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A Few Definitions
Written by Steven Griggs | stevengriggs.com
“It does
not require many words to speak the truth”
Chief
Joseph
“Words,
like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision”
Joseph
Joubert
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Many
of my articles contain words that I have created to help convey a concept or
process, or to condense an idea into a single word. While other times I may use
other writer’s words, such as Stuart Wilde’s, to help describe some concepts
and situations.
The other day my wife was reading one of my articles and she asked me if I thought my readers understood what these words meant. I responded that I was sure they did but after I thought about it for a minute I realized that maybe she was right and maybe not everyone “gets” these words.
So
I decided that I should devote an article to clarifying and explaining some of
these words and concepts.
Here
we go:
- Comfort Level or Comfort Band
- Victitlement
- Tick Tock
- Fringe Dwellers
- Fintiloc
- Your Exterior vs Your Interior
- Nummified
- Long Learner
- Your CTF, (your Claim To Fame)
- Under Programing
Your Comfort Level or
Comfort Band
This
refers to a range of limitations that we place on ourselves by taking on
limiting beliefs. We have certain beliefs about every aspect of our lives. We
have an upper limit that we create as a limit of what we feel we can accomplish
“comfortably” and we have a lower limit below which we will not allow ourselves
to go.
If you look closely at your life you can see your own limits. The upper limit sets the range for your band.
It is usually related to our upbringing and social identification but not necessarily.
Victitlement
Victitlement is an
attitude or mindset that someone takes on that has them believe they deserve
certain things or that they are actually entitled
to them.
This type of thinking contains an element of victim hood because when the entitlements stop
they have someone to blame, that is anyone but themselves.
The truth is no one is entitled to anything, not freedom, not security, not anything. And each entitlement you do accept always comes with a price. To be secure in an unsecure world you need to let go.
Stop trying to control outcomes and learn to accept what is. Of course you can work to change your circumstances and create better outcomes but depending upon the government or anyone else to take care of you will not end well.
Tick Tock
Tick
tock is Stuart Wilde's term for the daily 9-5 grind. The “Go to work, Come
home, Eat, Go to bed, Then do it again” routine. We become lost in the comfort
of our routines.
Fringe Dwellers
Stuart’s term for those of us who have
escaped the tick tock world and have chosen to march to the beat of our own drummer. This doesn't require
disavowing society it simply means you are in it but not of it. You do your own
thing, if you can do it by being self-employed, good. If you are locked into trading
your time for money, you adapt and plan for how you will escape. You live your
life by your rules. You are not caught up in the tribal mindset, the tribal
emotion. You have stepped back from all that.
Fintiloc
Fintiloc is an abbreviation for Financial
Freedom, Time Freedom and Location Freedom. The idea is to
create a lifestyle that allows you to live a free life. You create a business
or income stream that you can manage from anywhere with a minimum of time. This
funds your lifestyle and allows you to travel and live wherever you want
“We keep working towards retirement so we can
live the life we wished for.... later. Meanwhile the years fly by and soon the
children go off to college or start their own lives and you wonder where the
time went. Now you want to make
up for lost time but your energy seems to have gone, your interest has
lessened…… you've waited too long to live your dreams…..”
Your Exterior vs Your
Interior
In
my article your exterior vs your interior I describe your exterior as the current life you are living, your
current circumstances. We tend to think our exterior life is the real life and
our thoughts and dreams, our interior life, is just that, daydreams.
The truth is we create our exterior life by what we visualize
in our interior life. The current life you’re leading is the one you have
created or allowed. You may disagree and
argue that your current circumstances are not what you dreamed of, that you
imagined a very different life.
But what is really happening is that your imagined life was sabotaged by your underlying beliefs, the beliefs that lie underneath your conscious mind. Your true interior life vision is exactly reflected in your current circumstances, what you really believed was possible for yourself.
Nummified
Being nummified describes a person who is humming
along through life, safe and secure in a predictable and rigid mind set. They are safe
and secure in their place in the world, validated by all their social amenities and tribal
status. They have a belief system that keeps them within a rigid construct that
allows for very little variation. They are defined by their home, their car, and
their ‘things”. They like things the same, they prefer itineraries and
schedules. They usually travel in groups.
Long Learner
This
word describes me. I am a long learner. I sometimes need to get smacked upside the head a few times
before I really “get” something. It’s
not that I’m a slow learner, I just
take longer to really understand certain things and then when I do “get it” I move on. I’m sure I’m not the
only one out there.
Your CTF, (your Claim To
Fame)
Every
person has a claim to fame. You usually hear a person’s claim to fame within
the first 10 minutes of meeting them. They tend to slip in their CTF's during any conversation. Sometimes it's astonishing to watch and see a long list of CTF's spewed forth.
This is because people have a need to let you know where they fit in within the tribal hierarchy and in the process usually try to elevate or “improve” their status by showing some connection to someone special or famous or some other connection to specialness.
Many times it is a list of money statements, wherein they let you know how much they make or spend, where they live and what they drive and other things they own. At the same time that person will need understand who and what you are and how you “fit in” to the world, that is into “their” world. But sometimes they are too involved in their story to hear yours.
This is because people have a need to let you know where they fit in within the tribal hierarchy and in the process usually try to elevate or “improve” their status by showing some connection to someone special or famous or some other connection to specialness.
Many times it is a list of money statements, wherein they let you know how much they make or spend, where they live and what they drive and other things they own. At the same time that person will need understand who and what you are and how you “fit in” to the world, that is into “their” world. But sometimes they are too involved in their story to hear yours.
Under Programing
Our under programing is the belief system that we have taken on throughout our lives. These are beliefs that are primarily created during our childhood
through events that became imprinted in our "child" mind. As we go through life we firm up these beliefs based on our experiences and other events that reinforce
the beliefs. Over time these beliefs become embedded and act as a filter for the
way in which we live our lives. There are ways to modify or eliminate these limiting beliefs.
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