“Only the adapt-able survive”

To sustain yourself in a speeding, changing, diversifying, complex, competitive world, you must know how to be adapt-able and flex-able – the essential survival skills. Like a chameleon, change and keep changing. Alert, awake, aware, be prepared to make adjustments again and again and not fall into predictable, mechanical patterns.

The art of communication is paramount in this world of connectivity. To get along, hear and be heard, and live harmoniously with the world, know how to “read the room.” Use your natural gift of empathy and feel out others and situations from moment to moment. Blend in, morph yourself and become like them. You will be aligned, credible, understood and accepted. Others feel comfortable around you and open up. You will have influence.

Watch out that you don’t lose your own inner core of integrity and sense of who you are. Keep to your vision and dream as you go with the flow. Be secure and comfortable with yourself or risk the danger of co-dependency, always needy of outside approval for inside validation. You don’t have to be alike to be liked.
How are you changing?
How are you adapting?
Do you play out all the parts of the multi-you?
Are you empathic?
Do you get along with others?
Who are you?
Are you dependent upon approval of others?
Do you sneak around, blend in, and don’t want to be noticed?

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Quick change artist
Trickster
Master of disguise
Put on a uniform to be uniform
Reform to conform
Contrive to survive
Go along to get along.

Way of the chameleon
Smooth operator
Transit by increment
Fluid change.

Useful
Utility person
Versatile and capable
Anywhere
Anyhow.

Role player
Team player
Actor
Do what needs to be done.

Sacred actor
Multi-you
of di-versatility
One with the whole universe.

Or, are you
an invisible presence
Secretive, stealthy, sneaky, silent?

Know the trends.
Sense which way the channel is turning
Keep current
in the mainstream.

Empathic
Antenna sensitive
to the slightest shift.

Not set, not fixed
Porous and open
yet safe and secure.

Magic blend of mix and match
Mirror of the mass
to merge.

In the “art of mirroring”
Reflect
and Learn.

“Growth is based on modeling and guiding”

Parenting is growing kids and more – projects, teams, plants and businesses that are young and need a guiding hand. Regardless, it’s the human touch that works wonders. A pat on the back, a carry on the back, a backrub shows your interest and concern. Touch heals, touch bonds, touch guides.

Along with a hands on way, it’s all about communication. Practice the “Five E’s of Effective Leadership.” They are Engage – show up, be a friend, real, vulnerable. Empathize – feel into their shoes, into their situation, into what they feel – then you will know, and they know that you know and then you can genuinely communicate. Educate – teach the basic social and work skills and why you want them to learn these. Enlist – get their agreement that they understand their role and position, and are willing to play their part. Encourage – give feedback that is positive, constructive and energizing so that they feel valued, worthy and good about themselves and their relationship with you, and sometimes you have to do “tough love.”

Your job is to nurture, grow, cultivate. Sometimes this cannot be speeded up. Parenting requires patience, compassion and hanging in there for the long run. As children and other forms of your creation develop, your role will change and you must adapt and grow.

Your babies are extensions of you and are your legacy. You are the model of the behavior you’d like them to be. Remember, they are different than you and cannot be controlled and contrived as you. Strive to help them become all of themselves. Watch out for over-interference.
Are you hands on?
How do you communicate?
Do you see it through?
Are you growing yourself in the process?
Do you interfere?
Are you a model for your children?
Do you give them the skills they need?

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Your parenting and leadership work
is to make yourself obsolete.
Give them the essential tools and skills to carry on.

Social skills for knowing how to get along with others
Emotional intelligence of self-control.

Work Skills for living successfully
Discipline
Knowing the rules of the road.

“Everything is useful”

Mud is dried up earth yet wet and pregnant with possibility. Now is your time to either let your creativity lie fallow or give it your attentive energy. You have a choice.

Be aware of what you have let dry up. Like a dead fish, without your guardianship, things will die. Everything dies with inattention. Is that what you want?

Your concentration is like rain, for it can immediately turn a dry lake into a fertile bed of life. Do what you love. Tend to your creations with care. With just a little flow from your heart, the waters of love will resurrect the dead.

But sometimes you need to dry things up. Perhaps you have overdone work and been overwhelmed with expectations. Allowing things to rest will bring restoration.

Pay attention to your body. Is it becoming desiccated, stiff and stuck and all dried up. Lubricate those joints and drink plenty of water.

Life is messy
like mud
Dive in
it’s only earth.
Trust, get down,
get soiled
get soul.

Rotten fish
Smells good
when it’s fertilizer.

Everything is useful
Bad can be good.

Revive, Resurrect, Rebirth
Dead is not always dead.

Clean out, burn out, air out
Purify.
Let it die
for a while
to live again.

Get fluid,
Be flex able
Move
to Live.

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What have you let die?
What needs to take a rest?
What should you pay attention to?
What to clean, clear and purify?
What to recycle and regenerate?

“Nature’s truth never sleeps”

The night brings a different truth about you. It reveals your primal self, your unfulfilled desires, subconscious drives, and latent potentials. Try to remember your dreams. Work and walk at night. Pay attention to the moon and its affect on you.

