DO, WANT, FEAR
THE FOUNDATION OF MY CONSULTING
by Jon Rappoport
When a person assesses his own position in life, he usually does it in glimpses, on the run, and he obtains flickers of information along several lines:
WHAT DO I WANT?
WHAT AM I ABLE TO DO?
WHAT AM I AFRAID OF?
Obviously, these three areas are connected and they overlap.
For example:
“Well, I really want to be a pilot. I don’t think I could learn to read all the instruments. And I might crash the plane.”
The tendency is to shrink the space of desire, in light of what the person thinks he can’t do and is afraid might happen, if he tries to go all the way in fulfilling the desire.
The interesting thing is, when a person uses these three measurements to judge his position, he pretty much sets himself up for defeat. Why? Because he’ll find something he can’t do to fulfill the desire, and he’ll think of some fear that would act as a roadblock.
The net result is a canceling of forces: zero. He stays the same. He doesn’t budge from his present situation.
Since that is the case, why do people use these indicators? Why do they balance them off, one against another?
Because it’s a learned response. Because they are taught, and they give into, that method.
Because they are already operating in a small arena. Because they are already, on some level, anticipating the result.
“Let’s see. If I use this formula to calculate things, I’ll come out with minimal gain and minimal risk. Good. That’s what I want.”
So if you asked this person, WHAT DO YOU WANT, he might say I’M NOT SURE, but that would actually translate into: MINIMAL GAIN, MINIMAL RISK.
You wouldn’t hear that last part.
And if you asked him WHAT DO YOU REALLY WANT, he might not know, because what he really wants is obscured by the cloud of “minimal risk, minimal gain.”
The more you delve into this whole business, the more fascinating it becomes. “Do, want, fear” and “minimal risk, minimal gain” are a kind of SYSTEM. The person is using a system to stay in one place.
So when I write about systems, and how imagination is beyond any system, you can see how that would profoundly apply in the case of many people. They are already using a tricky little system to maintain a steady-state unchanging reality.
Imagination would act as a magical transforming substance to break apart the system and open up space, future, and possibility.
For those who like formulas, you can build one right here.
Do, want, fear=DWF. Minimal risk, minimal gain=MRMG. Space, future, possibility=SFP.
And:
SFP=Imagination.
SFP is greater than DWF plus MRMG.
That’s the formula.
Actually, when you apply I (imagination) to any letter on the right side of the formula, it begins to melt it down and transform it into new energy.
In my consulting work, my objective is to find ways to introduce the person’s own imagination in ways that are productive and transformational.
Believe it or not, even a powerhouse of an individual can get swallowed up in “do, want, fear.” Not right away. But after a certain point of success, the walls begin to close in, and he begins to wonder what the hell happened. He started off in his education or career finding something he was good at, something that would reward him, and he pushed it. He became better than good. And then, flash forward…and he’s scratching his head.
Time for an injection of imagination. A new life. A new day.
Jon Rappoport