Thursday, December 26, 2013
IN RESPONSE TO AN NFL.COM ARTICLE ABOUT ROBERT GRIFFIN
IN RESPONSE TO AN NFL.COM ARTICLE ABOUT ROBERT GRIFFIN
This was VERY well written, I fully agree with your assessment of the situation.
May I just add that Griffin come to see the absolute necessity to work out his own HERO complex? Its so 2,000 years ago. Its not about one guy anymore. Its about a bunch of guys doing THIS together. Honor and Glory? Such a tired story... This story about a Glass Knee is cloaked in smoke and mirrors, so please understand it continues to develop. The prognosis for his complete return to GLORY is not too promising. The people who care about those things are becoming more and more the minority these days. These days I see others finding the fulfillment of far more fundamental needs to be of much greater valuable than Honor and Glory. Griffin allowed his brain washed obedience to place his talents/gift in harms way. He was the origin of that harm. This was a decision that harmed the chances of success for his fellow teammates. Since when did he begin to value his own importance to the extent that he forgot about his teammates. These guys fight in the trenches. They do his dirty work. They play really hurt all season. They have families, they have children. They also want to be able to experience success for their efforts. Since when has any man who placed his own needs above those of his teammates, been successful? He forgot this, and THE mysterious powers of cause and effect bitch slapped his ass in hopes of waking him up, getting him off the quest for HONOR AND GLORY. Griffin would always be a highly motivated player with great ability but when he places these qualities in care of Honor And Glory, they fade out as fast as they came. His EGO, which convinced him that he is BEST option, even on one leg, can be affected. He can place those very same qualities in the hands of Love and Truth. He could look at himself as a long term commitment to really doing something the world would remember him by, IF HE CHOSE TO. But men trying to cash in quickly can hardly be blamed. THEY KNOW THEY ARE CANNON FODDER. They know they are living a gamble to keep themselves in tact long enough to get that BIG Contract. I would be very interested to see the exact number of men who actually make it to that point. 10%? I don't know. I follow the Cowboys and I have seen lots of guys get drafted, hurt a couple of times and then traded away before they got the Honor and the Glory, or in RING OF HONOR as it is called in Dallas.. Many guys only play a couple of years with a Hero's mentality similar to Griffin's. Is this all they care about? Getting theirs and getting out? There is NOTHING wrong with this this mentality, but just know that this will continue. Men will continue to hurt each other for a chance at Honor and Glory. Can Griffin connect to the Power he is in possesses of and use it to modernize the game of football beyond an archaic barbarianism which takes a heavy toll on the bodies and minds of HIS FELLOW WARRIORS? , Or will he play right into the Kingdom and CHAMPION mentality that KEEPS Griffin a Fools Savior and the rest of us too scared to even try? He can learn from Randall Cunningham as well as Mike Vick. Shoot, even Cam Newton, he learned quick. His was no "Sophomore slump". He saw that he was not Superman and Caught On and saw clearly where he was going to end up. He made a business decision to buy time while more guys like Griffin, Wilson and Luck arrive to so these guys could change the game together. Do something different. He could bring the game into a faster, less violent and more entertaining version which could be more dynamic and balanced. He could do all these things in a big way or he could get hurt before the total regeneration of Modern Day Mans Professional Football culminates. This may take 20 years but the game will trend away from the level of violence which still prevails, albeit a in a different way then 50 years ago. People need to understand that the game has sped up tremendously, while the capacity for sustaining trauma is far less then it was even 50 years ago. These are all collision injuries. Bodies collide. The way the game is right now is not sustainable. As the game speeds up, even greater the damage will be incurred from those collisions. Guys, like cars, will get wiped off the map. Guys are not built to take the beatings they once could endure. Griffin needs to acknowledge this fact in his own way. This is a modern day version of the Ruling Families which Warred against one another for centuries in the name of honor and glory TOO! Their soldiers died on battlefields that began in the minds of These ruling families. They would give their life to die for their KING. This day that fighting instinct plays out in business and professional sports. These Ruling Families did a great job building the games foundation and we can make it even more fulfilling. Every one loves a sacrifice such as would be offered when The Gladiators would take their crash course with mortality in the Roman Colosseum. Those men died too. They sacrificed their life. That's easy. Its much mare challenging to make a sacrifice, to compromise. To stay in the game and work with others. I don't know if Griffin has grown tired of sacrificing his gifts and squandering his OPPORTUNITY to really be used as a vehicle for change. These days the instinct of man has become tamed to the extent that we now sacrifice our bodies more so then our life. The modern day Gladiator We sacrifice our knees or our concussed brain drives us to commit suicide. What a tragedy you may say to yourself. Yes this is a tragedy indeed but not nearly as tragic as a 18 year old private who lost all his limbs fighting in a war over oil. This kid and so many others never had a chance to live life. Seau had 40 years of quality life, and 20 years as a Pro. In the Military he would have been called a lifer. His life's purpose could have been a personal crusade to bring awareness to the effects of trauma on the brain. Perhaps that is why he was so gifted and successful. Perhaps he was doing this all to show guys like Griffin, the gravity of the situation. Perhaps Griffin, in his year off, can see the absolute value of doing everything within his power to work with others such as Seau's family, to UPDATE this sport. Its NOT broken, We have simply outgrown the way it is still being played. Robert, Be aware that this is a path that is available to you if you choose to Drop the Honor and Glory act and start to really create a mastermind of men working together. Do it man. You know where the other path goes. It ends with you traded to The Browns as a second shelf backup with two hobbled knees. We cannot save you from yourself.
