Marcel Legros - Play the Game of Life

1. When I meet my soul mate, I’ll be happy.
2. If I wasn’t feeling sick, tired, and in pain, I’d be happy.
3. My dream wedding will make me happy.
4. If I have children, they’ll fulfill me.
5. If only I didn’t have children, I’d be free to live my life and be happy.
6. If people understood me, everything would work out.
7. I need more money before I can do everything I want to do.
8. If my boss wasn’t such a jerk, my life would be great.
9. If I didn’t have to do this mind-numbing work, I’d be free.
10. If I was less attached to money and more spiritual, I’d be happy.
11. I need more time before I can be happy.
12. If I wasn’t afraid of taking big risks, I could live my dreams.
13. If I was better looking and in better shape, I’d be happy.
14. If people took me seriously, I could be happy.
15. If this tragedy hadn’t happened, I’d be happy.
16. When I break free from alcohol and drugs, the freedom will make me happy.
17. When I get to have a stiff drink, or drugs, I’ll feel great. I’ll be happy.
18. One day I’ll become enlightened, and have lasting peace and serenity.
19. I’ll be happy when I’m recognized for my great ideas.
20. I’ll be happy when I retire, travel, and can take it easy.

Tomorrow Never Comes

We all hope for enough time to make all the right things happen so that we can finally be happy. We think that if we collect more happy moments, one after the other, we’ll find peace. Unfortunately, bad things happen to even the happiest and most successful people.

Don’t wait for the perfect moment when you will finally find lasting happiness. Decide to find it now, right from where you stand.

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Make everyday your birthday party by unwrapping your own gifts. Most people have gifts they haven’t even discovered yet. You have talent, skills, intelligence and especially interests that you aren’t aware of. Start assuming you have abilities that you haven’t discovered, or given yourself credit for and start looking for them. Day after day, more research comes in proving that most people have much more intelligence than they use. Also, the new field of Emotional Intelligence, has shown the people have strengths in far more areas than just math or English. You have a much higher level of abilities than you imagined or give yourself credit for. Work from the assumption that you are smarter and better at things and stretch yourself into new areas and see what happens. Each time you will discover something, and I guarantee you will, you can say “happy birthday” to yourself and consider yourself lucky to have received a gift that will last the rest of your life.

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Refuse to let your limitations stand in the way of your success. Everyone has limitations, but not everyone lets them stop them. Look at what you stopping you and see if you can ignore the limitations. Try what you want to do, without regard to your limitations, and see what happens. Take one minute and work on something you think you can’t do because of some limitations, and see what happens. If you make progress, take another minute, and another minute, pretty soon you will find that you completed your project, in spite of your limitations.

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Choose to be “into” your life. Don’t float through your life, just getting by. Be “into” all aspects of your life, so you are fascinated by what is going on in your life and around you. Be curious about your work, or your school assignments, etc. Take the time to look at things from a different angle, to watch the processes you and the things around you, go through. Look at how your body is changing; look at how the world is changing. While the rest of the world is being average, you should be interested. If you need to change things to make them interesting, get interested in developing a plan to start that change. Make people wonder what is wrong with you, make them wonder why you are not like them, why you care about what you do and who you are. Be “into” your life and you will find that the world is “into” you.

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Becoming more like a child might be just what you need to move your life ahead in some wonderful ways. Children have learning curves and enjoyment curves, we never approach as adults. Our learning and enjoyment of life slows the older we get. If you want to turn this around, pick up some of the attributes of children. Be curious and use this curiosity to learn. Get excited and use this excitement to enjoy life. Be spontaneous and enjoy the moment and take what there is to learn that is right in front of you. So if someone calls you childish, it might be the best compliment they could give you.

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This is the first post in a new series called, “The Intelligent Universe.”
Each article will explore random, everyday things but explore them a with a twist. Discover fantastic adventures contained within the mundane. In the Intelligent Universe, science and spirit are exactly the same - creative expressions of energy and thought. There is meaning in everything around us if we look deeply enough…

When we accidentally turn our tv or radio to a station with no broadcast, we get static, snow, and white noise. Why do we get white noise at all? If there isn’t a broadcast, shouldn’t it just be a dead screen or silence?

