The 13 Laws of Stumble

Bronson Howard

Description

Your heart''s been broken, so you just locked it up tight, or your business is hemorrhaging more money than a tourist at a slot machine. And you wonder ''why me?'' Why the Heck does all this ''stuff'' have to happen to me?''.... then the sun rises on another day, the heart mends, stronger and wiser than ever, ready to love again, and it shines on your business which then shines just the right light on your dreams, and suddenly you''re surrounded by a new and unexpected success. That''s Stumble Theory which only asks that you get up after a fall and move forward after a stall. In the past, books have told you that you''re okay or that your intention is half the battle but never has a book proven that it''s not just okay to fall and fail, those stumbles often create the best opportunities by forcing open doors you never knew existed. Stumble Theory works, and here''s the proof: Just look back at your own stumbles over the past five years...you will see that those experiences have now created the best opportunities. You just have to get up and grab them! This book is also a very powerful tool for those suffering from Depression, from college onward.

Informations

• Publié par: Waldorf Publishing
• Date de parution: 15 mars 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781649214676
• Langue: English

Extrait

The
13
Laws of
Stumble
How many can you break today?
Stumbled Into by Howard F. Bronson, MSJ



Published by Waldorf Publishing
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The 13 Laws of Stumble
ISBN: 978-1-64921-467-6
Library of Congress Control Number: 2020940333
Copyright © 2020
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Design by Baris Celik


Dedication
To my Dear Mother and Father, Irma and Gordon who believed in me even when I was quite unbelievable at times.


The 13 Laws of Stumble
1) Stumbles are not a cause for panic, but a potential relief from darkness.
2) Stumbles are not an interruption in your life, but an essential part of your path.
3) Your life matrix is only as strong as its weakest point, and will eventually collapse to that point until resolved.
4) You cannot reach a great height and stay there if there is an unresolved behavioral debt in your life matrix.
5) Stumble affords you the opportunity to see your specific challenges clearly but you must be open to learning things you previously thought you couldn’t learn.
6) Pain is a message. Denial is a sign of immaturity.
7) You will generally stumble into an abyss that you can begin to climb out of the moment you are willing to begin facing the issue that brought you there.
8) There is a reward or penalty for everything but we don’t know that exact price until we begin living that consequence.
9) You cannot climb a single step nor expect to keep climbing, if you’re not willing to learn some often, little but essential thing everyday.
10) Your friends shape your virtue but your adversaries shape your mission.
11) To remain stuck in your matrix may be safe at some levels, but is ultimately tantamount to taking a downward step.
12) Sustained fear crumbles us, courage sustains us.
13) Every great story since the beginning of time is a matrix of innocence, challenge, tragedy and eventual triumph We are


We are but
an accident..
the product of not one mistake but,
an infInite number.
And fInally..when all our mistakes are spent..
only one result is possible.
We become perfection.


‘You may ask yourself, “How did I get here?”
Talking Heads


Foreword
Dear God in Heaven,
Thank you for the miracle of this new day. I am so appreciative to your grace just to be alive on this brand new day, to feel the warmth and light of the sun of this new day, to breathe the air, and to have hope in my darkest hour. You and you alone have created miracles in this world, my business and personal life and I know from the depths of my heart and soul that my life would be nothing without you.

