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Entrepreneur Kevin Kelly was quoted as follows (coincidence I am 55? NOPE! Ha ha):
“I am now 55 years old. Like a lot of people in middle age, my late-night thoughts bend to contemplations about how short my remaining time is. Even with increasing longevity, there is not enough time to do all that I want. Nowhere close. My friend Stewart Brand, who is now 69, has been arranging his life in blocks of 5 years. Five years is what he says any project worth doing will take. From the moment of inception to the last good riddance, a book, a campaign, a new job, a start-up will take 5 years to play through. So, he asks himself, how many 5 years do I have left? He can count them on one hand even if he is lucky. So, this clarifies his choices. If he has less than 5 big things he can do, what will they be?”
How many 5 years do I have left?
What Secrets do you want to start sharing?
What BIG dreams do you have?
I had an amazing Professor in California that as he was graduating from High School, he dreamed about learning how to read some day, as he had not yet been forced to learn how to read yet. However, he did graduated from High School with a “B” average.
Huh?
Of all the incredible Teachers, Professors, and Mentors I enjoyed in my College days, the most impactful and certainly interesting teachers and mentors I ever encountered was a gentleman by the name of Joseph at Cabrillo Junior College in Aptos, California.
Joseph story is so unique. It’s almost hard to believe it’s true but I’ll give you just a few quick highlights.
He grew up in rural Indiana at a very young age and also quite athletic.
There’s only one thing to do with the kid in the 40s and 50s and 60s in Indiana who is an athlete and is tall and that’s to get him to play basketball as soon as possible. Joseph became very good at basketball.
So good that he got a full scholarship to a very large university in Indiana, and he attended that college with his high school sweetheart that became his first wife who he had been with since he was about 15 years old.
One day after class during Josephs sophomore year in college a professor asked him to stay after class to have a few words with them. What happened next change Joseph life and the trajectory of everything he thought his life would be you see that professor had figured out that Joseph was illiterate and had never learned how to read. His basketball talents allowed Joseph to fly under radar academically, not have to do the quality of work that non-basketball players needed to do. And his wife/girlfriend did all of his academic work, wrote all of his papers, etc.
That professor that busted him offered a deal with Joseph to keep everything concealed, and that he wouldn’t tell his secret of being illiterate if Joseph agreed to learn how to read and just read one book.
If Joseph could read just one book, he would no longer have to worry about the professor telling him what was going on about Joseph and his illiteracy, so Joseph agreed to the deal because he didn’t have any choice.
What happened after that?
Joseph went to not get multiple undergraduate, but then a PhD in the history of consciousness from the university of California. For his thesis, he studied the concept of charisma, and he used Stage Presence with a theater troop as the most tangible way to measure the concept of charisma in humans in modern society.
There were multiple people involved in the study they followed a theater, troop for 18 months and at the end of the experience all of the participants agreed that they were only a few performers from the stage troop that had had a major and palpable shift in their stage presence that everyone involved in the study could agree on.
It turns out those students with elevated charisma and stage presence had all suffered a tragic loss of life of either a friend or a loved one during that. And what resulted was a letting go of fear and inhibitions and an expansion and acceleration of their charisma or stage presence.
It took the reality of death and the fragility of life to help some people find another gear and to on some levels, wake up and start living.
Joseph had completely woken up, and his life became immeasurably more interesting and rich AFTER he let go of his secret, shame, and fears. He opened a Book.
This video here is a way to really turn up the urgency to help people understand just how fleeting life is and how fast it can go and how urgent it is to pursue our own dreams and our own version of personal greatness.
Tough Love Because I Love You.
I have been looking at my life in five year blocks, really looking at the fact that I have three really active five-year blocks ahead of me that I can count on having full mobility, stamina, and adequate health to realize the things I want to manifest without it being a big ask from a probability and health standpoint.
That is just not very much time folks.
Just a little warning, shot over the bow….. a grateful blast to make you realize that it is not the dress rehearsal life and pursuing our own dreams and doing all of the things that we would like to try is exactly what will give us contentment and satisfaction as we age and grow older.
Making a bucket list pursuing your greatness, traveling and doing all the things that you wanted to do, all of that is self-love and a part of just enjoying the experience in the journey that is this very short life.
Get on it like a puppy on a pork chop and let us know what we can do at Grateful4 to help you enjoy more of your life experience, more of your short life, and continue to reap the rewards of an attitude of gratitude.
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