La Chateau Tento. My home for nearly five years.
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Hello Dots
Welcome to my TriggerDot site and BLOG where I have provided a little information about my journey, or to be a little more specific, my COMEBACK journey from Miser-ee to Destin-ee to Happy-Me.
I want you to WATCH every STEP of my journey, I want you to see me in Miser-ee before I start.
And I want you to come with me so that our lives can be enriched with meaning and purpose.
But we can't do it on our own. We need help. The first of the four Noble Truths in Buddhism is that "Life means suffering". M Scott Peck's classic "The Road Less Travelled" (1978) begins with the words "Life is difficult". Weeell, I hear ya , maaaan. And I'm livin' it. Just like we all are at some stage.
Heartbreak, grief, loss, tragedy, hardship, devastation, depression, addiction. They're all BAD words. They all involve some degree of SUFFERING. But that suffering is all part of every God given dot life. But if we can call on some help, like Mister SomeOne Out-There, that suffering can be turned into much needed OPPORTUNITY. That's what has happened to me dot.
I want you to WATCH every STEP of my journey, I want you to see me in Miser-ee before I start.
And I want you to come with me so that our lives can be enriched with meaning and purpose.
But we can't do it on our own. We need help. The first of the four Noble Truths in Buddhism is that "Life means suffering". M Scott Peck's classic "The Road Less Travelled" (1978) begins with the words "Life is difficult". Weeell, I hear ya , maaaan. And I'm livin' it. Just like we all are at some stage.
Heartbreak, grief, loss, tragedy, hardship, devastation, depression, addiction. They're all BAD words. They all involve some degree of SUFFERING. But that suffering is all part of every God given dot life. But if we can call on some help, like Mister SomeOne Out-There, that suffering can be turned into much needed OPPORTUNITY. That's what has happened to me dot.
"Nanos Gigantium Humeris Insidentes"
This site is also about Giants, more specifically "Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants". The saying goes that "we are all like dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did, not because our sight is superior or because we are taller than they are, but because they raise us up, and by their great stature, add to ours".
Simply this means using the understanding gained by major thinkers who have gone before us in order to make intellectual progress. Just like Bill Gates, the Google boys, Mark Zukerberg and Steve Jobs have prepared the way for OUR DotsHQ to get crankin'.
This site is also about CREATION and looking at where we are in our lives, and in most cases it's about starting life all over again. It's about not accepting the ordinary, mundane, boring existences many of us are leading. It's about dealing with loss, tragedy, hardship and devastation. It's about creating something EXTRAORDINARY. It's about giving our lives meaning and purpose. This site is about ME........and YOU. It's about weee DOTS because that's what we are. I am a DOT. You are a DOT and there are about 7 billion of us. Lots of dots. All born the same and to die the same with only ONE LIFE in between. 'From dust we are created and to dust we shall return'....or something like that!
This site is about discovery of ourselves before it's too late. It's about not accepting mediocrity. It's about finding your MISTER SOMEONE OUT-THERE and WORKING BACKWARDS to where we are now.
It's about DREAMS and VISIONS and it's about "GROKING IT!"
It's about NEEDS and NEEDSEARCH. It's about seeing me take every STEP of the way on my journey from Miser-ee to my Destin-ee and then eventually to Happy-Me. It's about ME starting life all over again. It's about you SEEING me do it and comeback from the pits to realising a HUUUUUGE DREAM before it has happened. It's about understanding your existence, it's meaning and purpose. And it's about turning an ordinary existence into a life with substance and it's about the suffering we must all endure during our one and only life. By watching me WORKING BACKWARDS from my dream of creating DotsHQ to my current existence of living in the bush and sleeping in a tent with NOTHING, you will be able to understand that, if I can do it, which I HAVE, then YOU CAN DO IT!
VALUE what is left of your life. "Memento Mori!"......Remember you will die!" We don't know how much of it, LIFE that is, we have left. In my book I break life down into seconds, and heartbeats, and breaths to try and highlight the significance of each moment we live. Make a difference.....or at least WATCH ME make a difference. Learn from my experience as I STEP into my JOURNEY. I'll take the steps......you take my hand......
This site is about CONNECTING THE DOTS, the whole 7 billion of us, and helping each other. It's about sharing our life experiences to improve our quality of life. When I crashed and burned I didn't have anyone like me to show me how to get out of Miser-ee. NOW YOU DO. The whole shebang is like a spine tingling thriller that you can't put down. It's raw rivetting REAL LIVE storytelling.....backwards!
Simply this means using the understanding gained by major thinkers who have gone before us in order to make intellectual progress. Just like Bill Gates, the Google boys, Mark Zukerberg and Steve Jobs have prepared the way for OUR DotsHQ to get crankin'.
This site is also about CREATION and looking at where we are in our lives, and in most cases it's about starting life all over again. It's about not accepting the ordinary, mundane, boring existences many of us are leading. It's about dealing with loss, tragedy, hardship and devastation. It's about creating something EXTRAORDINARY. It's about giving our lives meaning and purpose. This site is about ME........and YOU. It's about weee DOTS because that's what we are. I am a DOT. You are a DOT and there are about 7 billion of us. Lots of dots. All born the same and to die the same with only ONE LIFE in between. 'From dust we are created and to dust we shall return'....or something like that!
This site is about discovery of ourselves before it's too late. It's about not accepting mediocrity. It's about finding your MISTER SOMEONE OUT-THERE and WORKING BACKWARDS to where we are now.
It's about DREAMS and VISIONS and it's about "GROKING IT!"