Or:
I’m appreciative that I took good care of my health to wake up healthy and alert. I worked hard in my business and am now realizing great success. I have also been faithfully attending marriage therapy with my spouse so by taking personal responsibility for making the right choices, I have built a great resume and have successfully captained my life.
Or… Court Greer.
Court..what? Bet you never heard this one before. Court Greer is actually someone’s name and if he’s reading this, he’s got to be shocked. But you generally remember the name of the people who save your life..or the things that redirect it.
To scribe a book called Stumble Theory requires that I be the master stumbler. If you read the grab-notes on the back cover, you know that I am also, a master faller. Sixty-feet off a sheer cliff off St. Mary’s Glacier in Idaho Springs, Colorado. Very few people have survived that stumble to write about it and no one has survived it in one piece. For me, I was broken down into Eleven pieces of arm elbow and a little hip. And since I had an 80% chance of losing my arm as a result of that fall, I certainly didn’t envision myself as the designated stumble recovery writer.
Anyway, upon my abrupt landing, the bones of my arm found their way outside of my skin and I was rapidly bleeding to death. But Court Greer somehow stood me up and, guided me into some stranger’s jeep who after some brief consternation that we invaded his jeep, drove me to a waiting ambulance.
Let’s go back to the fall, all four seconds of it. During that time, I knew one thing: I was going to die. The Gods had seen fit to allow me to be on this earth for nineteen years and, now my time was done. That was the first second. For the next 2.9 seconds, I took a deep ‘oh well’ breath and just looked out at the beautiful evergreens for the last time. For the last tenth of a second, I saw the boulder I was about to smash into.
I was taking this Tae Kwon Do course at the University of Denver and I wasn’t very attentive. But there was one defensive move where you raise your elbow up above your head. That move saved my life.
And here I am forty-plus years later , still annoying people with my starry-eyed optimism and ridiculism. And it’s not because of those four seconds but because of the fifth one, the one where I realized that I was still alive, having survived the impossible. Alive to stumble off another metaphorical cliff. All because of a subtle rise of my elbow at the last second which protected my head from being cracked open like a walnut.
That’s how I came to understand the value of not the fall, but the rise that followed. Let’s not forget the raising of that arm. That subtle move was the thread between life and death. So if you’re in crisis and stumbling right at this moment, what subtle move are you omitting that could start changing it all for the better?
Raising that arm inspired me in a way you cannot know unless you try it..not the fall…but something daring and different to improve the course of your life. And I’m still rising, stumbling forward, making lots of mistakes, letting good people down but hey, I have an excuse: I’m not supposed to be here.
Twenty years later, mountain biking with my Adrenaline film producer Shawn Fernandez, we came across a rocky crick. Shawn was new to the sport and looked a bit nervous. “How we gonna cross this here crick?”
In my usual dulcet tone, I said, “This is easy. Just do exactly as I do and you’ll be fine.”
I slid back just behind my seat and, began the simple negotiation across our watered path. Out of nowhere, my front tire found two rocks, wedged between them and before I knew what was happening, my bike flipped directly over me and I was looking up at Shawn with the bike on top of me. “Are you sure I have to do exactly what you did?”
Sometimes, we have the best of guiding intentions and, end up on our backs in the crick. However, when I was on my back, all I had to do, was open my eyes and I could see a vast, wide sky that I would never have seen. That describes my stumbling life. I see myself far more as a sculptor than a writer. My writing starts off rough and often chaotic and then, in its many stumbles and conundrums, finds polish over time. In that polishing process, my insights carry far more meaning.
Then, what’s the point of wisdom and admonishment, you might ask and that’s a reasonable argument. Why not just learn from those who already fell off the cliff or turned catawampus in the crick?
Wisdom has its guiding place but sometimes, we can only know a lesson by living it. Should you jump off a cliff to learn how painful it is when your bone pops out of your flesh like those cute little critters in the Aliens movies? All parents and counselors know that we must allow others to learn life lessons in their own way but if we see a threat to life, then we intervene.
What a fall, what a trip; what a long, strange trips it’s been (thank you Jerry). And if every fall hadn’t happened, my life would have been far less. Overly calm waters would have rocked me to sleep, bored me to death. It’s the stumbles that make and shape us.

Are we indeed the Captains of our soul or, is someone else steering the ship? Which is it, does God make your life or do you think we made God? Does God guide your steps and ‘walk beside you’ as the popular expression goes (and of course, a Billion people put that on Facebook as if no one’s ever heard it before. Oh, please). Or did you and you alone produce pain, stumbles, struggles and lessons learned in your life?
Humankind seems to be at its best when opposing parties serve to sharpen one another’s thinking and keep us from growing stale. Either dynamic can happen. Don’t believe it, have five children that you love more than anything but never imagined making; that keeps a guy or gal at their best because they have to be. Kids demand our wisdom , patience and guidance and if we let them down, we pay for that neglect when they’re ‘grown up.’
Even within the behavioral sciences that seek the highest and truest answers for decency, balance and relative contentment, there was R.D. Laing, the unwitting head of the ‘anti’ psychiatry movement. Laing made many simple observations that called many of the conclusions of behavioral science, into question, especially, with respect to his client’s alternative perceptions, even as it pertained to schizophrenia. W