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BEING in the World …

Posted by Joseph Riggio on Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Shifting your orientation from *GOAL SETTING* to holding a particular way of orienting out towards the world ... what I call simply *BEING IN THE WORLD* ... opens the possibility that what you desire, your most deeply held expectations this upcoming year may in fact fall into place as a function of becoming ready and responding as the real-time information flows towards you from the world.

Howdy ... and Welcome ...

It seems appropriate to offer a welcome to the *NEW* front page of BlogNostra as well as to the New Year. Especially after my last posting about ending the year in appreciation and gratitude ... with a sense of anticipation about what the coming year will bring ... I wanted to set the tone for *NEW* beginnings.

I know that for some people who travel in my circles it may be common to do some goal setting around this time of year. And, of course if you happen to be a self-help, self-improvement, self-development groupie you may even have gotten some emails suggesting that the most important thing you can do at the start of the will be to set your goals and write them down. Many of those suggesting that you write your goals down base their opinions on bad research and old learning. Specifically, the idea that writing down your goals has a direct and immediate impact on achieving them because they believe that those who write down their goals have a better track record of achieving them than those who do not. Personally, I don't know of any definitive research that has established that as a fact, nor do I know of any serious social scientist claiming this to be true.

So what do I recommend instead? Well I really don't care if you write your goals down or not, but I do care where you are beginning from before you begin setting anything like a goal. I find that many people begin thinking about goals as a way to fill in what they perceive to be missing from their life. Another way of saying this would be, they begin from what they want to be present for them in their life that they don't yet have. To a large extent all the evidence I have suggests that where you begin from determines where you will end ... a kind of recursive loop that creates itself.

This has nothing to do with "manifesting" or "attraction" in the ways those ideas have become so popular lately. The idea I'm suggesting builds on the premise that only by beginning from a positively organized state will even come up with the kind of goals that are present in and from that state. In other words there are two potential orientations:

  • An INHIBITORY STATE organized in relation to limitations,
    e.g.: what you don't have, what you haven't achieved, what you don't want ...
  • An EXCITATORY STATE organized in relation to possibilities,
    e.g.: what you have, what you've achieved, what you want ...

    • What you begin to consider from the INHIBITORY STATE will be how to avoid failing or how to avoid what you don't want ... even if that means something like not wanting to be poor, or alone. Regardless of what comes up in the INHIBITORY STATE it will carry the seeds of limitation within it. So, even if you succeed in avoiding the limitation, you will still be focused on limitation and avoidance.

    What you consider from the EXCITATORY STATE will be how to attain success or how to attain having what you want ... including sustaining the experience of operating successfully already. In essence the EXCITATORY STATE operates in a self-referential, self-organizing way to create ... and re-create ... itself ... i.e.: systemic recursion.

    An EXCITATORY STATE establishes systemic recursion where the system become self-organizing and self-referencing, forcing your attention outwards towards the world ... what might be called a "READY STATE." In turn operating from an outward directed orientation allows you to act in and on the world in relation to manifesting the external realities you desire - both on your own and with others.

    I'm proposing that instead of organizing in regard to goals, you organize in regard to establishing and sustaining a constant state of readiness ... a position that you can act from instantaneously in regard to real-time information in the environment. This position ... the READY STATE ... organizes you precisely in relation to manifesting the specific realities you desire.

    From a READY STATE it can be argued that there will be no need to establish or organize in relation to goals - although you could. The orientation of the READY STATE itself becomes enough to set a direction forward. Operating from the READY STATE positions you to succeed while maintaining a particularly powerful position ... without defaulting to or even necessarily referencing goals that had been organized without the benefit of real-time information in a world that operates at light speed. When you choose first for how you are in the world ... your BEING-NESS ... then all the other pieces fall into place in direct relation to that way of being.

    HAPPY NEW YEAR & BUONA FORTUNA!

    Joseph Riggio
    Ebeltoft, Denmark

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    I am in the world already!

    Abaddon on Friday, June 06, 2008

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