I've recently read that there's been a significant drop in the levels of empathy by young people. No big deal you might think in regards to achievement.

It only occurred to me this evening, while I was attempting to program this website, how much I've allowed myself to fall into bad habits.

Or should I say, fall back into bad habits ... habits only arise due to repeated behaviours, which stem from beliefs, which of course stem from the decisions we make on a moment by moment basis. There's some great sayings on this subject, along the lines of "from thoughts come habits, from habits come destiny" or some such.

In my previous post I had said I was going to setup another site devoted to 'productive-creativity' - creativity that is productive, useful, valuable. In broad terms, I was thinking that the new website should be a hub of ideas and processes related to productive-creativity, or 'innovation' in the context of business.

But as I was browsing through the wealth of information that can now be found via links through twitter, I'm wondering if I really want togo that way.

update - Saturday 17th, 6.20 am

I woke this morning with a deep sense of dread. Something was very wrong.

After some time the reason emerged, and basically echoes a famous saying, or variations of: "Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made." or, "To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making".

While I have enjoyed wonderful insights into the deep making of life, I sense people generally sleep better at night if they are unaware of how reality is 'made.' Too deep, too 'in your face' -- simply too awkward or shocking to deal with.

This sentiment was echoed by the founding fathers of quantum mechanics. As Niels Bohr reportedly quipped "Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it". Erwin Schrödinger wrote in 1935 "It is rather discomforting that the [quantum] theory should allow a system to be steered or piloted into one or the other type of state at the experimenter's mercy in spite of his having no access to it."1

More recently David Albert, Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University reflected that he finds the evidence of quantum mechanics, and the implications, 'very very very disturbing'.

So who am I to go around disturbing people to a very very very high degree? Besides, what's in it for moi?

I need to change tact. I'll use the process, and knowledge of how reality is made, to guide and teach, not in the actual mechanics of making, but in art of getting results. So previous content has been removed from public view, just like the making of sausages.

stay tuned.

1. 1. Prof. Amit Goswami, quoting Erwin Schrödinger's paper "The present situation in quantum mechanics" in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 124: 323-38

Some years ago during my avid-reading phase when I couldn't wait to get home from work to read more, or postponing going to work in order to read, I came across one quote which has stuck with me ever since.

"Spontaneity knows its own order."

It's a quote from one of Jane Roberts' Seth books, which I highly value as wise, profound sources of information into the deeper rhythms and systems of life.

But the idea that 'spontaneity knows its own order" is one that I've resisted. It's not easy to ignore the expectations of, and commitments to others - financial, social or otherwise - to simply follow one's intuitions.

And yet, early into my desire to 'let go' and see where life takes me, I'm getting a glimpse of the immense depth to the possibilities and experiences that might ensue.

I've come to realise that there's a mechanical component to creating success or visualising and achieving goals. And by mechanical, I mean artificial and forced.

For some time I've been wondering: What would it be like to simply 'let go' and see where life takes me? To trust that I'll end up where I'm most needed, without my having to 'push' (visualise) the future? To find that life, despite my fears, is inherently friendly, safe and supporting?

Blindspots in our awareness can have devastating effects upon our lives.

Blindspots can be bad for business, health and personal wellbeing.

• Business and Finance
  
  The recent Global Financial Crisis was a blindspot that caused havoc for millions. In business, blindspots are commonly known as inefficiencies, poor employee morale, or unproductive investments that can end in bankruptcy.
   
• Wellbeing and relationships
  
  Research reveals that the majority of relationship breakups are initiated by women, and that men usually don't see them coming. Many men report being caught off-guard and left feeling bereft and suicidal. "In a study of 4000 suicides ... 70 per cent were caused by relationship breakups. Men were more likely to commit suicide than women by a factor of nine to one."1
   
• Health
  
  Cancers, and other illnesses are example of blindspots in our awareness that can lead to physical impairment and death.

By their very nature, blindspots are difficult to spot - hence the name. But as the world recently witnessed, their effects are highly visible and almost impossible to ignore. Blindspots can remain blind to us on approach, but prove devistating on arrival.

1. 1. Source: Richard Yallop, “Macho man pressure blamed for suicides,” The Weekend Australian, News Ltd., June 13-14, 1998, page 27 - citing research by Professor Pierre Baume, head of the Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention at Brisbane’s Griffith University.