Make the Time

Bottom line in every question you ask yourself in every area of your life - what is my time worth? 


How do you measure it? 
How do you value it? 
What metrics do you use? 


Your time is the cornerstone of every business deal, submission, contract and negotiation process. 


How much does your time cost you? 
Time to save and to spend. 
Time to sow and to reap. 
Time to risk and to relax. 
Time to grow and time to enjoy. 


There are two sides to the time coin. 
Factor them both into your metrics. 
Make the Time.

My Kryptonite

The source of my power and the deep well of my fears are the very same thing – my Kryptonite. What makes me great is also my greatest weakness. Appreciation of each side of this “experience” that has fired my imagination and is also burning my whole being like a white hot poker – that appreciation is the cup from which I drink and the armour that I now wear.


Nichola Burton

Smoke and Mirrors

Dante Alighieri said “From a little spark may burst a mighty flame”. 


You never know where that seemingly innocent little spark – those out of the blue choices that you make - may lead you. The heat of a growing fire, that even rivers of tears fail to diminish, is unexpected and for a while our head questions our hearts for even contemplating the beauty of this fire. 


Yet nothing can drown these flames. 


Even as smouldering embers, this fire continues to flow in steaming molten lava. We try to control it as it terrifies us as much as it inspires us. The fire takes us out of our comfort zones and takes us out on a limb – naked and vulnerable. 


In vain we try to disguise the red hot flames; however the smoke has been giving us away all along. :-)

Science of Government

Unless it be for metaphysics and moral philosophy, perhaps the least progressive of all human sciences is the science of government. Just as we are today no nearer to a solution of the great questions with which Eliphaz the Temanite vexed the soul of the afflicted patriarch, so are we far from solving the political problems with which pericles wrestled, and which Plato and Aristotle attempted in vain to demonstrate. Among the modern autocracies of Europe we find no such administrative faculty as was displayed by Philip of Macedon; nor in the annals of the Athenian Republic do we find such crudities of legislation as those which deface our own, such abominations, for instance as the poll-tax, the tax on works of art and libraries, and other relics of a by-gone age." 


Hubert Howe Bancroft 1893.....Wow 1893 - some things never change :-)

Create Your Own Culture

"We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world." 


— Terence McKenna

Cause and Effect

Voltaire said "Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause." 


So find yours. 


Why are you doing what you are doing or wanting to do? 


If you cannot find the determination within you, you will attract it in another around you. 


Join forces and go for it!


Once you find your Cause, then dive deep into your imagination and plot a course for the Effect that you plan to leave on the Earth and Humanity.

Weeds

I’m stoked that my vegie garden did not die while I was in NYC. Plants I thought for sure would have been gobbled by those determined little green grasshoppers have thrived while the tall weeds that have hungrily taken up every bit of available space free to grow without my hand pulling them out of the soil, have been shredded instead. 


While I was weeding this morning, I thanked each weed that provided a diversion for the grasshoppers and I wondered about the weeds in my life and how I never thank them for taking one for the team. 


Have you thanked the weeds in your life today? :-)

Key to Wealth through Time and Space

If your income is solely derived from your service per hour then it is limited to your time and space. This takes your time between 9am and 5pm.

If your income is party derived from a savings plan that puts away 10% no matter what, then you begin to be a little more timeless in your finances. It is no longer as dependant on you physically being there to create the income.

This takes a little bit of time to set up – not much just a little. It takes more of a commitment and a choice. But then it simply builds.