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So here we have the father of the balloon boy, the hoax perpetrated on the world on October 15th, crying in court and saying how sorry he and his wife were for all the trouble they caused.
Um, okay, why exactly are they sorry? If this had turned into a reality show deal for them would they be sorry? If their son, the one who was allegedly in the balloon, hadn't spilled the beans on national TV would they have been sorry? Doubtful.
Mayumi and Richard Heene aren't really sorry for anything, other than getting caught. What I mean by that is that you can tell they aren't in their flow, their true purpose in life. They are frantically searching to become a success but are neglecting what makes them a success - themselves. At the very least they should have realized that this hoax was going to be discovered one way or another, and involving their children was plain wrong.
Their actions were determined by flow blockages, which most likely including greed, the desire for fame, and a true impediment to their common sense. By following these distorted goals they were doomed to failure, one way or another.
Maybe this will be a wake up call to live their lives with real purpose rather than what others (and the media) are telling them is their purpose. Yes, they got the international fame they were craving, but hardly the way they had hoped.
According to the latest research college degrees cost more than ever and the return on investment is less than ever. The reason has to do with an oversupply of graduates, meaning even in a good economy companies will have a lot of candidates to choose from.
Is this bad news? Well, on the surface yes. Today's grads have more debt and less opportunities than in the past, yet the financial future for high school grads is even gloomier.
Where's the good news? As usual, it comes down to purpose, finding your flow. When you know what you're about - what gets you really excited about work, about life - you're always on the right track. This doesn't mean you're going to get the exact job you expect or that even the job will have anything to do with your major, but it does mean you are 100% in alignment with where you are supposed to be. You will have the energy and enthusiasm to KNOW you're on the right course, even if it seems like you're heading into a swamp, lol.
Your flow is like a river, and you don't necessarily know what's around the next bend.
Given that, let's take the worst case scenario. Would you rather work at a low paying job worried about debt, your future, what your friends/family will say, and feeling like a failure? Or would you rather work at a low paying job KNOWing it was temporary, that all your financial needs will ultimately be met, and that you are on the right course?
Same job, different outlooks. Only with flow does it work, even if it doesn't appear like it.
I've been watching "The Office" of late, mainly because I'm able to tape it and avoid the zillions of commercials.
If you don't know, The Office is a British show reworked for America. The entire premise is that this average office in an average town (Scranton, Pennsylvania) with average people is being filmed by a documentary crew. I say, "average" as that is how the shows presents it (there is really no such thing as average, especially when talking about people).
The reason I bring this show up is that it is obvious virtually everyone working in the office is just there for a paycheck. They put up with a lot of humiliating and otherwise degrading antics, some of them self imposed.
So why don't they leave? They never do. This has to do with blockages to one's own purpose. If these people truly knew their own purpose, what makes them their most successful they would never work at this place.
I've known a lot of people like this in "real life". They stay at the same job they hate, often for years. They claim they can't find another job, but the reality is they have said this in virtually every economy, even the go-go days of the dot com boom.
The job ends up being a blockage in itself, one that is literally in their face five days a week (or more). And this thwarts their purpose even further. You can't be in a job you hate, one that takes up significant amounts of your time, without it affecting the other parts of your life.
So rather than feel sorry for the employees of Dunder Mifflin (the company in The Office) is just ask, "why?"
It sounds funny to talk about a cartoon in relation to purpose, but ‘Peanuts’ presents classic examples purpose and blockages. You know Charlie Brown, the character who is always a ‘loser’ one way or another. Charlie Brown would get angry when he had to open a metal can of dog food for Snoopy and then cut himself. He would be suckered in by Lucy’s wiles when she promised not to pull the football away, and of course she would ever time. The examples go on and on.
These are examples of flow blockages, things that block true purpose. Yes Snoopy has to be fed, but it should not involve ‘suffering’ on Charlie Brown’s part. And the Law of Negative Attraction is in full force whenever he confronts Lucy, even as a ‘trusted’ therapist.
