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I am my locus of control

I was asked where my locus of control is, by an Afrikaans person, who said 'lotus van kontrole' by accident. 'Lotus', that's cute...


In me...

I take inspiration from people, 'God', Zen, whatever inspires me. But I direct the energy. I am not always perfectly in control of how I direct it, but I can see my efforts.

The 'whatever' part I take very seriously. I don't confine myself to anything, but everything I draw inspiration from, while important in itself - it has it's own value - it's arbitrary.

So, for example, I have two horoscopes that I read daily - one is the glass half empty and the one is the glass half full. I read the full one second and allow it to be a directive for my day - so if it says that I will have good advice for young children - I make a date to see young children.

And then I make sure that my sieve brain gets no help - I don't reread the horoscope, I forget what I feel like and remember what I want to.

I will even say, If that red car passes me, then I must stay in this lane all the way to Joburg.

Arbitrary, but arbitrariness chosen and directed by me.

This intuitive approach has been consciously working for me - don't you love how I can get two mutually exclusive terms into one sentence and make it look natural?

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