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right time, and what you’ll hear back is, “I can’t really say why. It’s just some kind of instinct.”
IT’S ALL ABOUT STAPLERS
every time you come to a crossroads and have to take a decision about your project or your life, you’ve already failed, even if you do take a decision and it works out. If you’ve been doing your Karmic Management correctly, events have just worked out already, without the decision.
The moral here is that a stapler works if it’s loaded, and it doesn’t work if it’s not loaded. When you really need a stapler right away, you don’t go running around the office comparing all the staplers on people’s desks. You don’t stand there with a red stapler in one hand and a green stapler in the other and try to make a decision about which color stapler is going to work.
There’s no sense or need to stand there trying to make a decision about which color stapler to use. All you need to know is which one is loaded, because that one will work.
You can stop making decisions, because they never help. You can start loading your actions, which always helps.
Because in the management of the world by karma, no action at all is ever lost. Every karmic step you take will without question lead to its result: what goes around always comes around.
HOW TO LOAD AN ACTION
Any action you take to make your karmic business partners successful will, without question, produce success for you, no matter what else you do, no matter what else you decide. It will all be just … instinct, automatic: “Somehow I knew.”
Each day, every day before you start work, write down one specific action that you’re going to take to make each one of these four successful. It doesn’t need to be something big—it probably shouldn’t be something big. Just one thing you can honestly get done today that will contribute to their success.
Your problems are your path.
“Problems are a good thing, because they let you know where your problems are.
Problem is, karma works just like planes. Before we ever heard about KM, we had already invested a lot of effort in either ignoring our co-workers and suppliers and customers and the world, or even working to “beat” them somehow. And all these karmic seeds are still there in our mind: nothing is lost, for good or for bad.
Nothing is “obvious.”
Karma always grows. That is, a stingy person may have been truly generous once, months ago, in a way that we don’t know about.
because you used the shut-off valve for the complaining karma.
We’ve said that even small thoughts and actions can fester in the subconscious and come out in a big way long afterwards.
the very first day you start to see even just the beginning of a problem like Frank—you need to do something, fast.
How to shut down a seed? Where’s the shut-off valve?
“Whatever you want from life, you must do for someone else first.”
If you do something good for someone, then only good can come back to you, and vice versa with the bad.
With Frank, this means that I myself must have been complaining about someone in the past and disrupting somebody else’s work.
the first step in removing a problem karmically is just to identify the general kind of act we must have committed ourselves in the past to plant it.
The way to shut off a karma is to be absolutely careful not to do any more of it now.
But that complaining had a purpose: you see that complaining let me know where my problem was.
Can you identify a problem quickly and shut it off?
this is important
So take joy in your problems; focus on your problems and embrace them. Don’t look away or avoid dealing with them. They are your friends; they are going to take you over the top.
The more effort you put into not complaining (especially about Frank’s complaining), the bigger and more powerful this karmic black hole becomes. The hole “resonates” with all the old complaining in your subconscious mind: it attracts old seeds of complaining, sucks them in, shuts them off. And so it’s not just that KM gives you the power to create your own successful future. It also gives you the power to selectively target any problem in your work or life, and shut it down.
this is important
Now you’re going to travel to your Quiet Sitting hangout, pull out your well-worn KM pocket notebook, and write down three actual or potential problems that you can see coming up and preventing you and your team from
getting out those 100,000 toilet plungers.
If something’s happening to you That you don’t like, Stop doing it to others
Karma consumed dies.
The power lies below the events, in the cause of all causes. Karma is lying below the wave like the sea it travels across, supporting every single moment of the company’s entire existence.
The rule was that you had to save 10% of this year’s crop to use as seeds for next year’s crop.
And you know exactly where to plant it: in your karmic business partners.
reading the letter of commendation you wrote for the members of your staff, outlining the specific strengths that each one demonstrated: strengths that can be utilized in future company projects—of course at a boost in salary.
And so we’re going to make sure you get enough rest and relaxation.
skillful eating,
So we need to convince ourselves that being more and more busy is not the same as being more and more successful.
If you can learn to be busy with a very clear mind when it’s really required, and then not be busy so you can dream and be creative when that’s required, then you’re going to be a surefire KM success.
How much time did I spend on the computer today?
How much news did I read or watch or listen to today
How much time did I spend on the phone today,
Again, the half-hour just before bed is a good time of day to track how your life is going. You must invest this time if you really want to achieve a mind that is fully functional, sharp, and clear.
