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"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." --Seneca, Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD Ummm. . . not sure if you've noticed, but lately every time I turn on the news, I get the impression that it's doomsday. The market is most definitely topsy-turvy, but is it the end of the world? Or is it just a cycle? It's easy to get depressed, confused, angry or obsessed with downward cycles, especially when the media keeps hammering us with it. My advice, keep your rudder in the water and make life work no matter what. A number of my students are in the real estate business. Lately we've been discussing the current market (at length). Huge mistakes were made on all fronts. Banks were practically throwing money at people, people who had no business accepting variable rates on loans, people who way overestimated how much they could afford in the long run. And now, instead of this being the problem of the banks and the borrowers, somehow it's everyone's problem, the taxpayers' problem. So what's the solution? Should we tune in and commiserate with the networks at how crippled the economy is? Or ponder just how horribly crushing this recession is going to be for all of us? I'm not very fond of the media. First of all, there's not much to it beyond entertainment these days anyway, and it's really just tidbits of "news" mixed up with salacious celebrity gossip (or even more salacious political gossip) but aside from that, I think it poisons the well for us to try to make positive change and have positive frames around our shared reality. As a collective conscious and collective unconscious, we have been duped into believing that we have no impact on the world around us, no power to make significant change. In my quest to counteract the negativity, I read. The most recent book I picked up is called "Train Your Brain, Change Your Mind" by Sharon Begley. It's about the transformational ability of the mind and combines neuroscience with Tibetan Buddhism, and mindfulness. I'm inspired and worked up over this book and I'm only on page ten. Brain science is showing that we have phenomenal powers to adapt and heal after head traumas, accidents, and have the power to reverse negative programming like propaganda or brainwashing. Our intention leads the way. When we set our own frames and not allow others to set them for us (like the media), then we can make seismic changes in the ourselves which can then ripple outward to our family and friends and from them out into the world. Science and spirituality are often at odds. Just look at creationism v. evolution. These factions have been passionately arguing with each other for a while now. Buddhism and neuroscience have discovered a way to act in concert with each other to cure diseases that science alone has attempted to drug and spirituality alone has required a leap of faith. If we look at the science behind the faith (or mind/body connection), things definitely come into focus and become more understandable. Who benefits from us fixing ourselves? Maybe not the big pharma companies, but the real profit is in us rippling out positivity and undermining the negative things that are being spoon fed to us.
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Kenrick Cleveland teaches strategies to earn the business of affluent clients using persuasion. He runs public and private seminars and offers home study courses and coaching programs in persuasion strategies.
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