S3 E11 — Looking for a New Predictive Belief System?

It’s time for a celebration — “Pi Day” and daylight savings day, the one that steals an hour from your night time rest.

“The Tau of Steves: What You Don’t Know Could Fill a Book”

Hi and welcome to Sunday’s Episode 11 in Season 3 of “My Paradoxically Normal Year” on this 14th day of March in the spring of 2021 — which is a three-year examination of how bits of wisdom changed during the “normal” pre-pandemic year and then in the pandemic year, and now months after.

Previously in Season Three, The Paradoxically Normal Year

S3 E10 —Feeding the Beast for Sheila in Fantasyland; S3 E9 — Melancholy and Undercover Brooklyn Moms Know Best; S3 E8 — Wait, You’re Saying I Should Read It Again?

Related from Season Two, The Pandemic Year

S2 E11 — Waiting for the 3rd Shoe to Drop; S2 E10 — Cats, Ladders and Shaking Salt …; S2 E9 — Blame It On Your D4DR Gene, Not Me!; S2 E8 — How Does the Entangled Fish Hook Theory of Creativity Work?

Related from Season One, The Normal Year

S1 E11 — Day 11 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E10 — Day 10 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E9 — Day 9 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E8 — Day 8 of My 1-Year Experiment

“5” Steve Winwood, 71; Stevie Wonder, 69; Stephen Colbert, 56: “When opportunity knocked confidently at your door, you answered. Opportunity’s current signal won’t be so easily detected; it’s the flicker of feeling across someone’s face, a clip of passing dialogue. It’s as subtle as a pulse.” Taurus

Evidence

I gotta be honest, I love the Holiday Tau Theme for the day:

Can you feel the intentions of last week…?

Tomorrow brings … change that will have you witnessing your progress in a different way.

If you were to, very scientifically, log recent happenings by writing them down, taking pictures, etc., you will have an accurate (and repeatable) record of your success climb.

So what kinds of happenings should I be on the lookout filming and recording? Check out the Holiday Forecast for the week ahead:

“… ‘I am.’ In that spirit, individuality and identity are a cosmic focus.

In every line of work and play, from corporate work to romantic relationships to hobbies, cultivating an original perspective is the difference between doing a good job and being an undeniable master.

Each person has a set of experiences and inherent qualities that is unduplicated anywhere in the world.

To bring all of that to noticing the world is to set oneself up for excellence at the task at hand.

However, being a first-class observer takes a great deal more intention and self-discipline than it ever has before.

We live in an age where our every digital move is tracked, but people in our vicinity are so distracted by their own digital worlds that much happening in the real world goes undetected.

The old-school notion of the “nosy neighbors” is practically anachronistic, as few can be bothered to look up and note the comings and goings of those in close vicinity.

We do, on the other hand, religiously creep one another’s social media pages, seeking the true and inside story, as if that could actually be found in such a forum.

In the weeks to come, we will answer ‘I am…’ blending an awareness of who ‘I am not’ and a leaning toward who ‘I want to be.’”

For a comical aside, three strips come to us today, the first from Doonesberry by Garry Trudeau.

“Hello you’ve reached MyFacts, the leader in alternative realities! How may I direct your cry for help?”

“Yeah, I’m looking for a new predictive belief system.”

“I can assist you with that sir. What have you embraced in the past?”

“Well, I fell for 1987’s Harmonic Convergence, the 1994 Rapture, both of the 2011 Raptures, and the 2012 Mayan Long Count … Then I bought into the Qanon Storm of January 6 and the reset on March 4. I’ve been burned a Lot!”

“I can understand your frustration, Sir. Let me check our end times inventory … Okay, I’m seeing an Apocalypse in July. Does July work?”

“No, the kids are home then. Anything in the Fall?”

The next in Candorville by Darrin Bell takes place in Dr. Noodle’s psychiatry office as the patient speaks.

“How do we know the past ever existed? I mean … we can’t go there to make sure it’s real. I know we have photos and other stuff that supposedly document the past. But do you know how I know we have that stuff? It’s because I ‘remember’ seeing it! How do I know those ‘memories’ are real? We all just agree that the past happened, but how do we know that’s not some massive, collective delusion?!”

“… As I said … we’ll have to leave it there. Our hour is up.”

