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You’re A Human BEING Not A Human DO’ER!

This’ll be a shorty. I ran out of day hours ago and desire my bed…greatly.

There are 4 things people buy from you:

• Transformations
• Outcomes
• Solutions
• and Feelings

These can be applied to the doing of anything.

Your skill level can determine your value in many cases.

Your skill sets might be in great demand.

But what if what you do is a commodity or has great competition?

What if you don’t think you’re really good at anything?

Or don’t know what you’re good at?

I feel many people help drive their own bipolar symptoms just by ignoring the solution to those questions.

One’s inability to live life in accordance with one’s heart can most definitely lead to mental illness.

Ever hate your job?

Ever hate it so much that you had very bad thoughts, headaches, hives, nausea, or some other ghastly side effect of showing up for a day of shit you can’t stand to do?

That is a great example of that I’m trying to say, from the negative perspective.

But if you already know you’re capable of more or better but don’t know how to escape the first scenario…

…or know how to begin the better life, guess what can happen?

Hel-looooo bipolar disorder.

For some of us. Sometimes.

Just be aware.

Then start the Big Dig within your heart and mind.

Start deciphering who you are and how you make people feel, then do your best to match that with a field of industry or career path that allows you to be you.

You will then become unstoppable. And quite possibly, completely healthy!

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“OMG! Will You Just STOP Already?!”

One of the hardest things I’ve routinely faced on my entrepreneurial journey, is knowing when to say when on a failed project.

This could be:

• Any business idea that’s simply not earning enough, or any income.
• A side gig that helps you survive but keeps you from working on what will make you thrive.
• A new business based on a skill you have but don’t enjoy using.
• A partnership, in anything at all, that has revealed your partner to be less shiny than originally thought.
• A partnership where you end up doing most of the work.
• Volunteer work that keeps you from feeding your family better.
• The current iteration of whatever message you have and/or whatever people you picked to send it to.
• Anything that requires constant outlay for little to no return.
• A job you should’ve walked out of long ago but you got comfortable.
• Any people in your life whom you pursue, help and fawn over, hoping they’ll one day make it all worth it.

There are more. But You get the point.

I’ve Lived Everything On That List

Humbling but true.

Awareness is what’s lacking when these things run away from you.

You’re in it. You can’t see it. You’re too close. You care too much.

And you’ve laid out so much ass, that it would seem criminal to not try to just push it over the top, by keeping on keeping on.

Get Third-Party Help

Ask anyone in your daily life, whom you trust enough to deliver the bad news with grace, to tell you if they think you’re martyring yourself.

They might be right. They might not be. But consider what they tell you.

Better yet, find a coach or advisor who doesn’t even know you to get your backstory and make that all-important judgment call.

For your own good.

Your heart’s in the right place. But logic matters here too.

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“No One Is Coming To Save You!”

Once you fully realize that it’s on you to right your ship, you’re on the path to greatness.

Taking this perspective is pure personal responsibility. Although fraught with fear of the unknown, it’s also slathered in the freedom to do things as you see fit.

The way to use your new found freedom and responsibility is by adopting a higher level of commitment about just how it is you plan on saving yourself.

You Will Pass Through Many Iterations

Making up your mind to stay present and agreeing to never quitting is only part of the puzzle.

You’re going to fail at this more than succeed.

Whatever “this” is.

Your commitment to eventually having what you wish to have, come hell or high water, is what will push you through the more trying times.

And MOST of this is going to try you!

You’re being annealed. Made harder. Stronger. Better.

It just doesn’t look or feel that way.

You’re being tested. The cliche “if it was easy everybody would do it” always holds true.

What are you willing to endure to reach your goals?

How much pain and discomfort are you willing to absorb?

How fast can you learn from it all so that it doesn’t REMAIN pain and discomfort-filled?

We’re not looking for martyrdom here.

But “it” will totally look like martyrdom in the beginning.

Can you hang?

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That Dream Of Yours? I Got Your Back!

This is a risky move on my part. And yet, maybe not so much.

Bipolar people have insights, perspectives and wisdom gained only through the creative crucible that is bipolar.

We can change the world, right or wrong.

If you’ve found some level of stability within your bipolar ride, you’ve probably been realizing what I said above is true.

You simply know things that others around you can’t comprehend.

But because bipolar is a part of how you gained this awareness, you either doubt your own thoughts and feelings, or those around you do, due to the stigma of the illness.

In either direction, this is understandable.

But There’s A Way To Share Your Thinking Without Bipolar Mucking Up The Delivery

This is where it can get tricky.

If you’re still actively bipolar, you may be experiencing mania. Mania allows us to lie to ourselves. Or it gets us so excited, the message gets delivered poorly.

Either way, mania has to be settled before moving forward.

Some left over buzz is acceptable. But ALL buzz is bad.

You can be excited but not in an overpowering sense.

