I know you don't know me.

That's a comfort. Nothing you say can hurt me, yet I am still curious. Curiosity is the saviour of arrogance. Do I know? Well, let's hear your opinion and there's no risk in that, no pain. Just wonder, and my opportunity to grow.

I've been asking a lot of questions about BodyChance these days: how about your practise, your biz? I am discovering questions open doors, so start with the big one.

Start with your why. What motivates you to be in this profession?

I have been through many whys.

Do you make lists?

It's could be because you are greedy - I bet you never thought of it like that before?

For me it's like this: I want to do a lot - that's where my greed comes in. It starts becoming too much, so I think - make a list. Prioritise it all. That's the usual approach, right?

Except the greed stays, my list gets longer, you keep piling it on. No relief.

All my pain is selfish - I discovered that again today. Per usual, just a glimmer - but a liberating glimmer that I want to underline by writing about it…

My hurt, whenever it arises, feels to me like it is because of you. There was an action from your side, a reaction on my side, and I give it a false linear causality: you affected me.

I love being distracted by silly little things.

Filling out a bank form and sending it off. Cleaning my candle stand of wax. Wiping away those annoying smears near my kitchen trash - all worthy causes in their own right, but totally useless to my mission. I get even more keen when I have a lot on my plate. Hmmm.

Why do I do them? Why do you do yours? (Or have you got all this figured out already?)

I am having a radical morning.

I am asking some "What if…?" questions about the use of my time. Based on the idea that 80% of my pleasure and accomplishment comes from 20% of my time. The rest of my time is wasted on things that don't nurture what matters to me most.

Is it true?

You want try it. Here's what you do:

Make a list of things that absorb a lot of your time. Don't restrict it to your biz, make it about you, your life, how you fill it day by day. What eats up your time?

Realizations are like jewels - precious things, and too few of them. But a realization is much, much more. It is abundant energy: it is a force to move you from apathy and emptiness to action and joy.

Why so few? Why so rare?

We live too much thinking: “I know.” Speaking for me, I am always right. I always know. I am built that way - it is biological as much as it is psychological. We have our right, and we stick to it. Alexander hit upon that - it was his breakthrough discovery, and the most misunderstood and abused.

I don’t understand time - Einstein messed that up.

However, I know my personal time is finite. Even though I can never know the number, I can know my breaths are limited. Each breath is a count down to my last. One day, my last breath will be inhaled, and the countdown over. Every day I am closer to that moment.

Not a person past, present or future can ever overcome the end of their time, and certainly not you.

Greed is a form of emotional stupidity - it's reducing a potential Porsche into being driven like a Model T Ford. Businesses driven by greed wreck havoc in Society.

Greed is biologically sound, and cute to see in a puppy, but it can reduce a human life into shambles, make nonsense of conscious evolution and bring ruin to a company. Think Enron.

How do I know all this?

A few years ago I decided to drop my obsessive list-making.

I wanted to see what happened...

Nothing. Life carried on much the same. I messed up just about the same. BodyChance kept growing. The complaints against me didn't get disportionately bigger.

It wasn't a breakthrough, but nor was it a breakdown.

Huh?

I marvelled at the ease of it all. I stopped taking notebooks to meetings. I just took me: my mind, my awareness, my instinct, my intuition. I listened, I reacted, I decided and I forgot.

Or did I?

I don't think I forgot.

I have been reading Richard Koch's (no relation) 80/20 Principle to decide if I will spend $10,000+ flying to Chicago in September to be part of his 3 day seminar on the Star Principle.

The Star Principle is a biz concept Richard built atop of the 80/20 Principle, and it helped him amass a fortune of $250 million. You don't often find guys like this giving seminars - good to listen. Not cheap.

Two lines jumped out at me, one funny, one serious. First the funny one: