living a la Leonardo

Da Vinci was a master mind for its time and he is a master mind still for our time. Living al la Da Vinci can be and is a master mind’s journey, discovering everything that there is to discover around us, taking notes on everything that exist around us is a marvelous journey. Leonardo asked questions to the Universe constantly, always something new to discover, in his journal he noted that asking questions is the beginning of learning and the start of wisdom. Encouraged by the example I sat down and wrote 100 questions about anything and everything then in another session choose the 10 most important questions and ranking them by importance from 1 o 10, this exercise is guaranty to change your life in ways that you can’t even think about at this moment. If Leonardo was in grade school toady he would be pumped full; of Ritalin for being ADD or ADHD . The last thing, take one of the ten questions and take the time to meditate on it every day and that will bring about marvel in your life. Results like you can fathom right now reading this. Give it a try and let me know how it turns out.
Keeping a daily journal was one of Leonardo’s practice, so far we know of 13,000 pages. The Codex Leicester 72 pages is the only major scientific work of Leonardo's in private hands. It is owned by Bill Gates, and is displayed once a year in different cities around the world. Why would Bill Gates pay 30.8 million for part of Leonardo’s journal? Good question must be important I think. Also keeping a gratitude journal, very powerful practice.
Ready ?!? Take one hour of your time go to your favor place where you can relax and will not be disturbed and write down 100 questions anything will do, the choose the 10 top ones numbered 1 to 10 pick the most important one for you and take time to meditate on it, set goal, visualize and start a marvelous journey.
For the past few years I am using and teaching a technique called The One Command. I encourage you to investigate. It is bringing me closer and closer to my life goals and already I have witnessed great success because of it. Visit my link. http://tocleaders.com/bernardt/
Or e mail me tritz.bernard@gmail.com
By phone 250 658 6703
Cheers and best of everything.
Resources from Michael Gelb How to think like Leonardo DaVinci

living a la Leonardo

Pursuing Happiness VS. Practicing Happiness

To “pursue” was not to chase after but to “practice” to make a habit of, according to Tomas Jefferson. Happiness in any situation following any emotional ups and down, in sadness and in health, richer or poorer, for the better or the worse, where did I hear that before? Getting up in the morning happy no reason no excuses, just happy. There is a difference in between waking up happy or waking up considering being happy or not according to outside influences. Even when experiencing emotions of sadness, anger, frustration or even fear and still experiencing that felling of peace and well being.
In her book “Happy for no reason” Marci Shimoff, state
• “Less than 30 percent of people report being deeply happy.
• Twenty-five percent of Americans and 27 percent of Europeans claim they are depressed.
• The World Health Organization predicts that by 2020, depression will be second only to
heart disease in terms of the global burden of illness.”
We’re able to built amazing structure, survive devastating disaster, combat killing bugs, send men to the moon and back knowing exactly how much fuel it will take, and with all of this we haven’t being able to teach how to be happy all the time?!? Puzzling!
We can be happy or we can be depressed, very straight forward, we can be happy for bad reason, any addiction will do, we can be happy for good reason, healthy experiences like birth of a child, winning the lottery, or we can be happy for no reason, and there we live from happiness instead of for. Get it?
Happiness is like a thermostat when it’s too cold just turn it up and warmth happen the same goes the other way. Psychological research show that we have a happiness set point what ever happen we always return to that set point. Studies of people winning big money at the lottery, returned to their original happiness set point within 6 to 12 months. And the same results take place after very difficult case of accidents after a period of time people have regain their happiness set point. What exist within is and that’s that, practicing a higher level of happiness that’s what is needed to create a life of peace and joy no “matter what”. It’s a decision, accepting to adapt to a new level of function. Back in the 80’s I was working in the high arctic, right away I found many things to complain about, life was not very good, first the sun would never set and I cursed against being awake at 4 am thinking it was 4pm. One night laying there I thought ” this is not going to work I have to do something about this” The thought came that I could “accept” being here and enjoy the surrounding discovering the beauty. I fell asleep walking up the next morning and it was like a whole new place. And for the next 8 month I experienced joy and happiness like never before, I would wake up cheerfully every morning seat outside and just look around taking it all in. We sent our employees back home every six weeks; instead of going home I brought my wife for a week I wanted to share this with her. I have relived those 8 wonderful months many time since, in my mind. Practicing everyday to be happy will eventually bring you to living in happiness instead of for it.
In the past few years I have personally used a technique called The One Command. I encourage you to investigate. It is bringing me closer and closer to my life goals and already I have witnessed great success because of it. Visit my link. http://tocleaders.com/bernardt/
Or e mail me tritz.bernard@gmail.com
By phone 250 658 6703
Cheers and best of everything.

