The Laws of Life and Creation

Below are laws of life and the universe. Each law is a fundamental driver of the activity and events in our lives and in our world. Each law sheds light on the cause of phenomena in our life, family, organizations, and nations. Aligning with these laws can bring a sense of peace and empowerment to our lives, along with direction and insight on what will happen next.

#1 Law of Love

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Law of Love

When conducting research for our book on careers titled “Make it Work,” William and I heard the following from every one of those relatively few are consistently successful in their career: “I love what I do!” Whether it was Jack Welch, Joe Montana or a myriad of less known but similarly successful people we listened to, they all expressed their passion for what they do. Initially it seemed trite. But we soon realized that this simple statement made all the difference. Each of these people committed themselves to do what they love to do, and any monetary success was secondary to doing what they love. For example, Warren Buffet regularly states that he is simply lucky that what he loves to do – pick winning companies based on deep financial analysis – provided great wealth, as it is the love of the analysis - not the money - that still drives him today. Doing what one loves is so critical. Not only does it create greater focus, health and a sense of daily positive anticipation, it also attracts and catalyzes others. People are attracted to love, passion and positive energy.

In the absence of love, people need to be induced with money, power, status and platitudes. These physical inducements replace love with lust. Lust is a temporary fix that doesn’t last nor fully get quenched. Lust mimics love – both conjure effort and focus – however, when lust is the motive it results in selfish and self-centered behavior that creates dysfunction and negative politics, and ultimately ruin. Unfortunately, almost all the formal mechanisms for attracting, maintaining and rewarding people to companies rely on these physical inducements (money, office size, larger title) versus the love of the work itself. No wonder most people are in the midst of a mediocre career and most companies behave in a somewhat dysfunctional way. People are driven by lust for what they want versus love for what they do. However, the good news is, people can commit themselves to doing what they love. It is the less traveled path that makes all the difference.

The law of love goes much deeper than the energy and happiness that is derived when a person is working at something they are passionate about. It is also the source of every sustained advancement in our lives, and at every level of our society. The fruits of love are activities, structures and products that are embraced and make a difference in the world. The fruits of lust are activities, structures, and products that are not sustained and result in ruin. In looking at key leaders and founders across all spheres - whether it is Steve Jobs, William Gates, Joseph Smith, Martin Luther King Jr., Bishop Desmond TuTu, Herb Kelleher, Jesus, Ghandi or Henry Ford – they were driven by a sense of love. And, to a person they eschewed the inducements of a more predictable lust-driven path to do what they loved. Beyond their individual success and demise, the thing they spawned (religion, political movement or company) grew and impacted millions of people even after they were gone. This is because they were driven by love not lust. Whether it is the love of the work, the people or the mission. The fruits of love live on.

Inversely, one does not have to look far to see the fruits of lust. From the Savings and Loan scandals of the 1980s to the thousands of .com companies that quickly went under at the turn of the millennium, to the most recent mortgage driven collapses, we see that companies developed to create a quick buck ultimately deteriorate and end-up in ruin.

Love is the fundamental organizing force. Its nemesis is lust. The degree to which anything is created from love, whether it be a relationship, program, poem or paper airplane, it will have the inherent energy to live beyond the creator and lift others in the process. Inversely, anything created from lust will lose energy and ultimately have a detrimental impact on those that it touches.

Your reasons for working, creating and doing things matter tremendously. Know your heart. Do work from the heart, from a place of love and passion. Watch out for lust, it induces and leads to the dulling and misery of many.

#1 b. Practicing the Law of Love - Passionate Core

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Passionate Core

Love is foundational, but the specific passions that are expressions of this love can come and go at any time in your life. William and I have had periods in which we were passionate about activities such as golf, poetry, traveling, and playing the guitar. At the time these were real passions, dominating our thoughts and discretionary time. But don’t confuse these passions with your passionate core. Had we made career choices based upon these short-term passions or interests, we would have built our careers on weak foundations.

