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The Life Web

Many of us constantly wrestle with ourselves. And often we beat ourselves up over our “lack of focus”. Well I do anyway, even if you won’t admit it. People who have a natural straight line vision will criticise us for it. And many “advisers” will tell us the way to achieve more success (or any success) is to develop and nurture this focus.

I guess we should define a term that encompasses this “lack of focus” else I am going to drift off from typing it 100 times

So let me nickname this mental condition as “lost”. And I choose the word with several seconds of relevant deep thought, as I am inclined to do. Oh look paint drying…

So why are many of us “lost?

In Simpleology, Mark Joyner talks about “The Straight Line”. This is nothing new. He’s just captured a good mental image of the concept. To get from A to B quickly, go in a straight line, without hesitation, without distraction and you are more likely to get there. It’s simple. It’s a straight line.

The bigger longer deeper probing question is, “where do you want to go” and that is a question most people can not answer. Or are afraid to choose a single destination, even for the moment. And there is the first problem.

Of course life isn’t a straight line! I don’t “feel” like it is even a zig zag line. It feels more like a spiders web. Particularly because ideas I have had maybe 20 years ago, come back to haunt me. Some are even positive.

So my reality, and probably yours too, is my life is more like a spiders web. Yeah they are all straight lines some of the way, but then they interconnect, branch, go back on themselves, and form a very complex “net” of straight lines. And if you think for a moment of the complex fractal shapes you can make from repetitive but simple maths, we can start to appreciate how weaved this web of life is.

So is the straight line of life as simple as being on one strand of our life web at one time?

The world, and technology does NOT assist us in this journey. We are constantly barraged with information and people requesting our attention. Multi pathed experiences and adverts and links and passing comments that take us off in to a sea of fresh storms. ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) is almost a transmittable virus. Show anyone Twitter for the first time and watch them for 15 minutes as they disappear in to an ether of 140 character abstract messages. Some will never recover Isn’t reading unrelated sets of 140 character messages (1 sentence) from hundreds of different strangers the epitomy of ADD? Should Twitter have a health warning? Yet it can often be fascinating! Seldom “boring” but often quickly “too much”

Back on plot, our life web grows exponentially and adds other life webs to our own.

And whilst we sometimes crave the excitement of this multi dimensional lifestyle, we sometimes crave, or need, or become ill if we don’t get, the opposite. the calmness of focus.

I want to come back to this topic and finish it. But for now, let’s try and think which sector of the web we want to strengthen and then hopefully focus enough to do it. We can be sure, more webs will be added in the process, but maybe that is fine. Is life a straight line single experience or a multi dimensional web of half lived experiences?

But maybe some segments of our life need to lived more than others!

Let me know what “the straight line” means to you (below).