Oh yeah… THAT feeling

They may not admit it, but I have never met anyone who doesn’t know THAT feeling. It is an inner thing, like a gulp - the same kind of gulp that forms a lump in the throat when we’ve been found out. But this lump usually forms deeper than the throat, felt instead in the chest, the solar plexus or the gut.

It usually creates anxiety, and it happens when we are challenged. Sometimes the challenge is not all that deep, but inevitably, if you keep going deeper and deeper inward, you are going to encounter it. Got a tough change or improvement to make? It’s always there. Getting bit by the same thing over and over? It will easily defeat you. And typically, when it flares up and exposes itself, the recoil occurs. “I’m outta here,” we say. Placed there like a traffic barrier, its presence detours us from going further down the inner road.

Putting on a happy face on the outside, but life’s not quite right on the inside? This inner recoil is one of the greatest problems we face. And we nearly always deny we are recoiling.

The value of a life

If you want to measure the value of a person’s life, look at the affect of their life on their world, on the people in their life. Look into their close relationships. Look at how they make other’s feel about themselves.

There is no need to wait until we die to stand before the so-called Seat of Judgment. It is all happening right now, in plain view.

The project manager’s persepective

There are basically two kinds of project managers. The first type tends to have a more limited world view than the second type.

The first type of project manager (PM) believes they need to know how to do everything relative to their job. This PM may or may not be okay with delegating to others, but even if they delegate they always believe that they have to know how to do every job and task. Focusing on every detail can be a good and productive attribute, but it can create habits that get us lost in the details.

The second type of project manager tends to view the world from a higher perspective, an approach that allows them to delegate freely and quickly, giving them the space to step back to both monitor and adjust to the bigger picture. They may not know how to do every piece of their project, but that does not bother them. They see others as being valuable and necessary, and they are far more focused on getting the project completed than on who does what.

Sometimes, the first type of project manager will feel superior to the second type because, after all, they can do ‘everything.’ Judgemental approaches like this can limit the first project manager from growing, and confine them to a certain world view that is not as widely inclusive as it could grow to be. Such judgment also tends to make the first type of project manager resistant to the help and teachings of the second type of PM. Consequently, the second type of PM may eventually tire and move on, fatigued over others telling him or her that the better perspective is always the lower perspective.

These attitudes are also true in our own life and purpose. Lost in the details, the majority of us lose sight of the big picture. Yet there are experienced people who have the skills to step back and see the bigger picture, a picture that is inclusive of the continuity of eternity, inclusive that a bigger picture is, indeed, unfolding.

Spiritual seekers often lament that they don’t know where to turn. Turn toward the more seasoned teachers. If you can’t find them, search. If you seek, you will find. Be relentless, be demanding of your church, your minister, your instructor, teacher or guru. Don’t settle for the lower perspectives, but rather insist on your right to be taught how to connect to the very Center of all things, to the very Center of You.

If you haven’t had deep experiences it is because you are inexperienced. Demand the experience itself.