Blink.

In the blink of an eye, we know.

In the blink of an eye, the twisting of time is painted or tainted according to our intent.

Number One Bestseller, Malcolm Gladwell, Author of the Tipping Point and Blink, proposes that as often as not, the decisions we make in the blink of an eye are statistically as good as the decisions we arrive at after long and sometimes tortuous reflection, analysis and study. He also suggests we have the inherent ability to make better our subconscious, "intuitive" understandings.

Decisions we arrive at, in this "pre-conscious" state, are influenced by our upbringing, by our emotions and by our pre-conceptions of reality. They are also infinitely malleable and modifiable.

How often do we witness events, only to discover that others saw or heard or understood something totally different?

All the time.

Fill your head with crap and you'll see crap.

Fill your head with light and you'll instantly understand the joy of seeing clearly.

Either way, our "just under consciousness" will see and understand the light or we will see and want something else.

This is what is so cool about what I'm allowed to do. I get to meet people and visit with them about their hopes and dreams of a new home. I get to listen to people wish for a better way of life, a more meaningful way of living.

I am paid for this gift, yes. But I am paid in much more than money. I am paid in the rush, the high of seeing, in the blink of an eye, what people really want. And I've discovered that just about everybody wants to live ... deeply, honestly, connected.

Now it might be my upbringing, my set of given values, my individual testing of all these ideals and my failure at some of them and my rejection of others, or my ultimate understanding of the "why underneath it all" but in the blink of an eye I typically get what others want or need in the way they dream of living.

This is part of why we call our little company, "Living Architecture". In that first thirty minutes, in those initial thirty seconds of open sharing with a new client, a new friend, somehow, I get it. I don't get it from 100% of the people, nor do I get it right 100% of the time but over the years I have learned to trust this first impression, this gut level ... "Yeah, I get it."

Then the plan happens -- ridiculously fast. It shows up on the virgin white paper following the lines dictated by those first thirty minutes. Sometimes the plan is born from those initial thirty seconds. If we second guess it, if we go back and examine it through every possible avenue, it chokes. It stutters and shutters into something we usually understand is not as good as what we found, "shooting from the hip."

There are so many things to consider: the land, the topography, the foliage, the sun, the prevailing breeze, the view, the budget, the program (number of sleeping areas, bathrooms, etc.), the style, the mood, the motif, the party... All of these things form the "Grid of Perception", the sieve of understanding.

When you learn to ride a bicycle, you rarely forget. When you load your mind, your soul's computer, with layer upon layer of understanding and set in the mortar of passion (really getting into what you do or want or envision), you're going to get it. You're going to see reality through your own rose glasses.

And this is reality.

In the blink of an eye, we make our reality. We project our future upon the fabric of the Universe and the Universe always gives us what we ultimately want.

In the blink of an eye we are most probably right... or wrong.

Maybe that's why I keep hearing, "choose you this day whom you will serve."

In our life time, we'll blink millions and millions of times.

What do you want to wake up to?