Definitions

How do you define you?

I am in the process of killing off my ego - and with it the only "me" I have known up until this point. The definition should inspire me more than "a boytjie from the Cape Flats" who used to be a "30 year old General Manager for one of the Big 4 banks in SA" who makes good money for his age and is married to a beautiful woman with 2 beautiful kids.

The last 2 (wife & kids) inspire me to be better everyday - they provoke it.

It is scary not to know - but it's fun too - cause now I get one that's new and shiny and I can't wait to play with it.......

Hi, my name is Rudi Visser. I am a flow of energy. I am a point of light.

Stop, Drop and Roll

Stop making excuses for why you can't - stop being burdened by unforgiving attitudes, worry and judgemental self flagellation. These don't help - they harm.

So like a fire drill - stop, drop and roll.

Stop the defeating thoughts, drop the baggage holding you down and roll on forward towards a new day.

Sow What

Measure me everyday by what I sow - not by what I harvest

A Life Worth Living

How many of us feel we have a life worth living?

Are you purposefully creating one? If not you are creating the opposite - inadvertently. Whatever we actively do or don't do createse.

It reminds me of the guy who auctioned his life on e-Bay. Yep, he put it out there to see what it was "worth" to other people. See alife4sale.com. He sold his. And then said"Now what?" And started 100Goals100Weeks.com. He is on his journey to achieve the life he wants. See his goals, the detail of what he wants and his plan for achievement. Inspiring!

We have all the tools to do the same without having to chuck it all - or sell the wife and kids on eBay (the kids will probably have to carry a no refund policy ;-)).

Check out the site - use his tools and follow his progress.

His approach, extreme? Yes. Possible. Without a doubt.

Any way you look at it - for him - it is the life worth living.

Is yours worth something to YOU?

If not - design your life worth living - and then a plan for its achievement.

It's the only way - cause you're worth it.

Re-Program

We are perfect systems for achieving the results we get.

If the results you are getting aren't the results you want - you need to change your system.

To get what you've never got you gotta do what you've never done.

Re-program your system to achieve the results you want.

The System of Now

Have you ever really experienced the abundance of NOW?

It is the one time we have total control. It is the way THE SYSTEM was designed - for us each to use NOW to use our free will and use our unique views on reality to create new realities.

What happens when we don't? We, by abdication, align ourselves to someone elses view - because it is easier. But we then create a homogenous world view - which isn't how THE SYSTEM is meant to work.

THE SYSTEM is built for diversity and robustness of difference.

If we don't exercise our right to choose - we pervert THE SYSTEM.

Choose - NOW.

 

Holiday Time

Feeling lost

Feeling tired

What do you do when you're feeling that way? Do you do it in time?

As we wind down the end of the year I think that one of the best things to change for next year is to have holidays more often - little breakaways.

Holidays "break the monotony of all that hard core days that have gotten to be a little bit out of control" (DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince - Summer Time). 

Their purpose is to rejuvenate and refresh, and we choose which holidays do the refreshing and rejuvenating.

So why do we wait until "holiday time"? Why wait for someone else to say its ok to have a holiday? 

An idea: take small breaks - a couple of times during the week/month. Find an activity that does the work of rejuvenation or refreshment. I have found that getting my hair cut at a salon (when I used to do it myself before) is a great rejuvenator. I get taken care of after spending my time taking care of others. 

That's mine - what's yours? And when last did you do it?

The Way of the Warrior

It is said that a warrior sees every thing that happens as a challenge - where an ordinary person see everything as either a blessing or a curse.

Do you follow the way of the warrior? Or are you a soldier in the trenches.

The difference between a soldier and a warrior is that a soldier is in defensive, reactive mode - and carries out orders. A warrior looks for adversity - for a challenge that needs conquering. A warrior does not wait to be told what to do. A warrior is constantly honing his/her skill in battle/adversity. He doesn't want his skills to be rusty when it is needed.

A warrior lives life by his rules - he creates the challenges that creates growth. A soldier is only deployed when instructed to do so - so he follows someone else's orders.

Be a warrior of the light. Fight the good fight - warriors don't always win every battle - but they come out of every battle a little stronger.

  

Blurred Vision

Some times smoke gets in your eyes - and sometimes it's your own smoke.

There will be times when you get way laid and you make mistakes. 

Make them AND then learn from them and move on quickly. Don't wallow - it's not attractive.

I have been learning over the last few months many things about me as an entrepreneur. How I still get scared about a new prospect I need to call - how I still make mistakes because the fear causes me to procrastinate or rush through the call. BUT now that I know and I am aware of where  the smoke comes from - I can avoid it.

The resistance you feel when trying something new is just the shadow of the thing you want to create - so what you want to create is real - it must be, it has a shadow. And we don't doubt that the resistance we feel is real - we even have names for it - Mom, Dad, Education, where I'm from etc. Those were real?

Nick Williams teaches that the resistance we feel has a place in our development. The understanding of the resistance by recognising it for what it is - the status quo on full alert - helps us overcome the resistance and claim and create a new status quo (that hopefully some time later we will come back and destroy when required).

