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- Still Out Of Control What'cha gonna do for me? What’cha gonna do for me? Always gotta love that Chaka Khan, Baby, I'm saying, Hey, what's going on? I am The Wanz welcome, welcome, welcome to another episode of WANZOLOG!!! And man, I'm telling you, I am trying to understand a life out of control. What do I mean by out of control? I'm sure that you know what out of control feels like. Your life has been out of control before, hasn't it? You've done crazy things that you really had no control over yourself while you were doing them, or maybe you were caught up in circumstances that just progressed and no matter what you did, they just kept going, spreading like a virus. Maybe, maybe you anticipated a situation that was going to be out of control and no matter what you did to stop it, it still manifested itself and you had to deal with the out of control life. This week, the topic is out of control. We humans, we let our life get out of control often. It's not a matter of developing some kind of technique or some kind of fancy ninja mind trick, it's just that life becomes overwhelming because it's complicated. Circumstances being what they are at any given moment make our lives complicated. That's the fun part about being human. Here's the fun fact that you may or may not realize. You don't actually control your life. You react to whatever circumstance your life presents you. Think about that for a second. You don't control your life, you react to whatever circumstance life presents you. Humans are reactive creatures. We're reacting to the world around us all the time. Don't think so. So when's the last time you actually controlled the weather? Yeah. Yeah, the weather. How about gravity? When's the last time you defied gravity of your own, choosing the way that you wanted to for as long as you wanted to, without any mechanical assistance. You've read somebody's mind, you say, how many times have you been right? How many times have they confirmed that you knew exactly what they were thinking? This is what I'm saying. Life is life’n while life happens all the time. Every week, it seems like I have a new challenge like everybody else and this week, the challenge is my main studio computer is still on the fritz. I don't know (for once) what's wrong with it? Every suggestion I've tried, failed. Every new direction I have tried has failed. So I had to come up with another solution, and this time it'll be very interesting to see what happens. First, or some reason, the computer would not turn on at all. I jiggered with some wires and checked some connections and got it to turn on, but then it turned off. Just turned off. I think I've told you this before. Long story short, first I suspected a power supply put in a new power supply, same result. So then I thought, oh, well the power goes to what? The motherboard, so it's gotta be a motherboard. I bought a new motherboard and because my last machine is so old, it can't be updated to Windows 11, so I had to put in a new chip to accommodate the new operating system from the wonderful empire of Microsoft. I got that all put in with the new power supply, push the button. Nothing happened. So, if it's the power supply and that's brand new, if it's the motherboard and now it's brand new and I'm still coming up with the same result, it only took me two hours to figure out I have no idea what's going on. I have gone a different direction and I'm gonna get a box. A bare bone system that I can manipulate the way that I want it to be. It just comes to me as kind of like a blank slate. Now it's gonna be a couple days before it gets here, and I can hardly wait. I really don't know what I'm going to do if this doesn't work, given that it's a power issue, this box will come to me working, so I like my chances. Of course, it'll probably take me the better part of two or three days to put everything back together again, to get all the stuff that I've bought and not used, packed up and returned. This has been going on for over a week. Think I have control. No, I don't. I have no illusion of exhibiting any control over the mechanics of a computer. I did the things that I could think of based on research and experience. I made the best decisions that I could. Isn't that what you do? Don't you ascertain your circumstances and then based on your experience and your knowledge, you make the best decision possible at that moment? I hear that's what humans do, and it may feel like the circumstances are coming at you so quickly and they seem to be so serious that you have to hurry to come to a decision of what to do, but that's not really how it works. Remember, time is a construct made by humans. So, it may feel like, oh my God, I gotta hurry, I gotta hurry, I gotta hurry, but in actuality, you don't what comes to mind because I'm a child of television, the fuse is lit and it's only so long, and if you don't make a decision, the fuse will go into the explosive and it will explode and kill you. How long do you have? Well, how long is the fuse? Bits of important information right there. Time is always going to be what it is, and as humans, we get the power and the privilege to decide what we're gonna do about any given circumstance. So if it seems like you don't