You need to examine how your passion is expressed to understand the personal needs it helps to fulfill. This source code is your “passionate core”. It is made up of the two to five needs that must find expression in your life and career for you to realize sustained energy, passion and success. These are the needs that are being fulfilled by the activities you are passionate about. The passionate core needs are part of your very being, even your DNA. They don’t change over time; however, the activities you are passionate about that fulfill these needs may vary tremendously.

For example, I, Joe Frodsham, have at times been passionate about carpentry, writing and painting. Each of these activities was fulfilling a common need to create something that lasts. Understanding this passionate core need provided much more flexibility when exploring career options. If I simply looked at how my passionate core was expressed at that period in my life, I might have felt I needed to build homes, write mystery novels or paint murals to find passion in my work. However, understanding the underlying need allowed me to choose from a wider variety of career options and work options that would allow me to create something that lasts. I was also able to avoid work opportunities that seemed appealing from the outside--money and title, for instance--that would frustrate my efforts to create something that lasts.

#2 Law of Choice

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Law of Choice

Each person has an immense capacity to create, shape and influence their surroundings. However, most people do not take advantage of their inherent power of creation and by default are shaped, and even victimized, by circumstance. It is sad that so many people wish their life and circumstances were different, and feel trapped by their current reality. For many they believe the answer is to simply work harder but to no avail. Others give up and spend much of their life simply going through the motions. As a result the mass of people live lives of quiet desperation.

Taking control does not begin with favorable or unfavorable external circumstances, or any specific set of actions or tasks. It begins on the inside. It begins with people making a deep choice. All great lives and accomplishments begin with a deep choice. When a person makes a deep choice, it catalyzes seen and unseen forces in their environment as the world conspires to bring about their wishes. If you ask people who are on a path of self-determination, who have made a clear impact, many will be able to tell you the actual date in which they made a clear choice and committed themselves to it. After that choice, unforeseen opportunities arose and factors adjusted to enable them to realize their desire.

For many, it helps to make a public declaration. This commits the person, and engages others in their cause. There is also immense clarity and power that comes from writing down your choice. The written word permeates the continuum, helping translate and make tangible that which was ethereal. It builds faith, connection and energy.

Simply put, make a choice with faith and follow the path that evolves from it.

Choose!

#3 Law of Lag (or Invisibility Begets Visibility)

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Law of Lag

The fruit and consequences of thoughts, decisions and actions are generally not manifest immediately. Christ thinks and operates in turns of millennium – actions over 2000 years ago have impact today. However, in the short-term it appeared that there were very negative consequences for him and his followers based upon his precepts.

Too many times people want justice and mercy to be doled out immediately – that good intentions and actions should immediately result in rewards and “good” things and those destructive intentions should immediately result in bad consequences for those involved. In reality, once something has been born there is a gestation period in which the consequences are forming but not yet manifested. Like a baby forming in a woman, it takes time to come forth. Unfortunately, people will abort the creationary process because they don’t see immediate consequences and results, and as a result lose faith in the effort. Moving forward before there is external and positive manifestation/reward requires faith. Faith is the belief in something that is not yet material, but will be. Many worthy efforts and creations have been ceased solely because people don’t understand this law of lag, and exhibit the faith to persevere.

What are you creating?

Does it come from your heart?

Are you respecting the time it takes to build the foundation and then see it through?

What are you giving up on that is about to be born?

Persevere!

#4 Law of Attraction - Attention and Intention

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Law of Attraction – Attention and Intention

As a man thinketh so is he. Once a deep choice has been made, the first creation happens in a person’s mind – it begins with the mental picture. Think and focus on that which you want to create and bring to the world. Put it in your minds-eye and let it invade your consciousness and sub-consciousness. It will align your very person, and attract that which you have created in your mind. Aligning your intentions and actions provides congruence and power, as circumstances will organize themselves to deliver physically what you have ordered mentally. This will shape and change your world and the world.

