Saturday Seven's: 20th May 2023
A compilation of my findings, interests, and actions from the past week that might be of interest to you. It allows me to share the results of my weekly routine, and you can follow too!
Hello you!
Here you will find my findings from this past week, things I’m thinking about, and discovering. If you enjoy it, feel free to forward this along to friends (they might enjoy it too!).
What I’ve listened to:
Music:
Between the bars - Elliott Smith
No name #3 - Elliott Smith
Miss Misery - Elliott Smith
Dark Matter - Seratones
What I’m excited about:
Playlist:
Excited would be a strong word today. Although, my father recently passed away, I made a playlist of songs and thought you might like it if you’re going through something similar.
Quotes I’ve liked:
“A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a shortcut to meet it.” - J.R.R. Tolkien
“Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.” - Robert Green Ingersoll
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ~Buckminster Fuller
“If you have to think about ‘afforability’, you can’t afford it because affordability carries conditions and consequences.” - MJ DeMarco
As an employee, “your value is dictated, diminished, and delimited.” “therefore the job becomes a delimiter on what’s important: Wealth, freedom, and self-growth.” - Mj DeMarco
“The rich use the markets for income and wealth preservation - not to create it!” - Mj DeMarco
This week’s curiosities, interests, and thoughts:
Thoughts:
“Nature abhors a vacuum” - Emptiness needs to be filled. If you are convinced you don’t know and can reside in that paradigm, and also believe that learning will ensure important benefits in the future, you’ll create great momentum.
Use the duality of your mind to propulse you. Rather than focussing on what you don’t want and giving free renting space to your enemies within your head, use that as neg fuel and focus double upon your tasks.
People smoke, drink and find any sense of pleasure in things that destroy them because they are trapped in a 5 for 2 slow-lane of 50 to 80 years and don’t see their lives getting any better. It’s the feeling of being trapped that puts people in that emotional state. And people generally think that their emotions aren’t under their control, so they strive to manage the emotion rather than the life they live.
Playing your own instrument gives you the freedom to walk to the beat of your own drum. When you have your own tune, you can lead the way, your own way.
To change your habits, start by finding a long form, easy activity to do. Do that, then replace with the habit you want once the habit is set. This is what schools do when they form children to work from 8 until 18h every weekday.
I notice that there is a secret that was never told, that “letting it all out” empties your mindset and exposes you to fill up with others value propositions albeit being less valuable. When we talk with someone, we give them what we know, and they do too. It’s an exchange, but not all exchanges are equal. Choose wisely.
Each action counts.
To succeed/fail at the goal, one has to succeed/fail in all other key areas that lead to the goal.
The way we feel is directly proportional and related to the people around us. They define what emotions are okay to feel. It is our tribal nature to want to follow what feels right, to abide by the limitations of what those who surround us find acceptable. Because not doing so used to mean being exposed to death. Today, doing what is acceptable to your tribe keeps you feeling good, so you do that. But what your tribe defines as good may not be good for you. You have to find people to surround you, who feel the same way about the things you feel for.
Be great at everything you do. Be great wit everyone you encounter, even if they don’t deserve it. It’s not about what they receive, it’s about your ability/process, capacity to give. Generosity comes from the word generate. So when we generate something an idea, a product, a service… we cultivate that generosity to give to others. If we don’t have the ability to be generous, we are not producers but consumers, which means we consume the people in front of us rather than share with them.
The best way to get over something is to go through it. To deal with grief after loss, I’d recommend fully embracing the emotions, fully going through the emotions, fully experiencing what you feel. Rather than running away, covering up, repressing, focusing on work as an escape. Triggering what you feel with adequate music, fully being with what comes up, allowing yourself to feel the good the bad and all the nuances.. Freedom comes not from escape, but from fully embracing what is here right now.
We get by giving. Therefore we must give to ourselves first. We can only give if our cup is overflowing.
Questions:
What is the difference between the old you, the present you, and the potential you?
What kind of future do I want to focus on?
How can I create a powerful distortion field to bring my vision into reality, while being oblivious to the reality and its challenges?
What do I dream of doing?
What do I most desire?
You can also give me your feedback on Twitter @check_goldberg. What did you like most about this week’s findings? What would you like more or less of in this newsletter? Any other suggestions? Please let me know. Just send a tweet to @check_goldberg and put #saturdaysevens at the end so I can find it.
Also, if you find any of my ideas interesting make sure to check them out in
‘The creators guide to the galaxy’, and ‘Addiction’ on amazon!
Have a wonderful weekend!
Much love to you and yours,
Cherokee