"The optimal state of inner experience is one in which there is order in consciousness. This happens when psychic energy or - or attention - is invested in realistic goals, and when skills match the opportunities for action. The pursuit of a goal brings order in awareness because a person must concentrate attention on the task at hand and momentarily forget everything else. These periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times of their
lives. A person who has achieved control over psychic energy and has invested it in consciously chosen goals can not help but grow into a more complex being. By stretching skills, reaching toward higher individual challenges, such a person becomes an increasingly extraordinary individual."
Yes!!!
This is excellent. A perfect expression of something I had been trying to put to words.
This is excerpted from "Flow" by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
Sunday, July 7, 2013
Saturday, July 6, 2013
Empowered
I really and truly feel like I'm a much Stronger, much Wiser version of myself when compared to how I was a month ago. Moreso than 3. Much more than 6. Unimaginably so from an entire year.
Even though I haven't understood everything right away, or there have been times that I've given up for a little bit, I ALWAYS got up again. And it has made the difference.
I see now how empowering Discipline is. How empowering it is, to not need Comfort. It feels like a lie, a trap, a sandpit. It's something that can be adapted to be "comfortable"without, and defeats and drags down so many people everyday.
But with a Change in Perspective, a Paradigm Shift, the sense of Security in your own Agency is a far greater comfort than anything else could ever be.
I see now how doing what you 'should' be doing, even when you really don't want to, makes a HUGE difference. Every. Single. Time.
Even if not in that instant, or in the next few days. Though I've often seen the difference very quickly.
Your Body remembers.
Your Mind remembers.
Your Identity remembers.
"Shoulds Become Musts" is an appropriate Mantra.
Right now, I feel like the entire world is in the palm of my hand.
I Will Have Every. Single. Thing. That I want out of this Life.
Even though I haven't understood everything right away, or there have been times that I've given up for a little bit, I ALWAYS got up again. And it has made the difference.
I see now how empowering Discipline is. How empowering it is, to not need Comfort. It feels like a lie, a trap, a sandpit. It's something that can be adapted to be "comfortable"without, and defeats and drags down so many people everyday.
But with a Change in Perspective, a Paradigm Shift, the sense of Security in your own Agency is a far greater comfort than anything else could ever be.
I see now how doing what you 'should' be doing, even when you really don't want to, makes a HUGE difference. Every. Single. Time.
Even if not in that instant, or in the next few days. Though I've often seen the difference very quickly.
Your Body remembers.
Your Mind remembers.
Your Identity remembers.
"Shoulds Become Musts" is an appropriate Mantra.
Right now, I feel like the entire world is in the palm of my hand.
I Will Have Every. Single. Thing. That I want out of this Life.
Thursday, July 4, 2013
Fractal Endeavors
For the longest time I was a horrible procrastinator because, if something was important, then I had to be prepared for it. I had to make sure I understood it in and out, and that the result was going to be what I thought the best result would be with the perspective I had. I would end up reading, researching, maybe getting distracted...and by the time I was satisfied I would often find that the situation had changed or I would decide that it wasn't nearly as important as I thought it was.
But after Exploring the Philosophies of all kinds of Life Coaches, after just Trying in all the different areas of my life that matter to me- even if I don't succeed... I find that's the best way to proceed.
The best way to get the best result, even if it isn't obvious and doesn't come right away, is to just Explore it.
As we Explore our world and every little Dimension in it, they gain depth and complexity in ways that you cannot impart to someone. Because it's Your Journey. Your life, your Experience.
Even when we truly Learn something from something outside of ourselves, it isn't because it put something inside of us that wasn't there before. It was because we followed it to a New Discovery.
But after Exploring the Philosophies of all kinds of Life Coaches, after just Trying in all the different areas of my life that matter to me- even if I don't succeed... I find that's the best way to proceed.
The best way to get the best result, even if it isn't obvious and doesn't come right away, is to just Explore it.
As we Explore our world and every little Dimension in it, they gain depth and complexity in ways that you cannot impart to someone. Because it's Your Journey. Your life, your Experience.
Even when we truly Learn something from something outside of ourselves, it isn't because it put something inside of us that wasn't there before. It was because we followed it to a New Discovery.
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Purpose
Have I just been messing around until now?
Has the hard work towards this or that and the benefits of it so far simply been at the end of Capricornian Whims, rather than a deeper vision? Hand-to-Mouth Endeavoring rather than building something of true, powerful substance?
As I confront serious questions about visions of my future, I can't help but wonder that.
If I could plan out every moment of every single day, doing whatever I want... I had an extremely foggy image of what that would be like. I know certain things that I want, certain things that I like, but even so...
This entire time I've been writing a High-Light Reel... rather than a complete Story.
Recent Experiences and this Revelation paint Intentionality as the Core of Discipline.
What I have had has been enough to get me this far down the path of Personal Development. With an increasingly Lucid vision, the compulsion for More should be far stronger than before.
Has the hard work towards this or that and the benefits of it so far simply been at the end of Capricornian Whims, rather than a deeper vision? Hand-to-Mouth Endeavoring rather than building something of true, powerful substance?
As I confront serious questions about visions of my future, I can't help but wonder that.
If I could plan out every moment of every single day, doing whatever I want... I had an extremely foggy image of what that would be like. I know certain things that I want, certain things that I like, but even so...
This entire time I've been writing a High-Light Reel... rather than a complete Story.
Recent Experiences and this Revelation paint Intentionality as the Core of Discipline.
What I have had has been enough to get me this far down the path of Personal Development. With an increasingly Lucid vision, the compulsion for More should be far stronger than before.
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