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Applying The Principle of Co-Operation: The Corporations and Banks secret to "Success"
"You Can Do It if You Believe You Can!”
CO-OPERATION is the beginning of all organized effort. As was stated in the second lesson of this course, Andrew Carnegie accumulated a gigantic fortune through the co-operative efforts of a small group of men numbering not more than a score.
You, too, can learn how to use this principle.
There are two forms of Co-operation to which your attention will be directed in this lesson; namely:
First, the Co-operation between people who group themselves together or form alliances for the purpose of attaining a given end, under the principles known as the Law of the Master Mind.
Second, the Co-operation between the conscious and the subconscious minds, which forms a reasonable hypothesis of man's ability to contact, communicate with and draw upon infinite intelligence.
To one who has not given serious thought to this subject, the foregoing hypothesis may seem unreasonable; but follow the evidence of its soundness, and study the facts upon which the hypothesis is based, and then draw your own conclusions.
Let us begin with a brief review of the physical construction of the body:
"We know that the whole body is traversed by a network of nerves which serve as the channels of communication between the indwelling spiritual ego, which we call mind, and the functions of the external organism.
"This nervous system is dual. One system, known as the Sympathetic, is the channel for all those activities which are not consciously directed by our volition, such as the operation of the digestive organs, the repair of the daily wear and tear of the tissues, and the like.
"The other system, known as the Voluntary or Cerebro-spinal system, is the channel through which we receive conscious perception from the physical senses and exercise control over the movements of the body. This system has its center in the brain, while the other has its center in the ganglionic mass at the back of the stomach known as the solar plexus, and sometimes spoken of as the abdominal brain. The cerebro-spinal system is the channel of our volitional or conscious mental action, and the sympathetic system is the channel of that mental action which unconsciously supports the vital functions of the body.
"Thus the cerebro-spinal system is the organ of the conscious mind and the sympathetic is that of the subconscious mind.
"But the interaction of conscious and sub-conscious minds requires a similar interaction between the corresponding systems of nerves, and one conspicuous connection by which this is provided is the "vagus" nerve. This nerve passes out of the cerebral region as a portion of the voluntary system, and through it we control the vocal organs; then it passes onward to the thorax, sending out branches to the heart and lungs; and finally, passing through the diaphragm, it loses the outer coating which distinguishes the nerves of the voluntary system and becomes identified with those of the sympathetic system, so forming a connecting link between the two and making the man physically a single entity.
"Similarly different areas of the brain indicate their connection with the objective and subjective activities of the mind respectively, and, speaking in a general way, we may assign the frontal portion of the brain to the former, and the posterior portion to the latter, while the intermediate portion partakes of the character of both.
"The intuitional faculty has its correspondence in the upper area of the brain, situated between the frontal and the posterior portions, and, physiologically speaking, it is here that intuitive ideas find entrance. These, at first, are more or less unformed and generalized in character, but are, nevertheless, perceived by the conscious mind; otherwise, we should not be aware of them at all. Then the effort of Nature is to bring these ideas into more definite and usable shape, so the conscious mind lays hold on them and induces a corresponding vibratory current in the voluntary system of nerves, and this in turn induces a similar current in the involuntary system, thus handing the idea over to the subjective mind. The vibratory current which had first descended from the apex of the brain to the frontal brain and thus through the voluntary system to the solar plexus is now reversed and ascends from the solar plexus through the sympathetic system to the posterior brain, this return current indicating the action of the subjective mind."
