Ordinary Human Advices

In all this high-flown study of aware will and the mechanisms used by Consciousness to create their world, it is healthy once in a while to come back to the ordinarily human. Are there guidelines for the simply human life worth holding on to through all the phases and turbulences to which any life is subject? The following are suggested as possible touchstones to incorporate into your architecture:

Communicate about your values. Talk about the use and benefit of:
• honesty,
• courage,
• belief in service
• faith in the universe
• hope for the future
• intentional enthusiasm
• love as a basis for strength in action with those you love, those you depend on, those you’re near to and those you trust.

Seek opportunity and use it. Initiative and resourcefulness follow in the wake of the desire to find and use opportunity to create new and better paths.

Seek positive information. Good news is there on every hand for he who is inclined to sort it out from the noise. So is bad news. Positive information is that information which supports positive action. Reach beyond your own sphere and intentionally help someone complete something incomplete or attain something difficult. The belief that nothing matters or can make a difference, the belief in overwhelming dangers when none are presently visible, and the apathetic sense of non-action are dangerous commodities in the markets of human exchange. Those who sell chaos, apathy, and indifference are the drug-[peddlers of the heart.

Drop negative information. Negative attitudes and negative, or threatening communication is for the most part best handled by dropping it right now, cutting the line and declining to invest it with any effort or response. This does not mean hiding from facts. The vast majority of information involves partial facts mixed with opinions or hidden intentions or evaluation biased toward one path or another. When the bias and the intention and the evaluation of information is oriented toward stopping, reducing, lessening, squashing, impoverishing or in any way de-energizing you, drop the phone right there.

Choose core beliefs based on your values. We surprisingly often reduce large areas of thought down to simple summary statements such as our favorite clichés and saws: When in doubt, communicate, or Thinking makes it so. These condensed policy statements for the world are often what we live by. Choose ones you like. Build decisions on the beliefs you have consciously chosen because of your values.

Build the future one day at a time. Do this step now. Rome, the Pyramids and the great fortunes of the world were built taking one step - this one - and actually doing it. If you cannot do it all, and it all must be done, do one thing fully now.

Seek to lead a good life. Simply intending to live a life based on greater values than simply cash-flow will make a difference. A life of comfort is not the same as a good life.

Knowing what you need to do, knowing who you are, you can begin the life-shaping task of deciding to lead a good life. A good life means a life lead by a good person, producing more good int he world than harm.

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