The Story of TELOS
What is TELOS?
The Effortless Life Operating System
What is TELOS?
TELOS stands for The Effortless Life Operating System, which is simply a way to get stuff done. It is a sustainable, productive and enjoyable way to get stuff done. It is The Effortless Way to get stuff done. For the last 30 years I have been applying the 3 simple steps of TELOS to my tennis lessons and when I decided to organize my process, The TELOS Tennis Curriculum was born. It is an awareness-based curriculum based on the principles of TELOS.
The Sculptures Tell the Story
Sabotage (awareness)
- 27 years old, career over, and wandering around NYC unaware of how to dig out of the hole I was in, I happened upon a street art fair at Washington Square Park. I saw this sculpture and knew I had to have it. I could feel in the deepest parts of my being, that this statue summed up my life at that moment. It crystallized the awareness that I was working really hard to achieve stuff and in actuality I was pulling the ground out from under my feet. At one point over the next year I actually drilled holes in the metal plate that was the base and attached the sculpture to the wall so the figure wasn’t only trying to pull the ground out from under himself, he was doing it while going straight up. For me this sculpture signified “The Hard Way” to get things done, and although there was satisfaction in this approach it clearly was not sustainable. We only get one body and when it breaks down life sucks. There had to be another way to achieve excellence.
Freedom (acceptance)
- This image had lived inside my head for the last 20 years until I finally found an artist who worked with metals and could help me create my vision. The figure in the sculpture shows that once I had accepted my situation as it was I was free to take action to change it to what I wanted it to be. So I didn’t just let go of the chain, I threw it off. I knew this time I had to achieve excellence in a different way; in a sustainable way. I needed to find a way that my mind and my body could work together in harmony to fulfill my goals. Throwing off the chain signified the end of my getting stuff done “The Hard Way”, and the beginning of my getting stuff done “The Effortless Way”. It was the beginning of an expanding sense of joy and the accomplishing of meaningful goals. Today, that is my definition of success.
Action
- When The Effortless Way became how I got stuff done, my life instantly became one of balance and action. I was no longer chained to the ground and I was free. My life became a sustainable and enjoyable way to accomplish meaningful things. And that is the promise of TELOS, and my wish for you ~ Discover, Clarify and Fulfill your dreams ~ In a sustainable, productive, and enjoyable way.
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