It's temporary and lighter than it seems - an act of will will put you on the other side of the smoke screen.

Come on over - you can breath freely on the other side of the smoke.

Auto Pilot

Are you on auto pilot?

Do you do everyday as you did the day before and remember little, if anything, of what actually transpired? Now I don't mean this as a alien abduction or consipracy type approach that proports that we are brainwashed by media (that is a topic for a different post...) - but rather that our activities become so driven by unseen or unchecked motives that we continue on this path we forgot we chose at one stage in our lives.

Here is an experiment - when was the last time you were fully aware of taking a shower or a bath. I mean FULLY aware. Every stroke of your cloth on every inch of your body. Check every inch - in between your fingers and toes and that patch behind your ears that you haven"t thought about since your Mom reminded you to wash there. Try it - and you will realise why washing was such a sacred act in ancient times. It has a calming quality that has very little to do with aromatherapy.

Now think about how many other seemingly insignificant acts to you fulfill during your day - cooking a meal, taking out the dirt or a passing comment to one of your kids or colleagues or staff members - be aware of the act itself - only the doing. What are you thinking about the doing - are you thinking about the doing at all? Become an observer - see what you do and why. Do you know? Why that way?

Now think about what that creates and think about whether or not the actual result is equal to the desired one. This is where we can effect change - and this change relates to many things - the way we and and what we eat. The way we speak and what we say. The way we feel and how we make others feel. Doing relates to intent (why), content (what) and delivery (how).

We go through our day with many actions and reactions unchecked - and this is the space where we create our reality.

Today - take the wheel for a bit - and experience the sheer driving pleasure of your own life.

Highs and Lows

Life is a process - so there are inputs then a transformation and then the outputs - a managed movement.

It is a cycle too - so highs and lows are expected. The trick is to look through the cycle and not take snapshots of a point in time on the cycle and see it as the whole.

Lows are part of the process - and part of managing the movement or process is how you shorten the low cycle but create enough impetus to reach higher highs. The more you do this the more effective your process becomes.

Take a bigger picture approach - your success is a long term investment - so take a long term view!

Who told you to do that?

People who wait to be told what to do - end up doing what they are told.....

Do you do as you're told? Do you resent doing what you're told?

One way to avoid it - make sure you have a full diary - full of things YOU told yourself to do - and then you won't have time to do what others tell you to do.

Bottom line is this: if you don't set your own agenda - you will find yourself at the mercy of someone else's.

Start Something

The journey of a thousand miles can only start once you've gotten out of bed!

Get up! Get moving! Do something!

If you look back at your last week - and not one action performed in the last week relates to any of your visions,dream or goals then how do you expect them to come to you? The Law of Attraction only works if you activate it through the Law of Action or else the Law of Diminishing Intent kicks in - the longer you delay acting on a intention the more the ability of that intention to drive you diminishes.

So - close the gap between knowing what to do and doing it - enthusiastically act when you are inspired.

Be a miracle worker - cure self paralysis today by doing something in line with a goal.

If you don't have a goal - getting anything done will be a miracle! 

The Daily Grind

Why do we see everyday as work?

Everything we need to do is work.....what do we consider life - doing nothing? Is that really life?

Einstein said that if you wake up every morning and spend your days doing what you love - you never have to work a day in your life. 

But even love takes work.

Think about it - can you drive your economic engine from doing what you love only? Doesn't the limitation to making a living out of doing what you love come from fast forwarding to the fantasy of the end goal but never looking at what the daily routine must be to make that end goal a reality?

Do a simple exercise in critical questioning:

- How much do I want to make on a monthly, annual basis?

- How can what I love doing make me that amount?

- What do I need to do to make that a reality?

- What would my day have to look like? 

- What type of daily activities would I have to be involved in to make it?

- Would I be able to withstand hardship, criticism and ridicule to get to this aim?

Once you have that clearly defined then ask yourself - "If I did all this - would I still love what I am doing?"

If the answer is yes - then go for it! 

Cause that's TRUE LOVE.

Remember - LOVE is a doing word first - then a feeling one.

 

The Game of Life

The simplest plays are the hardest.

The easiest losses come from the simplest mistakes.

And the greatest wins come from executing the fundamentals consistently.

The greatest discipline in life is living a disciplined life.

Genius is finding simplicity on the other side of complexity

So what am I saying? 

The toughest part of the game of life is living simply everyday in a disciplined manner.

It also happens to be the only winning game plan.

Welcome to The Universe Inside

It has been said by many an author and mentor and coach and role model that all you need to be successful is to control thyself. Simple? Yes. Easy? No.

All popular teaching leads or points to leading from the inside out. 

This is part of the purpose of this blog. 

I am on an eternal journey to the center of the universe - The Universe Inside.

I want to share my journey, my traveling notes and to hear from fellow journeymen (and women ;-0) as we explore the place only we know.

Please join me and add your thoughts to my thoughts and hopefully what we will end up with is a comprehensive field guide to the Universe Inside.

I will discuss things like personal leadership, visioning, success, drive, innovation, action and discipline.