Discover all of what you are not. Body, thoughts, feelings, ideas, time, space, being and not being this or that.
There is nothing concrete or abstract, external or internal, in the great "out there" or in the great "in here," that you can point to as being who you are. This mere concept or idea will not do either.
You may well repeat a mantra or formula endlessly without any result whatsoever. You must continuously watch yourself - particularly your mind - moment by moment, missing nothing. This "seeing" is essential for the realizing of who you are and of seeing what is "notyou" "notyou."
You are the one that is actually looking through your eyes right now. This one that is looking through your eyes is not a person - a Sam, Peter, Susan - and neither is it your mind, nor your body.
Your body and your mind are vehicles that you are driving around through. They are not you. You are the one that is endlessly flowing through this manifestation. It is what sustains everything everywhere. It is you. This is who you are.
You have to surrender, to let go of, to "stop and drop," what you are not, - "notyou" "notyou" - and be this one that you already are. There is no getting around this.
If you wish to be home in the heart, the hub of life, to be self, then you absolutely have no choice but to let go of what you are not. To stop clinging to what was never true of you in the first place.
If you are unwilling to "see" that you are not this chattering mind that you have taken to be your guidance in life and to surrender it every time that you "see" yourself going there again, then you will have the pleasure of remaining in this belief pattern of pain and suffering and feeling like you cannot do anything about it all - even if you are attempting to rearrange things from within this "bind" of the mind.
Really Know What Its Like
You are told that you will have 30 minutes to present and now you show up and find out your time has been cut to 20 minutes because the person before you went over time.
As the band, Chicago sings, ?Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care about time?? Start your next meeting with this song and then share this mathematical formula to help the speakers for the next time.
The average person speaks 150-200 words per minute. During a presentation we should slow that pace down to about 125 words per minute to allow for better enunciation, interaction and clarity. If you are asked to speak for 15 minutes, do the math'15 times 125 equals 1,875 words?period! Type up what you want to say and then do a word count (go to TOOLS menu and select WORD COUNT). This will let you know how long you will need to cover this information.
When people ask me how many slides they should have in a 15 minute presentation, I say, ?It depends.? How many words are you going to say on each slide? Sit down at your laptop and type out verbatim what you think you will say with each slide. Of course you are not going to bring this typed transcript up and read it, but it will tell you where you need to cut or add more detail.
If you have 30 minutes of material prepared, ask yourself what you would cut if they took you down to 20 minutes. What would you cut if you had only 15 minutes? This is a great exercise in editing and really drilling down to your point.
A little planning ahead of time will really make a big difference when it comes time to present, and a little math ahead of time will make a huge difference to your audience. And when you hear Chicago singing, ?Does anybody really care about time?? You can answer ?I DO!? (ps. This article would take someone approximately 3 minutes to speak!)
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