SPDF vlog Day 32: I knew how to recognize and pick business associates. I should've seen that picking 'frieneds' is the same, for me.

I was good if not extremely good at identifying associates, partners, team members in business that were up to the Herculean tasks that were always my focus and responsibility in business.  I can see who could do the work, quite clearly, I could see who was not up to the task, quite clearly, I could see when they were attracted to the mission, and I can see when they were not capable of that. 

These skills of mine for which I take no personal credit were instrumental to the business success that I had.  I always had an important, ultimately important, role to fulfill on the team, but never did I achieve any substantial results except as part of a maniachally committed, massively focused, heroically motivated team of individuals.

It has only just occured to me in the last couple of days that in my personal life, and in my activist life these last 10 years , I've been as unsuccessful at my associations as I was successful in business. 

It is occurring to me now that I was using an entirely different mindset in the two different situations and that this was a tremendous mistake. 

I believe that the healthy individual lives to achieve important human missions and that everything else is to be subservient to that in the healthy person, and I mean physiologically, psychologically healthy.  Therefore one should not use different considerations in whom they associate with in a any aspect of their life , certainly not in the most sacred of pursuits, activism.  But I have viewed it entirely differently and thereby wasted a tremendous amount of time of other people and of myself. 

It's not a matter of blaming myself, or of absolving myself blame.  I've done and will always do the best that I can but I think I've just gained a massive new insight.  I need to consider each and any association from the perspective of the entirely mission oriented individual that I am.  This is a very optimistic consideration for me.

SPDF vlog Day 32: For a decade have I misungerstood the problem: Is it a 'follower problem,' not a 'leadership' problem?

Am I guilty of the proverbial seeing every problem as a nail because my only tool is a hammer? 

I don't think so but thinking along this line has occurred to me for the first time in any of my campaigns.  

By training was in leadership in graduate school back in the mid seventies.  My avocation and vocation have been leadership ever since.  I learned fairly quickly in industry that my only interest was in urgent situations that required a dramatic turnaround to avoid disaster, and that by my only skill was in such urgent situations, rather, the skill that aligned with my greatest strengths, and with my interests, passions.  I learned that I have no interest in, and no apparent talents, in normal situations.

More specifically what occured to me is that relative to Palestine,, saving the last remnants of democracy in America, stopping ecocide, it is not a leadership problem but a follower problem that we have.  That is, the denial among the American people is so catatonic, so sick, so deep, so all powerful that leadership may not be the problem,

But I think leadership is the only solution.  Leadership,, being among the first to do what a healthy, loving, sane, not catatonically delustional personl person does in the face of a 68 year torture and torment of another people, the Palestinians, by one's own government. 

It is so much lonelier than what I ever had to do in industry.  The motivators for the groups involved were so much clearer, losing their job, going out of business, losing their income....  So the followers were, if not always, often, ready to do their part.  There is no evidence of that in any of the three problems that I've mentioned.  Quite the opposite.  It appears that the followers will avoid taking personal responsibility no matter what.

So I think I was mistaken to have this doubt.  I'll continue to consider it, but maybe more than ever it is a leadership problem.  Being among the first to act as a human being should act in the face of such horror.

SPDF Day 16: CAUTION: I am on a mission. It is a mission I've been training for, preparing for, my entire life. I have little time left to finish my work.....

SPDF Day 16:  CAUTION:  I am on a mission. It is a mission I've been training for, preparing for, my entire life.  I have little time left to finish my work. I study, analyze, plan, replan, rethink... every day, using my lifetime of training, learning, expertise.  I am not perfect at what I do, but frankly, I see no one, no one, no one... involved in working to Free Palestine that understands the situation, needs, and required action as I do. That is neither to my credit, nor necessarily, to the discredit of others.  But it is part of my assessment of the situation.  I benefit from breathtaking minds every day.  My google alerts include some of the finest minds and souls I've ever seen - Max Blumenthal, Glen Greenwald, Jimmy Carter, Emira Hass, Norman Finkelstein, Chris Hedges, Gideon Levy, Robert Reich, Philip Weis, Noam Chomsky....  Many of these have devoted decades to bringing Justice to Palestines, and I have been devoted less than a year.  But, well, take today, for example, after the Satanyahu election.  Some of these are breathless with amazement at the results, at what it shows them about the true character of the Israeli psycho state, etc.....  I've been at this less than 9 months and they are only now seeing what I already saw clearly months ago??????  I couldn't be where I am without them, and others, but they do not have my background in analysis, visioning, ACHIEVING RESULTS, FAILURE-IS-NOT-AN-OPTION, leadership, implementation, 100% to the death solidarity with the needy.  No discredit to them. No credit to me. My point?  I seek better alternatives EVERY DAY, ANY MOMENT OF ANY DAY.  But I'm not playing, I'm a world class expert at what I do, and I have not one second to waste.  Anyone that comes my way that has an extremely well thought out, massively important comment, suggestion, addition, alternative... I'll be immensely interested and grateful.  Anyone that tries to use my time for drama, hysterics, attention to me (instead of Palestine), less than gold-standard, historically and theoretically solid alternatives, suggestions, corrections... will receive a stern, 'Good day to you,' from me.  Full Stop.  NONE OF US should have a second to waste, and I do not, and will not, whatever the price to me personally.  I'm willing to fail; I'm unwilling to not give this every nano-second of my best attention, time and effort till the end.

