Many Lives

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Here is something I have been thinking about lately.

How many lives do we live?

I am not asking this of myself or of you as a metaphysical question.  This is when you look back, throughout your life, how many of them have there been.

I live in Minnesota and I remember our infamous governor, Jesse Ventura, talking about the times he had “reinvented himself.”  Haven’t you done that?  Maybe more than once?

Here is my example –

1. Readin’ Ritin’ Rithmatic – growing up
2. Experiment Life – Sex, drugs and rock an roll
3. Seeking – Who am I?  What am I doing here?
4. Junkman — Life as a junk man, cars, trucks, anything that would move
5. Drugs, no Rock and Roll  – Also called the lost years
6. The Intellectual – Trying to fit
7. Daily Grind – Working to survive
8. Evil Empire Life – Working to make $$$$
9. Real Life — living, learning, writing, exploring, breaking the mold, coaching, today’s life, coming home to me

Each of these has been a different life for me, a different stage of using my brain, training my brain in different ways.  It has one journey of many different people, all of them being, or becoming, me, at least the me I am today.  Who knows what’s next.

Each of these lives includes a change in the workings of the brain.  Most of mine have come about by chance and circumstance, and many points of choice.  Always seeking, not knowing for what exactly, made much of the difference.  Had there been a brainbased coach out there then, one wonders what differences in those lives may have occurred.

Someone said that some of us get older and wiser, some just older.  I waver on which fits for me.

What lives have you lived?  Which one are you on now?

Mike