Be conscious of what you think about and focus on. Thoughts and images fuel your spirit, the energy you bring, and what is ultimately achieved in your life and surroundings. As you focus your attention with clear intention (choice) you will attract and create that which your mind shapes. But, this is an amoral principle – both positive and negative things can be created via your attention and intention. To ensure what you create is sustainable, be sure to shape from your love, not your lust.

#5 Law of Creative Genesis - For the Sake of Itself

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Law of Creative Genesis, For the Sake of Itself

Why do people do what they do? Most of us go to our job, attend events, and work around the house for a reasons that range for duty (I am suppose to) to fear (I have to) to a sense of routine (what else would I do). Essentially, most activity is done for reasons other than the love of the activity itself. We work at things, hoping that as a result other things will happen. However, the ultimate power of creation happens when you are doing something for no other reason than for the sake of itself.

Why do some people with all the monetary means to retire, or do whatever they want to do, continue to work hard? It could be for a lot of reasons, but when people are ultimately doing something for the sake of itself, and no other reason, they are tapping into the true source of power. When you do something for the sake of itself, it is because you are compelled to do it. It is your life’s work and an extension of who you are. You are doing it for no other reason than it is what you do. Whether it be hunting, volunteering at a shelter, or designing new buildings, it represents your work, your life, and as a result, has the greatest energy and power to transform you and others.

Bishop Desmond Tutu shares his testimony of God’s character and equal rights for no other reason than his sense of mission and purpose in sharing. Richard Branson redirects all the profits from his airline, Virgin Atlantic, to research and discover environmental friendly energy sources. These are actions that are likely taken for no other reason than for the sake itself. When we shed the reasons, and get to what we care about, find meaning in, and are here on earth to do. We mobilize actions from the most pure place.

#6 Law of Compensation

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Law of Compensation

All systems seek for homeostasis, or a state of equilibrium. From the smallest atomic particles to the incomprehensible scale and dynamics of the universe, each “system” finds a middle and constant state. Whether it is a forest ecosystem with a myriad of interdependencies of weather cycles, patterns of animal behavior and plant life; or the older and newer social systems found from India to Face Book on the internet, each system is interdependent and in reaction to each other. In other words, every phenomenon is in reaction to other phenomena. It is like a pendulum, with one action being a reaction in exact opposite size and scale. This level of reaction allows the larger system to maintain its equilibrium. In this way each action is compensatory for another action. Thus, the Law of Compensation.

The law of compensation sheds light on the attitudes, beliefs and events we observe every minute of every day. For example, in a family system, for every strong personality trait its opposite is also evident. In families with a talkative member who loves attention, there usually is a quiet and retiring member to balance him or her out. In families with a more narcissistic family member there is member(s) of the family with a unique level of altruism. Take a look at your own family, or families you are closely acquainted with. You will see this dynamic – whenever there is person(s) with a strong character trait, you will see the opposite trait also evident in the same family system. This is the law of compensation playing out at a family level. And, when there is not a balance maintained, it puts the system and those in it, at stress if and until homeostasis is somehow achieved.

The law of compensation is like an invisible hand ensuring balance in our world. At a global scale we see the rise of a more passive liberal non-orthodox western civilization in parallel with the rise of a large, aggressive and ultra-orthodox movement in eastern religious practices. Which movement caused which – who knows? But they are interdependent – each of these social phenomena is reinforcing the other as they build and energize. The world demands balance, and they are balancing each other out on the same continuums.

At a national level we see the law of compensation in every institution, including politics. For example, the history of elections in the United States of America is marked by a predictable vacillation between politicians representing a “conservative” perspective and those representing a “liberal” perspective. And also vacillation along establishment versus and outsider roles. In the most recent election in the USA, the landslide victory of the Democrats and the nation’s first African American president is a reaction to dominance of a Conservative Republican executive branch throughout much of the last two decades. The Law of Compensation is value neutral – it doesn’t take sides with who is “right” and “wrong”. What the Law does ensure is that there will be balance within every system and at every level. Ironically, it shows us that even the most radical movements actually create balance in the larger sphere or systems they are in.

