Latest / Dits & Dahs / even unbroken things sometimes need fixing
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- Sue: If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Okay. So when it breaks, what's your next decision? Try and fix it? Or explore alternative ways to accomplishing the same task. I think for myself, I will valiantly try to fix something before finding an alternate. We live in a world now, in my view, that with the rise of AI and types of agentic AI where you can create a bot that will do a particular task as frequently as you want it done and share the data with you about that, then you now have ways to view multiple answers in a quick fashion to fixing your problem. It doesn't fix your mindset though. And this is what I'm on about with this mundane post. First of all, if you're listening to this and have an a peek at the video I shoot, well thank you for that. I maintain a personal diary via this YouTube channel, and I am an improvising musician and a widow, sixty-four years old living in southeastern New York State, about forty-five miles north and west of New York City as the crow flies. And I've decided to talk about this mindset of as you approach things in life that break down, you've got to decide, well, replace it or fix it. Yes, there are gonna be other options that come about as the result of those two choices. But because we live in a world where we have a lot of digital tools that we use every day online and our connectivity with our even our smartphones and such, approaching a software problem or something that is most likely in that realm is gonna require a different mindset in my view. If you take that mindset, because I believe that your mind, body, and spirit realms all must be aligned, so if you're taking the intellectual the mind part of the realm and say, Yes, I must do it this way, and implement it as a task in your real world, your body realm, then it leaves the spirit realm to be aligned. And whatever you decide there, which really should be in alignment with the other two realms, is because it is the best for you. And you might have to recognize that the choice you make in the spiritual world may feel unfamiliar, unsure, doubting, but yet understanding that Two out of three realms are in alignment, the third one must follow. You gotta step into that space. That's my personal view because what I've learned is that having some experiences like the loss of a husband and dog within a few days of one another and being destitute have given me rise to think a lot about what really gives value to my life and how do I add value. Because if you don't have any money, you gotta create your own fun. Thankfully I'm an improvising musician, so there's no ⁓ shortage of fun that I create for myself. So we get to back to this place of understanding now that these s subtle shifts in your mindset, which now has to include your spiritual realm, doesn't make your soul feel good. At the heart of us all, we we have the beliefs of two contrasting elements that must come together to create balance, because that's where the calm and peace is in our life. That there are also unseen forces that when they aren't in alignment create stress in our intellectual and physical realms. And then give those added stresses to the spiritual realm, which is the source of it. Amplifies it, right? That's how I view things. So I'm I'm very keen to figure out what the spiritual mindset is when you do recognize that you have the power within spiritually. Confirmation with the blue jay. To fix yourself. And releasing that closed mindset of, well, it's always gotta be this way, so I've gotta make sure it's repaired, goes away, thankfully. In those well-rooted traditional values or beliefs that you have, that you just do them because you know it for you is the right thing, even those sometimes have to change in your life. Confirmation with a woodpecker. So getting back to the If it ain't broke, don't fix it, adage. At what point do you let go of trying to fix something before accepting the alternative route? That's what we're talking about. Confirmation with a woodpit. And what I've learned is that life goes by pretty quickly, and I view everything as a first moment, and I try to live my life as fully as I'm able, as if it might be my last day. And I'll admit That may sound over the top, but I know confirmation with a woodpecker that I have experienced things in life that might have killed other people at one point. And I'm not waxing sentimental here. I'm just making the statement that, you know, we really don't know in our physical realm what time we have. It is something to make certain that the mindset that I have about fixing things when they're broke is balanced with the reality and the thinking I have. As a very stubborn person, I've learned that hanging on too tight to something that might have worked for many, many decades. That's the thing about it. It's always worked. Now it doesn't. The fact that I'm living to experience that means that I need to pay attention. And by paying attention understand that opening my mind and not being so stubborn means that I have to take a leap of faith that goes deep within. Because now you have to say, Well, the self doubting and fear have never worked in a good way for me to find answers to fixing problems. And yet I can't see everything around me to know where I'm going. And yet I have to go and explore. Confirmation with a woodpecker squawk. And then it becomes an issue of what tools do you have? What gifts do you have? How will they help guide you? As ever, coming to this place of abandoning the stubborn view of making it work, no matter what resources you spend on it. Or in this case, time, instead of just plunking down X amount of dollars to get a new and improved way of doing things has to be gone. Because you don't spend money vicariously anyway. No point wasting your time and your life doubting and fearing things. When you're aware you understand a little more quickly what your sensible options are because when you run it through all three of your realms, one at a time, you begin to see that there is this pattern. Fear, anxiety, doubt have no place. in this three realms ever. Clinging on to the well we've always done it this way no longer has a resonant aspect to it. And when I'm on the observing side of seeing a stubborn approach to fixing something, it's just simply to be compassionate enough in recognizing that these things think take time and we all have to come to them on our own pathway. So how I did it is certainly not relevant for anybody else. When I encountered a situation of fixing something, I place a value on my assigning an hourly rate on my time. And with that gave myself a period of time to find a fix. And if the clock ticked and that wasn't solved, it was on to finding an outside solution. As I've gotten older, I also recognize that my hourly rate, as low as it might be compared to many professions, is highly valuable to me, nonetheless. So I'm less likely to invest much more than an hour Given that I understand better now, being older, what the likely next step is going to be. And then it's just a matter of deciding, well, I guess I'm plunking my money down for X, Y, and Z in order to fix this situation. That's a very heavy duty intellectual mindset to unlearn. As a creative person, that's my s value is to go through and create the solution. Then my time does become worth it. Open ended, but is going to be tempered by being able to feed myself in the meantime. All of these things from the simple statement, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. The only thing that might be broke is the outdated mindset that's based on tradition's confirmation with a beep. Have faith in yourself. You control you. Thanks for listening.