Agency

Body keeps the score

Agency is the technical term. for the feeling of being in Charge

Of your life:

knowing where you stand 

knowing  that you have a say in what happens to you.

knowing that you have some ability in

Shaping your Circumstances.

Agency Strts worth What Scientists Call -

Interoception - Our Awareness of Subtle Sensory, Body-based feelings - 

The greater the awareness, the greater the potential

 to control our lives. 

knowing what we feel  - is the first step to  knowing why we feel this way

If we are aware of the constant Changes in our 

Inner and outer environment, we can mobilize to manage them .

But we can't do that Unless our Watchtower (medial pre-frontal cortex) 

Learns to observe what is going on inside us! 

This is why mindfulness practice which strengthens the MPFC

is a cornerstone of recovery from trauma! 

Become a value creator

 Become a value creator 

Dan Koe

Value creator is someone who has intention behind their inputs and outputs.

They treat their life like a science project.

They identify their own problems.

They educate themselves with the infinite resources available to them on the internet.

They test the solution on themselves and distribute their experiences with writing.

They package up the most helpful and streamlined solutions in the form of a product or service.

That is how they make a living by living with purpose

Becoming a creator is the cure for overconsumption.

Writing is the vessel for distributing value.

I write on all platforms. I don’t care to compete with images of my fancy car or lifestyle. I gain a deep sense of fulfillment by using the internet as not only a place to curate good thoughts, but to organize them and share them with others with the ultimate upside of doing what I enjoy for a living. Something that’s in my control.

This isn’t about becoming famous.

This isn’t about building a massive following.

This is about distributing the value you have to offer in a place that can reach anyone with the opportunities that will change your life and career.

Art and Spirit

 Art and Spirit

Vincent Van Gogh

The letters of a Post-impressionist

The fact remains that we ainters are 

Living in the midst of reality.

And that we should breathe our spirit into

Our creations as long as weourselves

Continue to breathe! 

On Creativity

On Creativity

Vincent Van Gogh

The letters of a Post-impressionist

I really don't know how I paint.

Armed with a white panel I take ip a position in front of the spit that interests me

Contemplate what lies before me

And sat to musefl

That white panel must be turned into something

Dissatisfied with my work i  return home 

Put my panel out of sight,

And after taking a little rest

Go back to my work

Almost with qualms to see what it looks like

But even then I am not satisfied

For glorious nature is still , Too vividly stamped on my mind

Nevertheless,  I find in my work a certain reverberations 

of that which fascinated me

I know that Nature told me something

That she spoke to me

And thay I took down her message in a shorthand

Perhaps my stenographic script contains words that are undecipherable

Be like there are faults and omissions  in it too

Still i may possess something that the wood, the beach or the figure said;

And this is never in a tame or conventional language that did not spring from Nature herself!

Busyness

 

Vincent Van Gogh

The letters of a Post-impressionist

I prefer a piece of work that is a failure to inactivity

We shall not have to wait very long 

Before that we are producing will have become important! 

Artwork

 Artwork : 

The ability to produce artwork is 

nothing but the ability to go through the “Pain”

To produce a “painting” out of “White Canvas” 

While being sufficiently excited to carry on relentlessly 

despite the disappointing outcomes of the Artwork produced! 

Jerry Seinfeld on Humor

My notes from Success without Stress: Interview of Jerry Seinfeld with Bob Roth

“ A lot of stand-up is analogies” 

“If you are fatigued, you look for cookies! Cookies attack you! 

“You are two personalities in one! The night guy in you wants to enjoy! Morning guy in you wants you to work! “

Hardest laugh to get is the first one . so you need to ensure it is 100% success . And put all the rest of jokes later

I do TM  before every stand-up act. Because you have to be relaxed and you have to have energy

You need to look confident, smooth - “seem to know what you are doing”

Stand-up is a physical act : Physical challenge - I have to push this “mass of meat” - 4000 people to make them laugh! 

Every successful joke has one element - a surprise - Line of logic going one-way and suddenly logic falls - It doesn't make any sense  - but it does! 

Stand-up is scientific in a way - you put 500 jokes in a hopper - 25 come out as great jokes; 

All sales require energy; Stand-up is sales; I have to push you; Stand-up is martial arts Like breaking the bricks - in using: Voice, Gesture, and Concentration of energy - to elicit laughs -