If you look at a large spiral shell like a Nautilus shell, they start very small at the centre and they expand at a 1.618 ratio as they grow.
Now when you look at the spiral on the shell, the last segment is a very big segment, but then it retraces back in the ratio of 1.618. When we look at the initial unfolding of the spiral we see that it is tiny like a dot. There is 1 single unit, then another single unit and then it increases to 2 then 3 then 5, 8, 13 and so on and at the end it is really big. However, the strength of the end piece comes from all the smaller segments that preceded it that it’s built on.
Think of it that way in terms of creating.
When you create you don’t just go from 0 to 100. You build up. It’s not necessarily a function of time. It’s a function of strength. Maybe you can build that strength very quickly or maybe you build it very slowly but you will, if you build strength upon strength, upon strength, upon strength.
Knowing this will help you when creating and make you functional. You can relax because you know the end result is inevitable.
All you need to know is where you are now, what stage of progress you’re at and what strengths you’re developing and building for your current stage.
Where am I at now?
What stage of progress am I at?
What strengths am I developing and building?
That’s all you’ve got to be aware of and focused on. A person who doesn’t have that, who just sees where they “should be” or sees “what they haven’t gotten yet” gets worried and anxious about it. People see where they are now and where they’re going to be one day and the “enormous” gap in between the 2 scenarios and they get stressed out about it.
It causes them to strive to attempt to do it all in one go or give up and not even try rather than acknowledging, “this is where I am and I’m building strength, by strength, by strength.” This way you take the pressure off yourself. And when you take the pressure off yourself, you become creative because you’re present. You are where you are, you realize what you need to realize and you know what you need to know and you work away at what you need to work away at.
Here’s an example: An incredible singer named Whitney Houston. She was an amazing talent with an incredible voice. She came out when she was 21 and took the world by storm. She just exploded out into the world stage and they called her an “overnight success.”
When she was interviewed about it she said, “Overnight success my ass!”
“I was singing in the choir when I was 5 years old, I was singing in church every Sunday. That choir competed with other choirs and we traveled across the US and we performed and sang to huge audiences. Then I soloed in that choir and I was a soloist traveling, singing to huge audiences, not being paid – singing as a choir girl and then her famous cousin Dionne Warwick helped to introduce her.
Whitney’s Mother, Cissy Houston was a Gospel trained vocalist and taught Whitney how to sing professionally and Cissy was Dionne’s Aunt.
She came on stage and sang with them – There were all sorts of competencies that were built upon on each other. Even when she first met top musical executives and began, they wanted her to train more and prove they could depend on her and then they said, “OK she’s ready!” – And she was stupendous!!!
By comparison if you look at people that win a one-time competition like “American Idol” they go up and down. There have been a couple of them that were successes and could handle the success of winning American Idol because they had the structure in place and had done the work. They already had the underpinnings. The others without that went up and straight down. It’s all Fibonacci.
Nothing comes out of a vacuum.
Whatever your career is, you start at the beginning, the bottom and build up like Fibonacci (a scientific and mathematical equation.) Start with the easiest thing first, get the experience of that, the reputation of that, get the practice of that, get the success of that, get the confidence of that, then go.
Go through all the steps first before you go for broke.
You’ve got to build yourself up and have all the underpinnings underneath you. You have to build the structure underneath you. It doesn’t mean you’ll progress slowly, some people progress really quickly, some take more time. It’s OK either way. It’s based upon the strength you are building upon.
There’s nothing in Nature that defies Fibonacci and if there’s any anomaly it spirals back down into itself and implodes or disintegrates because it can’t be sustained structurally.
You can go through the stages or levels very quickly, it’s not bound by time and space but it is bound by structure. You can’t defy the integrity of the structure that precedes the structure you’re currently on.
People often look at their end result/outcome from where they are now and there’s an expectation, “I should already be there → at the end result!”
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However, it doesn’t work!
Your vision, goals and your outcomes especially the ones that are related to your long-term purpose, your vocation, why you’re here, don’t happen overnight.
You need to build up the structure for them. E.g. when you’re thinking about developing a business, which is a long-term thing you have to create the Fibonacci.
You might have a great business and are going places in your business and in your life, however, The MOST important thing to take care of is: where you are now
Then you do whatever is required for where you are now.
If you haven’t completed all the steps of your Fibonacci and you attain your goal, or seemingly get your end result, you won’t be able to hold onto it. You won’t be able to sustain it. If it’s money, you’ll lose the money, if it’s a car, you’ll lose the car. If it’s a house, you’ll lose the house, if it’s a business, you’ll lose the business.
There are leaders in history that didn’t understand this concept. E.g. Napoleon, Alexander the Great and Hitler. They blitzed out and took territories and their Generals begged them to stop there and consolidate and they said, “No, we are going, we’re pressing onwards!” What was the ensuing outcome? Instead of consolidating and building the necessary infrastructure, they imploded.
If you know where you are, you have reasonable expectations about growth. You don’t have fearful expectations about growth.
You know it’s a progression. You don’t have to worry about the ultimate progression now. You are focused on the near term progression. By all means have your head in the clouds and continue to picture your vision, but take care of your near term progression and be relaxed about it and that will make you a very powerful creator.
Then you’ll be in flow. You’ll be able to receive what comes to you and won’t be psychically stretched. You’ll be relaxed and you’ll know where you are and what to take care of now and you’ll be balanced and centered and that’s the benefit of it.
Be present to the unfolding of the “Creative Intelligence” within.
Fibonacci allows you to let go of gripping too tightly to your end results and to life and it takes the pressure off.
The Fibonacci progression is already inherent within you. It’s not in the, “I’ve got to go out and get it” that’s not where it is. It’s within you. The magic is where you are. It’s not beyond where you are. It’s where you are right now and it just needs the progression that’s inherent within you. An oak tree doesn’t start out as a 100-foot tree. It starts out as a little acorn and the 100-foot tree is inherent within it. Greatness is in the acorn now. It then does its Fibonacci progression to become what it is always destined to be. It’s inevitable.
Age has nothing to do with when you’ll get your ultimate end result:
Instead of worrying, I’m 30, 40, 50, 60 etc. and I still haven’t achieved it yet, relax and look at where you are now in your Fibonacci.
Anna Mary Robertson Moses or Grandma Moses the renowned 20th Century America Folk Artist started painting earnestly at 78 years old. She had a successful art career at an advanced age.
Frank Lloyd Wright the greatest American architect was 91 years old when his iconic building, the “Guggenheim Museum opened in New York City.
Michelangelo was 33 years old when he started painting the Sistine Chapel and it took him 4 years to complete at the age of 37. He was 88 when he died. He made the incredible marble statue the “Pieta” (Mary with Christ) at the age of 25.
Barak Obama’s rise to become President of the United States was very rapid. He was a community organizer that then went into the next level of politics. He was only a 1 term Senator that progressed extremely fast but he fulfilled every step. He did everything.
Fibonacci gives us insights about how we create and get to the levels we want. When you’re aware of how you’re progressing, it propels you very quickly.