If we were to remove the surface portion of the apex of the brain we should find immediately below it the shining belt of brain substance called the "corpus callous." This is the point of union between the subjective and objective, and, as the current returns from the solar plexus to this point, it is restored to the objective portion of the brain in a fresh form which it has acquired by the silent alchemy of the subjective mind. Thus the conception which was at first only vaguely recognized is restored to the objective mind in a definite and workable form, and then the objective mind, acting through the frontal brain - the area of comparison and analysis - proceeds to work upon a clearly perceived idea and to bring out the potentialities that are latent in it.*
The term "subjective mind" is the same as the term "sub-conscious mind," and the term "objective mind" is the same as the term "conscious mind."
Please understand these different terms.
By studying this dual system through which the body transmits energy, we discover the exact points at which the two systems are connected, and the manner in which we may transmit a thought from the conscious to the subconscious mind.
This Co-operative dual nervous system is the most important form of co-operation known to man; for it is through the aid of this system that the principle of evolution carries on its work of developing accurate thought, as described in Lesson Eleven.
When you impress any idea on your sub-conscious mind, through the principle of Auto-suggestion, you do so with the aid of this dual nervous system: and when your sub-conscious mind works out a definite plan of any desire with which you impress it, the plan is delivered back to your conscious mind through this same dual nervous system.
This Co-operative system of nerves literally constitutes a direct line of communication between your ordinary conscious mind and infinite intelligence.
Knowing, from my own previous experience as a beginner in the study of this subject, how difficult it is to accept the hypothesis here described, I will illustrate the soundness of the hypothesis in a simple way that you can both understand and demonstrate for yourself.
Before going to sleep at night impress upon your mind the desire to arise the next morning at a given hour, say at four A.M., and if your impression is accompanied by a positive determination to arise at that hour, your sub-conscious mind will register the impression and awaken you at precisely that time.
Now the question might well be asked:
"If I ran impress my sub-conscious mind with the desire to arise at a specified time and it will awaken me at that time, why do I not form the habit of impressing it with other and more important desires?"
If you will ask yourself this question, and insist upon an answer, you will find yourself very near, if not on the pathway that leads to the secret door to knowledge, as described in Lesson Eleven.
· · · · · · · ·
We will now take up the subject of Co-operation between men who unite, or group themselves together for the purpose of attaining a given end. In the second lesson of this course we referred to this sort of cooperation as organized effort.
This course touches some phase of co-operation in practically every lesson. This result was inevitable for the reason that the object of the course is to help the student develop power, and power is developed only through organized effort.
We are living in an age of co-operative effort. Nearly all successful businesses are conducted under some form of co-operation. The same is true in the field of industry and finance, as well as in the professional field.
Doctors and lawyers have their alliances for mutual aid and protection in the form of Bar Associations and Medical Associations.
The bankers have both local and national Associations for their mutual aid and advancement.
The retail merchants have their Associations for the same purpose.
The automobile owners have grouped themselves into Clubs and Associations.
The Printers have their Associations; the plumbers have theirs and the coal dealers have theirs.
Co-operation is the object of all these Associations.
The laboring men have their unions and those who supply the working capital and superintend the efforts of laboring men have their alliances, under various names.
Nations have their co-operative alliances, although they do not appear to have yet discovered the full meaning of “co-operation.” The attempt of the late President Wilson to perfect the League of Nations, followed by the efforts of the late President Harding to perfect the same idea under the name of the World Court, indicates the trend of the times in the direction of co-operation.
It is slowly becoming obvious to man that those who most efficiently apply the principle of co-operative effort survive longest, and, that this principle applies from the lowest form of animal life to the highest form of human endeavor.
Mr. Carnegie, and Mr. Rockefeller, and Mr. Ford have taught the business man the value of co-operative effort; that is, they have taught all who cared to observe, the principle through which they accumulated vast fortunes.
Co-operation is the very foundation of all successful leadership. Henry Ford’s most tangible asset is the well organized agency force that he has established. This organization not only provides him with an outlet for all the automobiles he can manufacture, but, of greater importance still, it provides him with financial power sufficient to meet any emergency that may arise, a fact which he has already demonstrated on at least one occasion.
As a result of his understanding of the value of the co-operative principle Ford has removed himself from the usual position of dependence upon financial institutions and at the same time provided himself with more commercial power than he can possibly use.
The Federal Reserve Bank System is another example of co-operative effort which practically insures the United States against a money panic.