With this in mind, the Law of Compensation allows us to understand the seeming random actions and attitudes in the world around us. We know that the degree to which there are hurtful and damaging actions in the world there will be a requisite level of peaceful and loving actions – see the out pouring of global sympathy to the United States after the terrible terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. It’s also interesting to note that the United States went from the most loved nation in the world after the terrorist attacks to perhaps the most despised nation in a few short years. Again, the law of compensation – where one extreme phenomena appears, so will its opposite. There is an invisible hand maintaining a balance.

So, what does the Law of Compensation mean for the future?

It means that the extremes in our world will be balanced out through the rise of their opposite. The number of actions and reactions are endless.

Where do you see equilibrium in your life?

Where is there a lack of equilibrium?

#6 b. Leadership by Twos

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Leadership by Twos

The Law of Compensation is constantly and visibly in motion. This Law drives what happens in our lives, and the lives of those we view more objectively around us. At an organization level, we see that all companies that have grown and found success have maintained a balance by maintaining two different yet complimentary leaders at the helm. Usually one of the leaders is more public, but there is always a second, very opposite, leader to round his or her out. In building Microsoft, William Gates needed his opposite shadow personality in Steve Balmer. In running a very successful Apple Computer in the new millennium, the gregarious and emotive Steve Jobs needed the quite and self-defacing introvert in Tim Cook.

The repercussions of Leadership by Twos are important to comprehend. The current paradigm is that leadership happens by/through individual charisma or through strong team functioning. These are important elements, but the real heart of effective leadership is the law of twos. There needs to be two complimentary leaders. Perhaps this is why early Christian apostles and disciples were asked to go out two-by-two. We need opposites to offer whole leadership.

Who is compensating and creating equilibrium thru dynamic leadership in twos?

Are You? Who do you need by your side to create a better world?

#7 Law of Integrity – Getting Behind the Mask

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Law of Integrity, Getting Behind the Mask

You must manage your image – be your own brand. This approach to career and life success has been present for quite some time and currently seems to be experiencing resurgence. It postulates that success comes from managing your image, spending your time shaping certain impressions of yourself in the minds of others – in other words focusing your energies on style versus substance.

With the “be your own brand” approach rather than spending your time and energy creating and shaping what matters to you, you are spending your time and energy determining whether our actions and behaviors fit with how you want to be seen and perceived. This makes you a prisoner of your own making, always worrying about what others are thinking and whether their perceptions are what you want them to be.

The “be your own brand” myth has pervaded almost all the literature on career and life success. Whether it is some best selling book like Dress for Success or the myriad of career and personal improvement seminars offered throughout the world, they are build on the premise that managing outer appearances will promote success. However, studying those that are making a large imprint they represent every different look, style and demeanor. Their success and impact does not come from emulating others or maintaining and image. Instead, it came from being themselves and being dedicated to the work for the love of it, and for the sake of itself.

This is so critical. People feel great anxiety when their real loves and feelings don’t find expression in their work. So many feel that they need to put on a mask and behave in ways they think others will approve of. But behind the mask, it’s clear their work is full of drudgery. Every aspect of their life is affected – mind, body, spirit and relationships. For many, it takes a crisis or a time of introspection for them to decide to take off the mask and be themselves. When they make this decision, they liberate themselves and find that people respond better to the real person.

Clearly being your own brand is a waste of time and will actually derail your path to alignment and impact. Instead of operating with a mask and managing your image, you should be clear on who you are and what you love.

Are you being true to yourself and doing what you love and were put on earth to do?

#8 Law of the Spirit

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Law of the Spirit

We are not material beings with an occasional spiritual experience; instead, we are spiritual beings who have an occasional human experience. Each of us is a spirit that lives beyond the life of our body. It is this spirit that enables and provides life, breath and choice to our body and mind. What we allow to come into our mind and emotions will affect the spirit, and the power of our spirit. It is by feeding our spirit that we have peace and contentment, real power and the ability to make a lasting impact. Inversely, when we spend our time and attention feeding the body and not the spirit, our spirit is starved and we are left with a void. Hungry but well fed.

