Trajectory

Careers....relationships
....up or down......
.....percolating coffee...
......between black and brown....
........wakes us up....when we see....
.........someone going up....up.....up
...........ever higher...than what should be....

....Some slant downward....
.....leaving us wondering why...
......careers in stall, someone, please just try....
.......loves broken, souls not in sync...
.........stretches our hearts, limits where we think...

.....We live for the movement upward and higher....
......we sail and straits are not dire....
.......the ones we will follow....
.........the paths seem drier...

....The patterns of life and love all the way through
......shape who we are....
.......and define the ones who....
.........will be with us....for all that is true....

How Do You Know When You Have Been Touched?

This Thanksgiving, some one gave me a beautiful cultural gift and a personally made Thanksgiving card. It said  'Happy Thanksgiving, Dr. Mike, to you and your loved ones...'

My loved ones include her, and my family, and the many students and friends I share mutual feelings with, but it is a big circle of loved ones.....not defined by traditional ways of defining family or 'buddies'....rather, by who chooses to express love to me and who I care enough about to love, and to let them know it....

See, life is so short....we need to say it out...when we care about someone,when we worry, when we appreciate the smallest things about them....if we do not release it, it will just be like a gift we give ourselves, when it was really meant for the other one....

So, I said....this also is you!  I hope she understands....my appreciation of how much she cares and how she does things....so very well and with such appreciation...

Thanksgiving 2010.  It has real thanks in it for me and real meaning.  I was lucky and received some things that no one can understand how much they mean to me....

I hope I did something of the same for some of the ones I love......this precious day of the year.....

This year, I was touched.  Thanksgiving happened for me....

Creative Space

Art for art's sake is an empty phrase...
Art for the sake of the true...
Art for the sake of the good and the beautiful...
...That is the faith I am searching for...
                                 George Sand

Art that speaks to our soul is true and beautiful....
...the truth is, art comes from our soul...
...and for that we can say...
...."Happy Thanksgiving"....

Now We Are at Thanksgiving, We Turn Toward Santa...

Someone, with a young heart,  asked me where Santa Claus comes from...the North Pole?

I said, not really knowing, of course, "No!"...

Santa comes from the North Star....the farthest place in the universe....

Straight to our heart.....

More than the speed of light....

With the Speed of Love....

If you have or know any young ones....this is the message....

If you are young enough to believe....you know that speed!

Message of Thanksgiving...!

A tough love message of Thanksgiving...for those who run...
....and those we want to reach, but we cannot..

If you hate me....I am truly sorry...
If you remember me....I am with you....
If you understand me...I know you...

If you see my heart...I see yours too...
If you wish to thank me....I just want to thank you, too...

But if you want to love me....
Then, I say,...I love you too...

And....if you want to love life....
...more important...
I love it with you....
...we see it as two....through...
....one window....

If you want to thank someone...do so....
...But the best Thanksgiving is to just....
......to be it with you....
.....and for you to be it with you....

.....deep down....

Greet the sunrise and smell the coffee and have a fresh morning....

Pick Ten...

"Pick ten people you are thankful for...."
....I attended a church Thanksgiving dinner last night...
....that was the challenge...

Got me listing my ten and why and what....
Chances are, if you are reading this, you are one of them...

I gave thanks like this...

God's speed and safety....
...to all those in the air...
...to all those on the sea...
...all the souls everywhere...
...who defend our right to be free....

...to those on land....
...who extend a hand...
...we know them or not...
...with a prayer or a thought...

...to those we love...
...who know us or not...
...heart is the home...
...mind is our own...
...soul is what we are brought...

God's speed and safety to those who protect us....
...Happy Thanksgiving!

People of Heart

Cold stares....inquiring eyes...hard looks.......lowering skies...

Warm eyes....eager to say 'hi'...eager looks wanting to smile...

So many are there...fear, shy, not too good to say "hi"...

Want to smile....go the next mile...

I extend the hand to you....

You extend to me with who...

...you are...

...I am here for you...not far...

Cities of Heart

Tokyo is heart....and art....

When you see a smile....it goes a long mile....
If you ever see deep down....
There is never a frown....

It is with honor....from the heart....
Japon, we see the Creator's art...

It is here...
Forever, we hear...
....and have no fear...

Blessed smile...
....forever dear...

Soul to Heart

Leaving Seoul for Tokyo..
Sort of like leaving soul to go to heart..
Soul is deep, cannot get to it...it is the deepest thing, but how do we possibly communicate..?

Heart is there, can see it, he and she feels it and says back, "yes"....I see you...

Mind is waiting for me back home....thinking again like always...

Soul would be really amazing to connect with if we could, but soul must answer our call...

Heart answers our call.  

Mind is always there....wherever we are...

Our whole being travels these places....some give us more, some less....

