Humpty Dumpty And Spilled Milk Make A Great Omelet

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Transcript

Humpty Dumpty and Spilled Milk Make a Great Omelet

You can’t unscramble an egg—but you can turn it into something new.

What came first, the chicken or the egg? Actually, the real first was asking the question. And asking the same question over and over, searching for meaning, is what keeps us stuck.

We get so caught up trying to define reality that we lose sight of it. The mind assigns meaning where there is none, trapping us in the frying pan.

If there were a forgotten quote in the history books, it should be:
 "I think, therefore I am… unhappy."

Here’s The Blueprint for Unhappiness:

1. Thoughts – The top layer.
2. Patterns – The structure beneath.
3. Conditioning – The foundation.

Your thoughts create unhappiness. Your patterns create your thoughts. And your conditioning—shaped by family, culture, and upbringing—creates your patterns. Most of these patterns were picked up by accident, just like your accent.

You can’t change the past. You can’t directly change your thoughts (that’s like trying to stop a bad penny from coming back). But you can change your patterns.

Spilled milk is spilled. That’s reality. You can blame your parents for your clumsy habits, but that just keeps bartenders and therapists employed—and you stuck in the same cycle.

Patterns are the missing link between your conditioning and your automatic, unhappy thoughts. Change the pattern, and you jam the system. That’s when new thoughts—and new possibilities—start to show up.

Why Traditional Advice Fails

“Think positive!” they say.

“Change your thoughts, change your life!” they promise.

Nice ideas, but they have the lifespan of willpower—short.

Real change starts with noticing. Patterns are like train tracks. Noticing is what shows you the switch to change direction. The more you notice, the more you open up to new routes.

Your thoughts come from two places:

• The mind’s void—limited, conditioned, predictable.
• The universal void—infinite, creative, fresh.

Get stuck in the mind’s void, and you’ll keep recycling the same tired thoughts, trapped in patterns you didn’t even choose. That’s unhappiness in a nutshell: thinking your way into another dead end.

But noticing shifts everything. When you observe your thoughts, rather than debate them, you tap into something deeper—the universal void, the creative source. That’s where new ideas, insights, and change come from. Noticing is the Swiss Army knife of transformation.

Breaking the Fall

If you’ve had a great fall, take note: it’s your thinking that’s keeping you down.

It’s not what happened to you.
It’s not even what you think about what happened.
It’s what you do about it that makes the difference.

Thinking isn’t doing. In fact, you’re not even doing the thinking—your autopilot is.

Observing your thoughts, unemotionally, is the first step to real change. It’s how you go from being stuck in scrambled thoughts . . . to making something new out of them.

Because whether you’re Humpty Dumpty or just someone trying to get unstuck—spontaneous quiche is always an option.

Don’t be this guy:

Humpty Dumpty lay on the ground

Thinking his thoughts and wearing a frown

If he took the time to notice his thinking

He wouldn't be a rotten egg lying there stinking

All the best,
 John