1. Chapter 01 - Ideal Life
    1. Ideal Life
      1. Feeling Stagnant
      2. No Connection
      3. Life is short
      4. Everyday you are not radiantly alive and brimming with cheer is a day wasted.
      5. this book will help you get started in discovering your purpose with life
      6. There is a non linear relationship between the work you do and the results
      7. Story of enlightenment
        1. If you work at it now, it will take you ten years... if you double your efforts it will take 20
      8. Learn to create serendipitous moments
      9. Be moved by deep inner conviction
    2. Is this book right for you?
      1. Do you have the nagging sense that there is a great deal you have to accomplish and that, somehow, you are not living up to even a fraction of your potential
      2. Is this discomfomfor strong and growing?
      3. Are you willing to make the effort to know thyself?
      4. According to the book, these are a couple of key indicators that you are indeed a fin canditate
    3. Why Change Matters
      1. Shifts of conciousness can occur with startling rapidity
      2. Areas where Change will need to occur
        1. Individual Change
        2. Organinizational Change
          1. The old command and control hierarchies are unsuited to the present era
          2. Band aids cant cope with a severered artery
        3. Societal Value Change
          1. Better leaders will emerge only when we change what we honor
          2. Spreading ripples from a stone tossed in a pond, with ripples growing stronger instead of attenuating
    4. 1st Ripple Individual Change
      1. Be so involved with work that you love so much that time flies
        1. The idea of flow
      2. A penetrating awareness of the course you are creating
      3. A clear knowledge of your place in the scheme of this universe
        1. Vision
      4. The work you do feeds you and brings you great contentment and peace
        1. You are getting what you put out into the Universe
      5. You will face obstacles
        1. They are not designed for frustraction
          1. They are designed to bring out the best in you
          2. They help you to create a sharp edge, the ever exanding edge of the universe
          3. The Universe is in full support of your endeavors
      6. Locked doors will open mysteriously
        1. You don't need to know the how
      7. Your personal life is ultimately more fulfilling
        1. That should be your first focus along the trail
      8. If you are a parent
        1. The child or chldren will bring you great satisfaction
          1. They will chart their own path
          2. you will not be able to see their path
          3. You will be their springboard
      9. Each dan an improvement over the day before
        1. Each one more perfect than the day before
      10. You feel an infinite amount of gratitude
      11. You will recognize the Cosmic principle
        1. The merging of spirit/body/mind
          1. ultimately indescribable
          2. Numinous
      12. This type of life is your birthright
        1. there is nothing that says entitlement, this is open to everyone, young and old alike
      13. Desire
        1. Desperately
        2. Be ok with it not happening
      14. Desire Paradox
        1. The desire issue is a paradox | all paradoxes are resolved with greater understanding
      15. You cannot force
        1. Attempting to force or rush this will double time to achieve and impede progress
        2. Like nature and a vaccuum
          1. as soon as you remove any energy or substance from an area, nature will replace it with another, likely result that you are seeking with half the effort
      16. Your Ideal life does not currently exist
        1. You need to construct it (or become aware of it)
    5. 2nd Ripple Organizational Change
      1. How we connect determines our lives
      2. How to differentiate
        1. Network contactct
          1. Cultivated for connections/positions
        2. True contact
          1. Change your intention
          2. Whatever you are trying must bring spiritual & material growth
        3. This book will teach you new ways to connect with others
        4. This begins organizational change
      3. Let go of the idea you are the orchestrator of events
      4. When you have the right mixture of passion and detachment as well as acceptance of what really happens
      5. An army will show up to support you the moment that you need
        1. Reminds me of the idea of an army of angels recently referenced in an interview
      6. James Allen Quote
        1. Golden opportunities will present themselves along your path
          1. This is always happening, you simply need to be able to identify and utilize
      7. Books and other aids you require will come unsought
        1. Books will reflect your current level of understanding and often contains the keys you seek
          1. reminds me of the book with Geronomo Stilton where part of the book was to find the pictures of keys along the way
      8. This book will help you to powerfully connect in ways that are in harmony with your values
      9. Become a light that intersects with other lights creating a unified and brighter spot
    6. 3rd Ripple Societal Change
      1. Leadership is a fad
        1. Very few leaders
          1. Many in position of hierchal
          2. Many with Authority
          3. can put you in good or bad place
          4. Neither generally care if you achieve your potential
        2. Many not able to manifest the life force that wins dedicated converts to their vision
      2. True self interestes teaches selflessness
      3. Enlightened leadership is service
      4. Well being of all above the wel being of self alone
      5. Leadership is a state of being not a skill
      6. Many different styles of leadership
        1. no good to study the specific styles
        2. Reflect on their deeper qualities
        3. Methods of awareness appears to all people in all situations
          1. Jobs: you can't connect the dots going forward
      7. Because the leader sees clearly they can shed light on others
        1. Seeing divinity within themselves they can see it in others and reflect it back to them
      8. Org change behavior to motivate dmeans and is demotivating
        1. Your job is to find out what is demotivating and remove
      9. The exercises in this book will help you become an authentic leader and into an insipid imitator
        1. You need to command the souls of others as well as their bodys and you do this by workig on yourself
        2. Leadership is inclusive of your family roles
    7. Obstacles to an Ideal Life
      1. Many books / authorities tell you to be a good human so you can profit
        1. Ideally your already behave this way
        2. You treat people right because thats the right thing to do
        3. Be good not just because of profit
        4. attempting to link your values with external measures like profit cheapen and discredit your actions
      2. We are not here to merely earn a living and create value for our shareholders. We are here to enrigh the world and make it a finer place to live. We will impoverish ourselves if we fail to do so.