Get out of your ordinary thinking mind and into the unconscious darkness within your psyche. Meditate, dream, regress hypnotically to past life, howl and dance. Therein reside psychic premonitions, synchronous attractions and intuitive answers. Get out of your body and astral travel to access the information from these primordial, distant and mysterious energy fields.

What is haunting you?
What’s your dream?
What part of your past wants to surface?
What truth do you want to tell?
How do the phases of the moon affect you?
What’s calling you?
What is your dark side?
What are your fears?
What does your inner voice tell you?

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Alive at night
Wolf hunter of new life
Track through
Unconscious tundra
Laying to rest old haunts
and digging up geographies
of your psyche’s otherworld.

To the moon you return
to the pulse of the subconscious
the primal beat
of oceans of emotions
to yet express.

Be a dreamer
Birth your own moon
to howl to
to long to
to pray and praise to.

The wolf’s prey
is yourself
to devour your past
and taste the future
of living the dream
Night to day
Dark to light
a new dawning.

In the moonlight darkness
the truth is exposed
the distant hearing of an antecedent voice
of conscience.

Dogged hunter of the dream
your howling demon
kept alive
by nagging cries.
Voices of the night that stalk
and will not rest
until bared
and secret revealed.

Night worker
in the raw tundras
of your mindscape
to the call of the wild
of primal feelings
guarded by the yapping mind
of sun and security
comfort and reason
pass the gatekeeper to Luna’s
Sea of darkness
on the edge of oblivion
the nightmare of the shadow side
yet compelled
by the pull of a magnet
as if struck by the moon stone
Blinded by the moon beam
Intoxicated by moon shine
in the moon lighting
Dare you tell.

Spelled out in
Black and white
the watchdog of veracity
guides you to the cleaning of the bone
of unspoken dreams
and contentions
of unrevealed fears
Compulsions
Obsessions.

Blinded by the veils of mystery
Deluded by illusions of convention
You are freed by the clear reception
of telepathic transmission
from foreign intelligence

Appealing to the longings of your soul
Wake up to the luminous night seed
of a different way
and a different day.

“The wonder is within”

Within you lives a wondrous subconscious world. Dare dive into this rich mystery to draw out your dreams from the deep. Swim into the multi-layered gardens of esoteric past life places. Explore the subcontinents of unused resources and many fathomed treasures. Sink into altered states of consciousness and find exotic solutions and oceanic wisdom. Look to your fishy origins of ancient truths for how to live as a water person on a water planet.

Know that you have a reef inside of you – a garden of abundance that supports your life and others. It’s a delicate ecology that you must preserve. Just because it’s not so obvious, don’t ignore and undermine your inner ocean. Take care that you do not destroy and poison this resource-rich cache with careless thoughts and actions. When your core of competence and largesse breaks down, the entire fabric of the human world suffers.

From your inner beauty, be an artist at work. Design your life as a thing of splendor and moveable feast. Creating from the inside out, you can allure and elicit something wonderful to feel, spectacular to observe and functional to serve. Like water over stone and ocean over bone, bring out your colors that shine and shimmer. Mirror the magic carpet within to make a tapestry of play at work and live a life of texture and pattern that takes you away.

What are you exploring within yourself?
What inner resources and beauty are you discovering?
How are you using and taking care of your assets and reserves?
How are you designing your life?
What color and magic do you bring forth?
How do you use your imagination?
What new perspectives are you bringing to the surface?

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Fish eye magic -
Pictures into thoughts
to tell a vision
to lustrate
the inner truths
the extra-ordinary
beyond belief.

Move free floating
Weightless in suspension
with fluid flight of eyedeas
and eyemagination
to transform the customary and boring
with the liquid light of brilliance
shining through.

“The tail reveals”

Wag your tail and show your love. Reveal your true feelings for your beloved. You are a sincere enjoyer of others. With great happiness, you bring smiles and laughter all around.

You are noted for your loyalty. Be the ultimate friend and companion. Unconditional in your respect, appreciation and love, you can be counted upon for your heartfelt emotions. In this way, you heal the troubled soul of others.

And don’t get kicked around. Stay true and obedient to your provider but show your dismay when you are treated badly. Bark, whimper, snarl and run when you are leashed and cannot be who you are.

Know that you have the dog in you and that sometimes you can be rude, rowdy and raucous. Be respectful and please don’t defecate on others and piss on their pride.

What’s your breeding? Know yourself. Maybe you are a mutt from the streets, full of practical smarts. Or perhaps well-healed and well-taught, and expect to be pampered and groomed. Are you a hunter, a fetcher, a sleeper, a beauty, or a nervous kind of dog?

Take care of your social skills. You like to be with others. A one- person type or one who runs with the pack, just know that you are a people person who loves action, noise, life.

Express your feelings. Move and sound out what’s going on inside of you. Don’t hold back your emotions. Let them out with no deception and no withholding. Then you can be trusted.

You are a natural empath
a mirror of others
and know how they feel.