Pursuing Happiness VS. Practicing Happiness

Shift when you drift

Commitment to learn from every experiences of every moment, instead of the usual actualization of our self defense mechanism by stonewalling, explaining, justifying, withdrawing, blaming is much more important than anything else in the moment. Being open to learning is to be in charge at all times. You can choose to shift out of being defensive into being open to learn.
Spiraling up instead of spiraling down. Let say you are driving to work and the first thing that happen is someone is cutting you off and has you blow the horn he demonstrate that you are #1. You react and want to get even with this guy. So in turn you are cutting someone else off so you can catch up with that @#$%&$# and show him. You arrive at work and your mind is on that guy that cut you off and made your day miserable and from that point everything is going down. Use your imagination and see what happen, getting thence, frustrated telling everyone that wants to hear about your driving to work experience. The whole day is going to be based on frustration and nothing is getting better. That’s spiraling down.
Let’s take a look at a different approach. The same guy is cutting you off at the same place. No blowing the horn so no fingering instead smiles and wave take a couple of deep breath and relax. One of the thing that could happen is the fellow that cut you off, as you smile and wave, might think “shocks I just cut off someone that knows me” now where do you think the frustration is? On him. And has you proceed to work with a smile on your face your co-worker look and wonder “how come he is so happy first thing in the morning” That is spiraling up because from to moment on the day unfold in a good spirit. Commit to learn in every moment.
Other ways to make a shift? Try speaking authentically, truly loving the experience, recommitting to your ideals, moving your body in a new way, or using this challenge as another opportunity to get closer to your Essence. Fun.
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness concerning all acts of initiative and creation. There is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans; that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen events, meetings and material assistance which no one could have dreamed would have come their way. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe’s couplets: ‘Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!’” ~ W.H. Murray
Whoa that sorts it all out very concise and very clear, no mystery, Re-committing every day every moment of every day to whatever we are dreaming off and working on, continuous flow of self generated motivation by agreeing to move forward by re-committing, keeping at bay the wobbly attitude, the lack of confidence, the discouragement. When I travel by plane I usually listen to the pilot conversation with air control. Continuous re-committing to the destination correcting and re-correcting the fly pattern, every so often air control would interfere and give the pilot new heading altitude and speed. What would happen if the pilot decided that this is not working I can’t keep that plane in a straight line, I can’t fly this thing it’s changing heading all the time I give up…. Think about it, your life is like flying that plane continuously correcting taking advice and correcting again and again and again. That’s it re-committing to the outcome and go with the flow.
In the past few years I have personally used a technique called The One Command. I encourage you to investigate. It is bringing me closer and closer to my life goals and already I have witnessed great success because of it. Visit my link. http://tocleaders.com/bernardt/
Or e mail me tritz.bernard@gmail.com
By phone 250 658 6703
Cheers and best of everything.

Shift when you drift

Embracing the Chaos

How about it, embracing the inner chaos, accepting the inner struggle, for what it is, a guide to make us stronger. Stress the system and watch it grow, its call “conditioning”. Only by stressing the system can we know its limit and the go further. During strength training to gain more of it and more mass one need to stress the muscle just a little bit more, in turn the body will react and compensate by repairing the muscle and that way make it stronger for the next time. And so it is with the mind, stressing the mind for it to grow and become stronger.
By embracing the inner chaos and accepting the good and evil within, only then can we strengthen our presence in the now.
Are you ready to break the bound and fly? Or are you going to continue to allow the anchor of envy and jealousy keep you in restrain? Up to you to be free and to fly. Go beyond your abilities and fly higher and higher, freeing yourself from the tare of society that wants you down here crawling on the ground. Your choice, your doing, your decision.
Control your thoughts let not others do it for you, remember it is easier to look down than to look up in any way you can think off. Everything depend on you from the very beginning not on others, whatever you have you have, whatever you desire you can have too. The time has come for you to plant the seed of your highest hope. And don’t mind the inner chaos so much allow it and learn from it that way it will quiet itself and cooperate to create your higher achievements.
And be what you must be no less. Built your inner for when you succeed they will not pardon you. Be totally independent of the thoughts of others. Proceed with what your soul demand and leave it at that! And the higher you fly the smaller you will appear to the eyes of the envious, and most of all they hate the one that can fly.
Dance with the stars my friend. Fly among the cloud and laugh at loud live your life like it was the last minute of it and love like you never to before. It take only courage.
In the past few years I have personally used a technique called The One Command. I encourage you to investigate. It is bringing me closer and closer to my life goals and already I have witnessed great success because of it. Visit my link. http://tocleaders.com/bernardt/
Or e mail me tritz.bernard@gmail.com
By phone 250 658 6703
Cheers and best of everything.

