• Defining Unknown Variables

    edited by Alexander Becker

    Let's take a look at the unknown and find a way to not only make it known, but even more, make it our very own.

    As long as you don't know the content of a variable, you can safely assume the most favorable one to match your expectations. Sure, you can always assume the worst in order to have the eventual outcome exceed you expectations but what for?

    What's the point in calculating with minimum positives and maximum negatives other than smaller rewards? Of course, you also minimize frustration, but at the same time, you keep the potential gains in check as well. You can easily maximize your results by fixing the unknowns on the positive side.

    Think communication. As long as you cannot be sure about an answer, you can as well assert that it is positive. Pretend the outcome to be good and it will be at least -- better.

    You don't know the answer? Even less, the answer is likely to be negative but isn't yet expressed? It is your chutzpah to assume and define the most positive reply possible. Thank your correspondent for their understanding and their help and move on. Build on top of that extorted outcome and everything down the road will be tangible and legitimate in its consequences.

    In short, once you inquire, do not waste time waiting for a reply, instead, act as if the answer was already received -- positively.

    ... expecting more than others think is possible...

    Expecting more, ultimately leads to more. This is one of the attributes of excellence. The self-fulfilling prophesy is about stating outcomes and determining variables, thus paving the paths for least resistance. A preconceived outcome is easier to realize than any alternative simply because the alternatives aren't made up yet. The more detailed your assumed variable, the closer to manifestation it is; it's just the easiest way possible, laid out, predigested, and formulated.

    When comparing the definite with the indefinite, the definite prevails because it just is. It is closer to being. Shape your dream and make it as definite as you can, for realization is just that.

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  • The State of Flow and Becoming Addicted to Action

    edited by Alexander Becker

    There is much said about the state of flow. If you want to achieve genuine and non-esoteric flow, try action. Cascading action. Action which builds on top of preceding -- action. Action as in progress. Action as in creation as well as in evolution.

    Become addicted if you aren't already. More and more. Create. Evolve. Whatever it is but let it move and it keep it ever new. Progress. All the time. There shall be no single day without any -- even the smallest -- step towards the current and the next goal. Action.

    What did you do today to achieve immortality?

    As with publicity, almost any action, good or bad, is preferable to inaction and static being. Positive progress is obviously favorable -- though when in doubt, have it move in either direction, as long as it moves to begin with. If and since you work -- you do, don't you -- under the premise that each and every time you perform at the very best of your ability, that at that particular time, you can only excel and ask for more and more tasks to crunch.

    By following and cultivating this attitude it will be easier to do only one thing, that nobody will ever forget -- every day. Which, by the way, is just the minimal answer to the immortality question. What if you accomplish that one thing early in the morning, even before breakfast? Would you try and get done one more thing towards immortality? What about an entire series of things?

    Once you start a series of cascading actions, the addiction part is taking care of itself. This is flow. This is the point where it is commonly said that success is inevitable. It just doesn't work any other way because each event triggers -- almost domino-like -- the next and the following ones with the result becoming inevitable because of cause and effect.

    Please note that while some effects certainly do not require specific causes, and some causes produce no effects at all, it is equally certain that inaction -- unless no action is the desired cause -- is not going to cause any significant effect. In other words: No cause doesn't cause anything.

    One last thing: The use of the term addiction hints at some negative implications. While the focused, conscious obsession definitely helps with achieving your goal, the addiction has its downsides: Laser-like concentration tends to utilize other system's vital energy and you may destroy on one side as much as you are trying to build on the other side. Get rid of your addiction as soon as the negative issues outweigh the positive ones -- and yes, there are positive aspects with any addiction. Otherwise it wouldn't be such a problem in the first place. Remember that you're after the rewards.

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  • Just Do Something, Do Anything

    edited by Alexander Becker

    Once you participate in life, it really works.

    Each and every time you do something, you excel. Life stands still, at least for you, until you move. Initiate, trigger, force events that let you show that you can. Every time you move, you excel. It is the fear of doing, the fear of change that's holding you back. You freeze in order to not change anything. What are you trying to conserve? Evolve. Move. Do.

    Recall your last actions. Each and every time you were forced to act, things changed. Each and every thing that changed because of your acting and reacting changed for the better. Do you see a pattern here? You excel when you do.

    Your excellence is action. You are no perfect statue. You are imperfect. You do not lose your perfection when you eventually express yourself. Quite the opposite is true. You perfect yourself with every act you commit. You are action.

    Make things happen. Make things happen the easiest of ways: Participate in life. Do not avoid life, do not avoid progress and do not fear change. There is nothing to preserve. Trust your abilities, your faith in your virtues and skills is all you ever need. Those skills apply themselves, don't worry about that. You just need to provide the circumstances, at least, do not avoid the circumstances.

    Your inertia is fear. Your fear is preventing you from accomplishing, from changing anything. Even more complicated, fear of fear, you fear the fear of change. You resist yourself.

    Embrace the fear, embrace yourself, participate honestly and with vigor, participate in life, give all you have, all the time. You will be surprised by how many things will change in the shortest of time. Or did you expect that you too can assume the role of the observer and watch your creation fulfill itself?

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