What is your vision for how things will turn out and your future?
Very few people can avoid this. It’s an element of the mind’s workings that it pictures likely and possible events so that it can help keep us safe and alive.
Vision and imagination are core elements of our mental process.
The trouble is that most people don’t realise that this is occurring automatically as we go about our daily lives. Operating based upon the views and considerations we put in there. And most of them aren’t very positive at all.
And so we end up seeing our once hoped for good future slowly disappear in front of our eyes.
So, here is how and why a strong vision is the key to lifelong lasting achievement.
The Future from the past.
Many people predict the future.
Most of these however are basing it on how today will turn out. In other words, adding some extra developments to build from current times. It’s perhaps less a vision for the future as a plan for next steps.
It’s far more impressive to see a future that in no way looks anything like today.
That’s what Jules Verne accomplished. You hear or read his name and old fashioned tales of trips to the Moon that have featured in films come to mind. Victorians travelling on basic boneshaker rockets to the stars as if it was that easy.
But, he was far more accomplished than that actively predicting where science and technology would end up. End up from the fairly limited understandings they possessed at the time.
He spent long hours in the BNF (France’s home of all published works) fuelling his mind with scientific journals. This led him to expanding his own ideas and publishing them, these visions and concepts at the time seeming far fetched, even crazy.
Not to him. He clearly saw submarines, helicopters, air conditioning, skyscrapers, and most famous of all, moon trips on advanced space ships that could break the Earth’s orbit. His books have been translated into 150 languages, far more than Shakespeare can claim!
He was revolutionary in vision. A strong vision that improved his life until the end.
The Beginning not the end.
Strong, powerful vision sees the end result, not the current situation.
It’s one very ill people often utilise. And Bob Champion was one such person.
He was a successful National Hunt jockey riding hundreds of winners. Then in 1979 he was struck down with cancer and given only a 30% chance of survival at best. The treatment was invasive and debilitating and nearly killed him then and there. At the same time his beloved mount, Aldaniti, had suffered a terrible injury in a race and the vets recommended he should be put down as it was his 4th bad injury.
Both were in dire straits.
But Champion always believed that the horse would win England’s prestigious Grand National race with him on board. And while in bed seriously unwell he began to imagine just that. Something that appeared to have about 0% chance of ever coming about.
His vision got him fighting. It gave him a goal and dream to pursue.
He did recover and back to health and immediately went to see his pal Aldaniti, who was now amazingly doing the same. He told the racehorse’s trainer his belief about the race and luckily he also thought it could be possible.
In April 1981 both Bob and Aldaniti lined up in the race and powered to victory. Bob is still alive and going strong himself 45 years later! His story was even made into a successful movie called, naturally, Champions.
Everything he saw in his vision came true.
A champion vision in every sense.
Have the vision, hold the vision.
It’s easy to have a big vision.
We can all conceive some dream scenario for ourselves. One where our life is rosy or stunning outcomes have manifested. But, two factors are a MUST in ensuring these imaginations turn out as conceived.
You have a crystal clear vision of what you seek to bring about and keep holding it no matter the challenges (hold ’em, don’t fold ’em as they say in cards). If you truly believe in your final aim, don’t drop the ball in your mind if things get tough and
The initial vision must be founded on strong ground not fantasy. If you aren’t very good at football, seeing yourself as the world’s best player is setting yourself up for a fall.
Bob Champion WAS a jockey and Jules Verne WAS a writer when they set out on their quest to personal achievement. Both lifted themselves up from a sold platform underneath them that was there already.
The basis of strong vision is found in a strong individual with a strong awareness of who they are and what that person can accomplish.
Only Picasso knew he was Picasso. Which is why many pretenders try to copy the original and never get near. The same in business, music and life as well as art. Mastery is often being the only one doing what only you sought to do that your mind kept showing you.
Personal individuality expressed via a vivid mental picture is the key to a pinnacle life achievement. That and abiding by the two factors above. Whether you want to create a new hot drink or form of clothing.
Be yourself, be fully clear what this you wishes to create, keep that image alive in the mind, and stay the course to your own mountain top. History proves this – Picasso couldn’t ride racehorses. Verne could not paint Cubist style art. And Champion could not pen about futuristic machines.
What they could do and chose to do, their own strong vision helped take them somewhere memorable.
And if you use this too, you could follow them to lifelong triumph.
That it never seems to have the capacity for good ideas, positive beliefs, and lots of energy for life?