Embracing the Chaos

The learning process.

What is learning, Thesaurus tells us: Learning is acquiring new knowledge, behaviors, skills, values or preferences.
To be able to learn one need to have an open mind to new ideas. Being open to allow and accept new principles is paramount to learning. Asking questions and pondering the answers is part of the learning process. Arguing with new approach will deter the learning process and is a waste of time.
“Wolfgang von Goethe once wrote, ‘To have more, you must first be more.’ To achieve more in your outer world, you must go to work on your inner world, on developing yourself. There are no lasting shortcuts. There is no other way.”
To have more one need to become more.
Asking question like “Is there anything you are doing right now that, knowing what you now know, you wouldn’t get into again if you were starting over today?” That’s using rear-view vision and it’s always 20/20. That’s creating in the present what the future is going to be, if what you are doing right now is not giving you your desires why keep doing it? Isn’t it time for change? Isn’t it time for new experiences, learning something new? How about it.
When I first came into contact with the process, I was concerned that the answer would not be what I like to hear. So I procrastinated for a while until one day, from way deep inside the question came up. Is what you are doing right serving you or are you serving it? That blasted me off and for a while I was not very happy with myself. So I proceeded asking the question and the answer was “YES” from that point it only took a few minutes to decide to get out of what I was involved, nice I like that. Diving unto the unknown, fabulously rewarding. I needed to open my mind to new ideas and new way of doing something, and that’s the perfect point. From then on more questions are coming that I need to answer. Here are a few that you might want to consider for yourself.
*Let say I am a magician and I can grant you whatever you wanted. What would it be?
*Considering your life today, if you were to receive $10 million cash, tax free, how would you change your life? What would you do? What is the first thing you would do?
*What are you enjoying today, what do you excel at, what activities make you the happiest?
* If you had six month left to live how would you spent the last months of your life?
*And if you could not fail what can you dream of, if you were guaranteed success in anything what would it be?
Take the time and consider these questions and be amazed of the results.
A couple of things you need to acquire, for all of that to work.
1. Change your thinking, control your thought. What are you thinking most of the time? That’s what you are going to get more of. So change it, it is very simple just a new habit to acquire.
2. Visualization and idealization, the right and left hand of success. Imagining the perfect outcome to your dream and continuously focusing on the path, keeping the end result in mind.
In the past few years I have personally used a technique called The One Command. I encourage you to investigate. It is bringing me closer and closer to my life goals and already I have witnessed great success because of it. Visit my link. http://tocleaders.com/bernardt/
Or e mail me tritz.bernard@gmail.com
By phone 250 658 6703
Cheers and best of everything.
Reference: Brian Tracy focal point.Brian Johnson Philosopher's notes.

The learning process.

Carpe Punctum! Seize the moment

Carpe Punctum! Seize the moment
Carpe dium, seize the day, a worthwhile endeavor, seizing the “moment” is more bonding since the next minute is not yet here and the last one already gone, never to come again. In the moment is where it all takes place, to be fully involved, alive and glorious is in the moment. The only problem in your life is your mind’s resistance to life as it unfolds.” Dan Millman. Living in the now, realizing the power of the moment, creating now our desires our wants, everything is in the now. Even planning for the future happens in the now, in the moment. So seize the “moment” and live the day one moment at the time .
What are you resisting in your life right now? Know that your suffering has NOTHING to do with the event itself. And EVERYTHING to do with your perception of it. And, of course, you can change your perception of it at any moment, emotions are like clouds passing by. The same way we accept the weather for what it is, we can’t really control our emotions, we can control our response to our emotions. We cannot change our emotion we can only change our behavior and that will alter emotions. We can control our thoughts and that will reshape our emotions. We can’t control the rain falling; we can use an umbrella to keep dry.
Discover your self-worth, this all life is about discovering and learning, and it is not going to happen without errors, short fall and mistakes. Recognizing those and moving on. The sooner you get this the better, fix what can be fix, apologize when its due and learn from the process. Mediocre moments are a part of life, not unforgivable sins. George Bernard Shaw once remarked that ‘the ignorant are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt. So get on with life, allow for mistakes, straighten the wheel and move on. It is so easy to bit ourselves down to the ground and it accomplishes nothing.
Start shaping your habits to what you want, difficult?!? Perhaps not impossible tho… What is it that you need to change in your life today in this moment? For me I love watching a movie and sometime to many times per week. So cutting back on watching movies every evening instead, prepare for the next day things to do places to go. Write an article and publish it, read and research something for my business. Right away my feelings change I am accomplishing something and I do it directing the energy toward something I want. Oh..,
Yes, we need to practice that for a few days before it becomes an habit that’s where the will clicks in. Yeah will power that’s why we have it… Or not, up to you. Super simple.
Creating techniques to make nasty habits hard to get to and make things easy for good habits to form. For me it’s just unplugging the TV I have to crawl under a desk with the assistance of a flash light stored at the other end of the house. By the time I think about it, too much trouble just go do something else
You know Dar Robinson? One of the modern day daredevil, before every stunt he performed he is scared to death and most time let go if his breakfast from fear. I think if he is OK with I shouldn’t be concern with it myself, and go on and do what needs to be done. Fear is here for a reason, to make us aware, and then we can calculate the risks and decide what to do and how to do it. My recipe for fear is to shrink it down to a manageable size. Carry it in my pocket and whenever it’s needed just bring it out, see what she has to say, listen, pose, create the proper environment and let’s go. Have you ever heard of Erik Weihenmayer( hope I got his name right) is a rock climber, nothing big here, so am I. He went and climb Mount Everest, so far so good Oh yeah he is blind… Was he scared, all the way up there? You bet he was. He made it, some of his companions didn’t, some of them reached their summit before the top and some of them turned back. Erik made it and went on to conquer 7 of the most difficult climbs in the world. What is you Everest? What do you need to conquer it?
In the past few years I have personally used a technique called The One Command. I encourage you to investigate. It is bringing me closer and closer to my life goals and already I have witnessed great success because of it. Visit my link. http://tocleaders.com/bernardt/
Or e mail me tritz.bernard@gmail.com
By phone 250 658 6703