        1. Woodrow Wilson
      3. Current society Greed driven
        1. untested economics
        2. Untested behavior models to justify actions
        3. these would otherwise be consider rapacious
      4. COmpanies are changing for the better
        1. B Corps
        2. Humane buesiness paradigms
      5. Seed change where you are
        1. Find or create a venture/company you can align with
        2. Enjoy work more
        3. be in harmony with their values
    8. The Quest for More
      1. Myth: More makes you happier
        1. Powerful institutes driving this
        2. Economy fosters consumption
        3. Key metrics pose as benefits
          1. Per capita consumption
        4. More everything and anything
          1. Money
          2. cars
          3. houses
          4. friendship
          5. freedom
          6. leisure
          7. more of less
          8. simpliciity
          9. mimimalism
          10. renunciation
      2. Ok to want more
        1. Do not connect with happiness
      3. You do not need to struggle to find happiness
        1. do the work in this book and it will well up within you
  2. Chapter 02 - It ain't real
    1. Mental Models
      1. Truth
      2. Reality
      3. The Facts
    2. Different Models
      1. Work
      2. Love
      3. Family
    3. Sample Models
      1. You are not a part of the fast track crowd and dont fit in
        1. Don't put effort in and look toward the next thing
      2. What women think men find attractive
        1. making the decision to determine whether or not they are qualified
      3. Moving to a new place
        1. Whats it like where you are now?
          1. thats what its going to be like there
    4. When presented with a new model
      1. better to ask
        1. Does this new model work better for me than the one I am currently using
      2. Try a new model out for a while
        1. if it isn't a fit
          1. drop it
          2. find a new one
          3. use only what works for you
    5. Exercise: My Mental Models
      1. write out your mental models in different areas
      2. Some of these exercises will blow your mind.
        1. stop reading and relish the moments for a bit... stick to those new thoughts/revelations
      3. If you are not willing to do these exercises, put the book down
    6. It's not real
      1. You can't unlearn an idea that has taken root
      2. Erveryone perceives the world differently
        1. Bedrock of effective negotiation
        2. Universal Truth
      3. Foundations of worldview change when we look inwards
        1. we recognize everyone has different views
          1. We realize we can change our own models
      4. Our world view isn't new
        1. we made it out of mental models then we live within their constraints
        2. Our models are made out of our perceptions
    7. Its merely a construct
      1. You have dozens of models you have stiched together to create the fabric of your reality
        1. each model like a polygonal facet of a geodisc home
          1. if one of those facets isn't real, maybe none of them are
          2. Therefore your life is not real and never has been
      2. You made it
      3. You live in it
      4. The life you are living is A Reality
        1. Your mistake is thinking it is THE reality
      5. Equal parts real & unreal
    8. Escape is possible
      1. If your life is A reality, perhaps you can shift it
      2. If it is THE reality you are stuck
      3. He illustrates this with a story
    9. An Alternate Reality
      1. What is your most important asset?
        1. Perhaps it is your ability to be happy
        2. to be fulfilled