Well, if you do, you are not as unusual as you think. Your mental experiences are mirrored by millions of people worldwide. People who believe that they are just meant to have lower mental skills than others. Or, more damagingly, that there is something wrong with them in the head.
If you feel either, or both are you, take heart because your mind isn’t flawed. And neither are you. Your mind is simply not working effectively and efficiently, like an old piano that needs tuning or old car in need of a service.
If you read on you will find the 5 reasons that your mind isn’t working as actively as it could.
Ones that can retune your mind and give it an overhaul so it’s firing on all cylinders again.
Let’s look at those famous five of the mind.
1. It’s all clogged up.
Think of your mind like a computer or mobile phone.
Every single day it receives bits of data and information from facts and figures to opinions and viewpoints. It has to process these so that you can understand life and function healthily and safely in the world. But modern life is chocced full of fast paced stuff coming at you minute by minute. That all needs your mind to work it out.
There’s reason No.1. Like a computer, your mental system has simply gotten clogged up holding too much mental space. Computers slow down, crash, and freeze when they are overloaded with data they can’t compute.
Your memory (as with a computer) is full and it needs to release old info or stop the flow of the new to start functioning again.
Old beliefs may need to be rethought. Schedules or jobs written down so they are not whizzing round your head. Anything that frees some room in your mind so it can breathe. Start with some Micro Positive Thinking to unstick your mind.
No.1 – unclog your mind and free some head space.
2. It’s not been used for you.
No two minds are the same.
We are all built differently. Some slightly so, others in more pronounced fashion.
This means our minds are wired to support us personally. Now, I don’t know about you, but I’m a creative sort – full of ideas and concepts, always seeing possibilities, and exploring options. However, I have friends completely the opposite of this. They are logical and methodical, some incredibly mathematical in nature, a couple who work systematically (A = B and so on).
Now how well do you think my mind would work if I tried to be like them? Yep, I’d be lost. Or, let me put it another way. What if they were trying to paint like Picasso? Or Picasso attempted to think up a new system for train timetables? The results wouldn’t be pretty!
Neither would be using THEIR minds in the way they were personally built.
And the same most likely now goes for you too!
No.2 – use your mind how you personally are.
3. Too much distraction action.
Just another five minutes.
What you tell yourself as you scroll on your phone or playing online games. Or watching yet another show on TV. Hey, even speaking to your bestie about the gossip for the third time that day (for at least an hour).
In this 21st Century society with its myriad of gadgets and technologies, there is always something right where we are vying for our attention. And we fall for it time after time telling ourselves it’s for only a short while. Except it never is.
These distractions are using up your concentration and mental bandwidth.
Mental faculties that could, and should, be used at creating and building and improving your circumstances, are being used elsewhere. Distracted away to get to Level 25 at Forest Fairy Fantasy or an extra episode of the new cool drama or finding out what Brad told Matt about you (since yesterday).
Your distraction action is high so your good mental usage is low.
No.3 – too much mental distraction activity is using your mind.
4. Not enough repair care.
Imagine you are someone who goes running.
And let’s say you do this every single day for hours. Sure you would be fitter and faster and leaner. But, and it’s a huge but, you would also gradually collapse with sheer exhaustion and injury if you didn’t have enough rest. Consuming up energy constantly eventually takes its toll. It’s not limitless. What you use up is going to need to be replaced. It doesn’t just fall out of the sky (as in the Forest Fairy Fantasy game).
Now replace the word running with the term ‘using your mind’.
You use your mind a thousand times more often each day that anyone who runs. If runners get depleted and have a low ebb, then your mind is guaranteed to follow suit. But, you often plough on into a never ending loop of tasks, and distractions, and no useful activities that drain your mind’s energy banks.
You have to commit time and space to more repair. More sleep, more quiet times, less overthinking and worrying or worse (yes, less news would help with that!!!). Any down time for the mind that lets it repair and recharge.
No.4 – take more care to repair and refill your mental energy.
5. It’s been used to worry not wonder.
Your mind will think. That’s a fact.
We have multiple thousands of thoughts a day. Those thoughts are part of the mind working and staying in use. However, it only can think as directed. Remember, it’s a computer and programmable (it’s the No.1 way the human mind is like a robot).
And the programmer and the controller is you.
Modern pressures (wars, cost of living, increased demands on time and everyday stresses) have gradually pushed you to looking at life in a less than enthusiastic way. Pessimism and anxiety have become the programme that has been input into your mind. One that you repeat multiple times a day if not per hour at certain times.
