TPOVs @F-L-O-W
@F-L-O-W Apps
"Without them, we can’t fund the
design gap, or the third space… and without them, we can’t
run the BSOS, and without them, we can’t manage the bridging
that needs to occur between
BS and
@F-L-O-W.
Making the case for @F-L-O-W Apps
—
Applications that point a person in
BS towards
@F-L-O-W, I believe
I have to explain that it is important to understand, or
rather know that
BS can create
@F-L-O-W as well.
Here’s the easiest way I know how
to give you an idea of how Apps are Flawless and can generate
@F-L-O-W:
It would be easier if that were not
the case, but the reason that
BS is so entraining is that it
does work unconsciously to align us with our needs and the
behaviors that result. Tobacco, without a doubt is an
exemplar.
How cool is it to smoke? Well, until we begin to see
people dying all around us… How did all those actors get
those deep sexy voices, and why is my voice whimpy… and the
structure shifted… It was cool to smoke.
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs339/en
- Tobacco kills up to half
of its users. - Tobacco kills nearly six
million people each year, of whom more than 5 million are
users and ex users and more than 600 000 are nonsmokers
exposed to second-hand smoke. Unless urgent action is
taken, the annual death toll could rise to more than eight
million by 2030. - Nearly 80% of the
world’s one billion smokers live in low- and middle-income
countries. - Consumption of tobacco
products is increasing globally, though it is decreasing
in some high-income and upper middle-income countries.
Now, is it cool to smoke?
Even though BS who runs this gambit
on us and everyone who smokes, it does put us in an @F-L-O-W-like
state, and that is the key, it is
@F-L-O-W-like and maybe NOW,
it’s time to define what @F-L-O-W
really is… but I’ll say that for another TPOV.
@F-L-O-W Apps are different than
the BS App or BSOS [Blank Slate Operating
System], and it’s because they produce
@F-L-O-W, real
@F-L-O-W, which you can read about more in depth in the
@F-L-O-W TPOV.
@F-L-O-W Apps produce @F-L-O-W.
That is the secret to creating the
EES, required to leap from the BSOS to
@F-L-O-W.
The applications environment now
has gone virtually mobile. When is the last time you saw an
APP to quit smoking… for those of you reading this still
affilicted, try this:
http://www.cigrx.com/products.html.
There is an amazing,
yet wholly unknown to most ingredient contained in the formula
that is beginning to show great promise against
Inflammaging. People ask me when they
see me use it, if I am trying to quit smoking… and I tell
them I have just started… "smokin"
Actually, I did run across some
"quit smoking apps"
http://www.cultofmac.com/75269/best-apps-to-help-you-quit-smoking-new-years-resolutions/
but they all failed the test for @F-L-O-W Apps because they
didn’t include the study of one’s self in the process.
I
applaud them and as BS Apps, they are moving in the right
direction, but almost always you have to find the way to get
to what people really want, before you tell them how to stop
something that has them…
has some key elements that can’t be overlooked:
and self-knowledge.
2) it has to be
EES (efficient,
effective and sustainable)
3) whether it’s mobile or not, is
not the question, whether it’s attached to deep meaning for
something for powerful and leveraging is.
Action Step: I did this. My
pedicab driver smoked when I met him and his father. His
father is a lost cause, or too high maintenance to manage, and
that is why it’s important to be discerning about things you
can and can’t change.
But his son, of 21 years is not, and so
I created an @F-L-O-W App. This boy is married, has a daughter
he cares very much about, but has a step family as well, who
basically raised him.
This step family is extremely important
to him, yet he doesn’t earn enough money to meet his own
obligations a lot of the time, not alone those of his step
family. Two years ago when he started driving for me, or
should I say pedaling… I asked him if he would quit smoking
if I gave him money each month for his step family.
Two years
later, he is smokefree, and earns 1000 pesos ($22), a fifth of
his salary as a bonus for not smoking, which he supports his
step family with. Now, while this is extremely simple, it’s a
good idea of how the "App" meets the test of @F-L-O-W in so many
ways.
We’re going to be playing with
Mobile Apps in the future, if you want to play along, join us.
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You, Me, and We @F-L-O-W
Mike R. Jay is a developmentalist utilizing
consulting, coaching, mentoring and advising as methods to offer
developmental scaffolding for aspiring leaders who are interested in
being, doing, having, becoming, and contributing… to helping people
have lives.
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