Your guide during this strange jaunt toward cigarettelessness is the book's narrator, an emotionally disturbed ninja, and he seems eerily symbolic of something… The ninja can feel comfortable without any ninja face-mask, and without hiding behind clouds of smoke; the reader can feel more comfortable with every page, every paragraph, narrowing the focus in a meditative state of mind.
In addition to entertainment and instruction, this book provides an experience of hypnosis consciousness—while reading—as the body responds to suggestions for relaxation and focus. With entertaining, detailed instruction and poignant suggestions for change, it really is possible to "get addicted to not smoking." Changing your mind is easy when the suggestions, stories, exercises, and instructions in this book send you reeling head-over-heels into hypnosis consciousness.
The smoker's struggle against addiction represents an existential crisis, and
The renunciation of cigarettes can be like a spiritual practice.
Meditation, self-hypnosis, and renunciation practice are related to the ancient, inner disciplines generally represented by the literary genre of meditation/mindfulness. Plenty of books about meditation and mindfulness are already on the market; they are abundant and popular for a good reason (they ease the existential anguish that comes with mortality, helping us to keep our heads together during this weird trip). Likewise, many books have been written for smokers trying to quit. This manuscript is intended to fill a special niche in a giant market by applying the power of meditation/mindfulness literature to the vast market of smokers trying to quit. Addicted to Not Smoking is worth the price because it offers:
· An opportunity for a surreal experience.
· An opportunity to learn about self-hypnosis.
· Funny reading that is relevant to the smoking habit.
· A good gift for smokers trying to quit.
Of the available books for smokers trying to quit, Addicted to Not Smoking will be the one that has serious practices presented in a not-too-serious way. People who continue to smoke even though they want to quit often have a not-too-serious desire to quit,[2] and this manuscript meets them at their own state of mind.
In Barnes & Noble's "addiction recovery" section, one quickly notices the books by Allen Carr: The Easy Way to Stop Smoking. The fact that Carr sold more than seven million copies attests to the potential of this market. (It also comes up first when you search Amazon for quit-smoking books.) This is a classic, and Carr is a hero, but many people would choose Addicted to Not Smoking, instead, for its comedic value.
Deepak Chopra has two books for addiction recovery, but, lucky for me, neither is intended specifically for smokers. In fact, most of the Barnes & Noble books in this section are about addiction recovery in general, and most of the ones that are about specific habits address alcoholism or compulsive eating; only Carr's books and a few others are specifically for smokers.
Quitting Cigarettes:
A Practice of Renunciation
The person wants a cigarette, but you want to awaken as the timeless being. The temporary person wants a cigarette, wants a snack, wants a compliment, wants to be entertained. Even after the person gets something he or she wants, the wanting goes on and on. This temporary person, all caught up in a dream, wants one thing after another until, finally, death. But you are something more. You are the great observer, that mysterious witness. You are the creative being who dances in reality, now here, now there, always changing forms, yet always arising from the same place of stillness. You dive into one dream after another, and in between dreams you awaken as the higher being, gradually and full of wonder.
At first, you identified with the person. You became absorbed in the person's story while you ran around as him or her. Now you are going through a process of dis-identification from the person. You have begun to make a distinction between the higher being and the temporary person. Just as the master transcends by means of an art or trade, just as the mystic transcends by the practice of meditation, just as the faithful believer transcends by offering the self to God, you, too, are starting to transcend the temporary reality of the person and awaken as the higher being. You are discovering the power that comes from putting aside the wants of the person in favor of Creative Action, and you are enabling the higher being to emerge.
An invisible process is going on. The secret knowledge, the knowledge you receive only after faithful practice, is this:
Renunciation practice enables you to remember your timeless self.
The master renounces the person's wanting by becoming absorbed in skillful action. The mystic renounces the person's wanting by keeping still. The faithful believer renounces the person's wanting by performing selfless work. Renunciation of wanting enables them to remember. When you establish your own firm practice of renunciation, you will begin to intuit the truth about your existence: that you have access to a source of unlimited creative power because, at the same time as you are being a person, you also remain a timeless, creative being. In any moment, you can shift your attention to the place of stillness and be the being that is beyond the person, the being that has no beginning or end in time, but instead plays forever in the boundless world of creation.
