Talk, itself, may be the solution — for company, brainstorming and therapy — but I prefer a shot of ’solution talk’ straight up to inspire soul and body to action. Take it as an antidote for the endless repeating of known problems by the media.
Per Tivo for Radio the Solution to ‘problem talk’ is avoidance or abandonment.
As a solution seeking reader a favorite late night web haunt is Bill Buppert’s Hezekiah Wyman. Bill has an action-oriented historical perspective and one tends to emerge from his website with a clear perspective and a few tasks on the to-do list. Speaking of which . . .
Here’s some ’solution talk’ from Bill’s website. It’s talk only, but, Robert Steele rattles off an impressive number of ideas and solutions. He asks bloggers to "Blog That!" which is what I’m doing here. That, and pointing out that ‘Solution Talk’ is far more Optimal than ‘Problem Talk’, is the point of this post.
‘Solution talk’ is refreshing, isn’t it? It reveals ‘problem talk’ for what it is: A TIME SINK.
Problem definition occurs naturally in obeyance to the sincere pursuit of solutions. Dwell on the problem too long and risk becoming part of it. Dwell on solutions and problems define themselves.
. . is "To Live an Optimal Life, in line with God’s will, and help others do the same".
It took me two years to come up with these 16 words. Since then:
Every decision is easier to make.
I’m not tempted by distractions that have nothing to do with purpose.
I’m able to see how my past, present and possible future experiences relate to purpose.
I wasn’t meant to know my life’s purpose until the age of 42. Delivering on it requires living, understanding, describing and simultaneously helping others discover and live their own optimal lives. Until the last few years I didn’t have the knowledge, skills and experience to do so in a truly Optimal way.
That brings me to the point of this blog post: I need to live my own Optimal Life before I can expect to help others do the same. Specifically, I need to define, discover, design, live and maintain my own version of an Optimal life before I can be of any assistance to others trying to do the same. In this sense it’s mandatory that my writing be somewhat Hemingway-esqe in that I live a life before I write about life. Of course, everyone with a heartbeat lives. But, not like Hemingway did and not life with a keen eye towards all things Optimal that I’m attempting to pull into focus.
I’ve started and left unfinished ten articles for Your Optimal in the past 15 days. Each time, the culprit for the interruption has been one of the seven projects listed, below. The least I can do for readers following Your Optimal is to list them as what what I’ve been up to in terms of Optimizing my own life:
Searching for land on which to setup a retreat and future home for my family.
Migrating away from Windows or anything that has to do with Microsoft.
Installing new software to improve this Your Optimal Website.
Working on the writing and presentation of a book series.
Building cabinets and bookcases to organize our living room.
One of the ingredients factoring heavily into items 1, 2 and 3 is Free State Wyoming. With their stated goals of "Maximizing freedom and liberty" and "Recognizing personal sovereignty" I’d be downright negligent to not have them square on my own Optimal radar while vetting a retreat location for my family. I’ll be visiting Wyoming for a week on June 17th to meet people who’ve voted for freedom with their feet and spend time in one of my favorite parts of the country.
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