Wow, I am silly. I’ve been stuck for a few weeks, couldn’t write or really feel direction and purpose. My motor was running a few spark plugs short and while the body was moving, it was moving on 4 cylinders instead of 8 cylinders and beyond. I personally have a hard time functioning on 4 Cylinders. It’s similar to watching a misfiring car chug down the road or constantly hooking the golf ball into the woods. As I tuned into the direction for my day I was thinking about the workshop/event-“Everyday is Christmas When You Are In Luvv”- that I am doing this Sunday.

After working out and doing some errands I decided to go to the putting green and putt for thirty minutes or so. My putting could use some brushing up and I would be outdoors. After putting for around 10 minutes, it dawned on me that I had been avoiding my office. I’ve been a golfer for twenty years and early on I discovered that the golf course was my office. It is the place that I go to learn, be inspired, and just relax and breath. I hadn’t been to the office for some time. I had been of the golf course last week, but not sure I was in office mode.

When I enter the office the fantasy vortex activates my being. The office is a place where ideas come to me and I get clearer direction on how to construct them. There is a greater connection to the All and my listening increases. There is an ease and trust that gets generated at a higher level. My office makes my life more fun and takes me beyond my mind.

I am sure many people have an office similar to mine. For some it’s hiking in the mountains, for others it could be tennis, running, or some other adventure. The key is to find your own office and make sure you visit it as much as possible.

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Sometimes There Are Going To Be Days Like This
By Jerome Green
June 11, 2011

I am sure, like myself, there are times you wake up and from the beginning of the day to the end of the day and you wished the day could start over. You might go through the day feeling sluggish, unmotivated and basically like a slug. You might be just shadowing your day, not really present, not really in your body. What makes today so perplexing is that just the day before you were ready to conquer the world. You were feeling great about your ideas could see how they were shaping into form.

I had a day like this today. It seemed that nothing and I mean nothing I did or touched had any life or substance to it. I was like a wondering buffalo looking for the rest of the heard. I felt like the heard had left me behind and the real scary thing is that I couldn’t even feel a connection to anything I was doing.

I’ve learned that like the Kid said to Butch in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid –“I shoot better when I am moving”. When I am stuck like this, sitting around at my desk, working on a project or trying to work on a project, is not the best use of my time. I am better on the move. I am not sure why I repeat this trend, but after 4-5 hours of trying to be adult about my day, I had to surrender to being a kid. I needed to go out in play. I had done all the responsible things during the day. I even did the family laundry. It was 6:45 PM and I decided to go putt. The minute I embraced that idea I could feel my blood flowing again and some joy coming back into my consciousness.

I putted for 30 minutes, while listening to music. It was a very peaceful and NOW thing to be doing. I know that my office (where my ideas are generated and things are worked on) is the golf course. I have known this for over 20 years, but there is a retarded part of me that refuses to accept that I am a big kid. Who has to play in order to work? At 58, I don’t think that’s going to change at all. It’s my winning formula; yet, I refuse to utilize it on a “Listant” (my word) basis. A “Listant” basis is when one listens and then responds to what they’ve heard. For me, it’s the flowing antonym to consistent. I can be consistently horrible if I don’t listen.

There are times when working at the desk is exactly what is being called for in the moment and there are times when we have to work at a desk because of our positions or jobs. My real J.O.B is my Joy Of Being. If I am not on the J.O.B, then I am not in a mode to really do anything profitable. As my friend Henry use to say to me the trouble is that “When the mountains call, our hearts have to listen and follow the call.” Most of us have been taught that doing such a thing is irresponsible. Many great people who have pioneered change have heeded the call. I was watching one of my favorite T.V shows today (actually the highlight of my day until I went to putt) Bonanza. It was about Albert Michelson who won the Noble Peace Prize for measuring the speed of light. As the story went, Albert was always tinkering with scientific experiments and getting in trouble. He was even kicked out of school because, as the teacher said, he was a troublemaker. There was another reason too, a more bigoted reason, but Albert went on to the Naval Academy and continued his adventure with his discoveries.

Then there was George Washington Carver a man who declined to work for a salary of more than $100,000 a year (almost a million today) to continue his research on the many uses of the peanut. The mountains were calling each of these men and they were great Listants. What’s calling you?