You are there to sympathize
to contain the feelings of others
without judgment.
And uplift their spirits when
you can.

You can be counted upon
Reliable you are
Always with joy!

Watch dog that you are
Guard and protect you
and yours.
Maintain your territory
and keep the boundary.

Curb your aggressiveness
but defend.
Fighting is not the way.
With your words
be friendly
but firm.

Count on your nose
to sniff out the truth.
Look in the eyes, hear the tone,
feel the emotion
and know the situation
for how to be healer, ally, friend
player, child, pet.

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Are you loyal?
What rules do you follow?
Who is your master?
How do you befriend and play?
Do you express your feelings?
Do you pay attention to how you mirror others?
Are you your social conditioning and breeding?

“Hierarchies exist in nature, there are number ones.”

You are elegant by design and functional to the max. Excellence by nature, shoot to the top and streak to the goal. Nothing less than the best, number one wins. Your power is in the stalk and and persistent pursuit until the mark is reached.

Go for it as you streak and reach. Stand up, stand out. Your beauty is in the process of growing, achieving, evolving. And celebrate your success with a coat of simple elegance and appearance. Show up!

Present yourself
In radiance
To be seen.
In volume
Over and
Over again
Small spots
Of repetition
Noticed
Gets your points
Across.
Show off
Strut your stuff
Create a stir
A walking advertisement
To flush out
Your market and sustenance.
Get attention
You have the attraction
Be bold, colorful, chic, exotic.
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What is your excellence?

What are you pursuing?

How are you recognized by others?

What do you want to communicate?

How do you advertise and attract attention?

What is your attractiveness?

How are you bold?

How are you colorful?

How are you exotic?

“Nature runs wild and free”

Beyond the horizon, beyond the beyond, ride to the frontier. You are a forerunner, scout of a new way and a new day. Pathfinder, leading the way and setting the pace, bring your message home.

Run with your heart … follow your instincts … gallop on courage … and blaze your own trail. Look ahead to the venture.

Summoned
By the power of the horse
You are free
You are wild
Abandoned
To the wind of your breath
Fly the barriers
Jump the limits
Magic steed
Of freedom’s skies.

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What is your power?

How are you free?

What do you want to go beyond?

What limitations do you want to jump?

What does your heart say?

What is your trail?

What is your horizon?

What new frontier are you exploring?

What are you scouting?

What is your message?

“Nature is a collection of details, details upon details upon details.”

Attentive and attendant to the little things is the foundation of the greatest and the grandest. Like the humble mouse, get down to the microscopic. In the little and minute, is the microcosm, the map and key to the whole macrocosm. Revere the power of the small. No big deal is a big deal. Start tiny, from small acorns mighty oaks grow.

Let no whisker feel obstruction, or threat of the undone, or undoing of the unobserved. Be alert to every movement as opportunity and danger. Let nothing escape the up-close fine eye of up-close vision and hands-on micro-management.

Burrow in and hunker down, safe and secure in your niche. Tunnel to success, find your place and know your place. Squirrel away your just due.

With little needs and patient goals, small is beautiful, small is abundant, small is fulfilling. Be the mouse … that roared!

Working in small ways
Of industry
Inconvenient to the high fliers
Unnoticed by the big
Unthreatening to the mega,
Search and research
Capitalizing on leftovers
Tidbits of treasured information
In unfilled gaps
And open windows of opportunity.
A sized-down enterprise
An economy of means,
You are the mouse
Garage innovator and entrepreneur
Of no overhead and little costs.
Bite your way in
Bit by bit
With persistence
Gnawing a hole in the marketplace
And cave of sustenance.

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What must you pay attention to?

What little deals do you need to look at?

What feels undone to you?

Where is there danger?

Where is there opportunity?

What is your niche?

What information are you seeking?

What can you cut down on to be more efficient?

What little things fulfill you?

“Nature grows by quantum leaps and bounds.”

You are a new breed, a hybrid of consciousness. A mutant mutineer, you have crossed over. Through your volition, you make the revolution. Jump over the incremental.

Make us laugh in the way you monkey around. But in your mimic, the way you ape, you stretch your expression. Act as another and transform yourself.

Primal, hairy beast, you are a primitive. You can’t fool us disguised in your clothes and civilized ways. Take it off. Give your civility a rest. Wild wo/man, screech and howl, beat and bound. A little wildness goes a long way to prevent the big madness.

Of primal nature, yet human different, you bring vision and feelings to adjudicate the primordial laws of instinct. So scream and shout, when appropriate to climb back into the family tree.

You are evolving
From stationary to mobile
Simple to complex
All fours to on your two feet
Functional to creative
Survival to thrival
Reflexive to proactive
Instinct to choice.
You are new
And improved
By your response ability
To opportunity
And to necessity:
The growing grounds
of change.

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How are you evolving?

What are your new intentions?

How are you improving?

How are you revolutionary?

How are you funny?

What new role would you like to act out?

What would you like to hoot and holler about?

What would you like to take off?

How does your civility retard your expression and growth?