TEAMS

Often times, teams take the approach of playing a game with their energy focus on pride. Pride in what they perceive or believe that they are vs. playing a game for the collective love involved.

Love for the game is an individualized concept, with global implication; it is subjective with objective intention which is inspired devotion. Pride at the team level is a group concept, subjective in nature, but objective in fueling ego dynamic. It points to the core of the ego and does little to propel teams to common ground.

Playing for pride is an outdated concept. Pride propels teams to a look beyond the game to the end result that would validate the motive of their play. It takes the player out of their element on a mission to justify. Pride needs someone to believe in it especially the egocentric.

Love needs no one to believe in it – it just is… Love inspires to be in the moment with no regard to outcome or secondary gain. It allows a focus of contemplation within the task musing in spirit one step at a time. So playing for the love of the game rather than from the mindset of self serving pride and secondary gain goes a lot further, regardless of the score.

So whatever team you are are part of, remember to;

“Play hard, love hard and be inspired…”

“Go Build Something” results are in…

In an earlier post titled “Go Build Something”, I write to the fact that I had gone to a local lumber yard to pick up some supplies to build a pergola. Here is what I produced. Not only was I able to build this with my own hands, but the outcome has had an overall effect on internal EI mindset. “Go Build Something…” you will be the better for it.

Design by GDavid: All rough Cedar, 6×6 posts and cedar ceiling. The roughout ceiling allows natural sunlight to permeate and fill the room. However, the pergola is covered with a clear corrugated PVC panel throughout making it completely rain and hail proof, but having the elusion of not being covered. It measures 26 x 14 x 8 tall. The flooring is parquet foot stones surrounded by cement wall barrier. GO Build Something…

Allow Truth to Endure

Every time we turn on the radio, television or surf the internet we are reminded of the world at war and conflict. Countries at war, congress in conflict, financial institutions running afoul are the headlines these days. There is also a conflict that that has the potential to arise in all of us by default – by default of being in a capitalist society. But society is not what fails us it is the faulty perceptions by individuals that betrays.

Earnest competition is what we are taught from almost day one. Win at whatever cost, never give up, get them before they get you, becomes the mindset. In all of this training that we receive the underlying theme is fear.

Fear is how competition is oversubscribed to most of us. When fear is introduced then truth becomes distorted and people act on this ignorance. People act on ignorance within themselves on a daily basis.

The internal voice dialogue that becomes an everyday occurrence is tuned into self propagating possession. I need more becomes a common theme – more money, more beauty, more fun, more sex, more, more, more.

Within this internal standard of seeking more, the essence of truth becomes lost. Internal conflict prevails when you can not satisfy the “more” standard and people are often tricked into believing that if they working harder or cheat the system this may be the only way to satisfy the internal conflict based on more.

In either case the conflict takes on more stress and becomes greater. Truth then becomes a thing of the past, an unpracticed value and the individual becomes “fearworthy”. The individual makes decisions to keep up, to chase the dream, to try to satisfy the common standard- more more, more…But it seldom comes to us in the form that our faulty perceptions would believe.

PEACE is just around the corner.

Dissolve the ego by allowing truth to endure. Affix a healthy perception by letting fear become love, and peace will fade the conflict from within…Seeking MORE, MORE, MORE, TRUTH then comes the standard. AND this standard needs no one to perceive it – It just is.