Maybe you�re not that bad. Dust yourself up a little bit and you�re ready to go into new territory. Many of us have been on a fixed road, a now familiar road, or a well-worn road that is wearing out it�s welcome. We haven�t taken to many chances when it comes to exploring new territory that we, might actually enjoy.
When can I break the code, break the code of negativity, of not feeling like I can ever do this. When can I break the code of being on the outside of what I really want, looking at everything I want pass me by in a world I can�t obtain.
I can also think of the exact. Exactly who could you be, if you gave yourself this chance?
I was talking to a basketball scout about a NBA prospect, who he compared to a current NBA all star player, and he said that this prospect could be that exact player. He could be exactly like that NBA superstar.
In fact, let�s get rid of these restrictions and get the right stuff. It�s been a long time but let�s get back there. We�re going all the way to the moon this time, our time.
We don�t want to shrink from all those good things out there for us this time.
Stop moving in the direction you don�t want to go, and start moving in the direction you do want to go. Why borough deeper into the hole you are already in?
Sometimes we have to just see where it will take us, this idea, this situation, this interest, this potentiality. Without knowing that exact road, we can still take it and see where it takes us.
New territory is representative of and is amass in potential, potential that does exist but may and often in fact will never be realized. There is a lot of potential out there, but within and without, but just because we see the chance doesn�t mean we will take the chance. For this potential to have a chance to be realized, we need the opportunity to first freely explore these positive potentials and the freedom to capture some of this potential. Any given situation could have a representation of potential. We need freedom if we so choose to encourage, sustain, and further develop the potential we already see.
I might be trying to vie my way through the Rock of Gibraltar. I could instead try to find a more malleable course. If someone is traveling through a river, why wouldn�t they try to find more favorable currents within the currents of the river? I could try to find a more malleable course, a course more to my liking and fondness that might be a bit easier.
I might begin to see a talent that I have and come to rely upon it. It is probably better to rely on talent than not to rely on it. It opens up a more sustainable course. I might want to further explore a talent I see to get a better view of it.
People get caught in patterns and then fear the drift instead of the welcoming waters of the new.
Instead, can you move this time with your own interests, move with your better ideas, move with the happier times that could be there for you.
When, where and how this potential will ever come to a realization will depend in part if we can see ourselves freely through. I might want to power my way through, but if I can�t see my way in freedoms paths, I may never get through.
Then there can be the easy way through, the better way through, the smart way through, the more exciting way through, the more relaxed way through. All of which might lead us to new paths. But the tendency is to rush through never finding those little branches of possibility that could have bloomed had I ever really seen them at a slower speed.
An absolute key to freedom is recognition. Everything I ever wanted could be standing right in front of me staring me in the face, but it will never happen if I can�t recognize it. From the point of recognition, I can go just about anywhere, forget my fears, and leave them in the dust of yesterday. If I can get on that trail and recognize my way through, I have it.
An example could be something you could do. You meet someone who is doing this and you recognize within the discussion that you share many similar or some of the very same enabling qualities that this person possesses. You in fact also possess these qualities and you are beginning to recognize that this person took these qualities and got to a desirable place with them and you recognize that maybe just maybe, you could possibly do the same.
There are many roads I can take but if I never begin to walk down some of these roads and give myself a chance to go further I may never get to see what might have been possible. I might need to begin to lift some of the restrictions I have brought with me from my past and let go of some of the baggage I have carried with me that says I can�t go this way or walk down this new road.
It is only natural that we go with the familiar. But, are we giving something new a chance to get into the range of the familiar. For example, I am thinking of going into something new, yet I want to be pre acclimated. I want the acclimation process to be done and over with before I am even started. I am thinking of a sojourn into the North Pole, yet I sit on the beach in sunny, Florida in preparation for the harsh conditions of the North. I want to get acclimated to the territory without actually going there first. It�s like asking someone to read an article for you. How can that work into a true understanding of what you think the article was saying?
I might want to readapt to my current interests. For example, maybe a person has been living more or less as a recluse, they want to socialize more, and maybe they did socialize a lot sometime in the distant past. They would need to readapt to that lifestyle of being in tune with the social. The good times are rolling in and I just need to readapt to them. See your better self, even if that self is years away now, in the more distance past and look to find that self again and readapt to the person you could be. Look for the best you and readapt to that person. Those good times can be there again for you, just readapt to them. Maybe you loved the 60�s, the 70�s, or a particular summer you once had. Find out where that feeling went, get it back and readapt to it.
I might be looking for the edge when I don�t necessarily have to go or search for the edge to get into new territory. You might be worth a lot or have a lot going for you in the circle of your interests without going outside of that circle. I might want a relationship with an exciting person, being an exciting person myself I am then already in that circle and therefore I don�t need to dye my hair blond. For example, I travel to Rome to see some of its history and also its catch a breeze of it�s modern culture. The experience itself brings me into new territory. I don�t need to rewrite history or effect a cultural change in Rome to meet with the new right now. Looking for the edge is a trap at times because I might have something already and I am looking further on. I have a workable stretch of coast and I am seeking another type of coastline. Charles Wang of Computer Associates is starting to revamp the whole historical village of Oyster Bay. He has the means to do this and it is okay to do this. But is seems to be searching for that edge but while that is okay it isn�t something that he has to do. . But having the means doesn�t mean he could have also taken Oyster Bay as it is now without trying to effect change. Two people who are meeting each other for the first time do not have to make this a radical experience or bring this to an edge. Two people just being themselves on a first meeting is involving the formation of new territory without necessarily seeking or finding an edge to the experience.
