Three Battles
to Fight
For Your Life
By Janet MacDonald Kramer
Knowledge, Action, and Self-Honesty. When you have them, you are powerful, as you create your life.
Their opposites are Ignorance, Stupidity, and Self-Delusion. Lots of people you know have them. These people are powerful too, as they create their problems.
Warning: read on only if you are serious about pursuing personal success, happiness, and health. I want you to claim your personal Power... so here goes:
The first battle is between Ignorance and Knowledge:
Marnie’s husband cheats on her and she doesn't have the slightest clue. Ignorance! Jack choses to pay the “minimum payment” on his credit card bill and has no idea of the astonishing total he will someday owe in compounding principal and excruciating interest. Ignorance! Elise is in one of her clean-everything-in-this-damn-house moods, and inadvertently mixes certain cleaning products in her pail. She creates toxic gas. Ignorance!
Ignorance is not having the necessary knowledge, data, information, or skill. Marnie, Jack and Elise are ignorant. They don’t know any better, and they don’t know that they don’t know. However, their ignorance does not exempt them from suffering.
You have an idea of what “success” means for you. In order to succeed, you’ll recognize that you don’t know what you don’t know. This is your personal battle between Ignorance and Knowledge. You are asking yourself, “what knowledge do I need to get the success I want?”
Knowledge is power, so it is said. In all the generations of humanity, our generation ought to be the most well-informed in history. Your head ought to ache from all the information stuffed between your ears. We are awash in knowledge: we have the internet, books, TV, newspapers, and magazines. We’re packed off to elementary school, high school, college and university. Your life should be smooth and successful, with all that so-called learning easing your way to glorious happiness. However, although Knowledge is required, it is is not enough for your success.
Before I go on to the second battle you face, Stupidity versus Action, let me tell you about how DynaMIND practitioners have a number of powerful learning tools to soak up the Knowledge they need. Erin is planning to invest in stocks and commodities and she’s using DynaMIND alpha techniques in her investment seminars. Back in high school, she was a C student. Now that real money is riding on her performance, her DynaMIND usage makes her an A student! Rick, who used to be the poster boy for skipping school, is now using DynaMIND to pass grade 12 and escape High School for the auto mechanics apprenticeship he longs for, with visions of chrome and speed dancing in his head. Jean, who is a retired executive, thinks of herself as a Seeker. She uses Dynamind techniques in her spiritual learning and exploration. Erin, Rick and Jean are using DynaMIND to build their Knowledge for success.
And now the second battle: between Stupidity and Action:
“Stupidity” is my technical term for possessing the necessary knowledge and yet not acting from that knowledge. It’s a strong term. I’m using that term because I want you to reclaim your personal power. Do I have your attention? As you consider the people you know, people in the news, celebrities, you’ll agree that there are many cringing examples of stupidity... out there.
For example, years ago, cigarette advertisements featured sleek white-coated doctors lighting up, encouraging everyone to smoke because “it’s good for you!” If you smoked back then, you smoked in blissful ignorance. People who smoke now, do it with the Knowledge that it will shorten their lives while making them sickly and smelly before their early death. If someone continues to smoke while possessing that knowledge, that’s stupidity. They know better and they do it anyway. “But it’s an addiction!” I hear you. More on that in the third battle, below.
Do you know people who know more about nutrition and healthy eating than their food choices this week would reflect? Do you know people who know all about the importance of regular, vigorous exercise to health and fitness? Would their bathroom scales, full length mirrors, and cholesterol levels testify to their knowledge? They know exactly what to do to live longer and better, yet they don’t do it. That’s stupidity. But what about...(insert excuses here). See the third battle below.
If a friend asks you for advice about a troubled relationship, you can put on your Dear Abby Hat and give some useful suggestions, can’t you? Do your own family and work relationships perfectly reflect your advice to others?
We can Know, but if we don’t Act on what we Know, that’s just plain Stupid.
The explanation for Stupidity takes us to the the third battle: Self-Honesty versus Self-Delusion. But before we go there, what can be done to motivate ourselves to escape Stupidity and take Action on what we know? In the DynaMIND Course students learn the obvious, profound, yet overlooked concept that your thoughts create your life. Your thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes are Mental Programs in the Biocomputer of Mind/Brain. Even more, you think your Programs are True! And you make it so! Your life is a reflection of your thinking. In DynaMIND class you learn how to Reprogram yourself, eliminating fears, adding self-confidence, building motivation, installing knowledge and skills so that you can take Action on what you Know.
