If you want to measure the value of a person’s life, look at the affect of their life on their world, on the people in their life. Look into their close relationships. Look at how they make other’s feel about themselves.

There is no need to wait until we die to stand before the so-called Seat of Judgment. It is all happening right now, in plain view.

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There are basically two kinds of project managers. The first type tends to have a more limited world view than the second type.

The first type of project manager (PM) believes they need to know how to do everything relative to their job. This PM may or may not be okay with delegating to others, but even if they delegate they always believe that they have to know how to do every job and task. Focusing on every detail can be a good and productive attribute, but it can create habits that get us lost in the details.

The second type of project manager tends to view the world from a higher perspective, an approach that allows them to delegate freely and quickly, giving them the space to step back to both monitor and adjust to the bigger picture. They may not know how to do every piece of their project, but that does not bother them. They see others as being valuable and necessary, and they are far more focused on getting the project completed than on who does what.

Sometimes, the first type of project manager will feel superior to the second type because, after all, they can do ‘everything.’ Judgemental approaches like this can limit the first project manager from growing, and confine them to a certain world view that is not as widely inclusive as it could grow to be. Such judgment also tends to make the first type of project manager resistant to the help and teachings of the second type of PM. Consequently, the second type of PM may eventually tire and move on, fatigued over others telling him or her that the better perspective is always the lower perspective.

These attitudes are also true in our own life and purpose. Lost in the details, the majority of us lose sight of the big picture. Yet there are experienced people who have the skills to step back and see the bigger picture, a picture that is inclusive of the continuity of eternity, inclusive that a bigger picture is, indeed, unfolding.

Spiritual seekers often lament that they don’t know where to turn. Turn toward the more seasoned teachers. If you can’t find them, search. If you seek, you will find. Be relentless, be demanding of your church, your minister, your instructor, teacher or guru. Don’t settle for the lower perspectives, but rather insist on your right to be taught how to connect to the very Center of all things, to the very Center of You.

If you haven’t had deep experiences it is because you are inexperienced. Demand the experience itself.

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leadership and responsibility

It is flawed logic to argue that we have all of eternity to “fix” this mess we are in on earth. This argument - and that’s what it is - assumes that at some point in the future we are going to fix things. The assumption, however, is flawed, because each time we reincarnate we must overcome successively stronger weighted tendencies - as we become more deeply set in our conditioned reflexes.

The job gets harder the longer we put if off. Global warming makes the case: putting our heads in the sand eventually extends us beyond critical mass - to a point where things can no longer be fixed. If we don’t find ways to better illuminate the path, it will stay dark here; we will keep living in the dark… forever.

The light-headed optimist glibly responds in chatty rhythm, “I really don’t have to be all that worried. Heaven [the other side] is so full of light, and that’s where I’m going; I’m leaving this darkness behind!” This is a naive, egotistical and immature point of view, because it can be just as dark for us over there as it is for us here. Only our immediate circumstances are escaped by death.

“Oh, but I am in the light here,” comes the predictable response. “I am growing everyday, and I’m becoming more one with the universe.”

Light IS in everything, but we are talking two different games here. It’s like a newly minted sailor walking up to the veteran captain, and, upon surveying the churning sea, saying with a forgivable chirpiness, “Wow, sir; the ocean is really big and dangerous - but, I know that we’ll make it, sir, and we’ll be fine. You want to know how I know that, sir? Because of all my training and my really great mental attitude!” Read the rest of this entry »

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