This is heavy. Heavy and hard and draining.
You need to catch yourself doing it and hit the switch. Find ways to look for the little positives, the daily joys and simple pleasures in your world. Focus instead on the good things that are there that so make life worth living. They DO exist, you have not let your mind notice and appreciate them.
The wonders that will dwarf your worries.
There’s your new 5 mental insights into your mind. The ones that will help shift it from dull to dynamic and from listless to lively. And if you see them through, some changes will occur almost instantly in how your feel mentally.
It’s time to move your mind, it will move your life with it!
It’s a prediction that’s been made for a few decades. From the film screen to book pages and even art nowadays, robots will replace us. Replace and take over if you believe such omens as shown in The Terminator and I-Robot.
Whether you believe that forecast or not, one thing is for sure, robots are increasingly more active in our lives.
And with the advent of Artificial Intelligence, in the very near future the human mind is going to be more obsolete in use.
Well, that’s another prediction. But, we are already robotic in one way mentally.
You, me, pretty much everyone of us.
We all are robots in our mind so read on to find out how…and why!
Personally Programmed.
Robots, like computers, are programmed.
They have an operating system that runs software that contains their orders, the programme that defines their actions, which they stick to. We have developed the technology to programme robots to make, build, and manufacture and to make themselves in effect with robots creating robotic machines.
The robot simply follows the loaded programme instructions.
And that’s where we come in and turn into robots.
Our operating system is our mind. The one that runs our life with it’s physical brain loaded in our body to carry out the mental instructions. But, where does the mind get those instructions? Who sets the programme?
Well….we do.
Over our many years of life we continually gather a massive range of beliefs, views, information, insights, perceptions and (hopefully for most of us), wisdom. Now some of these come from direct experience – mistakes, regrets, successes, discipline, effort etc. But added to these are another whole range of outer influences – how we were raised, our environment, authority figures from teachers to family and more, from society, from the media, and , increasingly, from social media and the internet. We are easily influenced creatures.
We bank all of this mix mentally and it forms a type of rule book on how to approach life, behave, and be who we are. Like a recipe in a cookbook except ours is a lifebook.
Therefore, unlike robots, we are personally programmed. No other human carries the same programme inside them. Ours are unique to each of us and the mind, like the robot, obeys these rules and guidelines on life formed from what we put in there.
But that’s where it goes wrong.
Not because we are robots out of control, but BECAUASE we are human!
The Robot Mind.
Our robot minds get to work as soon as we wake up.
The moment our eyes open after sleep and our awareness kicks in, the mind also begins switching on. As it does so it flicks into operating mode and all those background beliefs and views etc that we hold (both bad and good) start to run the show.
When we get up and begin to move, the mind is immediately being powered by that underlying software. Our mind, effectively, is on automatic like an airplane on auto pilot. In fact that analogy is perhaps the most accurate way of explaining it. The captain has control and can override the pre-set auto pilot but often he doesn’t and let’s it do its job.
And guess what happens? The plane ends up where it has been programmed to be. Just like us.
Which is why we seem to lurch from one same issue to another.
We are pre-set to live, act, think etc in our mind that same way like a robot honouring its guidance system. Pre-set and pre-ordered by everything we hold in our mental file about ourselves and life. Our mind is our robot counterpart. The trouble is we aren’t aware that we are cerebral cyborgs who can change how we operate.
We contend that it’s fate or bad luck that keeps leading us down wrong roads and finding wrong people on the way.
If you take a look you will see how you repeatedly think and react like a robot.
A always equal B say in relationships or X never fails to lead to Y in your finances. Work and career may start at point A but are never meant to progress passed point B. In short, you’ve decided most of your destiny in advance and programmed yourself like a robot to follow it through to the decided result.
Even if you SO believe you haven’t. YOU HAVE!
You are continually completing your programme. The one that kicks in as soon as the alarm goes off. The one that runs unconsciously on your behalf so that you barely notice how it’s conducting your life.
So, ask yourself when you get up what your expectations are for the day? What do you believe will happen to YOU? What money or love or even life itself will continue to deal you as a hand?
The robot in your mind has those answers and is directing you in every moment based on them. The ones you put in there in the first place. You need to re-write them by reconsidering what you believe about you and life. That will re-write your own self programming and update your mental instruction guide for life.
