Avoiding Interaction with Your
"Prophetic Bishop"?

In the late 1800's a bishop of the United
Brethren church was interacting with a
college professor. The bishop's opinion was
that the millennium was at hand. As
evidence, he cited the fact that everything
about nature had already been discovered and
that all useful inventions had already been
made. The college professor expressed his
belief that man had far to go; he would, for
example, one day be able to fly. "What a
nonsensical idea," the bishop
countered, "Flight is reserved for the birds
and the angels!" More on this contentious
interaction in a moment...

You have, within your personal chemistry, a
pharmacy so powerful that pharmaceutical
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delivering the natural medicine of humor -
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With a commitment to act and interact today,
you should be prepared for an incredible
surge of energy created by the natural
medicine of humor you're engaging. Acting
and interacting with the people who cross
your path today is very important for your
health and welfare. So important, in fact,
that I've made Act and Interact one of my
Fun Commandments - the pillars supporting my
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How does acting and interacting with the
people you naturally encounter open the
floodgates of your natural humor medicine? It
allows you to avoid spiritual "flat tires". Spiritual
flat tires occur when you sidestep, or
avoid, an interaction that is about to
naturally occur - you duck into an office to
avoid encountering someone in a hallway or
you don't answer to the phone because you
don't want to talk to the person calling. This
type of avoidance drains and deletes your
reservoir of insanely powerful energy
created by your fully activated sense of
humor.

Spiritual flat tires are a result, as are
most of the habits which drain and deplete
you of your health, vitality, and zest, of
your deadly seriousness. Seriousness refers
to taking ourselves too seriously; when we
make the fatal mistake of taking both our
responsibilities and ourselves seriously we
are putting our productivity, serenity,
peace of mind, and health at great risk. We
start taking ourselves too seriously and
pretty soon we're dodging a person placed in
our path because we think we know best what
we need today.

But have you ever noticed that it usually
takes you twice as much mental and physical
energy to avoid doing a job then it would've
taken you to just do it? It also takes twice
the energy to avoid acting and interacting
with the people you cross paths with because
you are, in effect, saying, "I'm going to
correct the mistake that nature is making by
putting this person in my path and I'm going
to be mentally and spiritually negligent so
that I can correct nature's mistake." Mental
and spiritual negligence have the same
effect as physical negligence (isn't it
strange how you get tired if you don't
exercise?) and if you can afford to allow
this much energy to be drained than you have
a much bigger reservoir than I!

But spiritual flat tires do more than drain
our energy, they are detrimental in at least
two additional ways:

1. We miss out on an interaction with a
   teacher; nature had a lesson for us,
   otherwise that person we just avoided would
   not have been placed in our path. You say
   that the person you just avoided was a
   negative influence or would've wasted your
   time? I know there are legitimate emergency
   situations where I have to get somewhere,
   but if I am avoiding people based on my
   prejudgment of them, I'm cutting myself off
   from my greatest teachers - other people.
   

   And we all learn tolerance from the
   intolerant, patience from the impulsive,
   temperance from the gossip, gentleness from
   the rough, etc. I am supremely grateful for
   those teachers and the lessons they give me.
   

2. We create a small, nagging spiritual
   void of dishonesty, the kind of dishonesty
   that keeps us from laying our heads down
   with complete peace of mind each night. Our
   spiritual flat tire is caused by the pothole
   our avoidance created; the flat tire is a
   natural consequence, or symptom, of our
   spiritual dishonesty. The natural
   consequences of such avoidance clutter our
   lives with mental and emotional baggage that
   further drains us of our energy and vitality.
   

By deciding to act and interact with the
people we encounter today, we fully engage
our sense of humor. When our sense of humor
is thus engaged our personal medicine
cabinet is wide open, flooding our body with
the natural medicine of humor. We find
resilience and creativity, we have a
childlike curiosity for life that results in
new solutions to old problems, and we find
people being attracted to us personally and
professionally without them quite being able
to figure out why.

By the way, that bishop from the United
Brethren church was named Bishop Wright. Bishop
Wright was the father of two budding young
inventors named... Orville and Wilbur. True
story.

Make sure you employ the invaluable skill of
acting and interacting.

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