***** Angela Merkel: "Our answer to the fundamentalism of the Islamist perpetrators of violence is democracy, respect for the law, respect for each other, respect for human dignity. This is our way of life!"

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2015/01/merkel-germany-muslims-pegida-201511371339763942.html

article. “Macho posturing, it turns out, makes for bad economies”: Paul Krugman slams Vladimir Putin. [For the criminally dangerous idiots that think Putin LEADS and Pr. Obama does not. Get your heads out of your axxes.]

http://www.salon.com/2014/12/19/macho_posturing_it_turns_out_makes_for_bad_economies_paul_krugman_slams_vladimir_putin/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

nd. It is NEVER my place to judge what another should do, and I never make the mistake of trying, even in my mind or heart. Never. It is never NOT my place to judge what is NEEDED of US, we Individuals, to win in a given situation, campaign, cause - it is my Training, my Life's Practice, and my Life's Calling to do so, to make available, communicate with all the force called for, what I See, and to personally execute... to LEAD by Example... whether anyone sees, or follows, is NOT my business... only to do it as well as is humanly possible.

It is NEVER my place to judge what another should do, and I never make the mistake of trying, even in my mind or heart. Never.  It is never NOT my place to judge what is NEEDED of US, we Individuals, to win in a given situation, campaign, cause - it is my Training, my Life's Practice, and my Life's Calling to do so, to make available, communicate with all the force called for, what I See, and to personally execute... to LEAD by Example... whether anyone sees, or follows, is NOT my business... only to do it as well as is humanly possible.

White House sets out looming climate risks for US, calls for 'urgent action.' CNN

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***** Margaret Mead: "Never depend upon institutions of government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals."

***** NO ONE UNDERSTANDS PR. OBAMA THAT DOESN'T KNOW HE HOLDS THIS INSIGHT FROM LINCOLN DEEP IN HIS 'ORGANIZER' HEART. "Our government rests on public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion can change the government." - Abraham Lincoln

***** NO ONE UNDERSTANDS PR. OBAMA THAT DOESN'T KNOW HE HOLDS THIS INSIGHT FROM LINCOLN DEEP IN HIS 'ORGANIZER' HEART.  "Our government rests on public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion can change the government." - Abraham Lincoln

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain

Start Loving shared Intellectual Takeout's photo.

Wonderful !

Something to consider?

Nikola Tesla: "Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists."

Dani Rain shared Fukitol Real's photo.

One of the earliest of great men ...

***** Was Mandela Right to Sell Out Black South Africans? Bloomberg

Was Mandela Right to Sell Out Black South Africans?

Bloomberg

Pr. Obama's big Iran gamble. MSNBC. vid. Cycle

pic. "Great leaders don't tell you what to do; they show you how it is done.

Truth Beckons

Truth Beckons

***** Life based on doing stuff for money, my God, how Insane. HOW JOYLESS!!! We are ALL SISTERS AND BROTHERS, FOR GOD'S SAKE. STOP THIS INSANITY!!!! IT IS IN THE FINAL STAGES OF DESTROYING ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING. YOU KNOW THIS!!! WAKE UP. LEAD US OUT OF THIS!!!!

Life based on doing stuff for money, my God, how Insane. HOW JOYLESS!!! We are ALL SISTERS AND BROTHERS, FOR GOD'S SAKE.  STOP THIS INSANITY!!!!  IT IS IN THE FINAL STAGES OF DESTROYING ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING.  YOU KNOW THIS!!! WAKE UP.  LEAD US OUT OF THIS!!!!

pic. Gloria Steinem: "Whenever one person steps up and says, 'Wait a minute, this is wrong,' it helps others to do the same."

***** pic. “Example is not the major thing in influencing people. It is the only thing.” Albert Schweitzer

“Example is not the major thing in influencing people. It is the only thing.”

Albert Schweitzer

Einstein: "Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living."

Einstein: "Be a loner.  That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth.  Have holy curiosity.  Make your life worth living."

The man who lives without money – Opinion – ABC Environment (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) www.abc.net.au

Nina McGhie Cooper via Gracie Calvey

The man who lives without money – Opinion – ABC Environment (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

www.abc.net.au

Irishman Mark Boyle tried to live life with no income, no bank balance and no spending. Here's how he finds it.

***** pic. At least one of them knows it is wrong.