Unquantifiable You

 

Unquantifiable You
How valuing our unquantifiableness enables us to infuse quality into quantity

Measuring is very helpful
Quantifying things is very useful - it enables us to collect data, record growth, create products, build homes and extend our knowledge in all manner of essential subjects. We need to balance a sustainable use of quantity with a connection to the important qualities in life to ensure the happiness and wellbeing of ourselves and our planet.

When the tape measure runs out
We may be all the time attempting to ‘get the measure’ of things but in truth, there will always be unknown qualities in other people and in life.  We may be able to count our heartbeats, but the quality of a person's heart and their loving expression remains magnificently immeasurable. Love is still a quality not a quantity.

The numbers game
In the west we are conditioned to constantly measure ourselves - by weight, height, size, bank balance, grades, friends lists, medical checks - in order to attain a sense of identity and achievement.  Useful tools of practical measurement become conflated with our sense of self worth.  This leaves us constantly striving for the next notch on the psychological bed post and keeps us wired up to an economic matrix which is based in a grossly unequal distribution of wealth and resources.  The numbers game makes everyone susceptible to the bottomless desire for outside approval - as children we learn that if we jump through enough hoops we will get 5 gold stars. This vulnerability leads people to blindly follow political dictators or religious leaders to extremes such as suicide bombers blowing themselves up to gain heavenly approbation.

Re-tuning goals
Each one of us has to ask ourselves, What do I really want? Do I really want to be Number One? Or do I want to be happy? If you want success, you may sacrifice your happiness for it. You can become a victim of success, but you can never become a victim of happiness. Thich Nhat Hanh
Whilst reaching our goals is very important for creating a sense of personal achievement, we cannot buy self worth.  Try as we might, getting skinnied, monied, propertied or married will not fill the gaps in our self esteem. When we trade quality for quantity we end up wearing the Emperor’s New Clothes.  The too frequent stories of highly talented people ending up in rehab or taking their own lives testifies that getting to the top of the numbers game does not always make for a happy ending. Truly successful, inspirational leaders urge us to stay tuned to core qualities and to work towards a better quality of life for everyone.  Reflecting on our motivations and fine tuning our inner radar enables us to ensure that our goals are truly aligned to creating happiness and wellbeing.

Staying tuned to your innate unquantifiable quality
As some of the best loved songs have reminded us the best things in life are free, all you need is love and its not about the pricetag.  Staying tuned to our inner wealth enable us to act from a place of fullness.  Everyone has their own way of tuning in to a sense of unquantifiable happiness - as Pharrell Williams 24 hour film of gloriously diverse Happy dancers demonstrates.  Singing has always connected me to a sense of vast magnificence far beyond anything I can measure with a ruler.  Our voice is one of many innate, natural gifts we have which costs absolutely nothing to use yet can bring endless quality and value to our lives.  Everyone deserves to experience the true wealth of knowing that they are unquantifiably magnificent and beautiful beyond measure.  From this great resource springs abundant manifestations of prosperous, peaceful, loving, creative, self-expression and respect for the precious resources within others and our planet. 

Wishing you glorious delight in your immeasurable magnificence

4 Tips for Staying Tuned to Quality
1.  List 10 qualities which are most important to you
2.  Clear some clutter - release/ recycle any quantity which is no longer providing quality.
3. List 5 Activities that help you tune into your own sense of innate happiness
4. Schedule quality time in your diary for yourself and your beloveds.