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Proactive people are clear about what’s important to them and why. They cut through the clutter of uncertainty to make decisions and take action. Reactive people, on the other hand, allow themselves to wallow in a fog of uncertainty, forever reacting to events and circumstances that seem beyond their control.

When you live reactively, you do give up control, but you can never give up responsibility. To the degree that you fail to make decisions for yourself, someone else will come along and make those decisions for you, whether it be your parents, your spouse, your boss, the media, or societal conditioning. After a time you’ll find yourself enduring a life you never really wanted… always working to fulfill someone else’s goals and never your own.

Proactive people accept that it’s impossible to avoid responsibility for one’s results in life, so they jump in and participate willingly. Instead of living as mere statistics and playing follow-the-follower, they make conscious choices based on their unique values, beliefs, and goals. Consequently, they enjoy a sense of passion and purpose that is forever denied those who live reactively.

Here are 10 suggestions for creating more clarity in your life, so you can enjoy a life of meaning and fulfillment:

1. Define your life purpose. Use the Discover Your Purpose process to create your personal statement of purpose. Whenever you’re faced with a key decision, ask yourself which option best fits your purpose. In many cases the correct decision will become clear. As you continue using your purpose to make decisions, you’ll gradually align the various parts of your life with your purpose, which will greatly improve your overall sense of clarity and direction.
2. Set clear goals. When you have no goals, you’re like a ship adrift at sea; the sea will toss you around aimlessly. When you have fuzzy goals, you’re like a ship with a broken navigational system; no matter how hard your try, you’ll only spin in circles. When you have clear, unambiguous goals, you’re a ship with a destination sailing full speed ahead. Goals build clarity by cutting through the fog of indecision.
3. Select your own experiences. Life is an experience, not an accomplishment. Some paths are more interesting and rewarding than others even though the destinations may be similar. Suppose you’d like to develop a certain level of fitness. Perhaps you could achieve it by working out in your home. But maybe you could also get there by training at a martial arts studio. Don’t just focus on outcomes. Consider your experiential preferences too, so you enjoy the journey as well as the destination.
4. Assess your values. Do you want your life to be secure or adventurous? Peaceful or courageous? Healthy or wealthy? Read Living Your Values, and use the List of Values to

gain clarity about what’s most important to you in life. Knowing your top 3-5 values will provide you with a much deeper level of self-knowledge.

5. Create a personal accountability system. Assemble all your best clarity-building tools — your purpose statement, your values, your goals, and more — in one convenient place, and review them regularly to keep your life flowing in the direction of your dreams. Read the Personal Accountability System article to learn more.
6. Keep a journal. When you record a thought or idea and read it back, you’ll being seeing it from a different angle. This perspective shift can provide a new level of clarity, as some ideas appear very different once you get them out of your head. Also, whenever a thought or idea has been recorded, you’ll feel better about mentally releasing it, which helps you stay focused on the current task or project.
7. Ask a friend. Since your friend is probably not as emotionally invested in your situation as you are, s/he will be able to see your situation from a broader perspective. If your friend and you have similar values, chances are your decisions will be similar. But it’s often easier to make a wise decision when you aren’t the one who has to implement it, so consulting a friend can help you gain certainty that your decision is correct.
8. Embrace mistakes. Let go of the idea that your decisions must be perfect. The more decisions you make, the more mistakes you’ll make. Often that’s exactly what you need to do because there are many situations where the correct decision can only be recognized after a series of mistakes. Very few people find the perfect career or relationship on the first try. Clarity grows with experience, and experience comes from making mistakes.
9. Recognize when you already have clarity. If you find yourself spending an inordinate amount of time trying to gain clarity in some area, you may already know what to do, but you lack the courage to follow through. Don’t go back to the drawing board and rework all your plans from scratch. Keep the decision in front of you, and work on building the courage to implement it. Start by admitting to yourself, “I know this is the correct decision, but currently I lack the strength to proceed.” Listen to Podcast #2 and read The Courage to Live Consciously for further advice.
10. Ride it out. Sometimes your life will be struck by events that uproot your sense of certainty. Even positive events such as moving to a new city can have this effect. Taking a few weeks to reorient yourself is very reasonable… several months for a major life change. But when you recognize that you’re no longer in a necessary incubation period, it’s time to set some fresh goals.

When you find yourself stuck in a fog of uncertainty, you can still make conscious decisions and plan your way out of the fog. However, that alone will not cause the fog to lift. Only after you get moving will you come to the edge of the fog, and then you’ll be able to see much farther ahead. Clarity is greatest when you’re in motion, not when you’re standing still.

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>My purpose in using that particular example, though, was simply to illustrate that some of the effects of hallucinogens can be easily explained as cognitive misfirings or increased awareness. I may later “reintegrate” these experiences into my daily life or remember how to focus my attention to these normally ignored features of the environment.<

The reason I asked if you were attempting to rationalize, trivialize or explain away your perception of walls breathing is that walls and other seemingly inanimate objects are indeed “breathing” and “alive”, not in the restricted way our logical, ego dominated minds define breathing and life, but insofar as the matter comprising them is constantly vibrating, moving in and out, flashing on and off, and particulating, or pixelzing, from waves. I believe that the normal ego-dominated mind integrates these phenomena into a seamless picture. But in the relatively ego-less state that entheogens induce, the mind for some reason (and in some way currently unbeknownst to us) becomes conscious of these phenomena. This is not necessarily because the mind actually perceives the waveforms from which matter is particulating from moment to moment, or the particles themselves, but because it somehow perceives manifestations of these phenomena that it doesn’t perceive when the ego’s normal filters are operating.

There’s obviously a lot more to this than meets the eye………….

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The nature of government past and present tends toward eternal scope creep. If Libertarians were to sweep all 3 branches of the US government tomorrow and hold power for a decade, we would still not live in a system that actually *had* zero regulation of businesses, complete abandonment of any sort of social safety net, or total privatization of all that is currently in the civic sphere.

Think about it – you surely can see extremity of some sort in the Democrat and Republican parties alike, no? But does this country look entirely like an incarnation of the desires of either one of them? No; it’s a hodge-podge of policies — sometimes contradictory — hailing from all over the political spectrum. So in the end, infusing the system with a bunch of anti-scope-creep politicians would merely introduce some friction to retard the expansion. Like any other party, if they took it too far, populism would push the pendulum of power away from them and things would drift back in the other direction.

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I promise ya…….one day Neo is going be paid to make those nutter faces he does…..mark my words.

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There is a close association between personal charisma and success in life. Probably 85 percent of your success and happiness will come from your relationships and interactions with others. The more positively others respond to you, the easier it will be for you to get the things you desire.

Perception Is Everything
The critical thing to remember about charisma is that it is largely based on perception. It is based on what people think about you. It is not so much reality as it is what people perceive you to be. For example, one person can create charisma in another person by speaking in glowing terms about that person to a third party. If you believe that you are about to meet an outstanding and important person, that person will tend to have charisma for you.

Second, see yourself and imagine yourself every day as an important powerful and charming person.
Treat others as you would if you were already strong, famous and influential.

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