Greetings Brethren,
Thank you to everyone who has given me positive comments regarding my articles in the Chips. Not only does it warm my heart, it encourages me to share my thoughts and philosophical meanderings. It also makes me glad to hear that I am able to inspire similar thoughts in all of you.
I am a huge proponent of sharing ideas, goals, visions, and thoughts (in case you haven't noticed). There are many reasons why.
As part of a self-developing leadership program I took through Landmark Education, I learned that no project is too big to accomplish if I simply share with enough people. By sharing what I'm doing in life with people, particularly in a way that inspires them, they often wish to help. Their help could be actually working on the project with me, or referring me to someone who can help me, or even turning around and telling other people about my project, until they find someone else who would want to help. Most people think of networking as exchanging business cards, but I see it as discovering how to help people accomplish their goals, as well as finding people who can help me achieve mine.
On a more esoteric level, by sharing goals and projects with people, I am putting energy out into the universe. Positive energy, which resonates with the accomplishment of my goal. Energy attracts like energy. It resonates and reverberates, expanding and attracting. In the book (and, more commercially popular, the DVD), "The Secret," it suggests that this exchange of energy is why it's critically important to think positive thoughts, and focus on the things in life you want. Because, the energy of the universe provides for you whatever it is you are thinking about most. All the more reason to distill and focus my thoughts on what I want, rather than spending mental energy on things that detract from my goals.
Writing is one way to focus my thoughts, as well as share them.
How do you share your goals and projects? What have you found is the best way to accomplish them?
Fraternally,
David Sylvester
Senior Warden