The chain-store systems constitute another form of commercial co-operation that provides advantage through both the purchasing and the distributing end of the business.
The modern department store, which is the equivalent of a group of small stores operating under one roof, one management and one overhead expense, is another illustration of the advantage of co-operative effort in the commercial field.
In Lesson Fifteen you will observe the possibilities of co-operative effort in its highest form and at the same time you will see the important part that it plays in the development of power.
As you have already learned, power is organized effort. The three most important factors that enter into the process of organizing effort are:
Concentration,
Co-operation and
Co-ordination.
Lesson 15 on Co Operation by Napoleon Hill
The Law of Success
1928
CO-OPERATION is the beginning of all organized effort. As was stated in the second lesson of this course, Andrew Carnegie accumulated a gigantic fortune through the co-operative efforts of a small group of men numbering not more than a score.
You, too, can learn how to use this principle.
There are two forms of Co-operation to which your attention will be directed in this lesson; namely:
First, the Co-operation between people who group themselves together or form alliances for the purpose of attaining a given end, under the principles known as the Law of the Master Mind.
Second, the Co-operation between the conscious and the subconscious minds, which forms a reasonable hypothesis of man's ability to contact, communicate with and draw upon infinite intelligence.
To one who has not given serious thought to this subject, the foregoing hypothesis may seem unreasonable; but follow the evidence of its soundness, and study the facts upon which the hypothesis is based, and then draw your own conclusions.
Let us begin with a brief review of the physical construction of the body:
"We know that the whole body is traversed by a network of nerves which serve as the channels of communication between the indwelling spiritual ego, which we call mind, and the functions of the external organism.
"This nervous system is dual. One system, known as the Sympathetic, is the channel for all those activities which are not consciously directed by our volition, such as the operation of the digestive organs, the repair of the daily wear and tear of the tissues, and the like.
"The other system, known as the Voluntary or Cerebro-spinal system, is the channel through which we receive conscious perception from the physical senses and exercise control over the movements of the body. This system has its center in the brain, while the other has its center in the ganglionic mass at the back of the stomach known as the solar plexus, and sometimes spoken of as the abdominal brain. The cerebro-spinal system is the channel of our volitional or conscious mental action, and the sympathetic system is the channel of that mental action which unconsciously supports the vital functions of the body.
"Thus the cerebro-spinal system is the organ of the conscious mind and the sympathetic is that of the subconscious mind.
"But the interaction of conscious and sub-conscious minds requires a similar interaction between the corresponding systems of nerves, and one conspicuous connection by which this is provided is the "vagus" nerve. This nerve passes out of the cerebral region as a portion of the voluntary system, and through it we control the vocal organs; then it passes onward to the thorax, sending out branches to the heart and lungs; and finally, passing through the diaphragm, it loses the outer coating which distinguishes the nerves of the voluntary system and becomes identified with those of the sympathetic system, so forming a connecting link between the two and making the man physically a single entity.
"Similarly different areas of the brain indicate their connection with the objective and subjective activities of the mind respectively, and, speaking in a general way, we may assign the frontal portion of the brain to the former, and the posterior portion to the latter, while the intermediate portion partakes of the character of both.
"The intuitional faculty has its correspondence in the upper area of the brain, situated between the frontal and the posterior portions, and, physiologically speaking, it is here that intuitive ideas find entrance. These, at first, are more or less unformed and generalized in character, but are, nevertheless, perceived by the conscious mind; otherwise, we should not be aware of them at all. Then the effort of Nature is to bring these ideas into more definite and usable shape, so the conscious mind lays hold on them and induces a corresponding vibratory current in the voluntary system of nerves, and this in turn induces a similar current in the involuntary system, thus handing the idea over to the subjective mind. The vibratory current which had first descended from the apex of the brain to the frontal brain and thus through the voluntary system to the solar plexus is now reversed and ascends from the solar plexus through the sympathetic system to the posterior brain, this return current indicating the action of the subjective mind."
If we were to remove the surface portion of the apex of the brain we should find immediately below it the shining belt of brain substance called the "corpus callous." This is the point of union between the subjective and objective, and, as the current returns from the solar plexus to this point, it is restored to the objective portion of the brain in a fresh form which it has acquired by the silent alchemy of the subjective mind. Thus the conception which was at first only vaguely recognized is restored to the objective mind in a definite and workable form, and then the objective mind, acting through the frontal brain - the area of comparison and analysis - proceeds to work upon a clearly perceived idea and to bring out the potentialities that are latent in it.*
The term "subjective mind" is the same as the term "sub-conscious mind," and the term "objective mind" is the same as the term "conscious mind."