There is a one-to-one correlation to the health of a person’s spirit and their sense of peace and power. The deeper and clearer the choice is that you make, the more that is mobilized.

Our physical world mirrors the spiritual world. Manifestations in our physical world are barometers of spiritual health and dynamics.

The spirit is who you are! You are a spirit! Feed your spirit with images, ideas and beliefs that inspire.

#9 Law of Impact: Levels 1-3

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Law of Impact

Level 1: the reactive responsive (minimal impact)

This level is where most humans exist. Essentially it dictates that we react and respond to the circumstances outside of us. Stuff happens to us…these people get up in the morning and essentially ask the question I wonder what is going to happen today and what I am going to do to survive.

There is very little power or creative control here, and for the most part the locus of your control lies in the circumstances outside of yourself.

These people never create what their heart desires and are always looking for a problem rather than an opportunity to create what matters most.

Level 2: declaration and creative mastery

This level implies that the locus of control lies within you and through choice, intention, attention, and through all other laws you can create what matters most to you. It is here that a single powerful choice will galvanize resources to bring into being what once was not. It is this level that differentiates quiet desperation from being the primary creative force in your life. Whatever you want, whatever you aspire to be, whatever you desire can come to pass thru the application of the creative orientation at level 2: conceive, choose, focus and intend, receive.

Those who master level 2 have indeed mastered the laws of cause and effect and essentially use them to create what matters most to them….the power however is creative and morality free. Branson, Mozart, Nine Inch Nails and like others are examples.

To be clear, level 2 is amoral. What is created by a level 2 person can span the continuum of very positively impacting and imprinting the world (e.g. Branson’s reinvestment into alternative fuels) to a relatively dark impact and imprint on the world (e.g. Larry Flint’s Hustler magazine). But what is common is that the source of the creation is the person, their choice and their energy. They are the wheels and the engine. Often, whatever they create loses steam when they leave or pass away, as their creation is dependent upon them and does not tap into a larger source.

There is an inverse relationship between the depth of someone’s choice and their creationary power as a Level 2 creator. When people think deeply about what they are and want to do, they unleash a more resonance and catalyze greater energy and impact. If you search the lives of public people who have made an impact, you’ll see that they made a deep choice, and declared it in one way or the other. They took control of their lives from the inside out.

However, whatever they create is a dissolvable print that will sash away over time. Unless they move to Level 3.

Level 3: creative mastery through Gods design (moral transformation)

This level of operationalization of your spirit is supreme, most powerful, and resides at a higher more impactful place than level 2.

Those who operate at level 3 have fully mastered the creative orientation of Level 2 yet along the way have chosen to abdicate their own design and do God’s work for the sake of itself.

It is here that moral transformation of mankind occurs…..it is here that God uses the full creative capability of his human vessels to impact societal and cultural transformation….this is a very difficult level to achieve as it requires giving up your locus of power for Gods….and then using the creative power

He has given to you to do his work……this power is creative and morally transformational. Ghandi, Bishop TuTu and Joseph Smith are to name a few.

The fruits of a level 3 are beliefs, structures, ideas that are sustained beyond them. God works them to do, at times, the seeming impossible. Whether it is to over-turn apartheid, establish a new nation state, or turn a drug addict from his or her bondage. It is the road less traveled, but the one that is illuminated by light, impact and joy. But it is not always easy.

Making the choice to fully align with God is profoundly simple but also quite difficult for most to make. It requires you to give away your power to an unseen being. This requires faith. And then, follow your heart, and what He plants in it. You are doing things for him that may seem non-sensical in the moment, and others may deride. However, as you follow the path set for you individually, signs will follow and you will have an exponential and lasting impact.

#10 Law of Creative Sequencing

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Law of Creative Sequencing

Van Gogh was an incredible Level Two creator. He created what mattered most to him and the power of his artistic vision changed the art world forever.