SETI’s Dilemma

SETI stands for “Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence”. This non-profit’s stated mission is to explore, understand and explain the origin, nature and prevalence of life in the universe. Since 1984, they’ve been scouring the universe with radio telescopes for any trace of life emitted from other worlds by intelligent beings. They face the daily challenge of eliminating false positives - “how do we cut out terrestrial and cosmic noise from our results?” Trillions of cosmic bodies combine their energies to form a soup of white noise that bathe the entire universe in static - so do cellular phones and microwave ovens. Software algorithms do a great job of filtering the noise from collected results but here is the problem, as I see it - the signal astronomers are looking for, is the noise itself.

Ever Try Unscrambling an Egg?

What happens to the sound of your voice when you’re finished speaking? It doesn’t disappear; it travels outward in space and mingles with every other sound and vibration on earth. The strength of vibration dissipates with distance but never entirely disappears. The first two laws of thermodynamics apply - no energy is ever lost, it can be only transformed into other forms. As your voice mingles with every other voice and noise on the planet, it becomes white noise - indistinguishable and unidentifiable as human, but it’s still there. No word ever uttered is lost - it’s simply buried under a cacophony of other voices. The challenge facing SETI is something like pointing a microphone on a street corner and listening for the Gettysburg Address delivered by Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1863. His famous words are still vibrating in the air today but they’re intermingled with 144 years of every other sound created on Earth. There’s immense intelligence contained within white noise, but how do you extract it?

The Universe is a Chaotic Party

Sound cannot escape from Earth but light, and other energy forms can. If you read a book outside on a sunny day, some of the light reflected from the pages travels outwards into deep space. If an alien race, 100 million light years away have equipment sensitive and smart enough to cut out the cosmic noise, they might observe you reading your book 100 million years from today. They’ll wonder why they invested so heavily to watch you read trash novels.

All noise contains intelligence. Lives pass and speeches end, but records of them are all contained in noise and chaos. The next time you hear static on your radio, you might be listening to the energy of your neighbour heating up his lunch in a microwave. When you look a up at the stars, the light reaching your eyes might also contain the reflected image of an alien being, reading a trashy novel from 100 million years ago. Some things never change…

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You don’t have to be the best to win; you only have to be the best on the day of the contest. We all know stories of the best people losing to someone, because they were having a bad day, and the underdog had a good day. There is more to winning than skill, there is determination, persistence and plain old work, plus luck. If you work your game on a regular basis, but haven’t won yet, your turn is coming, so keep trying. You have to be in the game to win it and by hanging in there, practicing, showing up and giving it your all, sooner or later, you will have your good day, when the competition is having a bad day, and success will be yours.

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When things get crazy and life feels too much, I look forward to tomorrow and live today. Things might not get better tomorrow, but there is the great promise that it can. Maybe it will get worse - I don’t know. What matters is that I live today because there is no other time to live.

Nothing Can Harm You

When I’m experiencing pain or negativity I use try to remember to use my secret weapon - I imagine I’m a ghost. I let every emotion and experience pass deeply into me, and then through me, as if I’m perfectly invisible. I don’t ignore my pain but actually welcome it. I try to feel the pain as deeply as I can muster. Once I’ve felt it, I let it pass through and move on to whatever comes next. There is absolutely no emotion in this world that can harm you if you allow it to be, and then let it go.

Feel deeply, rinse, repeat…

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Pay Attention.

Can you really afford to miss things? You need information to move ahead, and the way to get it is to listen. Here is the secret to being able to do better: Pay Attention. If you pay attention, you will learn more, and if you learn more, you will do better. It is not easy to pay attention, but that is the secret to being better at what you want to be better at. Yes, you will take in a lot of useless information, and suffer through some irritating input, but the final result is worth it. What is one new idea that works, worth to you. So grit your teeth, and open your ears, and truly pay attention to things coming your way.

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Here is a success tip from Broadway. Your show must go on.

You know the expression, “The Show Must Go On”, and how it means that no matter what happens the audience must not be disappointed. This same concept applies to you and your life. People all around you are depending on you, and no matter how you feel, no matter what happens, you can’t let them down. Make it a point to set your personal feelings, you pains, problems, etc., aside and deliver when people need you. After the “show” you can tend to the things that were pulling you down, but your “audience” must never know you had a problem.

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