Tokyo, can't wait to see you...

Seoul, Heart, Mind, Body....

Seoul.  Landed here this evening.  Right smack in the middle of the G20 summit...feels like Bourne Conspiracy all over again...Paris East!

I didn't pick this time to be here, just like last year when I was here, it was the worst of times to pick to be here.  Yet, I did pick it, I mean, I planned the trip, just did not hear from my G20 buddies that they would be here too.  The hotel lobby is so colorful.  The dresses, the national dress of so many exotic nations....wow!
I guess I am glad I picked this time.

Then, it reminds me, I think I want to rename my home city to Haart, and find a vacation place that might be called Mynd.  And find a gym or workout place that would be known as Boddy.  I mean, then we would have it all....Seoul, Haart, Mynd, and Boddy...what a connection.

On the serious side, this city is amazing.....the design center of the universe.  Seoul....soul....our deepest place ever...where we know we are truly at our deepest...our soul.....can you imagine living in a great city where that word every day reminded you of what we are working on...

It's nice to be back to soul, I mean Seoul...of course.

Greenflash hits...The Rim

Greenflash is serendipity or just stupendous moments in Nature.  It reminds us who we are...it connects us with the universe...

This evening on a flight from Taipei to Seoul, I unexpectedly had one of those moments....

The sun, in this northern hemisphere has a rather steep border between lightness and darkness, what I call the "rim" of light...when day becomes night....

Our flightline was right along this line.  On the left side at 39,000 feet altitude, at 660 mph, was blue sky above, orange sun going down on the edge of Mother Earth....

On the right side was dark, dark grey below the wing, and nearly black above....the deep night...

Flying the rim....wow....

Greenflash is a metaphor for life....

We sometimes ride the rim of life....on our one side is the sun and the other side is darkness....we fly straight ahead through this....somehow we land...we need to stay aware and awake through the landing, because, after all, we make choices, and these are about darkness or light....

Flying that rim this evening on my way into Seoul, yes, it felt very much like life....

I want to choose the turn toward light....our pilot landed us through darkness...

Pilots are people we put our lives with for a while....but we are pilots.....we have to fly the rim and maybe land in darkness....but, oh my, do we remember the light....

The Best of What, Who, Where and How...

So what does this mean?   It is the by line of my book, the purpose of our lives in business, and in life in general...

We are supposed to not neglect, at least, as we go through life, and hopefully, at our best....push the envelope for what is our pursuit of happiness....we have only one life we can touch here right now.....

What that means... our purpose, our destiny...what we are supposed to do...if you ask me, it is to do something back....back to this planet....a company, an institute, a business, art, a family, a child, a tree....love back....
Because, you were given here by love...the love of your mother and father and the love of the Creator of the universe....you are unique gift to this world...we all are....

Who...means a lot of things...what company to associate with....what friends you have....who you would give your life for....who you love in the many....and who you love in the deepest, most secret places of your heart and that may be a few blessed people alive or heroes...fallen and gone, but with us every step...

Where...that can be anywhere or someplace on the global horizon....now or future....we do not know...we are right here now....

How....this is how you want to live....open, sharing, daring...however...it is everybody's evolving lesson of life at that moment...how much risk...how much to hold back or to let free...

We are all so uniquely different just like snowflakes are universally unique...we just need to be conscious as we can be...our human best...for others and not least for our own soul and heart....it is, after all, where we live most of our lives...we can not neglect our own self, our heart, our soul...where will we be, when we are all old....we want to be surrounded by loving young....to keep our souls moving forward...we want to be giving to others....so we can have happy hearts...we want to be loving all our lives, so we enjoy the great big spaces of the universe....to create...to choose to create....after all, that is what we have been taught by our own mentors and family...remember?

We cannot completely choose our destiny, just as we could not choose how we got here.  But we can put our conscious belief in our choices....constantly looking to the side each way...because that is where it will come from.....guaranteed...not what is in front, but the sides....

The Best of What, Where, Who, and How....is everyday choices....and everyday looking for the surprises that are true gifts....we can never completely control or plan, just the best we know....remember?

This Holiday Season, it's time to stop and take stock, make some new plans, and remember....who we are living for, how we got here and what we can do with our time....

Have a Happy Season, and stay warm...all the way!

Analytics and Some Hunches

Google has this great tool that tells you how many and where and when and how long your hits are....Google Analytics...

Fascinating.  This blog has 22 countries following it....some I have no connection with...
The greatest single concentration of the blog's popularity is Los Angeles....it is huge...

The more I write, the more hits come, but the more I write about "love", the more sustained are the hits....
I guess a lot of interest out there in love...

Second topic of interest is career destiny and finding it....I always knew that would happen....

When I hit deep about serendipity and the role it plays in lives, people write back to me....from places I could never imagine....