You never know what someone is looking for across the river. For example, the studious girl who likes to sit in the library all day might like the physicality of an athletic person.
You might get another chance to channel. It might be just one big roadblock that you have to get past and if you do there would be this vast open landscape in front of you. It would be like trying to enter a National Park but there is a temporary roadblock. Once you get past this block, it just a vast open enjoyable landscape for you.
I can be in a bad spot or a good spot but from either spot I can get to Hawaii. So either though I might feel that bad spot is where I am destined to stay, that good spot can still be found from the bad spot.
Go far enough to give yourself a chance to see that you could or might go further. Plug in freedom and see how it feels.
Maybe I have been doing well on some or one of my fronts, but there are other fronts I could have considered, other ways I could have paid heed to.
I can go elsewhere with this. I can go into previously unmapped territory, and I�ll be the one to map it. I�ll put this on the map for others or myself and I�ll draw the map.
I can go anywhere with this. What is this, this is that asset I have that might have universal appeal and applicability. As I travel, the asset goes with me. The asset can bring me anyplace. I have that insight to go anywhere I have the cleverness to go anywhere, the fortitude to go anywhere. This strength I have is strength in any locale and I bring it with me wherever I go.
Okay, but maybe I can�t go anywhere with this but I can certainly bring this to more than one table.
Miss U.S.A, Miss Russia can also be Miss World. Her beauty applies anywhere, she can go anywhere with this asset.
We purport to be followers of freedom, but do we give it just oblation when seeking new territory? Or was it just fanfare in those distant days gone by, a ceremonial salute to what might have been, had I been willing to take a chance in freedom?
Think of how often something new is portrayed as giving or having freedom. This even works down to the personal level for you and me.
I was walking down the country road as I was going to my favorite store. I looked at the time and I realized I was going to get there after what was closing time. But as I approached the store, I saw the door still swung open, with the open sign on the door. The territory then I wanted was still open., I still had a chance. I went in, had a good conversation with the owner as usual, and brought what I wanted.
The territory is front of us is more wide open than we think in many ways, both big and small. For example, in my routine I might visit 3 or 4 favorite libraries. But there are many other libraries that are open to the public. Lot�s of other books I could open. There are small ways in which more is open than I would think and it is helpful to contemplate for example that I can go to different restaurants, and get a new menu. I love to hike and there are so many places and paths that are open to me that I can still hike.
We don�t have the reference points since we haven�t gone into new territory yet. Estimations are involved again. Do you really estimate in some value to this? This road you�re on? You can estimate you might.
Even if I never actually get to the new territory, I am still free to contemplate it and its possible ramifications and new designs.
Maybe the road we have been on just has too much length. Our way of thinking, our approach has worked into a very long road and maybe it�s time to consider another road of thought that has shorter paths to nirvana. Maybe you have been on a long road to nowhere and you have traveled a long way only to find yourself just about in the same spot ,why then do you still think you can get there on this road? Give yourself that space and room in freedom to get off that long road and find a new way. Maybe we just need to get to that next shade of insight.
John Travolta, playing Bill Clinton in the movies, says in a later scene in that Southern accent," It�s been a long road." Well, you don�t always have to stay on a given road.
Imagine having this out of your life? Can I get to a place where I am getting some distance from this? There is a subtle difference to seeing things this way. Say for example you suffer from some kind of dearth or lack say even a lack of money in your pocket. Don�t just imagine having the money but also imaging the lack or dearth being gone from your life. Imagine no longer lacking the necessary funds for whatever you want to do. One of the things you might not want is lack in some area.
That feeling and reality of lack becoming more and more distant. The difference here is that you are obtaining the distance from what you don�t want and you can feel better from that distance. The people on the next island over from Mount Vesuvius felt better about their position because they had some distance from the exploding volcano.
Distancing can be very helpful and something like sitting somewhere say in a park you have never been to read a book can give you the effect of being distant from your usual rounds and routines and that little bit of distance, that distant view might be the one that gets you closer to the truth of where you are and where you might want to go or brings you a sense of relief and release and breathing room..
With distancing, it could be akin to being someone else or somewhere else where I can get the view of the outsider.
My reasons not to can be often be good and valid. But what happens is these reasons might begin to operate on several planes including the plane of being another excuse to operate with and carry with me. With this, even if my reasons not to where eliminated, contradicted or contraindicated, I still might look to hold on to them or find replacements because they also had the role of being excuses. If I lose my excuses, I need someone else or something else to play that role in my act.
What do you want to see? Columbus wanted to see that new coastline which later became known as America. .