A spiritual practice is one that cultivates your awareness of your existence independent of the person. Spiritual seekers from every religious discipline have been using renunciation to achieve communion with the higher being. Careful attention given to the spiritual act of renouncing the object of the person's wanting—cigarettes, in your case—changes your experience to that of the higher being: timeless, and not limited to the person. This knowledge of yourself as the higher being, which can be cultivated by any practice of renunciation, is the source of your new power.
If you regard birth as your very beginning and death as some sort of an end, then time seems to be 'going by.' If, instead, you see clearly that you are eternal, then you've never begun and you won't end. Time stays right where it is. Ride the present moment like a surfer on a wave and you can experience one, unending moment. Whether you are moving around or sitting very still, eternity happens now. You don't wait for Heaven; Heaven happens now, or not at all. Eternity is timeless by definition. We are not on a time line drawn in the direction of something called future—we are floating in the one, ongoing moment.
Renunciation Ninja
Here is a story to explain how smoking can get in the way of achieving your full potential. The purpose of the story is to introduce to your person a new disposition toward the smoking habit. Prepare to embrace change as it is applied to the very deepest beliefs held by the person! Permit your person to act according to the true nature of things, letting go all illusions about smoking cigarettes. The story gives your person an alternative to his or her current ideas about smoking. A funny metaphor sticks in the person's memory for a long time, creating change. In this analogy, smoking cigarettes is compared to masturbation, and you are compared to a ninja.
Once upon a time there was a masturbating ninja. He was a skillful ninja who could flip, and roll, and jump high, and kill you with a poisonous dart while hidden up in a nearby tree. His ninja-ing was top-notch, very impressive. Still, the other ninjas never took him seriously because of one compulsive habit that he couldn't seem to get over. Something he did more consistently than anything else.
Consistently? Constantly. Before and after every ninja mission, sometimes even during the missions, he had to pull out his little ninja sword and polish it like hell. Thrashing around on the grass outside his ninja hut, it looked like he was wrestling with himself and losing. Have you ever seen a ninja masturbate? They really get into it. Don't stand too close if you know what's good for you.
The other ninjas called him names and often kicked his ass. They never let him join in any of their ninja games. One day, the masturbating ninja couldn't take it anymore. He made a sacred ninja vow not to take it out or even touch it under the cloth of his ninja costume from four o'clock Thursday afternoon until ten o'clock the following morning. None of the other ninjas even applauded his effort. They were very unsupportive.
When ten o'clock came around, the masturbating ninja had fulfilled his vow. He was about to celebrate by yanking out his shit and having a real climactic battle with special effects and subtitles and everything when, all of a sudden, his ninja village was attacked by hundreds of enemy ninjas from an opposing ninja clan. The masturbating ninja quickly removed his ninja nipple clamps and sprang to his feet with a spectacular ninja jump. He left the video playing in his VCR and ran outside to help protect the village.
They were outnumbered and unprepared, and it seemed as if the enemy ninjas would surely defeat them. One thing our hero had going for him, however, was that he was experiencing a tremendous surplus of energy and mental focus. As he fought his way through the crowd, he realized that his skill and strength had doubled over night because he had not depleted it all over his ninja hut because of that compulsion, that habit. His energy had built up so much that he felt invincible. Soon, he was fighting the attackers all by himself while his exhausted ninja friends watched in amazement. He punched right through armor, caught bullets in his teeth, and beat off the enemies with quick, frantic movements.
The masturbating ninja had saved the day. He had held back from indulgence and become the most powerful ninja of them all. His heightened focus was far more rewarding than the immediate gratification he had sought in the past, so he started to make a practice of it. His strongest urges to indulge and seek immediate gratification yielded the sharpest, most focused attention when he abstained.
See? So, begin this process the way you would begin a rigorous workout, and know that you are building up your personal power. You'll be exercising that inner sense of clarity and purpose called "will power," building up energy, weaning your body off nicotine, and cleaning out your lungs, all at the same time.
The most important thing is to have a feeling of taking action instead of trying to hold back from the act of smoking a cigarette. Even though quitting will improve your life and delay your death, your previous attempts to quit smoking have been unsuccessful, because your state of mind changes every day, every minute. You approach death gradually over a period of time, but your cigarette cravings occur in this moment. What you need is a positive activity that you can apply to the moment—every time you think you want a cigarette.
