The Method of The Masters.

Can you imagine Kaiser building the Great Coulee Dam without writing down each step to free his mind for the next step? And Einstein in figures, Dr Bush in his atomic research, all great writers: Churchill. Brisbane, Kipling, etc?

Figures are exact things, clear, always the same. Life problems are complex, vague, changing . If we can’t even solve problems in figures which are clear and exact, how can we expect to solve life problems, which are not clear and exact, without pencil and paper? We can’t.

It ‘s difficult for most people to believe that a certain exact method of handling such commonplace item as thoughts will produce almost magical results; whereas a slightly different  method of handling the very same thoughts will produce ordinary results or no results at all.

Substitute the process of writing for the process of mere thinking and you’ll surprise even yourself. You can multiply your power without a minute’s preparation. Try it once right where you are. Tear off a sheet of wrapping paper and write. Don’t worry about the mood you are in.

Writing is the best mood creator ever discovered.

In three minutes you can prove that deep down within the hidden recesses of your subconscious mind lies a vast storehouse of power, energy, ideas waiting for your conscious mind to turn on the switch and start the flow of ideas by writing. It might lift you like a switch to undreamed of heights. If you only turn on the switch by writing. But don’t think mere silent thinking will act as the switch. It won’t. In an electric switch the two wires must touch, make contact. So must pencil and paper make contact, touch to turn on ideas.

The mechanical aid for creating an endless flow of useful is writing. If you have ordinary ability and want to find yourself turn that ordinary ability into extraordinary achievement your surest and shortest path to your goal is to write.

After you wrote your first word or idea or sentence, did that reduce your allotted total of possible ideas? No. It increased it. Why? New ideas are formed by comparing and combining old ideas and parts of old ideas in new combinations or arrangements. The more you write the more new ideas you’ll create to form more building blocks for more new ideas. Don’t stop writing when you read your written words and find them dull even stupid.

You first attempts at walking and talking and riding a bike were just as crude. Where would you be if you had quit because your first efforts brings no rewards. Most successful people succeed because they do things failures don’t like to do, or lack the will power to do.

Doing what you know you ought to do when you don’t feel like it develops will power, character, and all other success traits.

Don’t wait for an inspiration or spirit to move you. Move the spirit. Waiting for the right mood to write licks more people than lack of talent. Write and the mood will come. Burn this into your memory so you’ll never forget it: Inspiration sometimes leads to writing, but ten times more often writing leads to inspiration. Edison said: Genius is one percent inspiration and 99% perspiration.

Olympic Inspiration - Im Dong-Hyun

Im Dong-Hyun - is legally blind. He has 10% vision on his left eye and 20% on his right. He already have two gold medals from the previous two games. And he already set a world record in the ongoing London Olympics.


Im sees only blurred colours and lines when he peers toward the target about 70 metres away, arrow at the ready. It doesn't stop the legally blind Olympian from hitting the grapefruit-sized yellow centre again and again though.

The story of Im Dong-Hyun is a reminder of that what the human spirit can achieve.

The Andes Plane Crash

"I want to eat the pilot" said Fernando Parrado to his friend Ricardo Cannesa, after the chocolates that they have been eating since they crashed was exhausted.

Cannibalism? Or just human survival instinct kicking in?

Parrado and Cannesa, survived on eating the flesh of their dead friends. If they didn't, then one of the most inspiring survival stories of our time would never had been told.

The Andes plane crash as it become popularly known, where 16 out of 45 survived after 72 days in the harsh sub-zero temperatures of the rugged Andes mountains, is a story of the unyielding human spirit. A story worth telling. A story worth listening. A story worth reading.

Two books have been written, the first by Piers Paul Read in 1974 titled Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors. In 2006, 34 years after he was rescued Fernando Parrado together with  Vince Rause published the book Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home.

The official website for the survivors Viven!  is available in both Spanish and English.

Facing Reality

Jack Welch, the legendary former CEO of GE once said, "Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be".

Facing reality may not be easy.  More often than not, reality is just not nice. Things are not always hunky-dory and peachy-rosy.

Facing reality means seeing things as they are. If you have a sub-ordinate always giving excuses for mishandling tasks, see it as it is.  The job was just badly done and someone has to take responsibility for it. Do the necessary. Do not assume that things will be okay, sunshine and happiness. They won't be.


Facing reality means doing what needs to be do. Today everyone wants to be the Nice Guy. We tolerate inferior quality of goods and service because we do not want to offend. We fail to be assertive and make our stand and give excuses such as, "maintaining harmony", 'humans are not perfect", and other such nonsense.


In the real world, there is real pain. There are issues, sometimes real bad ones, that we must face. Things can get real messy. No matter how uncomfortable you are feeling dealing with what the world throws at you, if you decide to face reality and do the necessary, you will be much better for it.

When?

If you have goal and a plan to achieve that goal. And if you are willing to work at it, do whatever is needed and keep doing it in the face of obstacles, mockery, ridicule, fatigue; the question of whether you will achieve that goal can be eliminated.

It is only a question of when.