“Don’t you see? You have now way of proving that!”

And, this describing the significance today’s celebration in Frazz by Jef Mallett. Frazz, the school janitor explains to Caufield the precocious student.

“The ratio of any circle’s circumference to it’s diameter … is commonly rounded off to 3.14 … and iconically represented by (the pi symbol) … which linguistically sounds like ‘pie.’ Hence 3-14 is Pi Day.”

“Everybody knows that Frazz. What’s your point?”

“Is Pi Day a language gag or a math gag?”

“Oh, I see wait for it …”

“Good lord was that you?”

“I fed cheese pizza to the dog. Now it’s a biology gag.”

Being those as they may, let’s return to the task at hand — practicing as a first class observer, recording my success record, on this PI Day, preserving today as a past from something in the future and staying clear Biden’s Neanderthals.

Hi Steve, where’s your Holiday Tau been recently. You know Winkler, Emma the Baroness and I eagerly wait for your TauBits of Wisdom. Wait, what kind of group?

“5” Steve Zahn, 51: “A group is going to help you with what you wish to accomplish. It will be up to you to seek these connections, to participate in different gatherings, to find the right fit or to cherry-pick your team from different places.” Scorpio

Random ones that make me want change my sign.

Wow, not so fast McQueen. Did you check out today’s “Doonesberry?” Throw in some critical thinking and then I’m looking forward.

“5” Steve McQueen (1930 – 1980): “Power depends on alignment. Misaligned values provide a friction-filled experience. But when belief, word and deed coincide beautifully, all rolls smoothly forward.” Aries

Hi Winwood, Wonder and Colbert, thanks for offering me your Holiday Tau. You probably can tell by now that opportunity signals is what I’m all about. Monitoring what’s just around the bend so you can activate “If This, Then That” decisions in enough time to capitalize on the opportunity.

A little foresight couldn’t hurt, right? There’s the trend research and there’s the good old fashioned gumshoe business intelligence interviews. You wash, rinse and repeat until you reach that synchronicity moment when what you seek is within the grasp of your reach. At least that’s what hundreds of my executive MBA students found following my advice.

Here’s what I’ve always like about Aoki’s Holiday Tau, they combine with our TauBits of Wisdom to make the commonalities greater than the sum of the parts. I whole-heartedly agree with iterating new habits which can be efficiently deployed in service of a goal, even one strategically more difficult — personal redefinition. And, is what a career transformation requires.

“5” Steve Aoki, 41: “You have the opportunity to redefine yourself. One small habit opens the gate. Amazing things will be accomplished with mundane but decisive acts that have been systemized to the point of being automatic.” Sagittarius

Hmm. Uh-huh. I see your value. But, other than acknowledging there’s a rhythm of life and a pace to loving relations, I’ll pass today. Except Emma the Baroness is on the road with Jazzy and Delta Girl without me for 5 hours until they can say triumphantly, we are here, yet. Does that count for being slightly less available?

“4” Steve Carell, 57; Steve Martin, 74; Steve Wozniak, 69: “Relationships get better when you slow them down a bit. Some strategies to consider: talking less, listening more, being slightly less available, making fewer, but more interesting, plans.” Leo

I fear I’ll have to downgrade your Holiday Tar for today guys compared to yesterday’s. I’m feeling a worsening fear.

“3” Steve Greene, 34; Steve Guttenberg, 61: “The fear you avoid worsens. Confront it, and it will be scary at first, and then gradually get a little better each time until you genuinely can’t relate to the “you” who was afraid of the thing.” Virgo

What’s Going On …

Literally Bottled and Set Adrift from KnowWhere Atoll

- @KnowLabs suite of 36 digital magazines jumps from 7397 to 7455 this week organically grown followers

Foresight

Quality-of-Life

Long-Form

- “Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History” by Kurt Andersen Both of us, Emma the Baroness and I, have been processing the acquittal of our ex-President — not really being surprised by the “Big Lie” promoting followers in the Senate, but more disappointed after seeing new video documentation of the insurrection and detailed evidence time lines. I return to Kurt Andersen’s book “Fantasyland” to help me through the process of filtering the unfolding events.

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Inspired by: Holiday Mathis – Creators Syndicate

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