But there are other times when Charlie Brown actually follows his real purpose. The Christmas tree he buys is a 100% flow ‘decision’, and in the end he is proven right. Same with Thanksgiving, where he tries to accommodate the blockages of other people’s flow by serving dinner for his friends even though he is leaving.
But you say, it’s a cartoon so how does that apply to me? Well, everyday you are confronted with similar situations – a friend or coworker who takes advantage of you one way or another. A routine that is unpleasant from beginning to end. And so forth. By following your flow you can eliminate/change these situations for the better, and you will be more successful than ever.
Glenn Beck, a very conservative talk show host on Fox News, has seen his ratings skyrocket since he started attacking the Obama Administration and the “people behind the scenes”. According to Beck our government is now being run by radicals (read: communists), especially Van Jones, founder of Color of Change. Many businesses have boycotted the program since he started his attacked.
Now whether Van Jones or others like him influential in the Obama administration are “radicals” or not is beside the point. The REAL point is the hilarity of Glenn Beck saying communism is a bad thing.
Why? Just look at the facts. General Motors just SOLD Hummer, that all-American brand to a company majority owned by the Communist Chinese government. That means every Hummer owner and dealer is supporting Communism with each mile driven. Speaking of GM, the ONLY reason the Buick division was not eliminated (like Pontiac) or sold was because Buick is one of the best selling brands in, you guessed it, Communist China. In fact, Buick’s Communist sales are greater than those in America.
More to the point. How do you think President Bush both financed his war on Iraq and was able to offer Americans stimulus checks? By taking out loans (by offering government bonds and such) from foreign governments. Who is one of the largest debtors we, red blooded Americans, owe money to in order to pay for the past eight years? Communist China. America owes Communist China $400 billion+ dollars to date, and the interest on that ain’t cheap.
So when Glenn Beck and other conservative mouthpieces start saying Communists are everywhere, I suggest they start looking in their own backyard. After all, it seems highly hypocritical to start accusing everyone you hate of being a Communist when, at the same time, you’re 100% dependent on real live Communists.
And if you want to put this in a "patriotic" perspective, I am really appalled that a large part of my taxes are going directly to Communist China to make those interest payments!
I find the healthcare debate to be quite funny. While the “opponents” are afraid of losing their current benefits, the discussion has now delved into cost. I put opponents in quotes since at every town hall meeting, regardless of location, the protesters are chanting the same EXACT phrases in the same exact order — that means it’s being cleverly choreographed by a single, national source (read: Republicans/conservatives). What real people actually believe about the debate will have to be determined by other means, outside of town halls with rigged protests and highly inaccurate polls.
The point of this blog post is about cost. When you understand your flow, your true inner purpose, you see things as they really are, from a more objective standpoint. Like the healthcare debate.
Notice how when America went to war with Iraq there was never any debate about cost. All you heard about was revenge, stopping WMD’s, and how America had to save the world. Neither side, for OR against the war, raised the enormous cost as a factor in the decision. The reality is the war in Iraq and Afghanistan alone is estimated to cost $3 TRILLION by 2017. That figures excludes military operations elsewhere.
Roughly 42% of your federal taxes go to support the military. This includes ALL military spending, including such things as retiree benefits and interest payments on debt owed to other countries (like communist China!) to fund operations. The Iraq war and others are literally funded on credit. If you just include immediate operations for any given fiscal year then the figure is more like 21%. This is roughly on par with expenditures on Social Security and Medicare.
Yet to hear the healthcare debate you would think nationalized healthcare is the only thing (outside of all the corporate bailouts) that tax dollars are spent on. Also notice how many of those protesters are elderly and are directly benefiting from both Social Security and Medicare, neither of which is mentioned as “costing money” in the healthcare debate.
