Distractions, annoyances, irritants. Life. We try not to allow them to interfere with the goal at hand. If you take charge of a seemingly overwhelming circumstance, you have played the hand, taken charge, and are personally responsible for the dramatic new you. 'Cause only YOU has your back. Often when we get out of the pool there is a rainbow waiting at the top of the hill.
More on this theme from http://ezinearticles.com/?Play-The-Hand-Youre-Dealt-As-If-It-Is-The-Only-Hand-That-Exists&id=698842:
Recognize any of these responses? The truth is everybody gets good and bad luck at some point. That is what is called 'so what' as was a quote in the recent film 'The Secret'. It is not our place to question past events or the way the cards were dealt. Every person has a sob story, a bad childhood experience, a feeling of failure, maybe had sad family times or just days that didn't go their way. The point is that all of these experiences have moulded you to cope with the current situation. The cards you have in your hand. At this point the Wise man searches his mind for anything useful that he has locked away in his box of memories and disregards the rest. You see the Wise man understands that now is the time for action, and how he plays his cards is totally within his power, his control and are his choices. (Sorry about the masculine connotations, the story works just as well with a feminine touch). When we are in the now, and are holding the cards, our actions 'is the flow' so we are active players in the game of life. This is not the time to 'see how it goes' or surrender to 'whatever will be will be'. This is your chance, your time to participate in the process and everything that happens from this point begins by the seed that you place at this given moment. The past is merely an illusion and the future is pure speculation. There is only now and at this point I urge you to play your hand like it is the only hand that exists, because now IS the ONLY time that truly exists.
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I was listening to an anthropologist on the radio yesterday who was talking about the Aborigines of Australia. In that culture, apparently, there is no mention of or use of the word 'time': present, past, or future. And, perhaps no belief in it. I do not remember all of it or listen that well, but I got the impression that the aborigines believe that they are part of a dream state w/ an 'ideal' start/point of inception and that man should not 'ideally' change or alter that original form (to the extent that change could be avoided). Technology in any form would be disdained as leading to undesirable results, e.g., destruction of rain forests. I think this prof used the Garden of Eden as an example and that the aboriginal response or philosophy would be: "OK, this is the best it is going to get. Leave everything alone. Lets try to go timeless."
Not sure how the foregoing view (to the extent I articulated it accurately) might fit with your post, but I was reminded of it and how goal-setting might be influenced by one's perspective of time, nature and the relative value of what one makes of the material world.
Dealer takes one. If the 'goal' of your culture is to maintain the essence of Eden you are eventually going to meet the demons of 'civilization' and 'progress' somewhere along the road. And what then? It was cool with a handful of blissed out aboriginals but now we have, what, 7 billion people all hooked on Wal-Mart crap and looking for material technology to end or at least ease their (mostly self-inflicted) suffering. So far every bout technology has had with ecology, it has been a TKO. Even in dreamstate the summer moves to fall. I think you know that given the power I would put a immediate halt on commercial expansion and work towards cleaning up the mess we have made, so little by little, day by day, spin class by spin class we work towards a goal we believe to be somehow bettering what our tribe has created. Or re-creating what we have destroyed if we still can. I think that is what playing the hand means in this round. Ante up pardner,
OK, I just consumed a huge Creme Soda/Ice Cream Float and Sam his with Orange Soda. Two fewer floats on this planet, so I guess I did my job for the day!
Making kids happy is HUGE. YOU might just want to have water next time, however!!!! (Although I did pop thru the DQ on my way back from HD this afternoon). Smiles are rainbows to the intrepid.
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