It’s time to be more human and less robot. To think and reflect and update what that person sees and believes. And to then upload the updated view (software) into your mind so a new life can be initiated. Or a new destination input in your life auto-pilot.
Robots may begin to take over the world, but don’t let yours take over your mind.
That is the common belief. That success comes from being incredibly clever, highly talented, and immensely creative. Or you must be truly innovative, an ahead of the curve inventor, or plain genius.
In other words success comes from special people doing or forming something special. Special, ground breaking, or through some life long dedication that finally bore fruit decades later.
This may sound familiar (unless you are a young TikToker or YouTuber who believes it can all come overnight viral style).
But, it’s a myth.
True success is equally likely, if not more expected, from those who stick to the extra simple others have never ever considered.
Because simple often turns out to be superb!
Small but successful.
The very best ideas often stem from basic need.
Someone has a problem so sets up something simple to help that ends us being very lucrative.
It’s 2005 and British student Alex Tew was trying to find a way to help fund his studies. He was beginning a 3 year business management course at the University of Nottingham. Concerned that after graduating his student loan repayments would cripple his finances for a good many years to come, he needed to create some ongoing income. One evening while looking at a computer screen and seeing the many pixels in its resolution, he had a brainwave.
He decided to set up a simple basic homepage with a million pixels and sell each pixel to businesses for $1 each (he chose US Dollars as there were far more business organisations in the States). For their $1 the business could add their logo and a hyperlink so when a viewer to the site hovered over it they could click into that organisations website.
With set up costs of only $50 the site went live in August 2005. Word of mouth soon spread and Tew decided to send out a press release when he made his first $1000 which the BBC picked up followed by technology site The Register. Within a month sales were over $250,000, and by New Year’s Eve 1,000,000 pixels had been sold.
From one simple idea looking at a tiny dot on a computer screen.
Scramble for Success.
Scrambling eggs was one on the first cooking skills we learnt in the past.
A simple task our parents taught us to help us start to make our own food. But, that simplicity seems to have disappeared.
On YouTube today over 17 million people have viewed a simple video on how to scramble eggs. Add to that nearly 6 million have watched a video on how to change a flat tyre on a car. And 3 million needed a video to be able to change a lightbulb.
Surrounded by every type of technology available, the modern mind is incapable of everything simple.
And that is where all the amazing opportunities exist in the world. We can’t do simple, so we seek out those who can or those that see the simple and turn it into something we need, want, or crave. And the simplest of all…is play.
When Joan Anderson went back to her native Australia in the late 1950’s she saw young children playing with wooden hoops made from left over barrels they spun round their waist. It reminded her of Hula girls from Hawaii and decided to make a version and called it the Hula Hoop. She thought it could be a perfect toy for kids everyone could afford. She took the idea back to the USA and used plastic instead of wood to keep costs low and for safety and to make them lightweight and easy to use.
The product flew off the shelves and in America alone it sold in excess of 25 million hoops in the first two months with sales of over $45 million. To this day they are still on sale and as of 2023 more than 21 million hoops were still being sold each year.
One massively lucrative product developed by one simple case of watching children play.
It’s all simple, and it’s all out there!
Simply Look.
The best ideas respond to our lives.
They match what we need, what makes our life less difficult, or support how we live. Try and find someone who would walk your dogs, look after your garden, clean your house, or do your ironing twenty years ago and you’d be hard pushed.
As life changes all manner of ideas for services and products spring up to match that change. It has always been this way. With life now fast changing at a pace even MORE ideas will be required as society evolves in this technological age.
With a growing reliance on technology we have taken our eye off simplicity even though we will never replace its presence in our lives. Which is why millions want to know how to scramble eggs or pump up a tyre or even how to find the trip switch after a power cut**.
If you keep your eyes open everywhere you go, in the end simple will leap out at you.
The glaring gaps that haven’t been filled by an idea or concept because we’re moving so fast no-one else has spotted it. It won’t happen overnight but slowly and surely, what’s missing will appear. What most people don’t have that you have worked out you can create or offer.
Spotted it in the size of a dot on a computer screen or children playing with makeshift plaything.
Make the shift yourself, look for simple and simple may bring you major success!
**1.4 million watched a video on YouTube to able to do this!
Or that new film that’s breaking records…or that hit record that’s breaking records?
You know the type; the book or product or quick fire hit that is on everyone’s lips. There is always something that the crowd are talking about, raving about, or excited about.
Why? Is it that good? Or perhaps the best ever?
