Joseph Maynor

I tend to be a worrier too, or at least I used to be. One of the things that I’ve done is when I start a part of my day, I’ll make post-it notes of the tasks I wanna get done. That allows me to keep the big-picture in mind when I’m working so I don’t get distracted by worrying or ruminating. So step one would be clarifying what you want to get done and the stages of it. What I’ve found is usually when I start worrying or ruminating, it’s because I’m sort of “at sea” regarding what it is that I should be working on in the moment, which is a gap that the Mind can use to worry and ruminate. So what I’m trying to say here is you can tee your Mind up for less worrying by keeping it occupied on your post-it notes, your tasks. In a way, you have to have time to worry and ruminate, if that makes sense. You can take that time away by using the Mind to work on your projects.

A leader walks their plans. They do what they say they will do.

Which one of those would you pay to be able to do let alone turn into a career where you get paid for it?

First of all, have a resume that looks great notwithstanding what's in it. I can get jobs easy, the problem is I don't want a regular job. I need to create my own job. But my resume is amazing. I spent like 2 months working on my resume getting every stylistic point and formatting issue right. I also have my photo on my resume which is cool, although a lot of places probably wouldn't like that. Your resume has to look amazing from a beauty standpoint, let alone what's in it. But yeah, the first step towards getting a job is getting the best resume you can draft together. As a writer, my resume is a work of art, and I made it a work of art on purpose. You want a resume that looks so good that they want to call you in for an interview based on just the way your resume looks, notwithstanding what's in it. I've reviewed resumes before for hiring, and lemme tell you, most resumes I've seen look janky as f*ck. So, that's where I really saw that I could separate myself from the rest of the herd by having a resume that just stands out over all the rest based on appearance alone. A great looking resume is like making a great first impression. Even if what's in the resume has some gaps or whatnot, just having a resume that is a work of beauty is enough to make a great first impression. I actually applied a couple of tips from Leo's video on resumes when I was working on my resume:

You’re getting the “you might be crazy thought” I see. I had that too relatively recently when I was doing a bunch of work that I wasn’t passionate about. I was diagnosing myself preliminarily with all kinds of sh*t. And then I realized, “no, actually I just don’t like what I’m doing, I don’t like what I’m working on.”

Enlightenment is only one major part of Personal Development Work and not the only part. Taken the wrong way, Enlightenment can actually be a block to your Personal Development Work when you start believing that you have no control. It’s not Enlightenment or Personal Development — It’s Enlightenment and Personal Development.

Leo did a good video on this subject.

What the hell is Spiritualism? Just kidding. I know what you mean. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritualism

He seems to have gone from a Psychology Professor to a Personal Development Content Provider. I admire the career change.

Most people go through a Spiritual Ego phase of Enlightenment when they are young on the Path. Of course these people don’t realize they’re in a Spiritual Ego phase of the Path.

There’s also a difference between theory and planning. An architect’s detailed plans are nothing like some abstract metaphysical musings. Thinking of planning as a theoretical activity is no good for the practice of careful planning.

Just like you can hide out in a forest in life, you can hide out in theory in life too.

A more interesting question is, What does Ken Wilber think about your ideas?

Totally, I get it. Enlightenment Work has a lot to it. You wouldn't expect someone to be able to give you the principles of Physics in the palm of your hand. Somehow we expect Enlightenment truths to be given in the palm of our hand. The assumption is that Enlightenment is simple. It's a paradox, on the one hand Enlightenment is simple but on the other hand it's complex as well, and you gotta work a both ends of that paradox.

I already know everything, so I don’t need to watch any videos. Just kidding! I’ve watched all of Leo’s videos.

I bolded some words.

You gotta find your passion first, and then you select work that harmonizes with your passion. You can actually gauge your passion throughout the day. Most of us are not really taught to do this, but you can do it as part of your mindfulness. You could keep a passion journal where you monitor and record your passion throughout the day. That would be an interesting exercise. Maybe I should do that as well.

Subconscious Mind is just a category. It's a useful concept when you're trying to re-program your Mind. It's part of a model of Mind.

Notice that even when there's no self there's still self. Notice that when there's self, there's also no self. And then the third thing would be notice your self considering these ideas. Notice the difference between your self and the ideas. Who's doing who -- are the ideas doing the self or is the self doing the ideas? Where are these ideas coming from?

I don't think I would want to hang out with any. They're not any different than ordinary people. What they have you can't see anyway, even if you met them.

How would you even know if you were trying to skip a step? This is weird thing. How do you even know what a step is gonna be for you, let alone articulate the steps you think you've attained? What are these steps? And even if we have steps, what would it look like to try to skip a step? How would that actually look?

My question to you would be this. You have what you just wrote there. How does that differ from what it's like to be you? What's the relationship, if any, between what you wrote there and what it's like to be you?