Sunday, November 18, 2012

MEDICINE STORY OF MY LIFE: Freedom




No. 5


Sonny Osborne, you spoke a deep disappointment into cyberspace. Often parents, unable to give birth to Life, to who they are, pass that inability to their children; not out of spite, but out of disappointment in themselves; their own lot in life. Somehow over time many of the touchstones in Life are not there to teach us but to stump us. Over time, and your words said it, we forget why we are born, or we remember and have no way to escape from the grind, the Rat Race to achieve those goals, those dreams of our lives. It feels and looks like a deep chasm exists between who we are and what we have to do for a living.

I've described it well, but it is nothing you don't know about. There are two approaches. One comes from the language of acquisition, the other from the language of attraction, of spiritual practice.

Robert Valett (I don’t remember who he is, but I’ve kept notes from him over the years) left practical steps, or stones to follow.

  1. Identify the major problem
  2. Obtain important information
  3. Determine your goals & objectives
  4. Ask key questions
  5. Search for possible answers
  6. Study model solutions
  7. Consider possible consequences
  8. Organize the best plan of action
  9. Rehearse your actions & practice hard
  10. Rehearse your actions & practice hard
  11. Evaluate the results
  12. Correct your mistakes
  13. Record your progress
  14. Recognize your achievements

And I submit a reading and application of Steven Covey’s book, 7  HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE.

The other side of the “coin” starts with the words of Alan Ashley-Pitt. Now, I can’t remember who is either, but I embedded this quote deep within me.

“The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has been before. Creativity in living is not without its attendant difficulties, for peculiarity breeds contempt. And the unfortunate thing about being ahead of your time is that when people finally realize you were right, they’ll say it was obvious all along.

You have two choices in life: you can dissolve into the mainstream, or you can be distinct. To be distinct, you must be different. To be different, you must strive to be what no one else but you can be.”

That changed my thinking. From the esoteric to the practical applications of acquisition is a challenge a successful Black sales pro told me. George Wheeler said, “Greg, take a millionaire to dinner. It doesn’t matter if it’s lunch, breakfast, or dinner take him, at your expense, to dinner, and ask him questions.”

I looked at him incredulously. He continued not batting an eye.

“Einstein said, ‘When a Man of Knowledge and a Man of Substance come together it is an equal exchange.’

That blew my mind. I did it, and both of our lives were never the same.

Now there are fasts, spiritual baths, digestive cleanings, the development of Shields (as a Warrior-Priest), breathing techniques and such that will develop a person in the skill set applicable to the Laws of Attraction, which on the surface appear to be no more than wishing, but in actual fact and practice, are a spiritual discipline. The emphasis is on the discipline.

This is my gift to you. AHO!  
© Gregory E. Woods, 
Keeper of Stories
11.18.12






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