After DynaMIND, Peter built a new company, then sold it for thirty million and went off to climb Kilimanjaro. Renee slimmed herself, got back in the dating game and after finding a selection of soul mates, cut the right one out of the herd and dragged him off to his Bliss. Joyce stopped doing Retail Therapy on herself, ( I spend to feel better!! Wait, that’s Stupid! ) got out of debt, and as she put it, “got a life”. Delia had always wanted to open her own restaurant. She created a plan, activated it, dealt with the inevitable setbacks, and the bistro is open. That’s Mental Programming: Peter, Renee, and Delia took Knowledge into Action.
The third battle is between Self-Honesty and Self-Delusion:
Arianna repeatedly threatens to take away the prized internet if her teenagers continue to be rude, avoid their household chores, and neglect homework. In fear of the nuclear tantrums that would explode if she actually pulled the plug, Arianna never follows through. She rationalizes that the kids “need the internet for their schoolwork” ( they do get an A for Facebooking!). Arianna is deluding herself. If she steps into Self-Honesty, she will frankly acknowledge that, so far, she has chosen to be “loved” rather than respected. She acknowledges that she is teaching her children to be lazy, selfish and irresponsible. She needs to learn how to be strong. She needs to learn and then take action on parenting strategies. She needs to get a backbone. Self-Honesty.
Here are some possible signs of Self-Delusion: procrastination, hanging on to being a victim, blaming others, rationalizing, refusing responsibility, and making excuses. This is abandoning personal Power. It is a cosy, deep rut to be in, fur-lined, warm, and righteous.
To climb out of the Rut, be Honest. Ruthlessly and accurately acknowledge your true contribution, through thought, word and deed, to your present situation. This is claiming your personal Power. Can you figure out why?
Young Mick has been fired from his last three jobs. “It’s not what I really want to do anyway” he says, and the jobs are “boring”. “I just have bad luck! I’ve had three picky bosses who were all out to get me”. Plus he can’t quit smoking because he’s “addicted.” Mick is deluding himself by blaming external factors. In Self-Honesty, Mick acknowledges that he’s been a lousy, lazy employee. Even he wouldn’t hire himself! He decides to be on time, work at his “menial job” as if it really mattered, demonstrate 100% excellence, and ask himself what Knowledge he needs in order to move up in the world. Mick gets out of the Victim Rut. He faces the reality that “addicts” who decide to quit and do what needs to be done, now, including getting help, can and do quit. Ruthless Self-Honesty.
Elaine has a stash of foldaway exercise equipment gathering dust under the bed. She is an expert on every popular diet. She has a teetering pile of exercise DVDs. Elaine tells herself, “I will get back on my program when it’s warmer out/ after my daughter’s wedding/ when the kitchen is renovated/ when the sky is green and orange...” Elaine is deluding herself through procrastination. In Self-Honesty, Elaine acknowledges to herself that she’s overweight and unfit because so far, that’s what she has chosen. She decides, now, to have self-discipline, and to honour and care for her body, no matter what. No more excuses. No more secret bingeing. Self-Honesty. She claims her Power.
But what about the shitty things that happen in life? What about illness, and accidents and awfulness and tragedy?
Of course, bad stuff happens to everyone. That’s life. But how do you choose to respond? Some people respond to bad stuff with willful ignorance, stupidity and inaction, and self-delusion. Does that help to get through?
It will make a difference to respond to the Bad Stuff with Knowledge, Action, and Self-Honesty, won’t it?
DynaMIND students learn that Self-Honesty comes by using Alpha processes to explore their own Mental Programming, to ask for the truth, and then to walk in truth. They can choose to actively and joyfully and relentlessly create Positive Being by the continual application of the DynaMIND toolkit.
In the battle between Ignorance and Knowledge, how can you choose Knowledge, now?
In the battle between Stupidity and Action, how can you choose Action, now?
In the battle between Self-Delusion and Self-Honesty, how can you choose Self-Honesty.... now?
Step into your Power. Claim it.
-Janet MacDonald Kramer
P.S. Names mostly changed. Of course!
© 2009 DynaMIND Inc.