No, probably not even close. It’s all been a flash fire ignited by hype. An overreactive response that has turned into a runaway train. A reaction that has picked up so much speed it’s hard to avoid it now.
What caused this suddent craziness?
The beauty and power of persuasion!
The False Fear Effect.
Almost everyone has heard of FOMO.
The modern day acronym that stands for Fear Of Missing Out. The social media coined term that says if you’re not out doing cool stuff or with cool people or in cool places, you’ll be a nobody. So don’t get FOMO, get busy.
But, of course it was all fake. It was just a clever persuasion trick to encourage users to be so active they will post more and improve the profile and reach of the social media platform.
Like all persuasion, it spread. You had to be ‘in’ with the latest and most hip or you are insignificant. Which in turn has led to the development of the Somebody Syndrome. All of which isn’t real in any way, shape, or form.
It’s pure persuasion at work.
We buy into the buzz, don’t want to be left out, want to show others we’re not a loser or left behind, and so we get involved too. It’s simple ancient tribal survival behaviour in modern form. Everyone is hunting and eating sabre tooth tigers, hell you betta too or you’ll be left out of the tribe and have to fend for yourself. A false fear appearing real.
Which is why you watch the show or buy the album ‘everyone’ is talking about. You want to ensure you’re not the outsider. It’s just now others might laugh at you, cut you out of conversations, or not invite you to nights out rather than exile you out into the valley among the Pterodactyls.
You are determined not to end up out in the cold on your own.
More ostracised than dinosaur sized these days.
Every day is persuasion day.
Persuasion is like air. It’s everywhere all the time.
The average person sees some 5,000 ads every day in various forms. Companies, marketers, promoters, shops and traders, well, almost anyone today online and offline subtly assault your senses daily to grab your attention.
Grab your attention so they can grab your business, your money, your data, your desire for more and so on. Once grabbed you can be persuaded in a myriad of ways to sign up, create a profile, refer a friend, tell others about your experience, or qualify for more special offers and deals.
The art of persuasion is alive and thriving as well as it ever has been. It’s big business and a veritable science these days with click funnels and ‘Buy Now’ buttons and tailor made personal opportunities or limited time reductions and bonuses.
And why does it work? Because, we are easily persuaded!
We are human so what hooks in our interest and emotion tends to get our curiosity and support. Most notably speeches work best. Take Winston Churchill’s nation rousing ‘We Will Fight Them on The Beaches‘ speech to the British public in 1940. Or Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have a Dream‘ rallying cry for civil rights in 1963.
When we are engaged, and emotive, and stirred, we can be, and always have been, persuaded.
History of Persuasion.
We have a history with persuasion.
As far back as 1864 glossy ads first appeared in Harpers Magazine though the first known advertisement was 18 years earlier in the Imperial Intelligencer. We have been mass persuaded every since.
Persuaded to look younger, have beautiful hair, feed our dog the finest food, book a holiday, see the supermarket bargains, and to buy cars, computers, and phones.
If I shouted ‘Whazzup’ or ‘Just Do It’ specific products and companies come to mind. I bet you know a few! That’s the art of persuasion. It hooks us in. Just ask used car salesmen in their heyday almost compelling you to spend thousands more on the latest model when you came only to look at a cheaper used one.
And it doesn’t just stop there – political campaigns, sexual allure, bosses getting workers to complete projects, securing charity donations, and helping other people, all succeed due to the power of persuasion.
Subtle or direct, sexy or inviting, persuasion is our human weak spot.
Unlock your power.
We all use it, we all try it.
Persuasion is an art we’ve all developed. You fancy an early night for some loving time with your partner. Bring on the fresh flowers, some sweet slow kisses, add a few treats like chocolates, and go for the burn with some romantic whispers in her ear. Your are in persuasion mode.
What do you do ladies to persuade your man to buy you something or take you out?
Girl or guy, who didn’t try to twist one of their parents round their little finger to get what they wanted as a kid?
Truth is, we all persuade, we are all persuaded.
It’s a given in life. The real key is by reading this you might see it at work and start to use its power as leverage for yourself. To deliberately employ its hypnotic charms to achieve bigger goals. Don’t waste it on the little stuff. Make it matter.
Use persuasion to begin stepping up. To win the promotion, get your break where you so want it, to get a deal on a new home or for your business. Persuasion is where potential becomes possibility becomes reality. Make it on your side from now on.
Are you persuaded now ?
Reference – Jumbla.com – The Psychology of Persuasive Ads.
