When I still had a paid job, a colleague said to me when I encountered resistance in my work: “You are
suffering from the law of the handicap of a head start.”
I set things in motion that others did not yet see. And the moment it came into their view, they did not
want to join my work, but wanted to shape it in their own way according to their own ideas.
At the time I was not aware of the existence of life plans, but apparently I was 'looking' far too far into the future to see which potential possibility I could best bring into existence.
In addition, I took the unity and coherence of life into account thus creating the best possibilities for
everyone.
That clashed with how my colleagues worked. They applied the 80/20 rule. Focus all your attention on the
customers with whom you earn 80% of your revenue and standardize the services provided to those customers.
And because I applied the 100/100 rule, I committed myself to the customers who were 'left out'.
That went okay in the beginning. It just took effort to get the right attention for these customers.
As standardization increased, it became increasingly difficult to manifest the right options for these customers.
And it became completely impossible when the work was organized in such a way that customization could no longer
be delivered.
When it became completely impossible for me to do my work, I left the company. I started investigating
according to what principles I function exactly and started describing this, so that others could also gain insight
into this way of going through life. We would then gradually grow towards a world in which everyone could live
their best possible life, attuned to others and life as a whole.
I started working consciously with the life plans.
For a long time I still looked too far into the future. I started preparing so that I would be ready when the opportunity arose and I could help others create their best possible lives in the best possible way. Because of the dynamics in the life plans, those possibilities disappeared as time passed when the people who could shape those possibilities with me had made a different choice along the way. That was no big deal. I am now prepared for any opportunity.
At one point I took on the care of my mother-in-law and later also that of my own mother. I was going to arrange
'the best possible appropriate care' for them, taking the possibilities into account of those who could provide
that care.
Here my idea that it is possible to shape the best possible life for everyone, even in old age,
clashed with the generally accepted idea that life only deteriorates after a certain age and therefore you only
have to pamper old people. When caring for my mother-in-law, it took a lot of persuasion to get the right people
to make the right choices to provide the right care.
When caring for my mother, I initiated some things by first doing them myself, with the idea that care workers
could take over. However, this also took a lot of effort, which meant that I had to focus intensively on
providing the right care to my mother for much longer than I had anticipated.
Fortunately, my work paid off, allowing my mother to spend her last years in reasonable health, without
unnecessary medication, and quite content in her own home.
But that has cost me a lot. Apparently I have pushed myself beyond my own limits and my body let me know that. It took me years to recover. And the physical problems only increased in the beginning.
During that time, chaos arose in my own living environment, such as the garden. I was not able to create order in this chaos because my body did not cooperate. Things are now going a lot better and I can tackle things every now and then.
My body has taught me to take life one step at a time. To work with what there is now, visible to everyone. Not looking so far into the future anymore. As a result, I no longer come into conflict with people who look at life differently and my body no longer gets stressed.
I started to consult the options in my life plan in a different way. I now (mainly) look at the possibilities
in the plan that are already visible, list them and take action on them. To me that feels like harvesting
'low hanging fruit'.
And that works fine for me!
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