For Your Life
By Janet MacDonald Kramer
Knowledge, Action, and Self-Honesty. When you have them, you are powerful, as you create your life.
Their opposites are Ignorance, Stupidity, and Self-Delusion. Lots of people you know have them. These people are powerful too, as they create their problems.
Warning: read on only if you are serious about pursuing personal success, happiness, and health. I want you to claim your personal Power... so here goes:
The first battle is between Ignorance and Knowledge:
Marnie’s husband cheats on her and she doesn't have the slightest clue. Ignorance! Jack choses to pay the “minimum payment” on his credit card bill and has no idea of the astonishing total he will someday owe in compounding principal and excruciating interest. Ignorance! Elise is in one of her clean-everything-in-this-damn-house moods, and inadvertently mixes certain cleaning products in her pail. She creates toxic gas. Ignorance!
Ignorance is not having the necessary knowledge, data, information, or skill. Marnie, Jack and Elise are ignorant. They don’t know any better, and they don’t know that they don’t know. However, their ignorance does not exempt them from suffering.
You have an idea of what “success” means for you. In order to succeed, you’ll recognize that you don’t know what you don’t know. This is your personal battle between Ignorance and Knowledge. You are asking yourself, “what knowledge do I need to get the success I want?”
Knowledge is power, so it is said. In all the generations of humanity, our generation ought to be the most well-informed in history. Your head ought to ache from all the information stuffed between your ears. We are awash in knowledge: we have the internet, books, TV, newspapers, and magazines. We’re packed off to elementary school, high school, college and university. Your life should be smooth and successful, with all that so-called learning easing your way to glorious happiness. However, although Knowledge is required, it is is not enough for your success.
Before I go on to the second battle you face, Stupidity versus Action, let me tell you about how DynaMIND practitioners have a number of powerful learning tools to soak up the Knowledge they need. Erin is planning to invest in stocks and commodities and she’s using DynaMIND alpha techniques in her investment seminars. Back in high school, she was a C student. Now that real money is riding on her performance, her DynaMIND usage makes her an A student! Rick, who used to be the poster boy for skipping school, is now using DynaMIND to pass grade 12 and escape High School for the auto mechanics apprenticeship he longs for, with visions of chrome and speed dancing in his head. Jean, who is a retired executive, thinks of herself as a Seeker. She uses Dynamind techniques in her spiritual learning and exploration. Erin, Rick and Jean are using DynaMIND to build their Knowledge for success.
And now the second battle: between Stupidity and Action:
“Stupidity” is my technical term for possessing the necessary knowledge and yet not acting from that knowledge. It’s a strong term. I’m using that term because I want you to reclaim your personal power. Do I have your attention? As you consider the people you know, people in the news, celebrities, you’ll agree that there are many cringing examples of stupidity... out there.
For example, years ago, cigarette advertisements featured sleek white-coated doctors lighting up, encouraging everyone to smoke because “it’s good for you!” If you smoked back then, you smoked in blissful ignorance. People who smoke now, do it with the Knowledge that it will shorten their lives while making them sickly and smelly before their early death. If someone continues to smoke while possessing that knowledge, that’s stupidity. They know better and they do it anyway. “But it’s an addiction!” I hear you. More on that in the third battle, below.
Do you know people who know more about nutrition and healthy eating than their food choices this week would reflect? Do you know people who know all about the importance of regular, vigorous exercise to health and fitness? Would their bathroom scales, full length mirrors, and cholesterol levels testify to their knowledge? They know exactly what to do to live longer and better, yet they don’t do it. That’s stupidity. But what about...(insert excuses here). See the third battle below.
If a friend asks you for advice about a troubled relationship, you can put on your Dear Abby Hat and give some useful suggestions, can’t you? Do your own family and work relationships perfectly reflect your advice to others?
We can Know, but if we don’t Act on what we Know, that’s just plain Stupid.
The explanation for Stupidity takes us to the the third battle: Self-Honesty versus Self-Delusion. But before we go there, what can be done to motivate ourselves to escape Stupidity and take Action on what we know? In the DynaMIND Course students learn the obvious, profound, yet overlooked concept that your thoughts create your life. Your thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes are Mental Programs in the Biocomputer of Mind/Brain. Even more, you think your Programs are True! And you make it so! Your life is a reflection of your thinking. In DynaMIND class you learn how to Reprogram yourself, eliminating fears, adding self-confidence, building motivation, installing knowledge and skills so that you can take Action on what you Know.
