Lesson 2 - Sleep Walking Again?
Let me ask you a question. How obvious were these first two Simpleology lessons (not a rhetorical question, let me know!)? Did you find them strikingly simple? Were you bored, yet weirdly amused by the crude, simplistic demonstrations?
Did you also find that you weren’t implementing these basic suggestions in your life?
I was honestly surprised to hear from people who, after watching Lesson #1, realized how convoluted their lives are. It’s a ridiculously simple lesson, draw a straight line from where you are to your goal and follow that straight line. But from hearing from all of you, I started to realize how many distractions there are in the world. And how easy it is to get so confused by these distractions that you end up following the wrong path and end up farther away from your goal than from where you started. This is exactly why Simpleology is so great and it’s exactly why we need to constantly be sharing stories, we don’t realize how easy it is to loose sight of our goals.
Loosing sight of our goals is exactly what lesson two is about. It might seem obvious that if you close your eyes you won’t get to where you want to go. But tell that to my wife.
She’s a sleepwalker.
Seriously, I often find her getting up in the middle of the night and banging into the closet. And you know what the most common answer she gives me for what she’s doing? She’s trying to go to the bathroom. I usually make a sarcastic joke and she wakes up fully and feels a little embarrassed as she makes her way to the bathroom. But she’ll never find the bathroom if she’s asleep. It’s a classic example of you can’t find what your looking for if your not aware of your surroundings.
I know this isn’t the best example of what Lesson 2 talks about, if you have a better example of how opening your eyes has allowed you to better see your goal then lets hear it. Like I keep saying, the more people who participate in this discussion, the better it is for everyone. So let’s hear your stories.
January 22nd, 2007 at 10:20 am
Ben, you are right on the money. These lessons are short, sweet and straight to the point. They are also incredible obvious. In fact, they are so obvious that they are the types of things we should be doing, but are overlooking.
This isn’t a course to teach us anything new, its a course to remind us to what we should already know!
Keep up the stories, love hearing them.
January 22nd, 2007 at 10:30 am
My wife sleep walks too! Anything I can do to get her to stop?
Seriously though, I often get distracted in accomplishing my goals, this course seems like a great way to make me hit the ground with my head and keep toeing the line.
If I knew a way to glue my eyes open and make myself concentrate, I’d do it. I guess this course is the next best thing.
Keep ‘em coming
January 22nd, 2007 at 10:34 am
Clyde, i have the same problem, I can’t concentrate at all!
i was working late one night trying to finish a deadline and I kept gettnig distracted by all the little details that needed to go into it.
It took me well over two extra hours. Had a learned to just keep my eyes ahead of me and work towards my goal, it would have saved me tons of time.
January 23rd, 2007 at 1:32 pm
While these lesson seem so very simple, how many of us live by them? If we did, we would find out how simple things make a big impact in our lives. I am going through the course for a second time and still find there is more to get out of it. I encourage each of you to commit to the enitre course. The changes that await you will dramatically change your lives.
February 5th, 2007 at 3:58 am
While I am reading Lesson 2 we are reminding of our simple action that distract our goal. The more positive thinking we do… it result to positive… as we go on…. to change our life…..