STUDY CYCLE PART SEVEN / WISDOM

So, you are now comfortable in your expanded role and all goes well. Yet that feeling is back again, you need to progress.

Before I go on, let’s revisit Bill the mechanic. He is now the senior mechanic and more years have passed and he is getting itchy feet again. He has a nice workable system and everything running smoothly but feels its time to progress further.

Now, nothing really is a great problem in his mechanics world, certain ups and downs, the usual problems, BUT……

Whenever he gets a problem or is stuck he calls Fred the manager who always has a way to handle things. Always calm, hmmm. Bill has manuals and phone numbers for associates if he comes across odd problems but Fred doesn’t. Some how he don’t need them. Is it just because of his greater experience?

For the next few weeks Bill is contemplating things. He has been offered a few management jobs in other establishments but something is stopping him. Something somehow is not making sense to him. He knows many managers of garages by now by somehow none of them match up to his manager. Hmmm, what is that about?

Bill recalls all the different things and situations that happened to past managers of other garages and wonders why they never happened to Fred. How the hell does he stay so calm all the time and contented? What is his secret? Bill thinks “If I want to be a manager I want to be like him.” So Bill decides to have a private chat with him and get some advice and maybe answer some of those questions buzzing about in his head.

Bill decides to go straight in. Bill asks “Fred, I have been observing things and thinking of becoming a manager myself. But, I notice so many managers don’t last too long and so that got me noticing you have been here many years and don’t seem to get their problems. What is your secret?”

Fred laughs and replies “Very good question, you surprise me, you must be ready for your next lesson! The truth of the matter is that the difference between me and them is that they are managers in name only but not in truth.” Woahhhhh! Mind blown! Yet somehow it rings a bell to Bill.

So the next question arises: “So what is your secret?”

“Internal Expansion” says Fred. “Does the sun fight the moon? Does the moon fight the earth? Does the earth fight the trees or the trees fight the rivers or the rivers fight the ocean or the ocean fight the sky? Time to learn truths, takes great honesty, only then can you know. Then you will no longer even think the same in terms of facts but rather in terms of principles, natural laws both internal and external. Are you ready to step up to the true position? You will have a lot to learn and barriers to go through.

“Wow, no wonder you are always calm. You are like a master. Ha, ha, you have mastered it!” says Bill. “Oh? A master? No, no, no, I am not a master, master is the next level to where I am. Have you noticed the owner? He comes in often and is over eighty years old. He is a master.”

I think that little story should give you an idea of level seven.

Peace.