I’m stating all this to show you how “purpose” is yet again determined by society. In America, military expenditures, Social Security, and Medicare (representing 60% of your tax dollars) are highly prized, sacred cows. Therefore it is a given that money should be spent there. You are seen as “not fitting in” if you don’t support this. Yet each country has different priorities for their taxes. In France, as one example, 55% of taxes are spent on culture.
Bottom line: It’s not that programs are necessarily expensive or not, but what the “purpose” of America is to be.
There is all this pressure on you to be successful. Of course, everyone has a different idea of what that is. It used to involve accumulating lots and lots of material things: cars, houses, bling, clothes, eating at nice restaurants, etc. Then suddenly the financial crisis hit and being successful suddenly meant cutting back on everything, eating at home all time, keeping your car forever, and so on. You are now supposed to “suffer” in order to be successful. Thank God you have a job. Thank God you have a place to live. Thank God . . . .
But what is success really? The truth is your real success, your purpose, comes from things that are natural and seamless to you. That means not going overboard when you don’t have to (like buying a gas guzzling eight-passenger SUV when it’s just you and your significant other) and it also means not cutting back to where you hate your life. The latter is why diets fail. People cut back so much they hate every day on the diet. Then when the diet is over they go back to their old ways with a vengeance — and gain even more weight.
The point is to live your life the way YOUR insides, your purpose, want you to live it. That means ignoring what friends, family and society say if it does NOT fit with your way of living. For example, I had a friend that drove a 20-year-old car yet bought $2,000 road bikes as he was an avid bicycle rider. People said he was crazy for not owning a better car and “blowing” money on bikes. He knew his passion, his purpose, however, and it was biking. By allowing this “extravagance” he was able to feel complete and fulfilled, and this carried over into the rest of his life including his career.
You’re going to be hearing A LOT about nationalized healthcare in the coming weeks. Congress is in recess for the summer, but what many members are doing is drumming up support for their cause, both pro and con. This is a great time to look at the concepts of flow and purpose. You see, rather than look at facts or “real life scenarios, both sides are going to present stories and what-ifs designed to scare people into voting one way or another.
The facts are pretty grim as they stand. 50 million Americans are without health insurance. Inability to pay medical bills is the #1 cause for bankruptcy by far, and is also the #1 cause of credit card defaults (people resort to their credit cards to pay bills). And for all the money spent on healthcare per capita (the most of any nation on earth), the quality of care received comes dead last behind every western nation. In fact, study after study has shown that 50% of any given operation in America has a chance for success. So Americans are paying more and getting less. The reasons for this are numerous, from doctors afraid of lawsuits forced to run endless unnecessary tests to an unwieldy bureaucracy.
So watch the debate and keep track of all the scaremongering and outrageous claims made by both sides. And also realize that if people truly knew their own purpose this issue could be resolved a lot faster.
Here is just one article on the topic:
http://finance.yahoo.com/insurance/article/107498/health-care-six-money-wasting-problems.html?mod=insurance-health
Why do you need a purpose in life, to know why you are here?
There is all this pressure to figure out what your purpose is in life, how you fit in with this world. If you don’t fit in, well, then you’ve got a real problem! This results in endless stress, confusion, and oftentimes a sense of failure. Which is not how your life is supposed to be!
This is why understanding yourself is so important. When you understand what you are really about you end up disregarding all these demands for you to define your purpose, to know what you are about. Yet you ultimately find your real purpose and become a success!
How is that possible? When people insist you find your purpose it is really within the confines of the society and culture they live in. You might not have thought of it that way but it’s true. Hollywood loves this, as everything from Star Wars to Brokeback Mountain has this concept at the core — the struggle between following one’s own purpose instead of what society dictates. You can see how the characters that follow their own inner purpose are happier and more successful in life, unless the outside world intervenes. Luke Skywalker knew he wasn’t cut out to stay a farmer the rest of his life. And the two cowboys in Brokeback Mountain were obviously only happy when they were with each other, not their wives.
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