The best news is that my best feedback is from people whose opinion I would just treasure it from...so that feels good...

Here is an interesting one...of all countries, people in the Netherlands stay on the blog much longer than anyone else....don't know why, thou I suppose I should, I have lived there....maybe it is because the Dutch are philosophical at heart....

In Asia, Korean hits are few but also longest...

France and Germany vie for second, but I believe that is because we have so many student connections there...

Some days, the curve rockets high and I don't know why....other days it crashes....

Tuesdays are the heaviest traffic....second are Fridays....

In the book just released, career stuff (Blueflash) occupied the most pages....second was love stuff (Pinkflash)....shortest chapter was Nature (Greenflash)....I guess I am not surprised at that either...what got me started, on the book, after all, was my passion about career destiny....

My surprise was in how much I had to say, and said about love and romance.  I dealt with stuff there people have a hard time with.....but it needed to come out...

Its fun to play with analytics and hunches.

I wecome any comments from you my reader, especially the folks from Los Angeles....how in the world did you hear of this blog....that would be cool to know...

I also welcome any topics you want me to write about.....by the way, my most frequest question at my speeches is "how do I find my Blueflash?"  Not surprised.  My answer always disappoints the questioner....I just say, "You can't!...It comes to you...someone will bring it...probably from the side....so be ready to see it....it happens fast...."

It's like music...Ahhh, the best friend, that came into our life....remember?

Raison d'Etre Parte Deu....My Dad

Our purpose, all of us, is to do and give something back to this Earth...
A company, an institute, a cause, a family, a child, a tree....

And to help one another....

When we do these things with ultimate sincerity, it is my belief....
The Creator and friendly forces in our universe act to help us and the momentum..of these things.

It is for each of us to define and bring out our divine gift...some kind of art...and to help each other to do so..

As my Dad just reached his 92nd birthday, and as I was so far away...
It gave me the realization that he is a great example, those of you who know him...and some who don't...

He founded a company.
He fathered two children into this world with my Mom...
He founded and created and fought hard for certain political causes and organizations...
He planted trees....
Thousands of trees...and bulbs, and flowers...I was with him for some of these
I mean he planted trees...to this day, he is planting trees...
And he loved and cherished animals like children....

And he is still at it!

His divine gift...his art...is still being shaped, and that is the miracle!
It will have to do with his love and the trees...the trees...

We all have this.  We look out at the world, but we come back to those in our family to see...
The essence of life....

Who we are..
What we need to do..

For most of us who see this, we know, the job is half done.
The Reason to Be...after all.
It is our gift...remember?

The Speed of Light....in Our Minds

There is the speed of light....actually, what it is....186,000 miles per second...
Then, there is the speed of light in what we perceive....may be faster or slower than the actual...
But perception is everything....

Our minds can make time and motion just slow down...or speed up....

After writing just several days ago about jetting over to Copenhagen from California and Chicago...
I got back from that fantastically successful trip, through Amsterdam....just as fast...

One day at home, then to Asia, where I am now already one full day.
It feels good....you might ask, why?  how could it?

Here is why....

This planet is smaller than we know.
People connections are everything.  Plane connections are second!
Some moments in our minds just stand still in time.  They are frozen like life-long photos...
Most of those are good ones.  The memory is down to the seconds, minutes...

Then there are whole passages that whir by like a blur...

We have to get down to business, yes.
But, we have to get down to what really matters....
Its the people who matter in our lives....the connections are so frail...and yet so enduring...
Its the places that matter, yes...
It is our life destiny that we are writing the script of every day...

It can travel sometimes so fast it may catch up with the speed of light...
Or, if we can savor it, sometimes so slow, that each micro-second is like a whole lifetime....

Our own clock inside our heart is not a metric like what measures the speed of light-actual
It is the ultimate clock of our universe, because we and our hearts are at the very center.

I said earlier, love moves at the speed of light out into the universe...and it does..
It can also move as slow as each second we wait to hear from someone....each heartbeat...
The clock of our heart is the clock of our life.

Nice to be back here in Asia...the smell of fresh tea....the warmth of friends....
Time has slowed down for a while....and it feels so good!

With the Speed of Light...

Whether it is love for an animal....or each other....I believe love is like a force that goes out as energy....maybe with the speed of light....and it travels to the farthest corners of the place we call 'universe'..thus it keeps on going forver, whatever forever means to us here...it far excedes our own lives, and space....and travels, and travels...and travels....
.
Thus, love can never be truly lost.  It is an act of the giver.  It eminates from the fire that starts within us...it is started by us.  If we can be strong enough to set it free, it triumphs any other force in life...

...light....into the night...
...conquers fear, fright...
...goes forever....with our hearts
...gives us sound, song, and sight..
...that love, forever, we might....