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The Leader Always Chooses
Aggressively Creating Passive Income
Doing vs. Allowing
The Right Time
THE RIGHT MODEL
The Cost of Resolving Dissonance
Suppression vs. Reacting and Wallowing
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There is leadership and then there is leadership f

There is leadership and then there is leadership for smart people. What is the difference and why does it matter? I recently joined John Livesay on his show to discuss this.

Tune in here: https://johnlivesay.com/leadership-for-smart-people-with-adam-quiney/

The Leader Always Chooses ---- There's a sentenc

The Leader Always Chooses

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There's a sentence I'll hear people say from time to time, that is often an indication that they aren't going to create the change they're hoping for.

That sentence is "I can't keep doing this."

Sometimes the sentence takes this form: "This has to change."

These two sentences often sound like a powerful declaration. Like someone taking a stand that they are no longer willing to let things keep going the way they've been going in their lives. Like Michael Scott standing up and powerfully declaring bankruptcy, or something like that.

In transformational work, your language is revealing. What can at times feel like a fixation on semantics is really about rigorously noticing the way your world, and you in it, occurs for you, as revealed in your language.

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Aggressively Creating Passive Income ----- Every

Aggressively Creating Passive Income

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Every now and then, I come across people that are involved in the game of making money so that they can be free.

That game takes a bunch of forms. One popular one is working really hard so that you can retire when you're fifty-five. Basically get a head-start on the rest of your life. Another version is the more recently vogue approach to creating passive or residual income.

These people are generally fixated on things like scaling, making more money, and working really hard now, so that they can NOT work really hard later.

The energy underneath these approaches is a little ironic.

It's a similar kind of energy to frantically getting things on your TODO list finished, so that you can finally have some peace. Being frantic, in the hopes that you can get peace. Or, in the case above, worrying about money, so that you can stop worrying about money.

We can be a little like goldfish inside these patterns. We don't have much altitude, so we mercifully forget about the stress and overwhelm we were experiencing prior to our momentary experience of peace, or our momentary relief about money. When you get a big whoosh of money, or a big void with nothing to do, it leaves you feeling like it's all worth it.

This works similarly to the way a slot machine works — the payouts that you get and the way it lights up the reward centre of your brain helps you forget about all of the coins (and time) you've been feeding into the machine. Instead you just put your attention on the flashing lights and the sound of coins spitting out at you.

The funny thing about residual income is that if you get a little curious about why people want to make a bunch of passive income, you'll find that they don't often have a very well fleshed-out answer. The usual motivation is so that they can then do the thing they really want to do, and not worry about money.

But if you ask them about the thing they really want to do, it falls apart pretty quickly.

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DOING VS. ALLOWING ----- Maybe you've noticed th

DOING VS. ALLOWING

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Maybe you've noticed there's an awful lot of life to be with out there.

There are people that are being hateful, and others that are trying to compensate by being cloying and suffocating. There's people that are caught up in negativity, and other people that are allergic to anything other than over-ripe positivity.

There are people ignorant and filled with fear, and other people hiding their own fears and ignorance behind veils labelled "woke" and "spiritual".

The fundamental challenge to being a human is BEing with all of this. To BE with something means exactly that — to simply sit and be with it, fully-expressed as ourselves, wide- and open-hearted, and simply allow whatever is showing up, to continue showing up, exactly the way it's showing up.

Most of our efforts, as we age, grow, and push out into the world around us, are spent developing strategies to avoid having to be with certain parts of life.

If you grew up poor, and being poor was significant and problematic, then a lot of your later efforts in life tend to become about ensuring you never have to be poor again. If you grew up hurt by people that bulldozed your opinions and uniqueness with their own, then a lot of your efforts are likely about ensuring that there is no bulldozing and no voice goes unheard.

Don't worry, there's no escaping this fate. This is part of our fundamental human nature. Like a self-fulfilling prophecy, all of your attempts to try to be "fully open" and allow all of life will simply end up cutting out other swaths of life.

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The Right Time ----- Most of us are waiting for

The Right Time

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Most of us are waiting for the right time. The right time to turn over a new leaf. The right time to forge out on our own and start that entrepreneurial venture we've been talking about. The right time to make that investment. The right time to have that kid. The right time to get that pet.

Waiting for the right time is the game.

Usually when people are staring at the possibility available through transformation, the right time becomes one of the things that gets in their way.

Life's been going the way it's been going for a while now, and you know it's time for a change. But it's just not... the right time yet.

You need a little more money, a little more stability. I few more months on the job before you leave, or a few more months to settle into the job you just started. You need a little more stability, and just a touch more clarity. You need little more support from your family, or to provide them with a little more support first, before you start to take on your own life.

The trouble with waiting for the right time is that the "right time" is a function of the existing paradigm you are living in. So waiting for the right time makes sense, if what you're hoping to achieve is more of the results that are already possible inside this existing paradigm.

But if you're wanting to create something in your life that really can't be created from the existing model you operate in, waiting for the "right time" is just going to ensure you're stuck in the same pattern.

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THE RIGHT MODEL ----- The Copernican Revolution

THE RIGHT MODEL

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The Copernican Revolution was a point where people shifted from the Ptolemaic model of the solar system, to a Copernican one. Instead of relating to the Earth as being stationary, with other celestial bodies rotating around us, we gradually shifted to a new idea — that the Sun was at the center, and we, along with all those other heavenly bodies, were rotating around it.

This had been brewing for a while. The Ptolemaic model (named because it was initially conceived by Jim Ptolemy*) was appealing at the time because it was aligned with other existing beliefs — predominantly, religious beliefs — that had Earth as the center of the universe.

The problem with the Ptolemaic model was that it didn't reflect reality very well. The reality we now know to be true is that the Sun really is situated at the centre of the Solar System.

As a result, the Ptolemaic model had to keep being adapted and updated as astronomers got more evidence from their observations. They had to do things like create fancy exceptions and reasons for why the planets seemed to do things like retrograde through the sky at various times during the year.

In order to account for what they observed in the orbit of Mars, they created wonky, complicated patterns for its orbit as it moved around Earth (here's a gif showing the difference between the two models.) Astronomers worked tirelessly to make the incremental changes needed to fit what they observed into the existing model.

The trouble was that there was no amount of incremental changes that would get people from the Ptolemaic model, to the Copernican one (so named because it was created by Reggie Copernicus*). The Ptolemaic model was built on top of a faulty foundation — that the Earth was the center of the universe, or at least the Solar System — and consequently, no amount of adjustments made within this model would overcome this inherent flaw.

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