Welcome, Ven a gozar!

When we have have enough water here in New Mexico, I enjoy spring kayaking on a local lake. I always find being on the water relaxing, just floating and soaking up the sun. I occasionally also drown a worm or two, to make it look like I am actually doing something other than slowly paddling around the lake. I would not want it to get out that sometimes moving slow can be fun too.

In the spring our weather here is different compared to other areas of the country. You can almost set your watch by the winds here. In early morning, the weather of course is beautiful. It remains that way until about eleven o’clock when a slight breeze makes itself known. It is usually light perhaps no more than five miles per hour starting out. As the clock moves closer to one o’clock the breeze starts taking on a personality. The breeze becomes a full blown wind. Thirty mile an hour wind, with gusts reaching forty or more miles per hour is not uncommon.

The lake I paddle on is a river which is dammed up. This makes for a long narrow lake, with very deep water in the middle. The wind hits the lake at the end with the dam on it and blows up the river channel. The wind is strong enough, and the waves generated are big enough, that they chase off the sailboats and fisherman from the water. They probably have more sense than I do, and leave before the waves become too serious. In a kayak though play time has begun - if you are creative.

One day when the wind really started to blow, and the waves went higher, I found a way to enjoy the wind and waves. I paddle my kayak along the shoreline where the wind isn’t much of a bother down to the dam area. Once there I line myself up as much as possible to paddle across the lake in the direction the wind is blowing. I have found that with little paddling on my part, I do a New Mexico version of kayak surfing for about a mile across the lake before I run out of water.

There was a brilliant man, Ralph Nelson Elliott who among other things made himself rich forecasting how the stock market would perform. Elliott developed and promoted a theory that everything happened in waves in the stock market. When the stock market would surge up in a Bull market, the trends could be predicted in a certain series of waves. When the stock market would trend down it could also be tracked in a different series of waves or surges.

Elliott made himself and many others very wealthy, from predicting market trends by charting the stock market, and analyzing charts. Elliott was also an author of sorts, but his books never achieved any real popularity that I am aware of. Elliott unfortunately could not escape one of the pitfalls that hit many people operating in the stratosphere of the mind. In middle age Elliott was committed, and his life, and career were effectively over.

If you live long enough, and pay attention, you will realize my kayaking story, and the brilliance of Elliott apply to our own life. The Elliot wave theory once it was analyzed was found to share structure with the Fibonacci sequence, and the Golden ratio which are so prevalent in our lives we usually are not even aware of them.

These waves that flow up and down also flow in our lives. There are times when we shine, and other weeks when we do not regardless of any apparent effort of our own. It is important that we identify where we are in the cycle, and capitalize on the high points. Paddle close to shore during the low points. When we do this life is good and everything is in concert with us. When we go against the natural flow of life, our world tends to be more difficult, leading to unneeded frustration. Following the rhythm of our life is easy if we are paying attention.

Going against your life’s rhythm is hard. I suggest you always try to take the easy road and enjoy the trip.

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