It's about NEEDS and NEEDSEARCH. It's about seeing me take every STEP of the way on my journey from Miser-ee to my Destin-ee and then eventually to Happy-Me. It's about ME starting life all over again. It's about you SEEING me do it and comeback from the pits to realising a HUUUUUGE DREAM before it has happened. It's about understanding your existence, it's meaning and purpose. And it's about turning an ordinary existence into a life with substance and it's about the suffering we must all endure during our one and only life. By watching me WORKING BACKWARDS from my dream of creating DotsHQ to my current existence of living in the bush and sleeping in a tent with NOTHING, you will be able to understand that, if I can do it, which I HAVE, then YOU CAN DO IT!
VALUE what is left of your life. "Memento Mori!"......Remember you will die!" We don't know how much of it, LIFE that is, we have left. In my book I break life down into seconds, and heartbeats, and breaths to try and highlight the significance of each moment we live. Make a difference.....or at least WATCH ME make a difference. Learn from my experience as I STEP into my JOURNEY. I'll take the steps......you take my hand......
This site is about CONNECTING THE DOTS, the whole 7 billion of us, and helping each other. It's about sharing our life experiences to improve our quality of life. When I crashed and burned I didn't have anyone like me to show me how to get out of Miser-ee. NOW YOU DO. The whole shebang is like a spine tingling thriller that you can't put down. It's raw rivetting REAL LIVE storytelling.....backwards!
Tragedy can be the OPPORTUNITY to unleash the CREATIVITY
Devastation can be the designation to begin the INNOVATION
This site will give you access to the TriggerDot BLOG where you can share with me my innermost thoughts and feelings as I travel along my journey from Miser-ee To Destin-ee To Happy-Me. I NEED you, as a fellow dot, to relate to what I am doing so that you can draw on my experiences which will give you the confidence you need to begin a journey of your own. DON'T be reactive like me and wait for the "crash and burn" or until something bad happens to make you think about life.
It's time to.........
CONNECT THE DOTS........
As one single l'il 'ole dot amongst 7 billion dots on this planet it is important to understand what we are doing here. See, a solitary dot cuts a lonely reclusive figure, just like me at the moment. But with one more dot then I will have the abilty to connect. Simply by connecting two dots we have created something. A line. Now connect a few more dots. With a bit of clever manipulation we can create a PICTURE. And as the song goes "EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY, DON'T IT". Every dot has a story, an EXPERIENCE to SHARE. By using all of our cumulative stories we can help each other. We can give.
By connecting the dots we begin to shape or form a meaning. The more dots we connect, the bigger the picture. It is cumulative, like a snowball gathering size as it rolls down a steep mountain. It becomes more complex, more colourful, more meaningful, more powerful. This is what this site is primarily about......CONNECTING THE DOTS and the BIG PICTURE!
By connecting the dots we can share our experiences and help each other out using the many wonderful 'GIFTS' provided us through technological advancement over the last decade and before. Our latest Social media craze is Facebook, which has grown to have one in every three internet users sign up for it. It has also helped a lot of people become computer "savvy" and be educated on navigating their way around their computer world. For that we should all be forever grateful to Mark Zuckerberg. For he has provided the biggest training program ever. Facebook has trained us all on how to communicate....big time.....and it's been great fun in the process. But now I get a little lift from this giant of technology and by standing on his shoulders I can see more and I can see further. Now it's time for the dots to connect in their own home, DotsHQ which will be OUR dot HeadQuarters for helping each other, for helping make the world a better place. With new applications that will provide help to us all when we need it, DotsHQ will help us all out financially, emotionally, socially and spiritually. Stay tuned........
Oh, and just one more thing, if you have joined us after the launch of this site, April 2012, and you need some help and guidance, go back into the BLOG archives and catch up with where I am on my journey. Should be some sort of a journey dotty and will hopefully give you the inspiration to get out and start your life all over again, if you need to. Bye bye Miser-ee, I'm off to Destin-ee and my new Happy-Me.
C'mon dot, let's go.......
By connecting the dots we begin to shape or form a meaning. The more dots we connect, the bigger the picture. It is cumulative, like a snowball gathering size as it rolls down a steep mountain. It becomes more complex, more colourful, more meaningful, more powerful. This is what this site is primarily about......CONNECTING THE DOTS and the BIG PICTURE!
By connecting the dots we can share our experiences and help each other out using the many wonderful 'GIFTS' provided us through technological advancement over the last decade and before. Our latest Social media craze is Facebook, which has grown to have one in every three internet users sign up for it. It has also helped a lot of people become computer "savvy" and be educated on navigating their way around their computer world. For that we should all be forever grateful to Mark Zuckerberg. For he has provided the biggest training program ever. Facebook has trained us all on how to communicate....big time.....and it's been great fun in the process. But now I get a little lift from this giant of technology and by standing on his shoulders I can see more and I can see further. Now it's time for the dots to connect in their own home, DotsHQ which will be OUR dot HeadQuarters for helping each other, for helping make the world a better place. With new applications that will provide help to us all when we need it, DotsHQ will help us all out financially, emotionally, socially and spiritually. Stay tuned........
Oh, and just one more thing, if you have joined us after the launch of this site, April 2012, and you need some help and guidance, go back into the BLOG archives and catch up with where I am on my journey. Should be some sort of a journey dotty and will hopefully give you the inspiration to get out and start your life all over again, if you need to. Bye bye Miser-ee, I'm off to Destin-ee and my new Happy-Me.
C'mon dot, let's go.......