Addicted to Not Smoking introduces a practice called "smoke-strike," with which you can begin to conquer this habit in the correct frame of mind. Rather than fighting with yourself and using self-discipline, you will strengthen your spirit and gradually affect change in the mind until, one day very soon, you discover that you've risen above the whole shit.
Excuse me, can anyone explain why we use the term “adult day care” to refer to a service we provide for the wise elders of our society? I don’t care how demented or forgetful I become; the little rug rats I am taking care of now had better not ever use the word “day care” on me when they have to return the favor. If anybody actually gave enough of a crap, they would use a different term. Use any other term. You don’t have to call it anything at all, really. But do not use the term "day care." What the hell.
Calling them by a different name is the decent thing to do, and it is also practical. Google around about "adult day care," and you will find that it is common for seniors to feel that using such a facility is an insult to their dignity.
The point of creating adult day care centers is to make it possible for informal caregivers (usually family) to keep their jobs and leave the seniors in the care of professionals. Some focus on socialization, while others have rigorous medical care. Some are dedicated specifically to sufferers of Alzheimer's Disease. With all these functions, it is possible to use a different term to express their role in the lives of our eldest citizens.
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Bad teachers give constructive criticism without taking the time to give compliments.
Good teachers often leave writing along, because they know it is art.
The best teachers give compliments TWICE AS OFTEN as they give constructive criticism, but this process takes a lot of time.
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Karl Marx noticed something: In capitalist system throughout history, more and more of the wealth will snowball in the hands of the few until almost all of the wealth is concentrated on a tiny portion of the population. That is what is happening in America. People who understand capitalism and socialism know that neither is perfect. Right now, the Obama Administration is trying to find the perfect balance that will bring about the greatest possible good for the greatest number of people.
The purpose of government is to enable people to give up a small amount of freedom in order to gain a large amount of protection. It also helps them to pool their resources in various other ways and to look out for one another. Conservatives call for self-reliance and free enterprise, and they are wise to preserve these important American values. But as people people who understand capitalism, they also know that an even playing field never stays even for long. Part of the role of government is to protect people from injustices inherent in capitalism. That means the wealthy are going to have to pull the weight of the poor to some extent.
But President Obama is not Robin Hood. He cannot just take from the rich and give the poor. He has to move to the middle and reason with the rich and their advocates in congress. Most likely, he wants to reason with the rich because he is skillful with language. Masters of language want opportunities to reason with people and make real progress.
In order to be progressive, President Obama needs to make progress toward correcting social injustices associated with exploitation of the poor in a capitalist system. The wealthy people who represent large corporations may be very willing to help poor people, but they also need to stay vigorous and competitive in the dynamic 21st century business world. In order to make progress, Obama needs to compromise with the wealthy and with the representatives of wealthy organizations. After all, we are asking them to spend a higher percentage of their money than people in lower tax brackets, and the wealthy do not even use many of the social services they are helping to fund.
So, there are two voices to consider: the voice of the rich, and the voice of the rest of us.
The voice of the rest of us: One voice comes from the hard working American that tries to raise a family while making a lower-to-middle class living each year. These people want the government to spend money on the things that matter to them -- making health care affordable, ceasing American imperialism, creating jobs, growing the economy so the children will have good lives, saving the environment so the children will have places to live. These people want their tax money to be spent on the things that are important to them. Also, if they understand Keynesian economics, they also hope see the government spend money in order to compensate for a lack of public spending during a recession, and they want the government to make good investments, just like rich people do.
The voice of the rich: Another voice comes from the people who have plenty of money and do not need to "work" in the same way other people work. Instead, they invest their money in various endeavors, because they know you can make a lot of money if you invest correctly. These people also don't have to worry about whether they will be able to afford their health care. They have entirely different interests. For example, while working Americans may feel compassion for immigrants, even undocumented immigrants, the rich tend to focus on securing the borders because more poor Americans to take care of with expensive social services. They do not need to worry about whether public schools are adequately funded, because they don't send their kids to public schools. They do not need to worry about whether law enforcement in some districts is adequately funded, because they live in places where law enforcement in indeed adequately funded.
