Great Truths! What are great truths? I believe you could also call them universal laws. A great truth or universal law is something that is universally true for everyone all the time. Now, without question, there are always going to be people who will dispute, refute, reject and try to disprove these great truths. That’s just fine, but ultimately, they always prove out.
This next series of postings is going to describe 12 great truths. There are many more great truths then these twelve and I have a long list of them. The list continues to grow as I think of additional truths. Where have these truths come from? They all come from my life experience. Over the six plus decades of my life, I’ve learned and experienced these truths. Some of them I learned from other people who shared them with me. Some were learned through painful personal circumstances. Others I learned watching other people experience them, often painfully. And, here’s a little secret – you, my readers, know most or all of these truths through your own life experiences.
Knowing, understanding and accepting these great truths will go a long way toward creating your lifestyle of living and working free. When you understand these truths and put them to work for yourself rather then denying them or trying to disprove them, life can be much simpler, freer and much happier.
Here is the list of 12 Great Truths I’ve selected for the next 12 postings to my blog:
1. 1+1 can equal much more then 2!
2. We don’t need all that we want!
3. Giving is greater then getting!
4. Time is our most priceless possession!
5. Education is the great equalizer!
6. Change is inevitable – you will be assimilate
7. Keep it simple!
8. Miracles are everywhere!
9. Happiness is an attitude!
10. Everyone has problems!
11. Pain is inevitable!
12. The buck cannot be passed – we must accept responsibility for our actions!
I know! As you look at this list there are some things that are immediately apparent. First, all of these great truths can be stated in very brief terms and very simply (see #7). Second, you most likely have seen every one of these and probably verbalized them yourself at some point in time, if not on numerous occasions. However, you have most likely taken all of these for granted and probably never dissected and analyzed them to determine why they are great truths and how each of them has impacted your life.
While this may all seem simplistic, I hope if I have developed any wisdom at all during my considerably more than a half century of living, you’re going to gain some insights that will make your life better, happier, freer and certainly more fulfilling. As you read my postings you’ll realize that during various periods of your life, you’ve attempted to disprove these truths. The results of these attempts may have been failure in business or relationships, painful experiences, losses of some kind, sickness and any number of other consequences. When we are young we have to test everything. We’ve tested great truths all our lives. The earlier we learn and accept these great truths, the sooner we become freer, happier and more fulfilled. Some pick up on this early in life and have a successful fulfilling life for a greater percentage of their lifetime. Some ignore, reject or are just plain slow at understanding and accepting the great truths and may never enjoy all the happiness, success and fulfillment they could have.
The plan is to discuss each of these great truths in a brief overview during the next series of postings. If something off topic tickles my fancy, I may insert it during the series, but I’ll plan on discussing two truths per week. What you’ll read will be my perspective on these truths and, of course, I’d love to have your comments. I don’t know all the answers and I do have lots of questions that I’d like the answers to. And to that end, while this is the beginning of this Great Truths series – the next step in the plan is to interview a very diverse group of people from different stations in life, ethnic, racial, religious, professional, educational, etc. backgrounds – and, of course, both men and women. I will then incorporate all this wisdom into a book form that will be available in audio, e-book and print form. As readers of this blog, you’ll be able to access the book for free as a download or as an audio book. I’ll also make it available through Amazon, in print, e-book, Kindle and audio book versions – as well as other booksellers. My intention is to help anyone and everyone to live and work free by putting these great truths to work for them.
Again, please send your comments. They are important; perhaps, you may be someone I’ll want to interview (I’m already lining people up to interview). Also, let as many other people know about this blog, pass the word and help me virally assist other people in living and working free.
Enthusiastically,
Ed
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1 comment:
Another truth that I don't see here is that "one must be true to one's self".
Although most of us can be educated into being someone different than we started out, it may not be what we are inheritantly good at, nor should we be there, continuing to do something we don't like or worse yet, doing it badly, possibly to the detriment of others.
I firmly believe that who we are is who we will be ultimately, especially in the end. We have all heard of people who are trying to find their way, being told that they are trying to be someone whom they are not. Most will eventually find their way back to being themselves. But that doesn't always mean that what they are attempting to become is wrong.
I have to think of David Copperfield, the magician. From what I have read about him, he was an ordinary kid... almost a nerd. But did he suddenly become something that he was not? I don't think so. I believe that what he was when he was in school was not the real persona. Something had held him back during those early years. Those who would detract from what they knew him as would be saying that his new career was "not him", when in actuality, he was evolving into his true self, rather than straying away from it.
In my own life, I have tried sales jobs several times, and it never worked, nor did I like it. Could I have obtained training to make me a better salesman... sure. But that wouldn't change my inherant dislike of it! Any attempt at it was basically "not being myself" and it is something that no matter how much training, I would only get "better" at it... but never excel at it.
Most people who win huge lotteries end up broke a few years later, because being rich is not who they "really" are. Sure, given enough money, you could hire managers to keep you afloat, but that's not the same as doing it yourself. Sooner or later, if left to our own efforts, we will revert to our own levels of success.
No matter who we start out as, we all find our way to what we "really" are. One of my favorite lines from one of the dirty Harry movies, is that "we will only rise to the level of our own abilities". Maybe that is how that extra item of truth should be stated, or else it should be yet another truth, on it's own merit.
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