Interestingly enough when he was not painting he led a rather debauched life filled with pain and extremism. When he painted he was true to himself, his intention, his art , and as such tapped into a power which he shaped that was extraordinary. When he was not painting he primarily lived in the Level One reactive responsive mode, never knowing what circumstances would come to knock him down from day to day. Van Gogh did not know what he knew…he did not apply the Level Two law of impact to his life…and as such created extraordinary art within an intensely reactive responsive desperate life. Imagine if he had created his life with the same intention he had when creating his art. He did not know what he knew.

All that said, Van Gogh’s intensity of artistic expression and vision was way out there, so much so that any acknowledgement for his artistic genius during his lifetime was not possible. The intensity of his artistic iconoclasm led him from realism to post impressionism (brush dabs rather than strokes) circumventing the beginning of the impressionistic movement. Essentially he saw way past what the great artists of the day where creating.

This example is illustrative of a law called “creative sequencing”

Had Van Gogh prepared the ground and world for his movement to post impressionism his art might have been more accepted…but the extreme jump he made took his art out an extra “period of acceptance” ….thus he was only accepted after the world caught up with him a century later

The evolution of all creations go thru a sequence of transformation…essentially taking the outer edge of what exists and opening it up to the next…there is an enormous power of creative fission here paving the road for many others to come. Examples would be:

· Classical to blues to jazz to rock to fusion

· Realism to impressionism to post impressionism to abstraction

When an iconoclast jumps from one rung to one once removed, he or she is deeply in integrity with self and creative vision however will not be recognized by the world for many years to come.

Jesus Christ came to fulfill the old testament and free the Jews to worship unbound by rules and idols, yet in the course also created the pathway for gentiles…as such it took many centuries for this work of creation to be fully appreciated and fulfilled.

#11 Law of Morphic Resonance

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Law of Morphic Resonance

Like Einstein’s underlying String Theory, the law of morphic resonance implies that beneath what appears to be separate actions in the world is a unifying field that unites them and often parallels them. The catalyst for this seeming coincidence is a level two or three impact player intently focusing both attention and intention on an outcome.

Marie Currie who invented Radium was moments in front of another inventor creating the same experiments and properties across the globe. Scientists and biologists studying monkeys on the bikini atolls discovered that as monkeys learned new behaviors on one atoll, several miles away separated by ocean, others were doing the same on other surrounding atolls. Intensity of focus and attention brings about underlying change although on the surface they appear to be completely disconnected.

What are you thinking about now?
How intense is this?
What choices have you made about this?

You better bring it into being as someone else will be thinking and doing the same thing.

#12 Law of Dissipative Structures

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Law of Dissipative Structures

This law presupposes that any living intelligent structure that has reached stasis or equilibrium when penetrated by a foreign object will reorganize itself to a higher level of intelligence/complexity.

As such, intelligence begets intelligence. An example would be an ant farm that is in stasis reorganizing itself around a boulder placed in her midst. As new equilibrium is reached the ants and the complexity of their farm raises to a new level.

Imagine if mankind on earth were visited by an alien species…..in the process of understanding and managing through this new reality we as the human species would reach a new level of intelligence…and perhaps make a significant leap for the future of our race .

To be clear, this is an amoral principle. dissipative structures do drive greater connections and complexity of thought, however, a person and society's intelligence can be used to injure or elevate, help or hurt, or in other words, for good or bad.

When Christ arrived and declared the he was, mankind over time reached a new level of intelligence and being.

What is the next?

#13 Law of Letting Go

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Law of Letting Go

Once you have embarked on a level 3 creation, it is no longer your creation. You may want to understand it, be able to fully describe the why’s, what’s and how’s, however this is your need. And, it is a need that can get in the way of listening more completely to the more pure intelligence that comes from your spirit – what you feel and know intuitively to be true when you listen. So, listen, and don’t try to fully understand. Faith is to step forward into the unknown based upon what you know you feel and have to do.

Put your mind in the service of your spirit, not the other way around. Let go of having to know, control and understand everything. Go with the bigger source. Get yourself out of the way and let God take the wheel.