The person who never succeeds in life, despite...

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A LOT OF EFFORT, BUT STILL NO BETTER

I see so often people who spend alot of effort trying to get better.  (And, of course, I see people who don't spend any time at all and they definitely do not get better in life, except in slight, random bits that don't add up to much.)

But effort, unmanaged, does not get us results in life.

They do the classic "duh!" error in that they gather lots of information but only assimilate it about "an inch deep", if at all.  It is as if they do not realize that having a pile of information under one's pillow will not go into the brain by osmosis or a miracle.

They spend their lives accumulating and intending to process it all - "later." And they fail to notice that they are on a treadmill to nowhere.  

GOOD INTENT, NO HARVESTING

They are like the well-meaning farmer, who enthusiastically gathers seeds but fails to plant them or plants them but fails to water and care for them and ultimately forgets that he will not do well unless he harvests them. 

Daniel, one of the nicest guys you will ever meet, is a "super-achiever", blowing himself out trying to achieve but barely learning and installing that which will help him to reap what he wants in life.  He is on a treadmill trying to go forward in life, gathering more and more information in order to get smarter and get better, but he almost never spends the time to harvest the information to the point of being able to use it effectively.  

He acknowledges, before he quickly suppresses the facts because they make him feel so anxious, that he has a "ruined life", where he exhausts himself, tries to please everyone, lives by the demands of others, experiences constant anxiety and other negative emotions, has not built a good relationship, has been too busy for family - yet while he diligently gathers more information that doesn't make his life any better he is still stuck in the hope that he will get better.  

DILIGENT WORK REQUIRED

But hope is not the way out of the trap.   Hard work on harvesting the information is the only way out - and only if it is driven to "completion", learned and installed to the point where he actually knows how and uses the knowledge.

Ironically, he is about to go off for a week of classes, from which he is unlikely to do anything other than gathering the information, choosing it over the opportunity for using that week in a retreat focused on harvesting the massive information he has already gathered up, including information from a full week a month and half sooner, but not harvested!

Unless he begins to make the choice to "do the work" necessary to harvest, he will, via his treadmill, not arrive anywhere close to having a successful life - in terms of "life", not in terms of the false idol of work and/or of "contribution".  He says he will "do the work", "later,  after he gets back, but then he never does, he never acknowledges that "it isn't working" to just pile up information nor that "later" never seems to arrive.

But when he does start to harvest diligently what is already available then he will begin the right path to a happy, life-successful life.  But there is no time to dilly-dally along the path, meandering off of it for indulgences, if one is to get to the truly great life experienced at the highest.

HOW MUCH WILL YOU COMMIT TO?

Will you schedule each week even one hour to do harvesting (and implementation)?

That would be good, better than nothing, but do not hope for "the miraculously derived wisdom and effectiveness" in life that you seek.   

An hour a week is nice, but it would be foolish to believe that quick advancement along the path will occur in so minimal an amount of time.

Sorry, but you must, somehow, devote at least 5 hours a week on the process until you have reached a high level of living life.  (Hopefully, you'll find a few of the paths on The Site to be useful, branching off from The Paths page.)

Basically, to repeat until learned, you must first set aside the time to do the harvesting and build up before you can reap the rewards and live a better life.  No miracles will transport you forward magically into being the life-effective person you want to be.  

You must walk the path one step at a time, taking the necessary time and not trying the shortcuts, any more, that don't work and have never worked.  And you must stop stopping short of what is necessary to get the results.

Will you Make The One Decision That Will Transform Your Life?  (It is recommended that you do this right now and not "later", as "later" is what failures in life depend on, though the "laters" never come about.)

(Learn overall about life first, then find a subject that will have a high payoff and then complete that, then go to the next, all the time elevating your life so it is more enjoyable and rewarding and effective.)

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