Scale of the World - Days 10 and 11

Time To Climb? Day 11 of 32

"Scale" -- An increment of time.


How do you find time for it all?

You have a life. Perhaps you have a family, a demanding job, a series of hobbies, and a tendency to procrastinate a bit.

Although you are almost a third of the way up the Round Mountain, you may be wondering, "Hey, do I really have the time for all of this?"

No. You do not.

YOU MUST CREATE TIME.

Notice I didn't say create "the" time. I said "create time." This will be your job as a manifesting Scaler. You will create the time you need.

The reason I use the word "create" rather than "make" is because our goal here is a life of creativity, not a life of "making", which sounds as drab as it actually is.

We use words and concepts that inflame the senses and empower the imagination. Why live an ordinary life? Thinking in ordinary terms is a sure-fire way to do just that.

Let's create some time today, shall we?

A study conducted at Harvard University found that the average person has over 4.5 hours a day in which they do absolutely nothing worthwhile. This factors in an average of 7.5 hours of sleep and a 9-hour work day.

That's pretty amazing, isn't it?

What's more amazing is this -- each participant was asked how much spare time they had prior to the study.

Over 90% said NONE.

Are you one of the 90%? Let's create some truth along with some time today.

Here are two steps to creating more hours in the day. We will cover how best to use those hours in upcoming climbs.

The first step is an exercise called Core Timing.

First, take out a sheet of paper and write out the basic schedule you follow. Even if your life is somewhat unpredictable, try to narrow it down to basic concepts -- blocks of time, if you will.

Now, assign a number to each event. You will rate the event or block of time on a scale of 1 to 3, with "1" being an absolute TOP priority core value-based activity. "2" is a core value-based activity, but it's not one of your top 5 core values. It's merely "important". "3" is something that's really not a core value-based event at all, just something you simply 'do'. This does not mean it's not needed from time to time, but rather that it's not truly important for survival or for who you want to become as a Scaler.

Core Values are one-word descriptions that define who you are and what you value the most. These are things that you would both live for and even die to protect. Examples include love, family, God, integrity, freedom, truth, reason, beauty, health, contribution, and so-on.

This is the biggest of big pictures.

Please, be honest! If you really think that your Monday night bowling league is a "1", I'd ask you to re-think your core values. It is highly doubtful that you'll be remembered for the number of strikes you made. Sure, bowling may be fun for you, but it is more likely a "3". The social interaction with friends that comes with bowling may be a 1 or a 2, but you should look at the event truthfully. Is the real reason you bowl for escape or for interaction with friends?

Again, there's nothing 'wrong' with 3s. You just need to identify them.

Your job may not be a "1", believe it or not. If your job is merely a position rather than a career that serves your highest core values, rank it a "2".

When you finish this assignment, you may be surprised to find that the majority of your life is being spent in the 2's and the 3's.

Now ask yourself another question:

"What must I do in order to live the majority of my life in the 1s, doing and becoming what I truly desire?"

Over the next few weeks, you will receive answers if you keep asking this question. From there, only you can rework your schedule to reflect a desire to spend more time in the 1s.

Guess what? Any sort of scaling is a 1. Whether it's your body, your family, your finances, your desire for greater abundance spiritually or emotionally -- these are all 1s. This is where the majority of your life should be spent.

What is great is that 1's often require less time than
2's and 3's. This alone will free up hours in your day. Once you focus on the absolute essential "you", time has a way of manifesting itself in a powerful way.

This is one of those exercises you just have to do and practice to believe. I am expecting great results from you.

Our second exercise for today is called TimeTracking, and it's a bit easier to pull off
than Core Timing.

All you have to do is make a list of five things that you would give up in your day if it meant having the body and the wealth of your dreams.

The catch is that you cannot give up the means to achieve either. You must assume employment, even if it's a different job, and you must grant yourself time to exercise for energy and to eat for fuel.

Here are some examples:

- Television (perhaps only an hour versus two) - Reading books that do not move you closer to what you want to become - Spending too much time getting ready and not
enough time living life - Going out to eat too often - Living out of ritual rather than out of purpose

- Spending too much time on a task (also known as being a 'perfectionist')
- Spending too much time on the internet (except for reading "Scale The World", of course!)

You get the picture.

Since most Americans spend (get this) over four hours per day watching television (with the set on over 7.5 hours!), this is probably a great place to start.

If I told you that you could have your dream body and the abundance you seek simply by giving up television, would you do it?

If not, then why are you packing a television on a CLIMB? Seems like a lot of extra weight to me.

Actually, I'm not asking for that -- I am merely suggesting that you curtail the time. Spend more quality time with the kiddos and your spouse, or with friends. Plan your meals out more carefully and your prep time for home-based quality fuel with great care. Limit your task time to what it takes to be excellent, and leave perfection where it really is: nowhere. It does not exist.

Do these things and you will create more time than you may imagine.

How much time? Well, that depends on how far up the Round Mountain you want to go. If you are going for the entire ball of blue, you'll want three new hours in your day. If you only care about the body, 45 minutes a day is more than enough,not including the time it takes to eat and prepare your meals.

Three 'new' hours? Yes...and they are easier to create once you realize that these three hours will turn into the years of your legacy and the decades of your destiny on this Round Mountain.

Leave the 2's and 3's to those content for second and third.

Tomorrow -- moving boulders, making muscle.

