What Is Reality
Every week a group of entrepreneurs gather on the phone to talk about a variety of issues and thoughts. Today’s discussion centred around the concept of reality. What is reality and how do we test it? All I Know – or more correctly what I’ve learned so far is that it’s all too easy to believe what others tell me is real when it truth it may not be.
For example: The UK Government’s view of what is real may be quite different from my own.
So be very careful to test your perception of reality. Now that begs the question how do we test reality? The film ‘Matrix’ was all about our perceptions of reality and taking the blue pill or the red one would dictate what reality was for us.
Start from a place where you test the simple things – food, your home, your family and then build on those. In his book, your life as art, Robert Fritz uses an illustration where he gets some art students to paint a brick building and they all paint what they see – a building with red bricks. He then alters their perception by getting them to look at the building through a pinhole in a card and paint what they see – this time the bricks take on a whole new colour – orange to be true to the story. The lesson is that our perception is altered by our surroundings. Test your surroundings and try to get a better understanding of your reality. Having done that then try to visualise what you are trying to create – that sets up structural tension. Then put into place small steps that take you toward what you want to create.
For example imagine that you want to have a more fulfilling relationship with your wife or partner. You first decide that you want to create something – in this case a better relationship (What you want to Create). Then you acknowledge current reality in that you get home late from work and are too tired to do anything (Current Reality). You now have structural tension in that you know where you are and what you want. Then you put in place simple small steps like planning in your diary to get home 1 hour earlier one night a week when your partner/spouse is free.
Do that for a minimum of 3 weeks and you’ll have the grounds for a new habit and one that is constructive and creative. Simply build in more steps over the weeks and with a supportive structure around you the impossible suddenly becomes possible.
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