Here is what they said:

“I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavat-Gita. It was the first of books; it was as if an empire spake to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the same questions that exercise us.”-Emerson

“In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny and trivial.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

And some others:

“The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.” ~ Aldous Huxley

“The idea that man is like unto an inverted tree seems to have been current in by gone ages. The link with Vedic conceptions is provided by Plato in his Timaeus in which it states…” behold we are not an earthly but a heavenly plant.” ~ Carl Jung

“When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.” ~ Albert Einstein

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Best of luck

Amazing response – it obviously touched something in a lot of people.

Thanks everyone for the supportive and informative messages.

Everything is going great now – hard work, but very fulfilling now it’s “on purpose” – I think it really comes down to awareness, and then something akin to mental toughness – persistent/consistent focus and discipline..

Can’t wait to do the three month update!

all the best,
Paul.

perrys.mister.x@googlemail.com

Perry – I created an anonymous but valid email just in case anyone wants to keep in touch – but feel free to remove

You can have other things that you do that are interesting and have some level of importance but you have to find those things that are most important to you … focus and work on them to make them a success

Nothing says this better than the following:

“I respect the person who knows what they wish. The greatest part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that most do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.”

~ Goethe

Dennis Lowery
Adducent, Inc.

seems to me, your problem is 3/4ths solved. You know what you’re good at and what stimulates you. You’re a starter, not a finisher. That’s normally looked on as bad but as long as you have relationships and systems in place that harness it, you can really rock. There’s a lot of people in the world that don’t start nuthin’ so you’re quite valuable when you’re in the right groove.

Perry

Recently, I decided that the reason I have so much trouble sticking with things after I’m bored with them, is because they are boring. I’ve spent most of my life in the strange position of solving problems that noone else could figure out, or figure out how to do cost effectively. That… is what I’m good at. That is my USP. I don’t think like most people, and I see things differently than most people, and I don’t see problems like most people, so it works for me.

So what I’m doing now is, working on a problem until it’s broken down, solved, cost effective, or whatever the solution is, then giving those specific instructions to people who can do the job, and FINISH the job. Because for me, it’s only fun until it’s known. Once I see that anyone with this or that skill could do it, I write it down, and hand it off to a Finisher. Sometimes, they come back because they can’t get past this or that aspect, and I solve it, and hand it right back to them.

That keeps me happy, and driven (I’m a work-aholic, I’m happy WHEN I’m driven) and allows me to work on more than one project at a time, without leaving any of them undone.

Some of us really are just starters, that is our gift. You were talking about driving a stake in the ground, and that reminds me of how they trian elephants to stay where they want them. When they’re young, and they can’t pull a stake out of the ground, they tie thier leg to it to keep them in place. When they’re older, they don’t even try to pull the stake out, because they learned they couldn’t when they were younger.

I don’t want to be that guy. Lots of people in business are that guy, still doing things this way because that’s the way they’ve always been. Not moving the stake.

I want to be the guy that figures out the best way to move the stake, make it dance, fly, hover, whatever, and get people to pay me for doing it.

My first .NET coding project was done in 48 hours, and I did it after talking to the guy who built the software, and he told me what I wanted to do couldn’t be done. (I learned to code by speed reading ASP.NET and VB.NET books, I’m not great, but like I said, I solve the problem, then hand it off to a coder who “knows the rules”, but couldn’t get the job done)

Perry, I love this post, I love it because it’s soooo very me. I’m so glad you shared it with us, I just wanted to throw my unique perspective in, and I hope it helps.

Mike