ONE PERSON’S OBSESSION is another person’s yawn. Only a fool bothers with a cut-glass, when he or she has got the immortal diamond. Be prepared to face and accept the full consequences of your error of judgement. In this way, you will be on a perpetual process of learning and improving yourself.

SEVEN therapeautic tonics to loftily LOCATE your LIFE’s BASIC BEARING:

1. BAD advice is: “Trust your feelings!” Feelings are nothing final or original; behind feelings there stand judgments and evaluations, which we inherit in the form of inclinations and aversions.
2. ESSENTIALLY, the inspiration that is born of a feeling, is the grandchild of a judgment — and often of a false or a highly biased judgment! — and in any event not a child of your own!
3. ACCEPTING to trust one’s feelings — means to give more obedience to one’s grandparents and their grandparents, than to the angels which are in us: our reason and our experience.
4. RATIONALITY – its path is not painful or ascetic - brings powers that are immensely satisfying and pleasurable, much deeper than the more manic pleasures the world tends to offer us.
5. IN your own LIFE, you have felt this when absorbed in a project, time flowing by, and experiencing occasional bursts of excitement, as you make discoveries or progress in your work.
6. NURTURED well, there are many pleasures. Taming the biases leads to an overall calmness and clarity. In this state of mind, you are less consumed by petty conflicts and considerations.
7. GETTING more effective are your action, leading to less turmoil, immense satisfaction of mastering yourself in a deep way, more mental space to be creative, more in control.

An Error in logic, is simply a thinking error (cognitive distortion). By identifying this thinking error, and testing it as a hypothesis rather than as a fact, you can investigate and challenge this negative thought, to see if it is indeed logical. Alternative ways of thinking can be substituted, for the original negative automatic thoughts, which are more balanced, and reflect your experience more accurately.

Here is BEYONDISM FORMIDABLE FORMULA for SELF-ACTUALIZATION
(The ‘head’ and ‘tail’ of Activating your SELFHOOD) in regard to:
Making logical conclusion after a thorough investigation of existing data.

1. FAILURE to keep pace with ideas, arises from hearing a different drummer; step to the music you hear.
   Core Choice #9: Dance to the music of your soul, however measured or far away.
   Sure Score #9: Discriminate the drumbeats which build you, and which derails you.
2. ORIENT yourself to never use the word ‘TRUE.’ There are only preferable or unpreferable opinions.
   Solid Stance #9: One cannot say: ‘Ah, if it is just a matter of preference to hell with it.’
   Catalysing Consideration #9: One can then die for an opinion, which is only preferable.
3. REASON says: What we call the beginning is often the end, and to make an end is to make a beginning.
   Mighty Mission #9: The end is where we start from.
   Vivid Vision #9: The end must justify the means.
4. MOST sweet hymn: Nunc dimittis servum tuum (Lord, now you are dismissing your servant in peace).
   Gaining Ground #9: The passage (Luke 2:29-32) describes Simeon being presented with the baby Jesus.
   Capturing Clouds #9: Recite after obtaining worthy ends and expectations; it opens the gate to fortune.
5. USUAL logic good enough for a primitive means of communication, needs no apology from speaker.
   Lofty Leap #9: A bad beginning in logical reasoning essentially leads to a bad ending in logical conclusion.
   Merry Momentum #9: Logic, like medicine, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
6. LIFE which is functionally enriching is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from sufficient premises.
   Holy Hearken #9: Sound reasoning draws a sound conclusion and makes us grant the conclusion.
   Divine Distinction #9: But bias does not make the conclusion certain, nor does it remove doubt.
7. ALL in all, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be: but as it is not, it cannot; petty logic.
   Prudent Planting #9: Your opinion in any issue matters a lot; their opinion on all things matters less.
   Hoped Harvest #9: There is occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things; ignore nothing.

#9. In as much as I desire to be a substantial DECISION-MAKER,
Which are the essential emotional and mental assets to invest on?

We use the terms ‘bad decision’ and ‘mistake’ as synonyms, but they are not.
Re-classifying a bad decision as a mistake, gives you the opportunity to go easy.
Dismissing the bad decisions as mistakes makes you irresponsible for your actions.
You are able to live with yourself free of guilt, and you do not accept the blame.
Inevitably, you are programming yourself to keep making the same bad decision.
You may have chosen to focus on the short-term benefits all your LIFE up to now.
But it is never too late to creatively transform, and start to capture the big picture.

#9. I, ___________________________, trampling my inability to make right decisions, do DECISIVELY DECLARE that, while I am supposed to learn from my mistakes, living with the outcome of a bad decision does not necessarily mean that I am immune to repeating it. Despite the fact that research from the University of British Columbia released in November 2013 found the smallest part of our brain is integral in the decision-making process – and the fact that we do seem to repeat some mistakes – it is possible to become a better decision-maker. With a little practice, some awareness, I can learn to make better choices.

In this reference, as a BLESSED BEYONDIST, I hereby, make an ABSOLUTE AFFIRMATION that, I often do not learn from previous mistakes because it is emotionally difficult to face up to them in the first place. But if I have areas in my LIFE where I find a spate of mistakes or problems, I may need to shine some light on the issues and revamp how I am approaching my decision-making there. Just being aware of the environment and my feelings is enough to offset them and get me into a more objective state of mind. The distraction deluge to which I am subjected every day can undermine good decision-making. Just because I did not get the outcome I wanted does not necessarily mean the decision was bad. There are many times when the best choice has some possibility of failure. The key is to learn from it and apply that lesson on the decision I will make next time.