Einstein reportedly said the most important decision anyone makes is how they choose to ask the question: “Is this a friendly or hostile universe?”
Henry Ford seemed to agree when he said, “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.”
Is it absurd for me to think what I think actually changes my world? Guess again. In my day-to-day, minute-to-minute life, nothing can change until I make a new choice that given time will alter my world. This can happen only through practice and patience but – it changes everything!
In other words, there’s a counter-intuitive great secret that’s hidden in plain sight – our senses deceive us. Wait, there’s more.
George Bernard Shaw said, “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
In Garth Brooks’ song, The Change, the lyrics ask what is the value in reaching out to save someone, if you can’t save everyone? You can’t change the world. Accept it! Quit trying. What good have you done? Then the answer rings out: “But it’s not the world that I am changing. I do this so this world will know that it will not change me.”
That was Margaret Meade’s message when saying, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed it’s the only thing that ever has.” Thoughtful and committed. Isn’t that another way of saying unreasonable and/or I’m telling the world it won’t change me!?
Both, my book, Living Full Tilt, Celebrate Life and Weekly Muse, this weekly blog, are deep dives into learning how to make the choices necessary. I reveal my experiences here, and here. What I discovered and experienced in changing my life by changing my choices.
Plus, the encouragement I receive as I disclose here, here and here and here.
Here, here and here I divulge the analogies I created to synergize and channel my frustration as I struggled with practicing repeatedly, not giving up. Through all this, I developed a deep appreciation for Galileo’s encouragement, “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” Grasping and leveraging their synergism is indeed the difficult part.
In closing, are you ready to learn how making choices empowers, like experiencing Rumi’s Great Secret? I’m not asking you to believe me. I strongly recommend you do what I did. Doubt everything. Test it. Let it prove itself to your satisfaction. Doubt Rumi’s Great Secret and doubt
Descartes. Live out loud. Celebrate life by living full tilt!
Until Next time,
Joe