Those awesome ideas for a product or business, book or song?
We tend to think that they appear only in the great minds of the talented and super smart, the genius brained few. And that means that they’re unlikely to ever come our way. Hey, our minds just do boring stuff like our job, household tasks, and trying to work out the plot of the big TV drama.
Well, stop right there. Because that big TV drama could be about to lead you to the idea that you have long waited for.
But, to take advantage of it, you have to keep switched on as one man famously did.
Banking on a surprise.
Everyone needs a break, even the most creative among us.
That’s what a songwriter was doing one night in 1970 when he turned on the TV after a long day of musical work. As he began to relax he started paying to attention to the ads popping up on the TV during a break from the film he was watching.
He then heard something that set lightbulbs flashing off in his mind.
A seemingly non-descript advert for Crocker-Citizens National Bank in California featured a young couple getting married and needing financial help to support their new journey together. As the couple appeared on screen the lines of a background tune was heard, ‘We’ve only just begun to live…’
The songwriter was transfixed. He loved it and immediately believed he could turn it into a successful song for his group. His group of himself and his sister. His sister Karen Carpenter and himself, Richard Carpenter.
Acquiring rights to rework the whole song The Carpenters released it as a single in August 1970. It shot to No.2 in the US Billboard Charts and won the Carpenters siblings a Grammy. All from a TV ad. But when a mind is ready and open, anything can spark the most amazing ideas.
After all, we’re there’s one, there could be another!
Say Hello to Ideas.
After one unusually inspired song, lightning couldn’t strike twice….could it?
Guess who was watching another TV film one night? Now, this was because he liked movies, not because he expected to hit gold again with an idea like the last one. That said, his mind was already ready and prepared for potential ideas.
It was 1971 and Richard Carpenter noticed a Bing Crosby movie was showing on TV called Rhythm on The River while visiting London. In the movie in which Crosby played a ghost songwriter for Basil Rathbone’s character, they constantly referred to a song he was trying to write called ‘Goodbye to Love’, though it was never heard on screen.
The title got right into Richard’s head and soon he was off forming a melody and opening lyrics. Working with lyricist John Bettis they turned those 3 words into a fully fledged love song.
Another blockbuster had been born.
It hit No.7 in the Billboard chart and remained in the top 10 for months. It even became the song that was recognised as the first ever so called ‘power ballad’ whose style countless artists would also copy and record in the decades ahead.
One man with a mind ready for ideas from anywhere that produced mega success.
Ideas are everywhere.
Have you ever had an idea for a trip or big night out?
Maybe it was something different or way out or even plain crazy.
You didn’t question yourself whether you were intelligent enough or a recognised smart thinker to think it up. You simply had the idea, saw it in your mind, and then went ahead and worked it.
That’s what ideas are. They are everywhere for everyone.
They are not ‘for some’, they are ‘for all’. Age, gender, background, education etc mean NOTHING. Once you can allow yourself to accept this, you can start noticing all the ideas that have been hitting your head for years. The ones you persuaded yourself were silly because they were for a new business or gap in the marker product.
Key of all is that your mind remains receptive. Like Richard Carpenter watching TV ads or an artist walking outside or a business guru who sits in coffee shops and watches the world. Receptive minds see opportunity and possibility where others see nothing. From how people walk to too long a queue in a shop, these minds can craft something successful from it.
And their greatest advantage – they HEAR what people really say, they actively pick up the need or want behind their words and conversations. They gather great info on what people are missing or requiring or need help with.
This is how ideas leap at youwhen you are prepared for them.
There is gold in every day people.
Gold is not a nugget in the ground.
Gold is found in the world around us if we slowed our minds down and began observing. I’ve always said that observing leads to obviously serving people what makes their life better.
Being less focused on the slow traffic snarl up you’re stuck in and more on the scene and people around you is the magic most people are missing. Your partner is running late and you are standing outside the shops presents a massive window on how others move and act if you keep looking. Forget your phone and social media, let your mind have an idea as it watches and inform you.
In short, when you take any situation and set your mind to look around, listen, and simply take in what’s in front of you for a while, you will become an ideas factory.
A kind of prospector of gold out in the world.
As those of us that have already started watching for the amazing ideas, there’s plenty to come because…
We’ve only just begun to live!
References – Wikipedia – We’ve Only Just Begun.
Parade.com – the 1972 Carpenter’s song owes roots to Bing Crosby movie
