First bus by on a Sunday morning. Hopped on and Dawn said you’re up bright and early today. And I said I was trying to figure out how to say something I want to say and a bus ride seems to always help. On the short ride around, I hopped off at a convenient spot. The ride and walk helped bring this together in my mind.
One day as I took the bus on one of my frequent trips downtown to the library I saw a bus driver checking out a book. I figured she was on her lunch break. So you like the library too I said. A favorite place for her, could stay here all day she said. I thanked her for using the public library as she hurried off.
In one part of my life I was involved in the Missouri Educational Communications Association. I have always been an advocate for the public library system. And now an advocate for advancing public transportation in a community. Plus I am all for cultivating the entrepreneur skill in America, and doing all things according to God’s Principles from the Bible. Blend these, and we have a strong force.
One day on Line 2 which goes close by the community college, a girl got on and sat across from me. A friend asked her how college was going. She said she had just dropped out. Overhearing this, I wondered why. Every person is gifted in some way or another. She seemed a little despondent. Has anyone ever helped her find her unique gifts and talents? Does she know anything about entrepreneur skills where a person can make it, do something or survive in any economy? Still on my life to-do list is to teach entrepreneurial skills, so anyone can make it or advance with or without a job. That desire increased on this ride. With just a little guidance, education, opportunity, anyone can accomplish more of what they hope for.
Another area of life is learning flow. That’s why the ride this morning… to get into flow. Flow is a mental process where we come into a “flowing” stride, do things at our best. It starts with information gathering. Then when our brain is full, taking a break and doing something different. We allow the subconscious to organize all the tangents. When we come back to the task a flow begins, we become like a faucet. It just pours out.
I don’t know if I am smart or not. But when doing my graduate studies, I learned this.
I was not rated as being real smart going into college. Then I learned flow. I became a top student. I realized everyone can do this. When I don’t apply it I seem to function as not being very smart. When I feel a struggle, I know how to get back into flow. A bus ride stimulates a return to flow for me.
The girl on the bus, who dropped out of college, could learn flow and entrepreneur skills. The bus driver probably uses the trip to the library to get her mental wits together for the second part of her day. Knowing how to return to our best self, when we see we are waning, is something that can be learned and used regularly.
It reminds me of what John Maxwell advocates. Have a think spot. A place to sit, be quiet and just think. The Scriptures say be still and know that I am God (Psalm 46:10). We have help, psychologically, from our subconscious mind, using it for what it can do. And Spiritually, the Spirit of God who stands ready as well. I have learned to trust both.
Take a walk, ride the bus, get on your bike… it seems to work wonders.
The Rise of Superman is about flow, on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list. Here’s a summary along with my Spiritual additive.
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