have time to make a decision, or you're overwhelmed, because so many circumstances have come all at once, ah, fear not for your brain is one of the most brilliant, brilliant machines ever conceived. You can handle a lot of things in quick succession. I mean, a computer is pretty fast when you think about all the things that it does in milliseconds, milliseconds, okay, millisecond. And the brain works faster, has more memory, can manage more than four or five things at a time. Your capabilities may be larger than your knowledge of your capabilities. Control is a test. It's a test of how you manage ‘your-self’. (two words), in a circumstance you don't control in order to regain control over the one thing you have control over and that is, you!! You may not be able to defy gravity, but you can sure move sideways up, down, lateral, diagonally, any, uh, any kind of geometric shape you wanna make, you can move That way your body is designed to work at every angle you can move. Doesn't have to be 90 degrees, it could be 28.6 degrees. You don't have to go in that direction, whichever direction you choose, you can go in the opposite direction or you can go slightly off kilter and go that direction. You don't have to tell someone they're wrong, even though you KNOW they're wrong, that doesn't mean you have to tell them that they're wrong. You've done it all your life. Circumstances being as they are at any given moment, you've made decisions that have moved you forward through this time/space continuum, this construct created by humans to help us manage what we do and when we do it. Really the only thing we as human beings have control over is everything inside of our skin. Not a hundred percent. I'd say about 65, maybe 70, 70% of the stuff inside of your skin, you control. You can make it happen. You can't make yourself another kidney. You can't make your heart stop beating so bloody fast when you're afraid. You can't not sweat, you can't not breathe. There are certain things that even in your body you cannot control, but temporarily given the circumstances, there's a lot that you can control that happens inside of your body. So what are you gonna do? Are you gonna be a slave to what they call the Vagus Nerve, which is one of the most primitive systems in a human body? It only knows how to do one thing, detect danger. Its definition of danger is not like what you think danger is. To the Vagus Nerve, everything is dangerous and that's partly why people overreact to things or are scared of spiders or scared of the dark. The Vagus Nerve is just trying to protect its home, namely you. You can control your fears, and no matter how afraid you are, you can scoop up that spider and throw it outside or turn on a light so it's not so dark. You can stand very, very close to the glass at the zoo with the tiger on the other side. There are lots of things that you can do, regardless of the circumstances that you're in because you have control over the mechanism known as your body. Sometimes you don't think about the things that you're ‘going’ to do or the things that you ‘want’ to do, or the things that you ‘have’ to do. Sometimes things go by so quickly you don't really have a chance to figure out which one is which. It takes practice. It takes practice to be so self-aware that you don't make a decision without knowing why you're making the decision. It takes practice. But I'll give you this exercise what are you gonna have for lunch? No, really? What are you gonna have for lunch? If you know, you're three quarters of the way there. If you don't know, what'd you have yesterday? Oh, you didn't have lunch? Well, if you were gonna have lunch, what would it be? You get to manifest what that is based on your experience. You've had lunch before, so there are many things to choose from. How are you gonna make that decision? How are you gonna prepare to make that outcome happen? When it becomes time for the circumstance of lunch? Think about it. Remember, control isn't what you think it is, and when things are out of control, the best thing you can do is nothing but observe so that you know what's going on so that you don't guess or presume or react rather than respond. 'cause the only difference between a reaction and a response is time. So take your time. I'm not saying take like 30 seconds or a minute and a half or five days, I'm just saying take your time so your brain can figure it out. You're good at it. You're good at figuring things out. You're listening to this podcast. I think that's a STELLAR decision. Control and being out of control. If you spend most of your time out of control, nothing I have said even phases you. You're probably laughing your head off right now because it's like, “Doesn't everybody think like I do?”, no, they don't. Out of control simply means overwhelmed by circumstances at the given time and it feels like you don't have any control, which is exactly when you do, remember that. Only you can control you. Doesn't matter what anybody else thinks, doesn't matter what anybody else says, does, or whatever, it's all on you. Go forth and take control so you won't be out of control. Oh, go forth and have a good day, night, evening, morning, whatever. That's all for this week. I really, really appreciate you being around!!! Later!!