"Maximal thriving is living 98+% of the day with a feeling of calm and strength, being sure to create and be in emotional and physical healthy homeostasis.
Why would we want to do anything else?"
The BuddhaKahuna
I am struck this day with my not having chosen to thrive - and what a waste it is to not fully harvest life.
By this I don't mean using determination and being driven to do well, for that is just "surviving, but doing it better."
I mean seemingly effortlessly, accumulating value as I go - and minimizing that which clearly is not a yes to the question "will this have me thrive?"
Thriving is fully using life as the precious gift it is Just letting life go by, in a repeat of circular patterns and focusing on surviving is not what life is about. It is about doing that which, for you, creates value [of course, you have to identify that, using at first a simple, quick process].
As I look at my life, I see that I have wasted much of it by not thriving. I lay out below the distractions and off-purpose things I've done that have taken me away from thriving.
Measuring Thriving
98+ Thriving, Level 2
90+ Thriving, Level 1
20 Surviving, doing wll but driven, having stress and needing "relief", distractions,
1 Surviving
What is thriving? Is it cumulative or circular??? Is it my life running me or me running my life?
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WHAT IS THRIVING?
Doing what is on purpose and forwarding
Creating
Living in possibilities
Going for/toward something positive and enlivening (vs. going "away from" something negative)
Knowing what is wanted and of value
Appreciating what is present and/or created
Celebrating (consolidating in your brain your victories
Thanking
Being grateful, seeing all you have (versus all you don't have) and knowing it is more than "enough"
Adding one more contribution and person I've contributed to.
Strengthening and resolidifying the platform every day, so that that very day I will be able to create at my very best and to be totally calm and strong.
It is doing what is needed for me to be centered and grounded with full energy.
WHAT IS "NOT" THRIVING?
Distractions and diversions
Watching tv (I watch political tv shows, as if it is something I need to know or can contribute in - this is a practice totally out of touch with life, a diversion - and a diversion is not living life - it is stepping off the path.
Not doing that which supports my energy and health
Eating in such a way that it burdens my body and my life. Eating from craving, because I am out of balance.
Any "making wrong"
Any artificially limiting thinking
Creating fear, pressure, tension, stress
Creating stress from artificial deadlines or hurrying and being driven (cousins of fear)
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IS IT CUMULATIVE OR CIRCULAR?
It is circular to the extent we need to repeat things, but it is a rising spiral if we live life cumulatively.
If we go through a day without making any progress or creating any cumulative, then we are just going in a circle that leads nowhere except back to itself.
It is doing what supports my life and my thriving in it. Certain things are "necessary" in order to live. Appreciating doing those
I've spent 10's of thousands of hours in distractions. I've spent in diversions. I've in being off purpose...getting nowhere. in getting 'things' and then having it not be filling.
FROM LOOKING AT THIS, WHAT I HAVE DECIDED OR RE-DECIDED
Centered, calm, energized
To, without fail, check in and start each day fully centered and grounded and energized.
To use my Reminders Notebook to be sure to be guided.
To be sure to check in and let go of any hurried or pressured feeling.
To be fully self-determined
I plan my day completely, so I am ready to go toward what I determine is of the most value.
To not watch tv for stress relief (like "relaxing" [telling myself this as an excuse])
Stop, though interesting, watching political tv, as it has no furthering value and is not "positivity"
Reduce all of my cable tv options down to the minimum.
Energy fully managed
Eat at exact times during the day, so I am in homeostasis on my blood sugar and energy. 8 Full smoothie, coffee (in the sun preferably), 10 snack of , 12 lunch of , 3 snack of , 5:30 dinner of , 8 snack of .
To not eat any Cherry Garcia, gratuitous sugar or refined flour products.
Napping religiously during the afternoon slump.
To go to bed at a precise time (11:30) every night and to arise at a designated time (7:30), assuring fully rested.
Nap as necessary to assure a full energy evening.
Exercise M Tu W F Sa (at least 4 x week, even if travelling), aerobic 20+min, strength; 6 pm target
Stretching every day for 5+ min. routine
On-purpose, accumulating value
Plan, decide
Essential to plan every week, reviewing my purpose as part of it.
Essential to plan every month and quarter, so I am doing what is "on-purpose" for me