After DynaMIND, Peter built a new company, then sold it for thirty million and went off to climb Kilimanjaro. Renee slimmed herself, got back in the dating game and after finding a selection of soul mates, cut the right one out of the herd and dragged him off to his Bliss. Joyce stopped doing Retail Therapy on herself, ( I spend to feel better!! Wait, that’s Stupid! ) got out of debt, and as she put it, “got a life”. Delia had always wanted to open her own restaurant. She created a plan, activated it, dealt with the inevitable setbacks, and the bistro is open. That’s Mental Programming: Peter, Renee, and Delia took Knowledge into Action.
The third battle is between Self-Honesty and Self-Delusion:
Arianna repeatedly threatens to take away the prized internet if her teenagers continue to be rude, avoid their household chores, and neglect homework. In fear of the nuclear tantrums that would explode if she actually pulled the plug, Arianna never follows through. She rationalizes that the kids “need the internet for their schoolwork” ( they do get an A for Facebooking!). Arianna is deluding herself. If she steps into Self-Honesty, she will frankly acknowledge that, so far, she has chosen to be “loved” rather than respected. She acknowledges that she is teaching her children to be lazy, selfish and irresponsible. She needs to learn how to be strong. She needs to learn and then take action on parenting strategies. She needs to get a backbone. Self-Honesty.
Here are some possible signs of Self-Delusion: procrastination, hanging on to being a victim, blaming others, rationalizing, refusing responsibility, and making excuses. This is abandoning personal Power. It is a cosy, deep rut to be in, fur-lined, warm, and righteous.
To climb out of the Rut, be Honest. Ruthlessly and accurately acknowledge your true contribution, through thought, word and deed, to your present situation. This is claiming your personal Power. Can you figure out why?
Young Mick has been fired from his last three jobs. “It’s not what I really want to do anyway” he says, and the jobs are “boring”. “I just have bad luck! I’ve had three picky bosses who were all out to get me”. Plus he can’t quit smoking because he’s “addicted.” Mick is deluding himself by blaming external factors. In Self-Honesty, Mick acknowledges that he’s been a lousy, lazy employee. Even he wouldn’t hire himself! He decides to be on time, work at his “menial job” as if it really mattered, demonstrate 100% excellence, and ask himself what Knowledge he needs in order to move up in the world. Mick gets out of the Victim Rut. He faces the reality that “addicts” who decide to quit and do what needs to be done, now, including getting help, can and do quit. Ruthless Self-Honesty.
Elaine has a stash of foldaway exercise equipment gathering dust under the bed. She is an expert on every popular diet. She has a teetering pile of exercise DVDs. Elaine tells herself, “I will get back on my program when it’s warmer out/ after my daughter’s wedding/ when the kitchen is renovated/ when the sky is green and orange...” Elaine is deluding herself through procrastination. In Self-Honesty, Elaine acknowledges to herself that she’s overweight and unfit because so far, that’s what she has chosen. She decides, now, to have self-discipline, and to honour and care for her body, no matter what. No more excuses. No more secret bingeing. Self-Honesty. She claims her Power.
But what about the shitty things that happen in life? What about illness, and accidents and awfulness and tragedy?
Of course, bad stuff happens to everyone. That’s life. But how do you choose to respond? Some people respond to bad stuff with willful ignorance, stupidity and inaction, and self-delusion. Does that help to get through?
It will make a difference to respond to the Bad Stuff with Knowledge, Action, and Self-Honesty, won’t it?
DynaMIND students learn that Self-Honesty comes by using Alpha processes to explore their own Mental Programming, to ask for the truth, and then to walk in truth. They can choose to actively and joyfully and relentlessly create Positive Being by the continual application of the DynaMIND toolkit.
In the battle between Ignorance and Knowledge, how can you choose Knowledge, now?
In the battle between Stupidity and Action, how can you choose Action, now?
In the battle between Self-Delusion and Self-Honesty, how can you choose Self-Honesty.... now?
Step into your Power. Claim it.
-Janet MacDonald Kramer
P.S. Names mostly changed. Of course!
© 2009 DynaMIND Inc.