        3. to be joyous
        4. Would you give this asset to a boss?
          1. its a poor idea to give away your happiness
          2. when you are annoyed does this poison your attitude?
          3. You are giving your most valuable asset over to another
        5. How can you avoid give power over your happiness to someone else?
          1. when you ask youself this question and truly wish to find the answer you will have a powerful breakthrough
          2. You will slip into a parellel universe that has always been available to you but you never looked for it
          3. Anthony de Mello Quote
          4. The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now to where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition...
      2. The Exercise: Alternate Reality
      3. Helpful Hints
        1. nice story that essentially outlines what happens when you accept blam for others attitudes
    10. Closing quote
      1. Your live is hemmed in by the things you know to be true but aren't. Its time to start setting yourself free.
  3. Chapter 03 It's Mental Chatter & its Real
    1. Intro
      1. Come to terms that the world you live in is not real
      2. You Created your REality
        1. What you mentailly create shows up in reality whether you intentionally created it or not
          1. most likely unconsciously
          2. ignorance does not spare you
    2. Your Constant Companion
      1. It is your mental chatter
      2. Ongoing Monologue
      3. stream of consciousness
        1. bubbling brook
        2. white water rafting
      4. the wonder
        1. Isnt that you feel stressed and over whelmed
        2. it is that you are functional at all
    3. Sue Your Surgeon
      1. Imagine you received a new piece of tech that acted like your mind
        1. your mind as a computer
        2. would you return it?
        3. would you look for a manual?
    4. Little Droppings - Your VOJ
      1. Out of the Stanford Bus course
        1. Michael Ray - Professor of Creativity
          1. Creativity in Business Book
          2. Required reading for the CPM
      2. Types of VOJ
        1. Outright
          1. you're such a dummy
          2. howd you get this job?
        2. Subtle
          1. He is so smooth, not tongue tied in meetings like you
          2. thats the kind of guy that gets a promo not a schmuck like you
        3. Insiduous
        4. Gracious
          1. look at the charming couple they must have a great marriage (rare!)
        5. Judging others
          1. others are not free from VOJ
          2. reminds me of the 19 right 1 wrong teacher at school
      3. Always on
      4. Keeps you trapped
      5. Like Coral
        1. tiny
        2. build up over time
      6. Mental diet
        1. absorbed un observed without permission
    5. It's a Hijacking
      1. Like Pop ups
      2. Like Ads on an android app
      3. Database continuously updating
      4. You were NOT born this way
        1. Picked up along the way
        2. Socialized Behaviour
        3. Cultural conditioning
        4. Purchases to show status (not even wanting the thing?)
        5. May have to comply behaviourly
          1. Never have to give up your equanimity
        6. You are the doctor and the patient
    6. Exercise: Whats My Mental Chatter Like?
      1. Essentially note your mental chatter
    7. What you get from the practice
      1. You will notice what you are building your life on
    8. Helpful Hints
      1. do it without judging
      2. Disspassionately
      3. Over time less hijacking
        1. Like shoplifting
          1. putting up the sign alone reduces the actual shoplifting