When I’m Excited, I Pause

I learned a long time ago that if I’m extremely excited about a project, I need to first sleep on it before executing its beginning.

Too much excitement can blind us to certain realities.

Assuming mania is not the main driver of your plan, you often run into the next thing.

No One Believes In Your Plan

This is a case of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf.”

We’ve taken people down this path before, only to use them up and/or use up their faith in our ability to distinguish total pipe dream from reality.

This is natural. Sad but natural. Track records and such.

But That Doesn’t Mean We’re Always Wrong

Bipolar people have fresh ways of seeing life. And these alternative perspectives are needed now, more than ever before.

The Old Ways are crumbling.

Assuming you are more stable than not, this is the era of open-minded thinking being the only way through.

This is the era of lessening restriction, in which new ideas can easily find support.

Because New Problems Require New Thinking

And that’s where you come in.

I already understand that people like you may have the answer so many others seek and I want to see you get the word out.

We’ll need to reshape some of your approach to marketing, and we’ll need to reshape some of how you even see yourself as a person, a creator, and maybe even a leader.

This is all I am about.

And I got your back!

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Trying Something New Today

I was pondering whether to repurpose old articles from my last site, OutsidersJourney. I still like what those hundreds of articles say. But they’re more from my point of view about me.

Could be helpful to you. Maybe.

But these days I like to be sure my work is more directly aimed at you, the readers and listeners.

I do my best to deliver answers to questions and provide tools and other actionable bits of advice to help you go big on your dreams, while managing whatever is left of bipolar in your mind.

The old site was like a journal. I laid out my life and perspectives so you could see if we matched. But it was all about what my world looked like. Not so much yours.

However, this one page leapt out at me as I sifted through the old site.

It’s about something one man refers to as a “DaVinci Personality.” And he wrote a book back in 2005 explaining what that is, why you might be one, and why, even amidst all the chaos of being like we bipolar-prone people are, there is good hiding within the bad. (Sound familiar?)

This wasn’t aimed at bipolar people, I might add. But many of us fit the bill. I know I did and still do.

I believe I even spoke on the phone with this man, Garret Loporto, way back when. But no details remain in my memory, other than that it was a positive conversation.

And I have no idea what Garret might be up to these days. But his description of people like us still rings true to me. So I’d like to share that original work.

Oh! Almost forgot. The new thing is that I’ll be reading the article inside this episode of the podcast. Let me know one day if you like this way of sharing my older work.

Here’s The Original Article

I found out that I am a DaVinci personality.

If you’re reading my blog and returning, maybe you are too.

So, what is that?

I was introduced to the term in “The Davinci Method” by Garret Loporto. To date, it is the only book I’ve ever read in one sitting.

I was so excited because it was the first time I’d ever been shown the template to my type of personality! It was as if Garrett had interviewed me to write it!

A Davinci searches, seeks and strives

We are the artists, the innovators, the big thinkers, the dreamers, the sometimes insane or unbalanced, the champions, the warriors, the charismatic criminals, the addicts, the painfully misunderstood, the geniuses.

We think in wholes, not parts

Davincis see events on many levels, simultaneously and easily give voice to complicated topics. We don’t kneel before anyone, can’t keep our thoughts to ourselves and we won’t shut up. The status quo nauseates us. Authority makes our skin crawl.

We create beauty and remarkable items of interest that cause everyone else to think or wake up

We’re the canaries in the mine

DaVincis are the people that can spot the shifts in our cultures before everyone else.

We are the agents of change, the trendsetters.

A Davinci feels more

We emote more, are more descriptive and make deeper connections with others, faster.

We solve the problems no one else can

This is purely due to the fact that we completely do not see the world the same way as the masses around us do. And we see connections across multiple levels of thought and feedback.

We see deep, wide, and high…and we see how it all connects, assists, and influences one another. Life is a 3D map to our minds, defined by an envisioning ability most lack.

We see what’s not there…yet and have the faith to know that it will be and that we have what it takes to bring it to reality.

We’re the Sauce, the Zing, the Flavor

Davincis make life friggin’ interesting for everyone else in our lives. This is sometimes fantastic for us and sometimes a disaster. The things that make us the most interesting, the drivers deep within us, can also cause us pain.

“Normal” is painful to us

We have a higher threshold for excitement, fear, chaos, and danger.

When everyone around us begins to freak out as a new disaster hits, we come alive. We are the calm ones directing the screaming hordes. We are the fireman, the cop, the warrior, the boss everyone else turns to for help when everyone’s job is on the line as a group.

Understanding all of this kickstarted my awareness that I should demand more from myself, in order to have what I really deserved.

I had to somehow help others get what they needed on a scale I’d never attempted, because that same scale was how big my goals had become.

The way I’ve chosen to do that is through BipolarExcellence.com. Welcome. Let’s poke around in the fog together a bit, shall we?