Bamboo In The Wind

Saying what is on your mind has implications. It might mean you are suggesting something you must own and do yourself. That is responsible as long as you are willing to own the consequences that follow. It might mean you suggest someone else own something and do as you think. The implication is that it might yield a different benefit than you suggested. And then, you be held responsible for making the suggestion. Will you own your part of the responsibility? They followed the path because they believed you had a way out for them. Turns out that wasn't. If you own their part in failure and your part in making suggestions, you will form a formidable partnership. It requires trusting each other through the discovery of eluding success. That requires you to be bold and honest with who you are. Stepping forward and proposing is more challenging than you think. It exposes who you are!

Urgency is definitely required. It gives the focus and sense of immediacy to put things on the priority list! Scrambling, on the other hand, implies a mad rush. Getting to the endpoint at any cost. And the price is error and disappointment. Urgency, sure! But don't scramble!

Build it without fluff. Deploy the minimal.  Apply yourself.  Imagine how others receive you and what you have got. Build community of trust. Make sure to turn into into fan club.  Make something that fans will want to tell their friends.  Make sure to listen to folklore that comes back.  Build what you learned from it into what you make. Undoubtedly you will create an experience that will stick around.

When we are stuck in making progress, we need to create action to get going again.  It is a way to create new thoughts. What are actions? These are things that we must do ourselves. Like, making things. For example - gardening, painting, singing, playing, learning, meeting, etc. It also involves solving problems that yield outcomes. In essence, actions require a direct involvement from us to take up something we think about, use resources, learn from the surrounding and apply our skill to complete what we thought of.  Action has the power to change the bearing of our mind. And no. Actions does not mean thinking - alone. Actions involve thinking and then acting to produce output. Along the way, we generate the emotions of success, wins, joy, disappointments, sorrow etc.  It is intriguing that we can think but unable to act.  Everything can look futile in the absence of ability to act. In between lies the sentiments of courage and initiative. First step becomes possibl...

Experience is impossible without an open mind. Experience represents witnessing facts as they take place. When we reject what we witness as it does, we are usually doing so because it does not match our prior understanding of the world. We essentially are internally in disagreement with how we think things operate and how and when interactions flourish. In essence, there is no priority given to comprehending how continuity unfolds. Many positive outcomes are gratifying because we know we indulge in doing new things and looking at what transpired when we did it.  The positivity accumulates because we want more of that feeling that comes from actions we take. The adversity accumulates because us wanting less of that feeling that comes from specific steps we took. This precedence of understanding we have developed is the starting point of our actions in any situation.  We then say we have gained experience!

Takes guts to disentangle from a cobweb of unproductive thoughts. To come to think of it, cobwebs are such a flawless yet daunting creation; an architecture that is mind-boggling. It is pretty intricately organized to keep the prey in captivity. All this creativity is detrimental to progress and focused on enabling survival of builders of the cobwebs .  You never know what situation will trigger the cobwebs to start forming. It manifests in corners, in darker places, in moist environments. Usually there is a predator waiting at the center of it, waiting to drag you down. It is perfectly expected that there are times when we will step into cobwebs unknowingly and unwillingly.  But once we are in it, we know it stalls us, puts us off track. We are unable to locate the exit points. There are none!  Cobwebs are creation of our minds and exit points start with being in the bright, open areas. The way out is by transversing away from the center and towards the edge. Navigating ...

Trust is demonstrated by the placement of action. There are two sides to taking action. On one side, you can ask something off of yourself. Or on the other, you can ask something from others.  Interestingly, many of the actions begin and end with you! Of course, there is "the other" involved in it. But the pathway gets set by your part of the actions! You take up action by volunteering to get things done. This demonstrates your care for where others might benefit from your support. When it is unintentional about return benefit, your proactive support is bound to ease the pressure on others to get things done by themselves. It has the potential to generate the emotion of "being in it together." Or, you place responsibility on others to do something for you. Ask them for help in doing things for you. This demonstrates your willingness to accept your vulnerability in doing things by yourself. It has the potential to generate the emotion of "I need you to help me g...

Every so often, we wonder how we accomplished so much in life.  If we dig deeper into our memories, we will find innumerable instances of help we got from the most unexpected quarters. It is rarely a solo journey.  We are likely to find many noteworthy contributing factors that brought us here. Often we do not even notice the support we get. No, we don't. At least, not at the time we got it.  But that support was vital in our march, and it was proactive. Such proactiveness is rare and gracious. Someone saw us walking the tightrope under challenging circumstances and stepped forward on their own. It is only apt then that we respect what others brought us!

Signs of difficulties prompt us to think if things should have been done differently.  Were there different approaches and actions that could have led to a different result? No doubt, when the recipe is different, the delicacy will taste different. When hit by a roadblock, the best approach is to start again and employ new actions. It is bound to pave the way for new endings.  The ones we are looking for!

That is the feeling that is left behind. It comes from a sense of ignorance felt by those we are involved with. Anytime we try to accomplish something, we choose how to act. The act has a series of activities. Each activity has the potential to impact those surrounding the action.  Activities have a twofold impact. It can positively influence surroundings and enhance the effect of the action on others.  Or, it can weigh down the surroundings negatively and depress the effect of the action on others. When it is later, it hurts the sentiment of the surroundings. Someone at the other end of the action feels insufficient, in debt, or robbed of any benefit it could have provided. That generates the emotion that the interaction was inconsiderate!