Carpe Punctum! Seize the moment

Making dreams happen

We all were born the same way, we all had a mother and father biologically speaking, and each one of us learned the same important details of life itself. We learn how to walk, to speak, to run, and many other vital components of activities for our daily life.
It was and still is up to us to want to learn we use different patterns each individual has his/her own way of learning and applying the process. The common point is that we decide to learn and apply. From the very first day we decided to have dreams, from the very first breath we took we activated every single thought necessary to our place in life, necessary to our growth, to our success every single step we took was a decision we made based from an inner vision. No one could have forced us to walk. Our first born started walking very early and one day in the street he decided to stop walking, realizing that we would not carry him any longer he just sat in the middle of the side walk and that was it. Nothing we could say or do, no coercing of any kind would change his mind, until he was good and ready and discover something for himself that he wanted more than being carried around, at that time he started walking again and never stop since.
Whatever dream we create in our mind we can make happen it’s what we are it’s what we are made off, powerful tools we are equipped with to make happen anything that we can create in our mind. Another element is also needed in the process, motivation. Dreams come and go, not all dreams become a physical reality, and there is reason for that. To succeed a dream need ingredients, motivation, why do we want what we want, if the why is not strong enough the realization will be very weak to not even leaving the dream stage. Next we need learn a few steps to make the dream come through, and then we need to go to work to make it happen. There’s always a commitment to be involved and yes at time we have dreams that can be so big and they seems unattainable and we can’t see how we can make it happen. We always have a part to play in the realization of a dream no matter how big.
How big can you dream? Erik Weihemayer was blind by the time he was 14 years old. His life was totally turned around, like most he wanted to give up, life is over all that he loved seems to vanish at that moment, thanks to his wonderful parents he accomplished exploits.
An accomplished climber, Erik became the only blind man in history to reach the summit of the world's highest peak - Mount Everest on May 25, 2001. On August 20, 2008, when he stood on top of Carstensz Pyramid, the tallest peak in Austral-Asia, Erik completed his quest to climb the Seven Summits - the highest peak on every continent. His part was to dream to train, to accept the fact he needed assistance and to be there when needed, every step of the way. For more about Erik watch the movie “Touch the top of the world”
What is your dream, your big vision and what are you doing about it? You decided to stand up and walk once you can do it again. Taking the first step toward your dream is all that’s needed the Universe, the Source of life itself will then become your best friend, your support, people, situation, tools, everything that you need to succeed will appear sometime like magic for the realization of your dream. What is left do whatever need to be done each day toward the success of the dream. In his book “Do You”, hip hop mogul Russell Simmons says ““The pain that’s created by avoiding hard work is actually much worse than any pain created from the actual work itself. Yes its ok read it again, I needed to, and internalize it so it become yours. By work I mean do whatever need to be done in that moment, for me right now to make my dream come true I need to write my blog everyday and I dedicate that action to the outcome. Going to the gym 5 days a week is part of the routine I need to reach my dream and other goals like being fit, healthy and strong to do the things I want to do.
So what’s your dream? What are you doing about it? Need some help just ask someone share with a trusted person, trust your intuition and start standing and start walking. Live in the untapped part of your mind, that 90 percent of your unused brain and watch what happen.
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Take care
Bernard

Making dreams happen