My Story
I’m telling my story, like Steve Jobs did at Stanford, to just be the chnage as per Gandhi, letting the reader chose what, if anything, to do with it, not pressuring anyone to do things my way, or to just follow me instead of continuing to learn by experience. I could always be wrong and need to learn from others’ experience. You can’t beat learning by experience, especially when it comes to being mindful to respect everyone and nature's self-organizing process.
Of course I would intervene in threatening situations by going with the flow and trusting my inner wisdom to be respectful and effective. That’s also being the change by trusting the self-organizing flow.
I can go on and on about how well it works for me to see every challenge as a valuable learning opportunity, sometimes requiring considerable patience and perseverance, aimed at deep and comprehensive understanding of any troubling issue without panicking. When I have done every mindful thing I can manage to resolve a problem the magic move is to LET GO and trust in a superior outcome. It works every time, sooner or later, sometimes even years later. Most happily creative people often follow this process even if they don’t realize it for years, like me.
Starting from simple tests that confirmed the process gave me confidence to take on even more challenging projects. It’s humble, patient life-long learning with the lessons getting harder until you feel the challenge is resolved.
On every healing outcome I drop a marble in my uplifted tally jar which uplifts me every time I walk by it. I’m running out of marbles, and seldom worry very long about anything any more, and instead experience boosted creative energy to move forward on the opportunity.
These are just a few things learned on my path. everyone has their own path. I can’t grok yours because I haven’t lived your life, but that’s wonderful because the creative power of a collaboration of diverse talents and paths attracted by a valued common vision can’t be beat. I have personally been involved with several such joyful creative projects which blossomed from small beginnings into enduring uplifting attractions.
Here are a few of my many life-changing personal common vision experiences:
I still have posters from The Village of Anything is Possible, a project ahead of its time in the 60’s. I was one of its 3 founders. Learned a lot.
I played in my high school orchestra and many Big Bands which all were doing what I loved in a common vision audiences loved. That's what music is about.
When I lived in Boulder I had a ball co-creating a two hour weekly TV show, Friday Night Live, on Boulder's community access television channel which allowed any Boulder citizen free air time and attracted terrific production crew, producers and talent. We had a big audience and even some famous guests. Still have VHS tapes of most of the shows
Apple Computer became the most popular company on earth from Steve Jobs vision of creating the best, most attractive products possible instead of the common narrow process of making as much profit as you can get away with by selling products with frequent paltry updates that obsolete old versions to sell new versions. The obsolescence of Apple versions is gradual with new versions clearly worth the money AND still viable for several generations of improvements.
Ted King, Jr. 10-11-24
