The Mountain Within: Blooming Through Clarity
Reaching levels of greatness is a task everyone can reach. A person I ran into over the weekend asked me what I do. After giving him a short rundown of my schedule he said, “I took you for a successful businessman…” To which I replied, “I think I am successful in what I do.”
In my eyes it truly doesn’t matter what field you choose, success is measured by the happiness and calm it brings, not by the artificial reward of money and assets. The same drive that leads a person selling a product to become successful is what a student can feel as he acquires knowledge from his teacher. The goal is in sight and as we inch closer to it we feel more and more accomplished.
It turns out, we are all the same with different goals. “What are my goals?” should be what we ask ourselves each time we seek to refocus on life. If we have goals, that’s great, but let’s talk a bit about creating some, for those finding it hard.
The brain and the heart are like a computer with a wifi modem. The computer can function with the preprogrammed conclusions. For example, if it has a thesaurus of multiple languages installed into it, it will be able to autocorrect these words, from memory. But if it doesn’t it would require an external source to explain it. In order to understand something for real, we need to envision it as well. Some people envision best with physical, three dimensional examples. Some, with drawings of two dimensions, and some have the words create the equation in their minds in a place of 1D.
It truly depends on the openness to the network. If we are slightly connected, we’ll only get concepts of an idea, but we’ll only be completely clear when we see it in an actual physical format. When the connection is stronger, the concepts form clearer pictures in the mind. They draw parallels from similar objects and form our new idea based on previously stored knowledge, 2D. For example, one could understand the nuances of managing an office environment by comparing it to how one must run a household. I know that with my family I have to manage the happiness of the people, the finances and the spirituality. All that’s left for me to do is draw a straight line from there to here, and voilà, make sure my employees are satisfied, keep the cash flow going, and sell products!
But as the connection gets even stronger the images come to life in our minds. We learn directly from the source and the entire picture becomes clear in a single dimension. There is no need for external sources, neither for comparisons, all that is needed is to be completely in tune with what we want to understand. When we learn how to focus we can create brand new thoughts that will be embedded into the memory of the mind. Such that we can apply those conclusions even when we don’t have a connection, like the preloaded thesaurus.
It is when we are connected to the source that all that we learn is clear from the moment the lightbulb goes off in our minds. We can see the future clearly, and our plans become invincible. Things that are so simple and don’t need to be explained are considered ‘common sense.’ So when it is clear to us that we have to implement a new behavior, not because we saw somebody else acting this way or we heard a story of someone behaving in this manner, rather, we understood it instinctively, it embeds itself deeply into our preloaded way of life.
This is how one should go about creating goals. People shouldn’t think that because someone’s business is successful, they must now copy them. Or to compare themselves to the happiness of another, and make someone else’s goal their own. One should focus inward until it is understood as a ‘duh.’ How does that happen?
There was once a very poor man who hadn’t eaten in days. He dragged himself with his last Oz. of strength to the door of a house to ask for food. When the family noticed someone lying on their doorstep they checked to see if he’s alive or not. As they bent down they heard a whisper, quietly mumbling, “Hungry.” There was no “I am hungry,” since there was no I in the equation. His complete focus was on the goal he had, that using energy speaking about himself would harm his chances.
We come to our goals thinking about ourselves way too much. We waste our energy trying to talk about the ‘I am’ part, instead of talking about the ‘hungry’ part. “How can I become rich? What can I do to bring home the dough?” We should, instead, approach our goals as completely understood and drive home our win. It’s not about who I am and why I deserve your business instead of someone else, it is about what service you’ll be receiving and what experience I come with.
I already know who I am, and understand that the only real control I have in life is my choice how I see the world. I can see a ‘stop sign’ and take it as a demand or as a suggestion for a good life, same as I can hear my wife’s criticism of me as a fight or as a request for peace. When we see the world through healthy lenses we stop comparing ourselves to others, because what good outcomes can come from choices that are derived from envy? We have to learn to see the world clearly so that we don’t end up falling for the same trap all in infamy fell for. Life is purely about how clear headed we keep ourselves, it is then that our connection to our modem really takes hold.
It is when we look at our own happiness we realize that it is only with the God given gifts and talents, and through our trials and experiences, that we become givers in this world. We don’t need to be a giver like him or her, they have their life story that brought them to selling socks, while I have my life that leads me to writing words. When we learn to envision our goals with clarity we will come to conclusions that are certain in our minds. “This is what I must do!” We see where we felt lacking, we take our experience of solving that problem and offer it to the world as our gift.
The level of success in each person truly depends on what they value most. Some put up a cool mask and claim success when only one area in their life is shining, but they still need to compare their business to their families to draw a conclusion. But those who understand intrinsically, their success is not a mask, it is the real thing!
David Lemmer is an Orthodox Jewish, Writer and Hypnotherapist. He can be reached at LemmerHypno@gmail.com