Website design By BotEap.comEvery day that you (anyone, for that matter) actually do something is truly an accomplishment. With that award, I begin this article. Reality is not one thing or the other, it comes down to who we are and what we genuinely do.

Website design By BotEap.comThis is a genuine how-to article, so I won’t mince words.

Website design By BotEap.comSome people are like a caricature of Reuben Garrett Lucius “Rube” Goldberg when it comes to genuinely doing things with a thousand steps to avoid the actual work and end up doing more work than if they hadn’t avoided it. They are poor, pitiful players of real life in the game of life.

Website design By BotEap.comSome other people are direct and work well, work efficiently, and are very direct in their approach. Those are the good players in the game of life that are worth saving and cherishing, their brilliance gets things done, not just in the sense of reputation, but in genuine action that makes sense of it.

Website design By BotEap.comSome other people become great. What do I mean by being cool? The great is above the good, just as the good is above the poor and the regretful. I put great in this category, because realistic greatness is a powerfully earned condition in which that rare mastery is truly achieved. Sure, the good is the good and the poor is the poor, but that is common. When I say great, I mean Steph Curry and Michael Jordan type basketball dominance, not just Dennis Rodman and Ron Artest/Metta World Peace good at playing slapstick, just doing the work to end this paragraph with a logically usable metaphor.

Website design By BotEap.comWhen the everyday reality of getting things done is great, things are genuinely taken to the “next level of reality” and not just the average good or common poor. Sure, all conditions are part and parcel of “doing it,” but only the big, the rare big ones really move things forward in life. The good guys can just do it, do it fluently, and go home satisfied with what they did.

Website design By BotEap.comHowever, great people take it to the next level, another level and advance unlike the other levels of effort. He thinks deeply about this fact. I mean, greatness is desired, but for so many, the effort seems to be too much. Although it actually takes more effort to be a bad player in life, there is something that shorts and falls short there and can’t even be fixed. After all, a good job is done when the ability and the desire are really there to do it. A great job is done when you need and deeply desire (in that order) to overcome the bad or the good. We all have a choice, we all have a desire, and we all have a reality to live in and whatever the poor, good or great reality is, all conditions are part of everything.

Website design By BotEap.comSo here is my solemn advice to become good or great or good then great. Five words: Be aware. Control yourself genuinely.

Website design By BotEap.comLast night I was reading a self help book by Uell Stanley Andersen called “Success-Cybernetics”, as of this writing I am back on the third chapter of that fifteen chapter book. The entire book is about self-direction, self-control, and understanding the big basic why behind self-direction and self-control with some funny anecdotes in between. Sure, in some ways this book is more direct than the other things I’ve read from him like “Three Magic Words,” “The Secret of the Pyramids” and all that and a bit blunt for when it was written at times, but the message is clear: be aware. Control yourself genuinely. He and I use those five words in the same way and that’s what the good and the great have in common, it’s those five words.