It’s amazing how prevalent the resistence to new learning is in most workplaces. The compromise most people like to make is “How can I learn the least in the longest period of time.” After all, we have to have new learning simply to survive. Why do we resist?

The answer is, new learning will change our reality. After all, we already figured it out at 13 years old. Since then, we’ve been trying to prove that that point of enlightenment was the culmination of all new learning that could change our lives. Nobody wants to change when he or she has figured out the nature of reality.

For example, we live in the knowledge-base era. New learning is expected to be a necessity in the world of work. And most Gen Xers and Gen Yers are right on board when new learning involves Information Technology (IT) The same is not so true when it involves creativity, innovation, or quantum-thinking. These cognitive skills require transformation in the most fundamental way. In this sense, younger workers are no different than mature workers.

When Shelly Novak joined a high tech, cutting-edge organization on the West coast, she saw it as a dream come true. She quickly learned that she was not as skilled as she presumed herself to be. Having come from an organizatiion that had put up with resistant learning on her part, until they figured she had no future there, she found herself agreeing to a mutual parting of the ways. In her new position, she sudenly found herself surrounded by hotshots that operated in different reality. She concluded the gap was simply too much cover in her desire to meet the expectations of her new organization. Her fate was predictable. Find a place where she could “nest,” and fake it for as long as she could finesse it! As of this writing, she’s still surviving.

So, what’s the point? Without continuous learnig, your days are numbered. And that goes for us all. We are only as valuable as our personal stock. That is, our value on the Market of Work–similar to the Stock Market. Are we blue chippers, junk bonds, or quick risers and fallers?

This is the discussion in the first chapter of the book, “How to Become a Total Failure.” Free download on wwwtenwaystofail.com. Buy 10 copies and get a discount. Give them as gifts to friends for which you want to send a message. There are some wonderful messages in this book.

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We share wonderful stories about how we sabotage ourselves in thinking that looking out only for ourselves is the road to success. Only to discover that it’s an interconnected world and no one makes it to the “top” alone.

The book then suggest ways to convert patterns of failure into formulas for success; ending with The Ten Rules for Success. It’s a great read with numerous, humorous stories.

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I look forward to your feedback on the book. I guarantee you will enjoy it and will want to buy copies for your friends!

Bill

I was reading “Finding Life”. I cannot agree with your statement that most people don’t care about material things or money. My point of view is that they would not like to give much attention to these things, but, they think they need to. Because the most important responsibility is to take care of family, then friends and relatives.

To be able to take care of them, the common source is money. Very few are aware that giving love,feelings, and emotions is much more than material. They even cannot imagine that it could be this way. This is too easy – and life is hard and difficult, it has to. To let go, to follow the flow your life is taking you, is like giving up. People are looking for the difficult ways. We’re all raised with the words: “If you want to reach something in your life – you’ll have to work very hard!” And that’s what most are living. To transform is like: giving up your strong held beliefs and giving in to something you don’t know but you’re needing to trust in.

If we want people to transform, what is our absolute goal, we’re asking them to let go safety and protection (or what they seem it to be). We’re asking them to open and to show who they really are. We’re asking them to show the world their inner most secret. Falling in love at first sight is much easier than falling in confidence at first sight. We tend toavoid disappointment and we have to face it: There is no being able to avoid anything!

I’ve been travelling quite a lot lately. Therefore, I’ve not communicted with you in a few weeks. What I have learned is that people pretty much the same everywhere. They want to be able to provide for their families, raise their children, support their love ones and friends. And on occasion, they want to celebrate life.

Most people don’t want very much in the way material possesions or riches; just to be above food, shelter, and clothing. Most have no interest in control, domination , or power. Why doesn’t this consciousness dominate the the planet?

I have discovered that if I live consistent with my passion I feel satisfied with my earth-plane existence. Even if I have not made a differnece. It’s more important to me to be a differnce. For example, I had dinner with a colleague who does seminars with thousands of people a year all over the world. We began discussing the impact of her work and she tearfully shared that there was an emptiness in her work. I asked her what were her expectations. She responded that she wanted her participants to face up to their difficulties and transform.

I reminded her that their transformation was not in her control. That such an objective was her own ego-satisfaction; and had little to do with her clients or their well-being. That the drive to make a difference often lead us to attempt to control the fate of others rather than assuming the the “universe” will lead to the best resolution.

So what I have been reaffirmed of is that life finds its own “fault line” if we just let go and help others find their own path and self-created fate. There can be no better way of making a difference by being a difference.

Ciao,
Bill

I had a dream last night. I was observing the human dynamics on the planet we have named Earth. In spite of the efforts by many to live “from” love, violence and division dominant the planetary consciousness. Not only in terms of mass conflict of armed encounters, but also in our most popular books, video games, newspapers, television, or any form of information delivery that is most popular. And we wonder why violence and separation are inherent in our relationships, societal systems, and countries of the world.

Quite simply, we create the reality we observe. All of us, worldwide! We like to amuse ourselves with talk of peace, love, and unity. But the prevailing consciousness of this small planet of highly intelligent human beings do not appear to have the potential to create such a reality! Why? I dont’t really know. But the need to be right permeates the dominant human consciousness right down to the core of our programmed realities that we collective declare to be truth! I would still like to meet the person who “knows the truth, by spiritual experience; not through teachings and mass agreement.”

So, an intersting question is “Where are we headed? Because we are definitely headed in a specific direction toward a specific outcome. At least, when we get there we can all say we were right; and extinct. If you believe in going with the flow, then wherever we are headed is okay. Just remember, there are no victims, we are all collectively responsible and accountable for the human fate of planet Earth.

These comments are not meant to discourge the efforts of those who do live in a context of love, peace, and oneness. Because there are many who do. Such a consciousness is simply not doninant, at present. I wonder what would happen if 50% of us decided to stop gossiping about others, help those less fortunate than ourselves, and began accepting those in our lives, unconditonally. I do not think such a situation is possible in a given community of human inhabitants of this plant; except for those aboriginal to this panet.

Well, I think I’ll program my dream state to do another visit from 40,000 feet. Maybe, I’ve missed the point. Maybe, I’m seeing what I want to see, even in my dream state. I certainly hope so!

Love and Peace,
Bill

Those of you in Europe, espically my visitors from Sweden, come to my seminars just outside of Frankfurt this month. Email Ulla Knoll at ulla1301@yahoo.com