Essential to understand this. There are fundamentally 3 things that the world perspective will always be in tune with. Creation, preservation, and destruction. Beginning, middle, and end. Get up, have your day, go to bed. Idea, execute, done with it. Show up, do your job, leave. Born, live, die. Notice when an actor recites a list, or they are looking for something. It will be the third one.
I will look at people’s lists. The top 5 ya de ya. The 8 things you need to know. You can always put those list of 5 or 8 into 3 categories. The only one that defies this a little bit is the 4 agreements. I will say, I generally can only remember 3 of them at a time though. That’s my point! It’s natural to process in this way.
I give myself a checklist so my ego won’t screw things up and co-opt my experience. Which means, if I’m teaching something, before declaring that I’m finished, I pass it by a checklist of 3 things before I am satisfied.
I watched a documentary about Frank Lloyd Wright, and it was interesting to hear how his most famous home, Falling Waters, came to be. The story goes that Wright looked at the blueprints of the land for 3 months. It appeared to his interns that he was doing nothing. Finally, Kaufman, the owner, called him to say he was in town and wanted to come by. Wright told him that they were expecting him. In 3 hours he drew up the plans that were to become Falling Waters. He knew every inch of the landscape from studying the blueprints.
3 again and again. 3 weeks is the length of this new program. Chinese medicine understands it takes 3 weeks to break a habit. We can go on and on. 3 meals a day. Plays are written in 3 acts. I can give a full spread tarot reading, and I can also do a 3 card spread. They are completely satisfying and life changing. The Misfits Guide to East West Living: Minding Your Own Business, a 3 week program; it has 3 acts. Completion, Motivation, and Be the Art.
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