Congratulations to our Hometown LADY BUCKS softball team!!!!!

The Lights Jerky Company is really proud of your accomplishments. Believe in your ability within your role on the field and with this focus you can’t go wrong. STATE BOUND !!!!!!

Love is blind…

A previous blog post has stirred questions about my statement, perceived love is blind and the rationalization of greed insatiable. Most of the emails I received sought clarification of the statement.

The statement is a revised version of a Chinese proverb “love is blind and greed insatiable”. I believe that the perception of love is most prominent in today’s world. While love in the truest essence of the word is seemingly hard to find because of perception.

The reason may be found in how the human mind has been primed to believed in certain things. People that are tuned in to the frequency of the material world may hold love in the “arousal effect” and confuse the definition of love with the instant gratification of luxuria. We can see this between people as well – most “teenage love” for example…Arousal effect to a “t”een.

Luxuria is conditional and is dependent upon perception. Love on the other hand needs no one to perceive it – it just is. When we can alter perception or do away with it altogether we can find love in the most innocent of things. Love can be found in just about everything and everyone. But when people begin to defend their perception of love there is always is a secondary gain that prompts the defense.

The secondary gain is typically some form of greed. Mindsets that are rapacious lean to use instant gratification and need to justify it somehow. Rationalization is the defense. There are many ways to defend your perceived love for anything. True love needs no defense, it needs no one to believe in it. Do away with secondary gains and the games we play between one another, the result is that we then can open ourselves to truth. And there is always love in that…

The Rules You Break

“The evil that men do lives after them, the good oft interred with their bones..”. Shakespeare

Data collection continues with inspectors week after week, month after month, year after year at our jerky facility. There is a filing cabinet at our plant that is used by inspectors that contains data (written reprimands) for the whole year that remains relatively empty. The more we mess up, the more data goes into their files and the more justified jobs seem to be. However, if MSA was required to keep records on the number of good things we do ,well, we’d better get more cabinets.

Breaking the rules seems to be followed with much more enthusiasm and the sport seems to be part of an old brain mechanism. Our false-selves tune into the misfortune of others because the perception of control and power shifts out of balance, and part of the perception is that people feel a sense of advantage in this inequity. The legitimacy of such a mindset is only vindicated by the ego.

Being able to get past this mindset at either end of the balance shift is integral to interpersonal and ultimately intrapersonal relations. But the important thing to remember is that you really don’t need anyone to justify anything for you, but you. In our case, our work ethic and acknowledgment of the rules is rewarded by the number of repeat customers we have. The customer reminds us that we are doing something very right. This expression strengthens our commitment and our constant pursuit of exercising good judgement.

Which is the one rule that we try to abide by daily; to exercise good judgment in all situations, beyond this, there really are no other rules.