Personal and Business Growth isn't where or what you thought (Part 2)

Once you realize what you are dealing with, everything can change. If you chose.

Today’s post is part two of a longer treatise. The first part was posted last week. You can read that here.

Here is where we ended that piece.

Everything is energy. Everything. What governs all of this is physics and much of it, quantum.

If you want a business strategy, there are plenty of books and plenty of options. If you want a performance strategy capable of profound results, then stay with me (for the next post that is).

Ok, let’s get started on making a point regarding activating Flow. It is one of the most powerful personal and business growth tools you can access to make, well…massive changes in growth. Personally. Professionally. Organizationally.

But it isn’t what you think.

To make my point, you might believe that the atom, say a carbon atom which you learned about in school, has a nucleus and is surrounded by a series of spinning electrons and those electrons are solid particles. You’ve seen this picture. This is what and how it is. It is concrete. Just like what you read in Harvard Business Review. Solid. Serious. Proven. Correct. Right?

Wrong. The electrons are not what you were taught. They are not little molecules spinning around the nucleus. Instead, electrons are in a cloud, everything in this cloud in a state of superposition. Everywhere all at once. Part of a wave function, until they are observed with a measurement device. There is no electron until there is. When observed and measured, the wave function chooses a probable location for an electron and collapses it into a solid particle.

This is today’s proven science. These are the real facts. So perhaps it is time to suspend what you think you know.

All of this energy, the atom and all its constituents, vibrate at a certain frequency. As do you. As do your actions, your thoughts and even your emotions as does everything around you, seen and unseen.

Like I said, this is what is.

Your brother’s world (the fat guy on the couch from the last piece), like the cop Mike’s world (from the DOAC podcast I touch on below. Link to that podcast is in that). And, like your own world, is based on which of the three truths you choose to live in and around and the energetic vibration frequencies they emanate.

This is where you stop reading or continue, depending on what you choose to believe.

As we go through the below, understand that each of these three truths require some degree of consciousness to take root. Not all consciousness are the same, however.

The first truth aligns with individuals and groups, who are largely self-aware and highly conscious. People surrounding this truth tend to be calmer, more thoughtful and balanced. Good communicators. Responsible. Considerate of others. Grounded and balanced.

The second group is easily influenced, has lower self-awareness and often live in a stupor on autopilot. They believe what they see, read and are told. They tend to be more mercurial, more one-dimensional. Perhaps a bit thinner skinned. Not good communicators or collaborators. They often perceive themselves as victims and are more easily slighted. They tend not to say what they think or at least not say it honestly.

The third group lacks self-awareness yet are also highly conscious. The problem is, their consciousness aligns with a lie, the untruth. And they know it. This understanding scrambles their thoughts and actions. It is in violent conflict with the law of symmetry (also known as the principal of polarity). In this world, there is strife and discord. Here at the edge of this truth, you frequently find manipulators and liars. Narcissists and charlatans. The danger here is they are often excellent promoters and salesmen. They can paint a veneer of an optimal reality that is highly attractive. Often it seems too good to be true. And it is.

I recently listed to an episode of the DOAC podcast with Steven Bartlett. His guest was a corrupt and disgraced former New York City cop named Mike Dowd. Across a decade and a half, Mike arrested drug dealers and dealt the drugs he stole from them. He committed thousands of crimes, including shake downs, extortion and bribery. He was eventually caught and sent to Federal prison for over 12 years. In his interview he indicated that his world was chaotic and full of discord. He said he often hoped he’d get caught, and when he was finally apprehended, he said he finally felt peace. The lack of symmetry between his thoughts, his understanding and his actions had been removed.

How are these three types of truths and the realities that surround them structured?

First is based on speaking, understanding and acting on ground truths and with authenticity, clear understanding of what is, and integrity.

Second, is populated with varying perceptions, all of which create their own energy, and clash with one another. Full of noise, each perception a signal attracting some different frequency of energy. This is the world most inhabit today. To a greater or lesser degree, chaotic, turbulent and uncertain.

And finally, the state populated with untruths. This was Mike, the dirty cop’s world. It was also Bernie Madoff’s world. Enron’s, Theranos just to name a few biggies reside. However, it isn’t just big names that inhabit this reality. There are plenty of people, groups and even companies which reside here. Companies hiding financial rot. Covering up defective products. Scammers and shams. Ponzi schemes of all shapes and sizes. Manipulation, greed and graft.

How do you end up in a place surrounded by the third truth? Mostly by accident. You don’t jump from Ground Truth to Untruth overnight. You slide from Perception to Untruth, but the door can swing the other way as well. You can also make your way out.

The place of Ground Truths and Authenticity is harmonic. Thoughts, understandings and actions create aligned realities and outcomes. This is where Flow takes place. It’s a high performance and results place. If you have ever experienced Flow in either a personal or work setting, you know exactly what that feels like and what the results can be.

The place surrounding the middle truth is filled with uncertainty and varying perceptions which in turn create misalignments of thought, understanding and actions. What you believe and want and what your co-worker thinks and believes are different, even though everyone says differently. The problem is here people withhold information and couch what they say. Here, authenticity is a rare commodity.

Your brother, who resides in the middle truth, thinks his co-workers are stupid and lazy. They reside there as well and think he is difficult and incompetent. His boss has passed him over for promotions because he doesn’t trust your brother’s abilities and isn’t willing to stick his neck out for your brother.

So, who in this group is right? The place of the middle truth is full of static. No one is aligned. No one can’t find the signal. It is like an orchestra warming up, each playing separate from the others. It is chaotic cacophony of noise. This place is filled with doubt and burden. Doubt anything will change. Burden of the belief that it won’t. And can’t always means won’t. And so, it goes.

The place of the third truth, the untruth is not worth spending time on it. If you find yourself either in between the first and second or squarely in the first truth, companies and people in and near the third look wrong or more importantly feel wrong. Trust your instinct here. There is a grimy or gritty feel to it. Again, trust your instinct.

There are ways for organizations to move from a middle truth state to a first truth state. To set the conditions in place that allow for Organizational Flow to ignite and to be sustained.

You must simply recognize what is real and be willing to put in the work, individually and collectively. But when you this, you will never, ever want to go back.

This juice is worth the squeeze.