The first 30-days describe figuring out rules of the road, shifting decisions with implications for the whole 1-year time frame. Here are the “Top 12 TauBit of Wisdom” for the Second 30-day period.
“Evidence” highlights what I actually did on a day that influenced a rating from 1 to 5. “Experiment Methodology” highlights decisions made along the way about what’s changed.
Top 12 TauBit of Wisdom
Legitimate Holiday TauBits of Wisdom
“5” Steve Zahn, 51: “Time to yourself seems like an impractical indulgence, you’re happier and more loving once you’ve tended to your tranquility needs.” Scorpio
“5” Steve Zahn, 51: “Self-doubt is the enemy of imagination. Trust and lean further into your creativity. Agree with and build on the goodness there.” Scorpio
“5” Steve Zahn, 51: “You’ve got a secret that helps you move through events with grace: Change itself doesn’t hurt. What hurts is our resistance to change.” Scorpio
TauBits Begged, Borrowed and Stolen from Steves
“5” Steve Jobs, (1955 – 2011): “You’re drawn to unexplored territories today, and you’ll map out the terrain for those who come along later.” Pisces
“5” Steve Jobs, (1955 – 2011): “Project yourself to the far future. What you see there will help you create your best strategy.” Pisces
“5” Steve Greene, 34; Steve Guttenberg, 61; Stephen King, 72: “If you think too far into the situation, you’re likely to get lost in details and complications, making it impossible to take a stance.” Virgo
“5” Steve Greene, 34; Steve Guttenberg, 61: “If you can’t do anything about it, then it’s not a problem. Rather, it’s a circumstance. Change what you can; accept the rest.” Libra
“5” Steve Harvey, 62: “Think of all of life as an experiment. If this person’s not right, try that person. Don’t take the outcome personally.” Capricorn
“5” Steve Winwood, 71; Stevie Wonder, 69: “Questions such as ‘why does this matter?’ or ‘what is important about this?’ will bring you past the symptoms and right to the root issue.” Taurus
“5” Steve Smith, 30: “If wisdom were a needle in a haystack, you’d find it. Precious insights could come from anywhere.” Gemini
“5” Steve McQueen (1930 – 1980): “Little thoughts come and go. Write them down; record them somehow.” Aries
“5” Steve Nash, 45: “Imagined problems can have as much impact (if not more) as real problems can have. The good part about imagined problems is that they can be solved the instant you see reality.” Aquarius
Funny, reviewing them now only shows how in some cases I needed to twist and stretch the TauBits to fill my need to write about what I worked on.
On Day 60 I rediscovered succinct descriptions for the knowledge path volumes one and two!! I can include the descriptions in the beginning of “Volume Two Manuscript“.
And, for a couple of days leading up to it the ratings four the TauBits really sucked, I’ll point out a change in “Experiment Methodology” no longer including those I didn’t curate initially and those that didn’t score a “2” or “1” for relevance.
Evidence
Topics of the Day
- Analytics of shared articles on LinkedIn
- Sharing political economic news from the day
- Feeling shock about election interference, obstruction of justice while reading Volume One and Two of the redacted Mueller Report
- Deeper dives into the negative aspects of social media, especially Facebook and Twitter
Following my intuition today, July 5th, on Day 60 of My 1-Year Experiment, I pulled up a pdf of “New Lenses Field Guide” and reviewed the last two topics,
- “Fit: Sweet Spot of Overlapping Life, Community, Organizational, Economic and Generational Cycles” — Finding your sweet spot by integrating lifecycles — anyone can zero in on opportunities to do what you love in a business, social, and quality-of-life climate that you’ll thrive in. Of course, shifting economic cycles, bursting bubbles and political events help or hinder our ability to capitalize on those opportunities
- “Live, Love, Work and Play in Four Wealthy Dream Communities” — In the 16 lifestyle neighborhoods, how do you evaluate six types of real estate opportunities — when to buy, how long to hold, and when to sell? Transplant your business, practice or knowledge company after evaluating seven market cycle indicators. When you do, you can take advantage of real estate markets as they move through up, down and up cycles.
Topics illustrating My Passions and Life Over the Last Few Days
What’s been going on? I’ve been working through the missing chapters from my 5-book volume I’ve been calling “The Knowledge Path Series” and just published “High Country Cowboys and Eagles in Whitefish” in my blog, Knowledge Banking: Wealthy Choices. Healthy Lives. What was it about? Here’s how I described it:
With the help of our knowledge bank, you can choose for variations in your new neighborhood by:
“What does an Idea Packager do? That’s what I’m answering in Volume Two of the Knowledge Path Series. The first volume answers the question, “If I can live and work anywhere in the world, then which community should I choose as the best fit for my inspiration, satisfaction and happiness?”
