T R U T H

Today's workout entertainment was a Canadian movie about a guy who was shitty at sex and his girlfriend dumped him, causing him to find a stripper who agreed to school him in return for straightening out her finances. Right in the beginning, the guy gets some advice from his buddy about the location of the clitoris and he says "concentrate on the upper left quadrant." WTF? It reminds me of almost every charm school session (AKA business training classes) that invariably reduced the pertinent subject matter to fit in one of the 4 quadrants projected on the overhead. That got me to thinking that life would be given the same treatment by these consultants so here's this slacker's take on:



Let's start with my least favorite - Mistakes. If the slice of life you're analyzing falls into the Mistake catagory, learn by it then bury it. Revisiting old Mistakes is counterproductive. But perhaps it wasn't just a Mistake but rather something that made a difference in your life or someone else's (think positive difference if you are vascillating between Mistake or making a difference). These are called Differentials and just might be the single greatest indicator to quality of life. But then there's Surplus, meaning "is there solvency in your lifestyle profile?" If you are or have been in deficit you need to kick it up so that material shit, as in lack of stuff you are craving (or fixation on it) isn't bleeding the quality from your life. Surplus describes living within your means with a little extra for the rainy days. Of course that takes us to Orgasms which could easily have you thinking that belongs in any one or combination of the other 3 quadrants. But it stands as its own significant life indicator when those orgasms are shared with true love. Other orgasms, meh - but true love orgasms are life's crescendos, the pieces de resistance, the home runs, the gold medals, the valedictorian moments that now convince you that these particular 4 quadrants are not just my opinion but truly are the ones that truly matter in life.