Even if you still might fail, it helps to keep in mind what you want to see. First, ask the question, what do I want to see and begin to get real with in some way? Even if it�s just activating your imagination towards this or just lining in you hopes along those boundaries. You might want to see how you would do in a given area. Maybe you would like to see how you would do if you played a round of golf. Maybe you would like to see how you would enjoy a particular type of novel, or see how you would react and feel in a certain situation because you just don�t know and you need to take a chance with yourself to find out. Maybe you would enjoy giving that big speech even though every other person says they dread public speaking, you don�t have to see yourself that way or with that vision or address yourself with that tone.
What looks good to you? To answer that question, I would need to also look at freedom as well as the deeper answer or the next level. If it really does look good to you, then you might begin to see it that way if you take the chance and go further down the coast.
But why divert from what you really want to see, avoiding the issue. Today I want to see how I will do on a hike. I stay home in front of the TV. How am I going to see what the story is with hiking when I am digressing from this? Go forward, and then decide.
I could go forward and then I could begin to say that I want to end this. But this would always involve a tail off and maybe it�s better to see it that way, . It doesn�t have to be seen as a seismic change that I might be apprehensive about, but maybe I�ll tail off on this approach that I have been using but maybe hasn�t worked in the way I had hoped. . Maybe I have been working in an office, I can see the tail of that comet, and I can begin to look at another type of work without seeing it as an abrupt ending, or sudden divorce. Just see yourself as being involved in a tail off on this interest approach or lifestyle as you make room in freedom for the new territory. I�ll see you, I am taking off, and I�m heading in a new direction.
I want to see how I relate to a given person on a date. However, I just think about this and theorize about it. How am I actually going to see how it would go unless I take the chance and actually go on the date? My own actions might speak louder to me than my own words speak to me at times.
Then we could say, what does something represent? You win a settlement or award of 100,000 dollars. You might think this money represents a few trips abroad, investment money I can parlay into even more money, or maybe you could buy a fancy car and impress the ladies. But this $100,000 may represent such things or just as easily it may not represent that at all. We can consider what we think something represents and the possibility that we could be wrong or at least that we are assuming representation that may or may not actually be there or happen. In the same way, one or a few bad experiences might not be representative of what the territory could be for you in its more positive fashions and designs.
If I want to venture out, more than likely I will feel better if I can find my way back if I want to or have to. For example, some friends and myself are going to explore a deserted island off the coast. On one side of the island, a boat is waiting for us at the end of the day to bring us back to the mainland. But what if we lost track of how to get back to the boat ad we meander through this unfamiliar island. We might not feel as good about our venture. Or what if we weren�t sure that the boat would still be there waiting for us if we didn�t get back in time.
Two friends go to the riverbank. One-friend checks to see that the water isn�t too deep so he can feel more comfortable in his swim. The other person checks to see if the water is vastly deep so his jump of the 70-foot cliff is into deep enough waters that are safe for that jump. Two individuals, looking at the same new territory but each with differing perspectives as to what each wants from that same territory.
Often the question and the subject matter at hand are open to interpretation. That there exists openness as to how I can interpret this or that has implications that I have some freedom within this openness. How we go about arriving at an interpretation and where we actually end up with our interpretation might and sometimes should bring us to new territory. Remember that whatever approach you are taking amounts to an interpretation that you can still reconsider and remand into something new.
New territory might be something we prefer not to deal with, as it�s something that�s set in the unfamiliar. Anything that is truly new I haven�t seen yet. It�s a sun set in an unfamiliar sky. A sky I haven�t seen yet.
Can I give the unfamiliar a chance to get the familiar? Since I realize that I prefer the familiar, I still need to give situations a chance to get familiar, where they then will be preferable as they are now familiar. I want to travel along from the unfamiliar to the familiar. For example, I traverse an unfamiliar road, now it is familiar, I have changed this course from unfamiliar to familiar, I have changed this road into a familiar road.
New territory could be as simple as a new conversation with an old friend or a conversation with someone new. New territory could be a new turn of thought, a novel approach, and another way of looking at things.
Freedom could be simply having the chance to think about something else. Maybe my goal is the pursuit of wealth but that can start to dominate my thoughts and am I free to take a break from this and think about something else, somewhere else or somebody else? . Can I give my mind the leeway and freedom to take another view in my contemplations? While I am concentrating on my job, I have to think about it. Would another job or pursuit give me a chance finally to think about something else?
Dive a little deeper in the pool of your own thoughts and imaginings. Your own thoughts could have as much potency as anybodies. Why not? How about the character actor in the movie who requires a bit more depth? Can you go there into that deeper section of the pool and play that part?
I can alter the lines of my thinking now. I can think along different and maybe better lines for myself. I can ask the question, maybe I don�t have want I always wanted but what can I be happy about right now? And I am free to change even what I want.
Of course, there will always be stray thoughts no matter what the lines of our thinking are or what lines I choose to center on. I can always stray away by choice. Some of these thoughts could be positive and worth heeding even though they seem to stray from the course, we had set for ourselves. And it is true that sometimes we might pick a course that just isn�t going to be there or will drift away from the landscape of what is possible. Then they might be negative and we can pay too much attention to these stray thoughts, which might divert us from the good and which might as well be stray bullets for all the good they do for us.
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