= = End of Day 11 = =

So, What Are You Waiting For? - Day 10 of 32

"Scale" -- A way to rank or order importance.

Procrastination.

Have you ever experienced it?

No, of course not. Never!

The entire world has put off the climb at one time or another. For most people, this is far beyond "one time" and more like "all the time." After all, who has the time nowadays?

We'll cover that tomorrow.

For today, we will put an end to the ultimate life-stealer: procrastination.

Let's look at that word: first, we have "pro". As in...what? "Professional." "Proactive." "Affirmative."

Do any of those words, all of which define "pro", make any sense when used in conjunction with "procrastination"? None whatsoever.

Right off the bat, your brain is in a state of confusion when you use the term "procrastination". Are you a "professional crastinator?" If so, what are the hours and the salary?

Do you "positively crastinate?"

I trust you are laughing a bit by now...which is the entire point of that play on words. Why?

You break negative patterns of thought by associating fun and even humorous things with them.

Just think: what if you could take the thing in your life that causes you the most pain and "anchor" it to something that actually makes you LAUGH? Do you think the intensity of the pain would diminish? You bet it would.

Try this right now: make a really big smile. I mean a huge, goofy smile that you would normally never use no matter how happy you may be.

Now, say something depressing out loud with that smile on your face.

Doesn't work, does it? Your mind is a bit more than confused by this process. You see, your physical state is reflective of your internal state, and vice versa. In fact,sometimes you do not know which came first, the emotional or the physical! Sometimes simply "looking" depressed can create feelings of depression.

Back to procrastination. Since we now realize the word itself is rather silly, let's use two equally silly exercises to break the "habit" of procrastinating once and for all.

After that, you will have to ask yourself a key question: "So, what AM I waiting for?" Why are you climbing slower? Have you hit a ledge and simply stopped, or perhaps set base camp and never left? If so, why?

Procrastination.

Aside from that, there is little reasons why waiting ever has to occur in your life.

Silly exercise one: I'd like you to rank yourself on a scale of 1-10, with 1 being lousy and 10 being top-notch, based on how good you are at procrastinating. Remember, be honest -- always.

I bet some of you put "10" down without hesitation. "I'm one of the WORST procrastinators on earth!"

What's wrong with that sentence? Well, it's full of lies and confusion, yet 'that' is probably what you said to yourself, right? Think about it -- if you were really the "worst" at procrastination, you would never get around to it! Also, you're not the "anything" on earth in all likelihood, unless Tiger Woods is reading this. (If so, hi Tiger!)

Your brain gets all of this and is wondering what the heck you are trying to communicate to yourself in the process.

So, for all of you "good" procrastinators -- the folks who put, say, a 6-10 down, here's your assignment:

put off procrastination...just for a day or two.

What? You said you were "excellent" at this so-called art of procrastination, so what's the problem? Shouldn't you be so good at it that you could put off 'anything'?

Either way we proceed, you win. You can take me up on the offer to prove you're really an ace procrastinator, and then you will end up putting 'that' off. Or, you can realize how silly this is, and simply take back your assumption.

It is the assumption that you have been telling yourself for years and wondering why you cannot break it.

The assumption that you're "a huge procrastinator."

Wow...that one is a double-whammy. "Huge" is hardly a good term to use to describe yourself unless you are a bodybuilder or perhaps a football player.

Yet, again, this is how we speak to ourselves -- that is until we decide to live with ruthless responsibility and total honesty. You, my friend, have made such a choice.

Silly exercise two: make a list of the three things you put off most frequently. Again, be honest. Now, take that list and make a "substitute procrastination". This works best when the tasks sound similar. Then, put off the substitute...again, just for a day or two.

Here is an example:

"Work out." - "Working outdoors."

Decide you are going to put off working outdoors for the day (unless your job happens to be outdoors! Even then, this may work if you have some flexibility in your schedule.)

Another example might be:

"Eating healthy." - "Eating the wealthy."

Just don't eat any rich people for a day. Can you do that? Sure.

Now, do you see how much fun you can have with something that normally causes you pain and distress if you 'choose' to do so? It's a choice -- there is always a choice.

>>> Your choices today will define your tomorrow.

Now for the question: what are you waiting for?

Listen and absorb this beautiful truth: this moment is yours and yours alone. This moment will simply never exist again. In fact it has already passed, and your next
moment has arrived.

Yet, in a moment, worlds can change. Lives can change. Love can be born. Life can be taken.

Do not shortchange the power of moments. Like cells in the body, your time on the Round Mountain is nothing more than a long series of moments, interconnected
with the desires and activities within them.

Make those desires and activities count, then every single moment will be one of creation. Creating moments is part of your job as a Scaler, and you create by moving.

Do not wait for the right time to move. Just move. You can always change course, but you can only move "once". Start moving, and keep moving.

Remember: rank only the vital things as "10"s.

This message was placed at this juncture of your climb because many people begin to slow down right about now. Not you. You now know that would not be creating
the moments you'll remember for all time. That would be destroying the momentum. That would blur memories, blending them into a colorless hue.

The color of a tombstone.

Live life in the moment, and the colors of life will become more vibrant and powerful than any rainbow ever seen.

You can only do this while moving...and you must move now. Move "toward", as we discussed in Day 1. Move up, move on...but move.

Wait no more. Life is here, right in front of you, and it has no concept of a dress rehearsal.

Tomorrow -- time to climb?

= = End of Day 10 = =