The second series answers the question, “If I could work for any company or type of organization either as an employee, consultant or independent contractor which type or stage of growth brings out the best and worst in me?” Given the choice, which should I pursue and which should I avoid like the plague?”
“In my original field research about “work” which I tested in workshops and advising sessions with hundreds of Executive MBA students I’ve been exploring disruptive change — as driven by a specific type of organization named “Paradoxy-Morons” and at a specific stage of growth companies feel either desperate enough to enter or innovative enough to bake it into their Organizational DNA — reinvention.”
Focus on conceptualizing a second manuscript about talent cultures, profiles, organization types and stages of growth
Recalling 5-year passage of time building a climate for innovation
Steve Jobs, mostly for his brand of disruptive innovation — creating new rules for an older industry. His Holiday Tau reminds me of a quote, I believe came from Joel Barker originally:
“Mastering new rules is like trying to cross a white-water river. If you can anticipate the whirlpools and the changes in the current, if you can anticipate the landing on the other shore, you have a much better chance of getting across that river successfully.”
Recalling specific challenges a downsizing crisis presented to our team of internal consultants
I rediscovered my “CareerVentures DRAFT” which encapsulated what I branded as “Secrets for turning your passions into profits.”
The world was changing dramatically. I wanted to document it, extract lessons learned and offer the best practices to clients.
During the six years of moonlighting — getting up every morning at 5 am and writing for two hours before working in my day job as a Senior Vice President coaching executives how to find another job in the Southern California region, I realized that journal could be used another way.
Through sophisticated “knowledge chunking,” something I had learned as a Chief Knowledge Officer and a Chief Learning Officer, the journal emerged as one of the first ebooks.
While researching the top 10 trends everyone should plan their career around, I fell into a venture guidance contract where I coached entrepreneurs with start up ideas and products.
That ebook also opened the door for co-authoring “Adapt! How to Survive and Thrive in the Changing World of Work”
And that book, opened the door for the 2-year curriculum of online tools, tips and templates for my Executive MBA clients, as I advise them to change careers, buy a business or franchise and launch a start-up, consulting or coaching practice.
And, for the more adventurous of them, to take advantage of the Mobile Knowledge Company opportunities.
Topics Which are Really True About Me Over a Long Time
- Writing devises like the use of Holiday Tau and asking “What Would Leo da V Do?”
- Sampling writing styles of several authors for sentence construction growth
From the Kindle version of “The Art of Memoir” by Mary Karr.
What appeals to me is her description of life-story writers like me:
“… a fiction writer starts with meaning and then manufactures events to represent it; a memoirist starts with events, then derives meaning from them.”
“(A) memoir uses novelistic devices like cobbling together dialogue you failed to record at the time.”
“A fierce urge to try re-experiencing your own mind and body and throbbing heart alive inside the most vivid stories from your past is step one.”
Methodology Changes
6/6/19
Researcher’s Note: While curating raw TauBits of Wisdom for inclusion it dawned on me I needed to calculate the total number of possibilities for final results and comparisons. Total potential horoscopes / potential between 4536 and 4548.
6/16/19
Researchers Note: The previous day returned “5” rankings for each of the Steves curated TauBits of Wisdom. Out of today’s three of the 6 identified scored a “3” and just as many rated a “2”. Is there any value in including “2’s” and “1’s”?
6/22/19
Researcher’s Note: By this time, Day 53 of my 1-year experiment, I began saving a little time in my process of reading Holiday Mathis sayings in the print edition of The Los Angeles Times, by typing into a previously copied saying, like yesterday’s Steve Zahn. It meant I’d have to search through a half a dozen statements. I found by bolding the Tau, it made it easier to locate one to copy and then type over. It wouldn’t be the last time I sought efficiencies.
Researcher’s Note: At the end of the 30 days (Days 58 and 59) the rankings topped under “2” again, so I decided going forward I won’t record any score under “3”.
Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Inspired by Holiday Mathis – Creators Syndicate
“3”
All those things fill in the sweet sorrow. Why do I write all this? Instead of getting on with something else like my computer business, etc? I guess I know tomorrow I’ll be conditioned to get back into my normal work-a-day role with its pressures and deadlines. These memories will be buried deep — almost beyond reach. And I sense there is something important here. Their trip every year brings headaches, but also a part of me surfaces and then goes away for another 11 months.
What’s been going on? Yes, my struggle with WordPress continues.