Please understand these different terms.
By studying this dual system through which the body transmits energy, we discover the exact points at which the two systems are connected, and the manner in which we may transmit a thought from the conscious to the subconscious mind.
This Co-operative dual nervous system is the most important form of co-operation known to man; for it is through the aid of this system that the principle of evolution carries on its work of developing accurate thought, as described in Lesson Eleven.
When you impress any idea on your sub-conscious mind, through the principle of Auto-suggestion, you do so with the aid of this dual nervous system: and when your sub-conscious mind works out a definite plan of any desire with which you impress it, the plan is delivered back to your conscious mind through this same dual nervous system.
This Co-operative system of nerves literally constitutes a direct line of communication between your ordinary conscious mind and infinite intelligence.
Knowing, from my own previous experience as a beginner in the study of this subject, how difficult it is to accept the hypothesis here described, I will illustrate the soundness of the hypothesis in a simple way that you can both understand and demonstrate for yourself.
Before going to sleep at night impress upon your mind the desire to arise the next morning at a given hour, say at four A.M., and if your impression is accompanied by a positive determination to arise at that hour, your sub-conscious mind will register the impression and awaken you at precisely that time.
Now the question might well be asked:
"If I ran impress my sub-conscious mind with the desire to arise at a specified time and it will awaken me at that time, why do I not form the habit of impressing it with other and more important desires?"
If you will ask yourself this question, and insist upon an answer, you will find yourself very near, if not on the pathway that leads to the secret door to knowledge, as described in Lesson Eleven.
· · · · · · · ·
We will now take up the subject of Co-operation between men who unite, or group themselves together for the purpose of attaining a given end. In the second lesson of this course we referred to this sort of cooperation as organized effort.
This course touches some phase of co-operation in practically every lesson. This result was inevitable for the reason that the object of the course is to help the student develop power, and power is developed only through organized effort.
We are living in an age of co-operative effort. Nearly all successful businesses are conducted under some form of co-operation. The same is true in the field of industry and finance, as well as in the professional field.
Doctors and lawyers have their alliances for mutual aid and protection in the form of Bar Associations and Medical Associations.
The bankers have both local and national Associations for their mutual aid and advancement.
The retail merchants have their Associations for the same purpose.
The automobile owners have grouped themselves into Clubs and Associations.
The Printers have their Associations; the plumbers have theirs and the coal dealers have theirs.
Co-operation is the object of all these Associations.
The laboring men have their unions and those who supply the working capital and superintend the efforts of laboring men have their alliances, under various names.
Nations have their co-operative alliances, although they do not appear to have yet discovered the full meaning of “co-operation.” The attempt of the late President Wilson to perfect the League of Nations, followed by the efforts of the late President Harding to perfect the same idea under the name of the World Court, indicates the trend of the times in the direction of co-operation.
It is slowly becoming obvious to man that those who most efficiently apply the principle of co-operative effort survive longest, and, that this principle applies from the lowest form of animal life to the highest form of human endeavor.
Mr. Carnegie, and Mr. Rockefeller, and Mr. Ford have taught the business man the value of co-operative effort; that is, they have taught all who cared to observe, the principle through which they accumulated vast fortunes.
Co-operation is the very foundation of all successful leadership. Henry Ford’s most tangible asset is the well organized agency force that he has established. This organization not only provides him with an outlet for all the automobiles he can manufacture, but, of greater importance still, it provides him with financial power sufficient to meet any emergency that may arise, a fact which he has already demonstrated on at least one occasion.
As a result of his understanding of the value of the co-operative principle Ford has removed himself from the usual position of dependence upon financial institutions and at the same time provided himself with more commercial power than he can possibly use.
The Federal Reserve Bank System is another example of co-operative effort which practically insures the United States against a money panic.
The chain-store systems constitute another form of commercial co-operation that provides advantage through both the purchasing and the distributing end of the business.
The modern department store, which is the equivalent of a group of small stores operating under one roof, one management and one overhead expense, is another illustration of the advantage of co-operative effort in the commercial field.
In Lesson Fifteen you will observe the possibilities of co-operative effort in its highest form and at the same time you will see the important part that it plays in the development of power.
As you have already learned, power is organized effort. The three most important factors that enter into the process of organizing effort are:
Concentration,
Co-operation and
Co-ordination.
Lesson 15 on Co Operation by Napoleon Hill
The Law of Success
1928
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