The rich care about things that can actually hurt them. What can hurt the rich? Other than taxes, nothing short of foreign invasion can hurt them. And that is why some rich people prefer not to spend money on social services, but they certainly are willing to spend money on maintaining a stellar military.
So why does a progressive president need to move to the middle? It's because a lot of pressure is being applied -- not only the visible pressure, but also the invisible pressure. Visible pressure is applied by the republicans, who advocate for the rich. Invisible pressure is also applied, because the rich have enough money to get what they want in clandestine ways. If the president wants to get the rich to spend money on improving the lives of the poor, he needs to accommodate some of their interests. That means compromising with the GOP. Without compromise, no progress would be made at all. Americans are sick of having legislators that cannot get anything done. As a master of language, President Obama is becoming a master of compromise.
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This is a technique for after you have written a boring essay: Use your main idea as a “jumping off” point.
This is a technique for writing paragraphs that can pierce a person’s mental defenses against information overload. Even if people choose to read something, they often are unreceptive to it. And as we discuss in the “speed reading” section of the Academic Ninja training course, people consciously choose how slowly and attentively they read. Your goal as a writer is to give the reader something so useful that they feel compelled to slow down and pay attention.
The writing needs to be refined. That is why I recommend writing your ideas and then using the whole draft as a “jumping off” point. Do not use this technique after you have written during moments of inspiration that cause the material to be rhythmic and infused with energy. Only use it with writing that lacks inspiration. If you had to write something during moments without inspiration, you can refine it by following these steps:
Condense what you have written, taking out all words and sentences that are not useful, and when the essay is reduced and simplified as much as possible, reduce and simplify it even more.
When you have condensed several paragraphs into one good one, use that paragraph as a “jumping off” point by looking at its meaning – its message to the reader – and writing about that concept.
Inspiration is a tricky wave to catch and keep your balance on, but you can take inspiration from the main idea that underlies your boring essay. You wrote a boring essay because you wrote at a time when you were not inspired. Talk when in a bad state of mind, and the listener feels it; write when in a bad state of mind, and the reader feels it.
But if you use this main idea, this theme, as a jumping off point, and if you find a moment of inspiration... you will soon have an energized essay full of those sacred sayings that come from that inspired state of mind.
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A man who has played the role of provider in the lives of many people
The life of a person cannot be summed up in a few pages. We can have a glimpse, though, from a particular perspective. In this biographical sketch, Matthew Reynolds shares his perspective on the truth expressed through Stanley Davis’s way of life, because Matthew wants Stanley to know about the impression he has made.
Seven years have passed since the day Matthew was elated to learn that Stanley had proposed to his mother. As an honest man who has experienced hard work, ranging from the military to entrepreneurship, Stanley is a stepfather of whom any stepson would feel proud. Matthew also felt relieved, because his mother had recently lost both her parents, and she needed a source of strength and inspiration.
Matthew’s first impression of Stanley was that he was a man with the sort of wisdom that can make a person both serious and joyful. Stanley grew up in the years following World War II, and his parents had lived through the Great Depression, so he learned to appreciate honest work and family values. Stanley found great success in business, but he also found disappointment and misfortune. The material wealth that comes and goes is not so important, but the struggle to make ends meet through trying times is a forging process that refines the personality. Stanley impressed Matthew as a person with well-developed wisdom and the ability to generate joy even under difficult circumstances.
Circumstances have indeed been difficult. In the years since Matthew met Stanley and became his stepson, Stanley has made tremendous sacrifices to take care of three young grandchildren. When Stanley married Matthew’s mother, he did not know that they would be taking custody of three children who had suffered abuse and neglect. For five years, Stanley and Matthew’s mother put aside their own needs to help the children heal. These grandparents even saw their marriage suffer at times because of unavoidable stress associated with raising young children.
When relationships are strained by difficult life circumstances, good intentions and actions are sometimes misunderstood. From Matthew’s perspective it is clear that some of Stanley’s effort goes unnoticed because of the chaotic environment at home. How can the self-sacrificing hero end up playing the role of the villain? How can a foster parent, who has depleted his own energy through acts of selfless dedication, be viewed as a “strict” or “stubborn” tyrant?
Sometimes upholding family values seems old fashioned.
