* urgency

in the seven habits of highly effective people, steven covey describes the self-management matrix and notes (convincingly) that 'quadrant II' (the wellness quadrant) needs to be where we invest, Now.

absent planning & investment, "important but not urgent" will become "urgent." 

this isn't a belief ...so much as an Is. 

maybe wIe can enjoy the process of pursuing what we want, experiencing ourselves getting better at getting it.

* the self-management model (shown above) was modified to further describe covey's idea. the thing that makes it harder to invest in quadrant II is simple: it's not urgent. if we can urgent-i-fy wellness activities, life flows like a good dream.

b121 (12.7-1.2024): why, oh why ask why?

why, oh why ask why? [i]
by y. ask why

alternative title: the phoenix

why do hummers hum?
why do criers cry?
are we bonding?  some
why, oh, why ask why?
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1.     everything happens because of pressure (or some differential in pressure).
 
2.     surviving sentient entities (things that have a sense of self) survive… due to a strong survival instinct.  for lack of a better term, let’s call sentient entities ‘be-ings.’
 
3.     be-ings, in i-survive-all mode, need basics: like air, water, food, etc.
   o   sentient machine-intelligence might require a different set of basics.
 
4.     be-ings (from atoms to AGI), in i-survive-as-a-species mode… replicate.

 
 
 
5.     be-ings, in survival mode, strive to better their odds at 3 & 4, above.  i call this ‘thrival,’ but this process is just the evolution of survival.  thrival is explained below:
 
6.     beings bond-together (there’s safety in numbers), mark territory (to secure basic resources and reproductive resources), and experience hierarchies (pecking-orders determine who gets more or less of that which promotes survival).
 
7.     surviving species also tend toward ego (a sense of separate self*). ego-ic groups seek access to resources, engage in nonstop reproduction, and utilize memory/cognition to take intelligent actions that perpetuate the survival-thrival/replication process (evolution).
 
8.     unless impeded (or kept-in-check) by an outside entity (e.g. a predator, dis-ease, disaster, overpopulation, etc.) the surviving entity/species becomes cancerous -- event-u-all-y committing murder-suicide by destroying itself via destroying its host.
 
9.     the host (if/be-ing energy that is neither created nor destroyed), upon death, would trans-form (dedupe) into part-i-cles that allow for the evolution of other entities, thereby perpetuating the evolution/devolution/survival-thrival/death/re-cycle.    
 
-the beginning            
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[i] martino, j. (12.7-1.2024). why, oh why ask why? book 121: opportunity (on deck). © 2024 by j. martino.

*the sense of separate self (ego) can be attributed to an individual (be-ing) and to a species/group (e.g. humans; the yankees).  

-the species/group, in turn, develops cult-like processes (culture) that perpetuate the survival/thrival of the species/group.