Landmark Forum Notes

I would like to take this time to note what I have learned in landmark forum in this blog. This is to remind myself and others what we have learned from landmark forum, as well as to share with others so that they may be open to take up landmark forum.

But first I would like to assure the organizers that I will not reveal too much of the course. I believe what I share will urge people to be inspired or moved. And if they would like to join Landmark forum, then it would be a bonus for both those people as well as the Landmark forum. There is more value in understanding these words through the forum, then just reading them from this blog. Words in brackets note where I have heard or read something similar before. but I admit that after attending this course I have a deeper understanding of them and their proper applications in life.

• Have Integrity – Part of Integrity is being Authentic to others as well as yourself, especially your word. (Your word is your wand, Laws of Success)
• Separate Facts and Interpretations – Life happens. How you interpret it, and how you interpret other people’s interpretations has affected your beliefs and actions. Once you accepted this and let go of your past and persistent interpretations, you are open to new possibilities in life and take charge of how you see things in life. (REBT – Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy)
• Be aware of “IT” – “IT” is a part of human nature that can be described of Inner chatter. “IT” often stops you from doing anything. If you do nothing you will definitely fail, but if you do something you will have a chance to succeed (Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor on “stroke of insight” and Eckhart Tolle on “A new earth“)
• Be, Do and Have – People often want certain results, and they do actions to create this results, but they only do actions based on their view. But being open to a bigger picture, allows people to have more options and choose the right actions. (Bruce Lee)
• Be aware of Rackets or Persistent Complaints – Complaints that come with fix way of being causes people to lose ownership of their life, and sacrifice their Life to satisfy “IT”. So let go of “IT’s” interpretation, and gain full life. Accepting events does not mean condoning it. (Eckhart tolle on “a new earth”)
• Issues in your life may affect other parts of it. e.g. family conflict can affect love relationships or working performance, and vice versa.
• Change Versus Transformation
• Truth about life that will give you power
• Meaning of Life (My own introspections and self reflection. I thought I had the answer before, but I didn’t, and now I do)

For the points that have no brackets are were new to me, and yet it may have been present through out history as the tools successful people have used intentionally or inadvertently to become powerful and remarkable. Please Comment if you want.

Patient, Loving and Compassionate,

Bobbyofbrunei

US Financial Crisis.

Since I have been interested in options trading, I have been following up on political and financial news. The news that surprised me the most was of the rejection of the $700 billion bailout. especially after the president himself “approved” of the action, but apparently the decision lay in the hands of the house of representatives. and apparently a majority of them decided to against the president’s approval.

I wonder if the people making the decisions fully understood what they were voting on.
Or was it of fear, those that fear financial meltdown voted yes for hopes of rekindling the economy. Those who voted yes, may have feared backlash from their colleagues who are against the bailout. I wonder if people care at all.
I thought the idea was better than no idea at all, obviously left to themselves the financial market will get worse.
I don’t have a degree in economics, but I am just guessing where this will be headed, the ones who support the bailout will try again until a majority says so, or/and when it is too late the market will crash harder. Of course there is a matter of foreign intervention, as I have read through wikipedia to study the previous US recession and depression. Foreign countries some how played a role in bringing down or up the US market. Looks like the crashing market might, cause the prices to go low enough that banks in other well off countries will be tempted to buy them out when the price couldn’t go low enough or when they think it will profit them. unfortunately other foreign stock exchanges have also felt the dip when US stocks is diving down.
Warren Buffet has already invested $5 Billion into a financial institution, I can’t help but wonder whether if he thinks it will go up, or he thinks it will go up if buys it(i think it did) or he thinks it will stay up if he puts in $5 billion votes of confidence. $5 billion should still be a significant amount of money, even if is from one of the richest man in the world.

I guess we will just to have to wait and watch…

Paraphrasing a line from anthony hopkins in the movie “the edge” – When men get lost, most of the time they die of shame, ashamed that they got lost in the first place, rather than focusing on what could have gotten them out – thinking.