Mental Knowledge...Part 4.

Here your part 3.

Get to the core and the essence. Understand how things happen in the natural way, and how to do things in the natural way. There is no doing but nondoing in that way. One’s inferior natural work is better than superior unnatural work. It is the simplest knowledge and first principles you need that can bring you everything you want in life. Every other supposedly advanced forms of knowledge are just spin offs from the simple ones. There is not a lot but only a little to know, for the little is everything.

All you need is the simple awareness that helps you realize the truth in order to free your mind in the natural direction. And to keep being reminded of those knowledge from one to the next, from time to time in order to bring them all back to our yet to be fully solidified consciousness in physical reality. This is the process of our mental shaping and spiritual completion. You have to get the right foundation in order to engage everything else with it.

All knowledge can be organized and reorganized. Essence is the primary thing. Organization is the secondary. As long as everything written in a particular work of knowledge is real substance and not fluff, it is well written. The less fluff there is, the less wastage of mind. The better organized the knowledge, the greater order of mind. The more focused, ordered and clear the mind is, the more powerful it is.
No young man can hope to do anything above the commonplace who has not made his life a reservoir of power on which he can constantly draw, which will never fail him in any emergency. Be sure that you have stored away, in your power-house, the energy, the knowledge that will be equal to the great occasion when it comes. “If I were twenty, and had but ten years to live,” said a great scholar and writer, “I would spend the first nine years accumulating knowledge and getting ready for the tenth.”

To be continued..

Knowledge is a power..

There is an old adage “knowledge is power”. In part this is true. Without knowledge many could not rise to the top of the social economic & political ladders. However, not everybody aspires for monetary and/or political gains. To some the idea of being an erudite by itself is completely inspiring. Taking this three step approach helps both sets of people.

We live in a society inundated with data. Some of it is specialized knowledge and some broad based. Heck, putting together a basketball hoop set requires a plethora of knowledge. Something as simple as meditation requires specific techniques. Imagine the information needed in sophisticated technologies such as medicine, astronomy, & computers.

Agreed, knowledge is absolutely pertinent for a “successful” life. How do we get it and keep it?
Like the waltz the answer is a three step.
1. Acquire

2. Discern

3. Keep

The “three step” appears simplistic, but many fail because of lack of resources (tools & time) & the sense of being overwhelmed.

Knowledge can be acquired by various sources. It can be heard through friends, media, speeches, lectures, etc. It can be read through books, magazines, papers, etc. Finally it can be experienced. At times the data comes to you unintentionally. Be careful not to be randomized by the copious amount of data streaming your way. Most of time setting a goal to learn something in particular is best. Focus on a task or piece of knowledge before seeking it. This will help discern data.

Discerning data requires subjectivity. Your approach may be sequential or chronological. This is the easiest approach because steps or dates dictate what information is needed. Event driven is more difficult because information will strike from many directions. If possible create an event tree. Remember to stay focused. In the act of gathering & discerning data, distraction and curiosity detracts from mastering anything. Find a quiet place to focus. Some people thrive with music. Try whichever keeps you hone in.

my 2 cents..

How to control your own destiny and stay GREAT!

Greatness is being responsible, and doing what is expected of you.

To be in control of your own destiny you must be pro- active.
Life takes place in a decision. When you take action to make something happen, stuff is going to happen. What to do about what happens??? after you make something happen is where you take control. When stuff happens that you did not plan on, that is opportunity knocking!

First personal gift: Authority: Without authority someone else is running the show. You are the authority in your life, nobody thinks in your mind. You are the center that watches and runs the show that can choose which way it will go. The I am consciousness. Take charge of your own destiny. Guess what? Now what?

Second personal gift: Commitment: Without commitment there is no long term persistence. Persistence creates desire and builds knowledge. Knowledge must build, because of so much opportunity. One must have a heart felt commitment in any endeavor they undertake. Be committed to yourself first, your family second, your profession third, your community fourth. Love is a feeling of commitment. Commitment is a joining of forces.

Third personal gift: Grace: You must have permission from yourself. Without permission you will procrastinate. You will sit and wait. Those who hesitate are lost.

Fourth personal gift: Knowledge: Without knowledge you will have no power to take action. Knowledge creates knowledge. Learned knowledge is power. Observe, listen, read, smell, taste, touch, practice, practice, and practice. I am willing to listen, learn, and change how I think! Think BIG! It does not cost anything to think big. When you think big, you are taking care of yourself. When you think small you are focusing on your ego. The self always thinks big!

Fifth personal gift: Opportunity: Realize that problems are only Opportunities based on how you view them. If you can’t do any thing, pray for someone else. If you can’t pray, ask others to pray for you. If possible, do something! Faith with out works is dead! Problems are sometimes opportunities for you to keep control of your own destiny.

Sixth personal gift: Spirit: Sprit is so important because it brings energy, and excitement. Spirit must grow because the opportunities will grow as times go on. That’s the spirit!

i'm telling myself, this is the day im ging to change...period.

Create a Personal Knowledge Base to Track your Problem Solving History

Does is occur to you that some time we forget about an idea that very important to us.........

There are many different ways to track your ideas and to-do lists but do you remember them forever? There may have been many times, when you may have solved something difficult but never documented it, because you thought it would never happen again.

Now when it does happen again, what do you do? Follow the same steps over and over again, and to be frank how many times do you remember what you exactly did to solve the problem?

In such cases you could have saved yourself some trouble by having documented those steps, ensuring that you don’t have to start from scratch always. Such documentation is also popularly known as Knowledge Base (KB) and you may have seen several softwares companies having it, the most popular one being Microsoft KB.

You can always build your own knowledge base, where you can write up information about how you solved a particular problem, which URLs you used and so on, doing this will help you build up a strong database using which you can easily retrieve data at a later date and solve repetitive problems much faster.

till then....