While the putting got the juices flowing, it was the weight lifting session and listening to my iPod that got this article written. While lifting weights I heard the song-“Gotta Work”. The song went on to say, “someday there are going to be days like this, some times we can make things so hard. Sometimes there are going to be days like this, sometimes you have to work hard for it”. The truth for me is that, yes, sometimes there are going to be days like this, and the challenge for me is what to do when I have days like this. For me t o reconnect with I Can Win Now energy I have to find a playful place where I can connect to the generator that drives my passion and keeps me on purpose and focused.

Our ideas are like people. We birth them and then it’s up for us to nourish and develop them. There are days I feel totally connected and ready to work my ideas and then there are other days, like today, where I don’t feel I Can or ever will Win Now or later. By the time I finished the third part of my playful process of reconnecting – jumping in the pool to water jog. I was totally refreshed, reconnected and the water felt like a spiritual overflow of joy, purpose and connection. I felt the I Can and I will. I even started singing a song while I was running in the pool. It was a song that I made up (I’ve been making up songs all my life since I was about 5 years old). These songs seem to come to me while I am in my joyful playfulness.

“As I close my eyes I can see you more. I can feel you more and it makes me feel sure .I look to the sea and I look to thee and the mountains that are behind you and me. I wonder if we’ll ever know how deep the luvv between us can grow. I am not sure if you can see, but I see the sea and the mountains see me”.

There was more to the song, but that’s the gist of it. I continued to run and sing and feel the powerful celebration of securing the joy back into my day. The hours between 7-9:30 pm captured the power of the day. Sometimes there are going to be days like this, many days and I am learning how to Work it New and Work It Now, by becoming a better LISTANT.

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Down Goes Frasier, Down Goes Frasier.

I was at the driving range, the other day, swinging at golf balls. Notice I didn’t say hitting golf balls. I learned awhile back that if you want to at least sound like a good golfer you say

“swing at the ball”,

not “hit the ball”. I was recalling some of the various golf lessons I’ve had, and specifically the ones I had with “Jimmy”, one of the Golf pros at Westchester Golf Course in Los Angeles. I was feeling a desire some additional lessons. Then, within a split second, the mind (places that hold worry, guilt and all those other trap doors) kicked in and said. ‘You fool, with this economy, you are thinking about taking golf lessons”? You can’t afford that luxury. My response was, you are right. How can I be thinking about taking golf lessons with things being the way they are? Then I heard the voice of conscience speak.

“So, just because the economy is bad, you are now going to stop acknowledging your desires, just toss in the towel and try to survive. Boy, you’re easy? “

I wrestled with these various thoughts and struggled with writing this particular article for my Blog. I wanted to write about desire and how important it is, especially during these times, but I couldn’t get it started.

My feelings continued to be conflicted until yesterday, while in the shower, the euphoric feeling of warm water caressed my body like life’s nectar and opened up my awareness. I recalled a vintage broadcast by Howard Cosell, the famous Sports Announcer of the Ali and Monday Night Football era. It was as if I was taken back to that fateful Monday night of January 23, 1973, in Kingston Jamaica, when, after Frazier being knocked down by Foreman, Cosel, in a poetic and animated way bellowed out

“Down goes Frazier, Down goes Frazier”.

Upon recalling this night and Cosell’s voice, I had to find the video that went along with it. As I watched the video I saw both a metaphorical and practical application to present day.

I am battling desire against the force of worry. What I admired most in watching the short-lived fight again, was the Frazier didn’t stay down; he kept getting back up and trying to fight. He lost the fight, but demonstrated the power of the human spirit to withstand great stress and still keep fighting. Frazier had the desire to fight, even though his body wouldn’t let him go any further.

Being an entrepreneur who owns several service businesses I am concerned with the first line of cuts individuals and companies tend to make during times like this. Service and training are usually the first to be cut.

Bill Gates on CNN today stressed how important, no matter what the economic climate is like, for us to continue to invest in education. I would take that a step further and say, no matter what the economic climate is like, it is very important for us all to continue to spend on our “Desire. Even if you don’t have the cash in hand, to acknowledge the desire and hold it close to you is spending on the desire.

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