Sunday, May 12, 2019

Symbiosis and Parasites. Time is wealth. Timing myself. Being milked resentfully. Plug for someone else’s program.

I have set the timer on my watch for 30 minutes. That’s all I’m giving myself. It is conceivable that I will be forced to stop mid thought, so if the end of this seems abrupt, it’s because I’m forcing myself to obey a time-frame, because I have so dang much stuff to do.

I have a dream board to finish for the Power in Your Minds Practicum which I’m doing, a follow up course to the Power in Your Minds course. It’s pretty hard to explain, I wonder if I can just link you to a video, if your actually interested. Hey, I think there’s even a referral link, I’ll get some money off something if you decide to do it, and you... do something... I don’t know how it works. And I’m not sure I want to spend the time to find out. Well, let’s see if I can do it easily... ah, yes, it’s easy, you just have to let me know that your doing the power in your mind course, and I can effectively dibs you, saying, “I referred that person”

But what about a link you could look at... aha, also easy: here is something they suggest referring people to if they think they might be interested. It’s called, “Become a super manifester”
https://sai-maa.lpages.co/piym-become-a-super-manifester/

It’s all about making your goals and dreams into reality. I’ve found it to be pretty powerful, so I’m willing to give them a little free advertisement. Their hearts and minds are in the right place.

Twenty minutes left.

The reason I thought about timing myself was because I had originally mentioned it to my girlfriend, who then, some time early on today, asked if I was going to do my blog today, and if I was going to use the method I’d mentioned to her, to keep from going over time. I certainly had forgotten, but since she reminded me about it, I’m doing it now.

This makes me think of virtuous cycles and symbiosis. I feel like we have a nicely symbiotic relationship. We support each other, we’re both better together. She makes me stronger in various areas of my life, and I make her stronger in various areas. It feels really good. This is as opposed to the... parasitic? Way that relationships sometimes feel. I’m not sure if it’s parasitic, usually that means one party is getting their needs met, but I feel like neither of us was getting our needs met, in previous relationships... Though often, it is one party that ends up breaking up with the other, perhaps that’s how you tell who’s getting something from the relationship and who’s not...

Calling it parasitic is pretty unflattering though. Maybe mutually parasitic is equally unflattering to both parties, and so less offensive. In any case, this relationship feels distinctly symbiotic, not parasitic. I suppose you could think of that as loving the other person in a way that wants to support and sacrifice for them, that wants them to flourish, vs. being solely concerned with getting your own needs met. The perhaps more common form of “love”. Love being a euphemism in this case, like it often is in phrases like “let’s make love”. Which often have little if anything to do with love. What that actually means is “let’s make sex”.

Eleven minutes, forty-five seconds. Less, now, since I just did some spell checking. I need to do that as I go, because I’m writing this on my iPad Pro. It’s really nice in many ways, but iOS is still a pain in the neck compared to OSX. The web browser isn’t as good, the file management isn’t as good. There are lots of little buggy problems that pop up, when your trying to do actual content management and creation, where you don’t want something super simple and vanilla. I’m sure Mac likes it because they can control the app ecosystem much more securely, which means they get a piece of the money whenever anybody buys anything, but that’s one of those examples of good for the company, but not good for the customer, and so when they lean on that, they are abusing their customers, who are slowly losing the good-will they generated by other means. If you want to be a good company long-term, you have to be actually desiring to serve your customers, rather than just trying to milk them for all you can get. Generate value, be of service, and over time, word will get around. Be devious little parasites, trying to siphon off as much blood as they can without being noticed and shaken off, and eventually people will leave.... ah crap, here we go, right now, with every word I type, blogger wigs out and and switches screens. Fuuuuu!

Well, I’m almost out of time anyways...

Ok, now I’m using an app, I need a separate app, just to type out my blog post. An app which costs five bucks, if I want to actually be able to publish from it. So I’ll just copy past, for now, until I’ve used it for a bit and decided it’s worth it. This is what I’m talking about, iOS sometimes feels like a milking machine, and we are the cows, and our milk is our money.

Anyhoo, only a few... whoop. A few seconds left. Well, I wanted to say something about Mother’s Day, so, happy Mother’s Day, mothers! It’s good that you are acknowledged for your great service of love and sacrifice that is at the foundation of how our future looks, via how our children are raised. And you build them inside your bodies, which is pretty cool and unfortunately uncomfortable, it seems.

Well, I’m past my time, I need to wrap up. I gave myself an extra five minutes, but if I can do it sooner than that, it’s better. I’m thinking of exchanging my mammoth laptop for a smaller one, so I don’t have these iOS issues, since then I’ll be able to carry around my laptop instead of my iPad, when necessary. 

I’m unbelievably busy. I keep wondering how the heck everything’s going to get done, and more things just keep getting piled on. Time is truly the greatest wealth. As is,... nope, that’s it. The second five minute alarm went off. Stopping me from going off on another tangent. Seems like this strategy was an effective one. Making a note in my imaginary scientific journal.

Have a good week, give your mom a hug, see ya next time, hopefully with a lot more done, but let’s be realistic, it’s almost certainly going to continue being just the bare minimum necessary to not be late on essential things, day by day.

^_^
Bye!

No comments:

Post a Comment