Aspiration – The Future – Do you dream about the future? We know the future is real – it keeps arriving every second! How often does it match our aspirations? How often does that matter?

You Are a Planner – Nothing comes to reality without a Plan. This is a main reason for the existence of God – the Planner of bluebells and quasars seems so real to us and the scope of the universe, its chemistry, math & physics, so orderly. Even the people who see “chaos” don’t want chaos in their own lives. Is our mind greater than the universe? Clearly not. No single brain has been able to encompass the universal design – not even Einstein’s. Wishing is helpless and works out so selfdom it leaves us worse off. But plans evolve, along with us, and even when they fail, WE succeed. Edison said he hadn’t failed at anything, he simply found “ten thousand ways things don’t work.” That’s called knowledge!

Challenge – Take an active role in your future, in making wishes and dreams come “true”. Don’t bother investing pride and honor in being “right” – with a universe this complex, NOBODY’S right. Invest instead in having a good, flexible plan that evolves along with you. Plans are adaptable – they must borrow from all disciplines . Plans can be Art – who are what this universe IS – including the people in it. Give it room to grow.

Danger – Never forget Fundamental Attribution Error. There’s a lot of coincidence and happenstance, which is what the phrase “Being in the wrong place at the wrong time” expresses. So our plan must be modified to deal with tragedy –the ongoing and universal tragedy of illness, war and disaster. Of course we are trying to avert these things, have often been and will continue to learn how better to avert them but everything isn’t up to us. There are dark forces at work that enjoy harm and destruction so we can’t become over invested in “winning” because we can’t see or know everything.

Opportunity – This is where Faith comes in. Jesus said evil will not win, and that’s good enough for me. Find your own mantra t stay strong and keep working on a healthy you designing a healthy plan and promoting people around you who can make your plan better. You will also be contributing to their plans – and that’s gratitude. And love. Win-win!

Meditation –

#Haiku: Destiny

This day’s good
Because yesterday
I thought about today:
Momentum