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Ouroboros - The Tail of the Serpent

Posted by Joseph Riggio on Sunday, December 02, 2007

Everyone it seems wants to end this year on a high-note and begin the new year on an even better one ... having the best year of your life. Rather than hoping or praying for something remarkable to happen ... organizing from the inside-out provides you with the perfect recipe, one that goes beyond ... way beyond ... any New Year’s resolutions you’ve ever made before.

Howdy ...

It's been a while since I promised "... some interesting "on the road" tidbits soon." However as always "life comes up" even when you don't think it will ... or worst least want it to ...

I often quote from Steven Spielberg's blockbuster movie Jurrasic Park when the chaos mathematician Dr. Ian Malcom, played by actor Jeff Goldblum says, "No, I'm simply saying that life, uh... finds a way." It seems that regardless of what comes up ... "life finds a way." I also find that when "Life comes up ..." folks (including myself) begin to think about "What's next?" ... especially around this time of year.

So I don't know if this means we're at a beginning or an end when this time of year comes around.

Right around now many folks are busying themselves making plans and resolutions about changing things in the upcoming year. These New Year's resolutions are often aimed at ensuring the upcoming year will be the best year ever. Yet, despite the earnest intention of these resolutions they are just as quickly put aside and forgotten before the first month of the New Year passes into memory.

However, the question remains, "What would have to be true to indeed make this year ever ... the one that brings together everything ... the one that proves to be the best year of your life?"

This is what I mean by not knowing if this time of year signals more of a beginning or an end. In many ways I think it most like the ouroboros swallowing itself whole ... tail first. In other words the endless cycle continues anew.

Anyway the ouroboros, at least in the way I'm intending it, provides a perfect metaphor for what's been going on in my own small world. Once again I find myself both resurrected and reinvented ... at one and the same time even more at the beginning of what I'd begun sometime ago.

When I first started this journey it was with a sense of searching for something then unknown to me. Somewhere along the way it became evident that I was on a journey of renewal, renewing my sense of myself ... finding and redefining who I know myself to be. This ignited a greater search for something beyond myself ... something beyond the limits of who I am alone. And, this secondary search opened new vistas of possibility to me ... new ways of knowing about myself, those around me, the cosmos ... and maybe most significantly myself in relation to the entirety of it all.

Simply, what I found was that at some point this relationship ... myself in relation to the entirety ... extends beyond what is, or can be, know by myself alone. At some point the very idea of relationship, or knowing something beyond myself alone, falls away to reveal a singularity. Within the singularity everything simply "is" and no relationship can be possible because only the singularity exists unto itself.

But we should leave that for now, as the intention of my "come back" story inherent in this blog post doesn't lend itself to such an esoteric dialogue. We could move onto the core of the story ... reinvention and renewal. This may be best revealed via some of fundamental questions that opens a door into this domain of consideration:

  • How do you know when you are being most true to yourself?
  • What becomes most evident about you when you are being authentic?
  • What mission/purpose in life most appeals to you and guides you?
  • How do you reach beyond yourself, connect and create with others?
  • How will you know without exception when you've realized your intention(s)?

    • That should be enough for a start ... enough to give a taste of stepping onto the path that I'm suggesting. It may be obvious that this path leads both in and out, towards and away from the self ... and resides in the present while pointing to the future. Most significantly the path I'm suggesting organizes around the resolution of paradox, jumping logical levels to where the paradox doesn't exist ... or as I like to say, "Going to where the problem is NOT."

    Well, I wanted to give a bit of an introduction to begin our dialogue again ... to entice you back into considering the possibilities that may be available for you at the year's end and beginning ...

    I've been working hard at putting together a new platform, starting with my website update that we put in place over the summer and have been working on since behind the scenes. This project has been continuing as I've been hard at work redefining and refining my space first in the mythosphere and then readying myself to put it out in the blogosphere ... now my journey with you here begins again ...

    So, what say you, will you join me on my journey once again?

    Joseph Riggio
    Princeton, NJ

    PS - I'm cooking up a holiday feast ... new editions of my audio newsletter Uncommon Advice - along with a full calendar of next year's editions, month by month for the whole year just for an appetizer. I've also scheduled some studio time to create some new hypnotic performance products with a new business partner ... and I've been organizing my thoughts for some major writing projects based on my EPC2™ | Million Dollar Business Building Marketing and Sales programs. I'm also scheduled to go to this year's TED.com conference in Aspen, CO as an example of the kind of contacts I've been making ... and there's much more to come.

    Stay on top of all this and much more ... subscribe to EPC2™ | Exquisite Performance Tips ... and be the first to get my newest rants as I write them and speak them (as you'll get in my occasional podcasts and videocasts that will be a part of your subscription to EPC2™ | Exquisite Performance Tips) in the upcoming year.

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    Ready to step in again!

    Piernicola on Monday, December 03, 2007

    Joseph,

    Great to wake up on a Monday morning and read a Blognostra post once again. I’d not heard of The Ouroboros before, but its is a symbol that truly resonates with me. I will be joining you on the journey once again in the New Year. See you in Lambertville, Dennis

    Dennis Charles on Monday, December 03, 2007

    Hey guys ... thanks for the vote of confidence ... I’m about to write my blog post for the day ... I’ll have it up before lights out for the night ...

    Joseph Riggio on Monday, December 03, 2007

    Hi Joseph

    Nice to get more of you thoughts, for thought

    Joining you on the journey once again would mean that we would have left it, and I truely belive that we are always on a journey.

    I will continue the journey in the new year with you as inspiration.

    rgs
    Per

    Per Rehné on Wednesday, December 05, 2007

    Joseph,

    Glad to see you back posting on Blognostra… I’ve missed your rants and raves, and everything in-between. Of course I will join you on your journey… together… on different paths, creating futures that work. Looking forward to the Somatics module in Lambertville this month.

    Jerry

    Jerry on Wednesday, December 05, 2007

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