I have learned not to share everything with everyone and that the best course of action is to keep everything to myself. This simple act keeps people from saying, "Glad it's you and not me." That is supposed to be some consolation prize or comfort when I struggle to do my best. Unfortunately, my friends aren't just individualists who know me at my best. I am fortunate to say that my friends know me as a human with feelings and emotions that are often shaped and affected by reality; they can take solace in the fact that I am not always on my game or at my very best. Too many individuals go through life and their day and constantly say everything is going alright and that they are fine.
I admit that everything came to a head over the last couple of months, resulting in a period known as the dark times, but I am reminded of the old saying, "Night is darkest right before dawn." The intended meaning is that events and circumstances are often the hardest right before they begin to get better. Someone who looks at history and the past for answers examines many circumstances that unfolded for others. America after Pearl Harbor was broken and virtually brought to its knees in a blow that sent shock waves across the nation. But had it not been for that incident, then America would never have awoken to realize its full potential to eventually become the economic powerhouse that we know today, or at least at the time that I write this. Instead, America would have continued to bob along, making minimal to marginal progress in getting out of its economic slump set in motion by the 1929 stock market crash 1929.
I did a segment for my last recording about the three big rules in life or philosophies that I live and die by.
Rule one: When it is complicated, I am immodestly out. That is to say; when events become too dragged out, eating up time, resources, time, and opportunity, I began rethinking my involvement. Like getting caught in a yettie of indecision, I set sail out.
Rule two: All things work out. Life is one of those things where life happens regardless, and as long as we are the captain of our ship and actively choose our path and direction, we find ourselves reaching a state where we can make a difference and make a profound impact. If we do not participate actively in shaping and molding our lives, we are caught in a reactionary state, randomly pulled by the tide and pushed by the winds on a course that may or may not be our own.
Rule three: All things work out even when they don't work out. Growing up, it's almost impossible not to experience some setback, hardship, or folly. We are told that if we don't fail, make mistakes, or experience setbacks, then how are we ever to test our true character, our true sense of being
How do we know, if we don't know we know. We only know when we know.
The problem with rule number three is that some lessons are easier to conceptualize and understand than others. Some mistakes, setbacks, and moments of folly are hard to bounce back from but not impossible. The United States did not bounce back from Pearl Harbor overnight; it took several months to return to its standard operating capacity. Within six months, we saw the US strike back with a deceive blow, sinking all 4 of Japan's supercarriers.
Had I not experienced this setback, I, too, would have embraced the dangerous mentality of "How can I afford less?" Maybe worst of all, I would have accepted a reality that says, "This is good enough; this will do." Why would I take a step backward and allow myself to slip back into that dangerous sense of being?
Bonus rule: Do good, put good into the universe for no reason other than knowing that good comes back to you in profound and amazing ways when you least expect it.
Fold note: Speak your dreams and reality into the world and to a higher power. Say them with confidence and assurance that your words are heard as if reality already exists, and use art to create blueprints to even greater experiences, happenings, and realities.
Today earmarks the new frontier and new and amazing beginnings, and with them, opportunities. Just yesterday, by the natural course of events and circumstances that unfolded before me, I was afforded a brief encounter with someone I have thought so highly of for so long—someone I love celebrating and acknowledging. I have sent her flowers and random gifts countless times to say, "Smile, you're being thought of. " I took the event as a good sign of things to come.
I look forward to sending her another set of flowers and another gift bag filled with candies and presents With an awe-inspiring message.
I was surprised when she told me she would just have to come with me to Japan one of these times. Most people would fault me for continuing to stroll down this road and having it lead to nothing productive. In truth, we all need something, and we all need something to believe in. What is life if we don't?
Viewing my life through a different lens and perspective, it is a refinement of who I am and what I am about. I remember setting the magic out into the universe of getting down to the basics, removing myself from the clutter to refine and create the ideas I am truly about. Let's see what that is as I begin to show my greatness and how I can spread my wings.
Monday kicks off the great beginning of great things.