The One Thing Successful People Don't Do

Imagine this:

A tree-lined river in Tokyo.

5.45am. Freezing cold. Rain pelting down.

One lone crazy guy running alongside the river.

"WTF I thought to my Self - why am I out here running in THIS?"

And then I noticed…. It wasn't busy this morning - usually there's dogs, old ladies with sticks, my path-sweeping fanatic and an assortment of Japanese characters, all out to bask in the faint autumn glimmer.

But not today. Today most of them stayed home.

Why didn't I? The answer surprised me. I didn't have an answer.

The thought NOT to run hadn't occurred to me.

I do it, I did it, who cares about the weather?

Because to be successful, weather can't matter MUCH. People who live life by their emotional weather report, are dictated to by vagaries over which they have little say.

Don't get me wrong: emotion is lovely, the source of all that makes living worthwhile. We are - in Buddhist speak - sentient beings. We are defined by our ability to feel.

But successful people are not usually ruled by feelings.

What did the old man say:

"When you reach the point of being able to trust your feelings, you won't want to use them anymore." *

Always fascinated me that aphorism. I get tired of hearing that our work is all about heads, spines, movements and activities - even though I often write about those things.

There's so much more going on - and yet, and yet, and yet…

You need the physical part.

To accurately assess behaviour, you need to embrace Alexander's discovery.

And most disciplines have not. Most disciplines are blissfully ignorant about what is perhaps one of the most significant discoveries in the behaviour of sentient beings since we first started asking questions.

In my ThinkingBody Module Two - I embrace this concept and segue into my emotional life, and your loving life too. Behaviour, not Use, is my new buzz word.

It's a journey, a presentation of a new way to explore, express, encourage and educate your Self and others of the core of the old man's great discoveries. (Yes, there is more than one)

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* Teaching Aphorism from Alexander, F. M. (ed. Edward Maisel 1974) The Alexander Technique: The Essential Writings of F. Matthias Alexander. London: Thames and Hudson.

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