How do you define success? What does it mean to be successful?

Success Is

Making the greatest use of your potential in a positive way,
to the benefit of humanity

                          /

Being in Allignment with your purpose

Pity Attractive Girls

Meaningful relationships being compromised,
Constantly Assaulted
Constantly Harassed

3 Steps To Success

1.  Do It.

-If you complete this step you are ahead of the vast majority of humanity, including almost all of the people that make noise when you don't...(Step 2)


2.  a.  Do It Well.
     b.  Improve.

-This is vastly easier than step 1., but usually not "easy"; and here's the catch:  This step is never finished.
Finally the step that many miss...


3.  Help others reach step 1 and 2.  

-One word - Mentor*.  This is not about altruism, this is about success.  To help bring forth success in others; to have your success, your realized potential, rebirthed in others-  This is the keystone to true success.


*To mentor is different from supporting financially

Interpretation (present) vs Final Knowledge (end)

Terms I use, and what they mean in this post:

Knowledge:  Our accepted conclusions about the world.

Understanding:  Our absorption of knowledge- making it part of ourselves.

Interpretation:  How we label the world given what we experience.

Specific (S):  Micro- concerning an individual, building-block type of thing

General (G):  Macro- concerning the mass of things, concerning the building (vs the
                                                                                                                   building block)



        Our road of the growing (Knowledge -> Understanding -> Interpretation -> Knowledge -> etc) of our existence is something natural and necessary.  It is a path we must go down.  It can not be "rushed".  We will know what we know when we know it, and we proceed from that point.

          If we as a civilization were given the final truths of our universe, at the worse we would go mad (as a civilization), at the very least it would sabotage our development.

So what is important?

    That we continue to strive for the best Interpretation of the nature of our existence, given our Knowledge.


         It's a path.  What we shouldn't do is tarry from Interpretation because of a thought that we don't have "the most accurate truth".  We should keep striving forward with continual Interpretation, building Knowledge, and building Understanding.

We need a fair amount of acceptance of where we are, per Knowledge and Specific Understanding, and to move to General Interpretation.

Interpretation is Key.

Our current Knowledge and Specific Understanding base should be seen as a place.  From this place we should quest for the best Interpretation(s).

Hyper Interpretation messes up (i.e., corrupts and destroys) Understanding.

Hypo Interpretation hinders the progress of understanding, and even the quest for knowledge.

What is important is not what the end solution is, but our Interpretation* from where we are right now, given our Specific Understanding and Knowledge.

*of our given situation

Potential of Humanity

The wonderful potential of this world lies in that though we may disagree strongly over .5% of things, we agree on 99.5% of things

Excerpt from David Copperfield - by Charles Dickens

...I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.

Opinions vs. Facts

Opinions are personal reality
Facts are universal reality
The difference is the personal realities fluctuate
from person to person,
And from time to time.
Facts are constant
Personal realities are part of universal realities

(addition:  Beliefs are opinions that rarely fluctuate)

Criminals

Criminals have the hardest path
Because they have broken the invisible barrier
They can now move much more easily to the side of crime
So their act of NOT committing crimes, and their act to be constructive members of society
Is great indeed

It is a great choice and act, that should be appreciated and lauded by society
 

-This is an exciting area, because it shows what humanity is capable of.

Community Binds,
Yet Community also Strengthens

Can we have a community that encourages us to grow, to progress, to do what is hard?

AT&T IPHONE internet video Ad

The one that is currently up involving a husband being reminded that his marriage anniversary is "today".

The acting of the actor playing the husband is so Good!  Great acting!

See it at:  http://www.last.fm/listen/
before the music content starts playing.

I want to shout it from the Rooftops! 

I couldn't find a good place to give feedback, so I'm putting it on this blog.

The Following Posts are Poems I Made in High School

What fun sharing!

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Because time is a lifeless boundary
A deep endless chasm
We are constantly falling
So please gift me one day of devoted suspension

I promise you
Come tomorrow
I will sadly turn aside
And let gravity take its rightful place

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Can't you see,
We are
All
Falling from the clouds
without looking around
Ignorant to those below us
Envious of those above us

Reaching,
then holding others to ourselves
Growing with love
Numbed by comfort
Never ending
We fall

Hitting the ground
Everything we are shatters

No - love scatters
 and carries on

Love

ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch

Listening with Sight - Finding myself

Tonight I talked to the water.
As I flew by
I reached out with my foot,
and listened to it's calling.

"Everything has a voice" were it's words

"As you move through life,
As future is found disappearing
reappearing as past
Reach out your foot,
and listen
Hold out your hand,
and hear
Open you heart,
and feel the voices..."

At that point I fully understood the water
It became me
I became it
Love on Love

And as I rode home
The rain whispered on my shoulder.



*the voices are constantly calling

This is regarding being in love with someone who doesn't love you back

The sword is being thrust into my heart,
And yet... at the same time
My hands clutch the blade,
  and pull it closer

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You solid surreal sparkle
you must be connected to something
Something to make you rational, explanable
I search, examine, disect
Until a reason is found; your existence made reasonable
And your beauty lost.

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The sweet, sweet feeling of
rhythm flowing through my body.
Love, happiness, ecstasy filling my
mind, enveloping my soul.
Now is the time to dance.
Now is the time to groove.

Compassion

I saw a frog tonight.  It was laying on the road, it wasn't dead. 

When misty (family dog) sniffed at it, the frog pushed one leg and moved sideways, it wasn't dead. 

When I looked closer a vein-like thing was coming out from underneath it and its intestines were coming out of its mouth. 

It wasn't dead, it doesn't have a voice, and it soon won't have a life.  No one cares.

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Cry a tear for my death
Then wipe your eyes
And sing, scream, dance
         love, live.

Escaping Times

Time passes by so fast
I could cup my hands and
try to keep it from leaving
but it would just slip between my fingers
Maybe if you held your hands under mine
We could slow it down together

Love

Seeing so clear
 and free

Crying

An explosion goes off in your soul
And your tears are its blood

Hate

Swelling at your heart
Just waiting to explode

Rush

Swelling at your heart
Then spreading to your mind
You just have to smile

Spirits

A soul searching - Flowing
     Finding - Free
     Loosing - bitter
Then searching again

The Wind of Life

The days back then
Childhood memories
Our Glorious memories
Golden, so sweet
Yet unreachable
Lost in the past

The bond so tight
Who'd think it would break
  It doesn't break
  But they still drift

Two leaves on a branch
The wind blows them away

What of the bond?
What of the wind?

Who wouldn't give to live it again.