Sometimes teaching good behavior seems overbearing.
Sometimes being practical seems like being pushy.
Sometimes having high standards seems like being stubborn.
Sometimes wisdom is left unrecognized.
Sometimes the person who provides for everyone seems like he is overbearing when he actually just knows the importance of discipline and responsibility. Matthew’s perspective on Stanley is like the perspective of a student on a teacher. Matthew is a good student, and he is able to recognize the virtues of his stepfather even when other people are not able to recognize them. Stanley obviously is doing what he knows how to do in order to make ends meet and ensure that everyone is provided for… but the difficulty faced by people inside and outside Stanley’s household can become a source of conflict; when life is overwhelming people in the household, all the self-sacrifice in the world is not good enough to please everyone.
Difficult times and hectic days have drained a lot of energy from Stanley and his wife, and it is a shame that their great accomplishments as foster parents can be drowned out sometimes by their stress and nervous tension. Matthew’s perspective enables him to see the situation as it really is: the foster grandparents are tired, because have given freely of themselves.
Stanley is a man who has an entire lifetime of experience behind him, a skilled craftsman who has lived powerfully and honestly. Before Matthew met Stanley, Stanley had already accomplished much and contributed to the lives of many people. Now, after seven years as a husband to Matthew’s mother and a guardian of Matthew’s nieces and nephew, “appreciation” is not a strong enough word to express what Matthew feels toward Stanley. Tremendous respect is sometimes called “reverence,” and tremendous gratitude is sometimes expressed in poetic ways – but Stanley already knows that lots of people feel respect and gratitude toward him. Instead, Matthew wants to express understanding:
Matthew knows that Stanley is a misunderstood hero. Events never unfold quite as we intend them, but we find meaning for our struggle when we reflect on the good that it does for others. Heroes don’t need to be understood; they just need opportunities to give of themselves. When the work is done, they rest.
A Perspective on Mary Arnold...
A Biographical Sketch of Mary Arnold:
Powerful Living, No Regrets
Mary Arnold is a retired customer service representative who is enjoying the freedom that comes with life mastery after 69 years.
Mary heard that we were doing a biographical sketch of her, and she responded with sideways humor: “You’re not going to find any dirt on me, and if you do, you can’t prove anything!” she wrote. She was right; as hard as we tried, we could not find any dirt. Digging into the life of Mary Arnold, we found only good news about great accomplishments and contributions to the people and places she has touched, in central Massachusetts and beyond.
Mary is notorious for sticking to her personal principles even when other people have tried to compel her to abandon them. From 1993 to 1997 she worked as a customer service representative for an auto parts company, her boss tried to compel her to lie to a customer about some motor oil. Mary refused, and her boss threatened to fire her. Mary told him that he could fire her if that was his decision, but she would not lie to the customer. She did lose her job because of this incident.
We asked Mary about the incident at the auto parts business, and Mary told us it had a funny conclusion. “They wanted me to teach a new girl how to use my computer and do my job,” she said. “I turned the power off and told my boss to figure it out himself!”
From the perspectives of her children, Mary is a source of pride and encouragement. According to Mary’s daughters, her example leaves them no excuse to ever become overwhelmed with life. “Whenever anyone is having a rough time with work or relationships,” says her daughter Jennifer, “Our mom is an example of stability and steadiness. We all use her as a reference point.” Perhaps that reflects Mary’s personality, or perhaps it reflects the leadership role that she has played for her children.
From the perspective of Barbra Faucet, Mary’s friend of fourteen years, Mary has an uplifting personality-type – “the kind that makes people feel better after spending time with her.” Anthony, one of Mary’s co-workers at the hospice she volunteers at three days a week, is starting medical school, and he knows that as a physician he will be coming back to the hospice to play a leadership role. He says Mary will continue to be among his most important teachers no matter how far he goes with his education in medicine.
Mary says she wants to use this mini-biography as an opportunity to remind her family to enjoy the simple things in life, because “life can be dangerous,” and, “it’s just not worth taking chances.” This is the kind of admonition that comes from a person who has seen much of the good and bad that life has to offer. “Appreciating the most meaningful things, we don’t have to take chances,” Mary says. “We can just enjoy one another and take it easy.”
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