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Intelligence · Days 1–10Day 8

The CEO Words · Three layers, one law

The Law of Possibility

Jewel of the day · Labradorite. C is who she is. E is how she works. O is what she holds and increases.

Spoken on this day

Possibility is not wishing. Possibility is an opening that already exists, found and then widened. Day 6 and Day 7 add to Day 8: Potential cleaned the vessel, Plenty gave her a supply that keeps arriving. Add capacity to supply and you get Possibility — because a clean vessel with an ocean behind it can be opened without fear of running out.

So she becomes clear. She moves from clear by eliminating, because she already has an opening. Nothing new had to be manufactured; the door was in the wall the whole time. Elimination is not loss here — it is the removal of what stood in the doorway.

Then she architects. She becomes coherent: the parts of her agree, so she can be followed. She can see, so she elucidates — she makes light of a thing for other people — and she does it because she is an opener. It is enormously advantageous to move from profitable to profit: you learn you have an opening already, and you open it because opening is what you are. Clear becomes coherent simply by donning another set of clothes — by becoming a different stone. You are brighter, more intelligent, and you are in the Intelligence season on Day 8.

Then sovereign. She, her business and her household move from clear to coherent to cogent — coherent that carries power. She eliminates, then she elucidates, then she edges. That is what a queen does when she weaves: she manipulates things in a positive direction and creates openings. That is her increase. It begins with recognizing one opening, because she has the potential of Day 6 — and potential, opened, multiplies into possibilities.

Layer One

Clear · Eliminate · Opening

Layer Two

Coherent · Elucidate · Opener

Layer Three

Cogent · Edge · Openings

Layer One

The Adventure CEO

The Novice · She makes a thing profitable

She stops looking for a door and notices the one that is already there. Here she is clear, she eliminates what stands in the doorway, and what she has to work with is an opening.

C

The Attribute · WHO she is

Clear

adjective · attribute of God

Nothing in the way — light passes through her and so does opportunity.

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  1. 01Free from anything that darkens or obscures
  2. 02Transparent — what is inside can be seen without explanation
  3. 03Unclouded in mind; thinking without fog
  4. 04Unobstructed — a clear road, a clear doorway
  5. 05Easily understood; plain rather than clever
  6. 06Distinct — sharply separated from what it is not
  7. 07Free of debt, charge or accusation; cleared
  8. 08Bright and luminous, as a clear sky
  9. 09Certain, without doubt or hedging
  10. 10Pure — nothing mixed in that does not belong
  11. 11Audible; heard the first time it is said
  12. 12Open and unblocked, ready to be passed through
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E

The Character · HOW she works

Eliminate

verb · the character of the thing

To take out entirely what stands in the doorway — not manage it, remove it.

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  1. 01To remove completely; to get rid of
  2. 02To put out of the way, out of doors, out of consideration
  3. 03To exclude what does not belong in the count
  4. 04To expel from the body what has been used
  5. 05To cancel — to end a cost, a habit, a commitment
  6. 06To rule out an option so the true one becomes visible
  7. 07To take an obstruction out of a passage
  8. 08To simplify by subtraction rather than addition
  9. 09To finish a thing so it never returns
  10. 10To clear the field before building on it
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O

The Perfection · WHAT she holds and increases

Opening

noun · the office and the resource

The gap that already exists — the way through, given before it is earned.

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  1. 01A gap, hole or passage through which one may pass
  2. 02An opportunity — a favorable chance already available
  3. 03A vacancy; a place waiting to be filled
  4. 04The beginning of a thing, as the opening of a book
  5. 05A clearing in a forest where light reaches the ground
  6. 06An unobstructed way in or out
  7. 07A first move that determines everything after it
  8. 08An aperture that lets in air and light
  9. 09A door standing ajar rather than locked
  10. 10A moment of access that will not stay open forever
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Layer Two

The Architect CEO

The Queen's Shoes · She makes it profitable and sovereign

Clear becomes coherent — the parts of her agree, so she can be followed. She elucidates, because she can see; and she does it because she is an opener. Profitable becomes profit.

C

The Attribute · WHO she is

Coherent

adjective · attribute of God

Clear with the parts agreeing — holding together so it can be trusted and followed.

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  1. 01Sticking together; the parts holding as one body
  2. 02Logically consistent — no piece contradicting another
  3. 03Intelligible; able to be followed from start to finish
  4. 04Orderly in arrangement rather than merely tidy
  5. 05Unified — many elements moving as one purpose
  6. 06Articulate under pressure, still making sense
  7. 07Connected: each part explaining the next
  8. 08In phase, as coherent light travels as one beam
  9. 09Sound in reasoning; nothing borrowed to make it work
  10. 10Integrated — the woman, the house and the business agreeing
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E

The Character · HOW she works

Elucidate

verb · the character of the thing

To make a thing light — to explain it so other people can walk through it too.

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  1. 01To throw light upon; to make lucid
  2. 02To explain so that the obscure becomes obvious
  3. 03To clarify by drawing out the true meaning
  4. 04To illustrate — to show, not merely tell
  5. 05To interpret what others cannot yet read
  6. 06To simplify without cheapening
  7. 07To bring understanding to a room
  8. 08To resolve confusion by exposing structure
  9. 09To teach the way through, having walked it
  10. 10To make plain what was implied
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O

The Perfection · WHAT she holds and increases

Opener

noun · the office and the resource

What she becomes — the one whose presence makes a shut thing give way.

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  1. 01One who opens; that which causes a thing to give way
  2. 02The first — the one who goes ahead and unlocks the road
  3. 03A key; an instrument made for access
  4. 04One who begins a market, a market day, a season
  5. 05A door-holder — she opens and stands there for others
  6. 06That which starts the proceedings and sets the tone
  7. 07One who removes the seal from what was closed
  8. 08A pioneer of a way that did not exist as a way
  9. 09The one who makes entry possible for those behind her
  10. 10A revealer — she opens so a thing can be seen
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Layer Three

The Sovereign CEO

The Prosperous One · She governs and prospers

Coherent becomes cogent — clarity carrying power. She edges: she weaves things in a positive direction, and what she increases is openings, plural — doors made for other people.

C

The Attribute · WHO she is

Cogent

adjective · attribute of God

Coherent with force added — clear enough to be believed and strong enough to move.

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  1. 01Powerful in effect; compelling belief
  2. 02Forcible — it drives the mind toward assent
  3. 03Convincing because it is true, not because it is loud
  4. 04Well-grounded; resting on what will hold
  5. 05Pointed — nothing wasted in the saying of it
  6. 06Weighty; carrying consequence
  7. 07Persuasive without manipulation
  8. 08Valid and pertinent at the same time
  9. 09Irresistible in argument by being simply right
  10. 10Authoritative — she speaks and the matter is settled
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E

The Character · HOW she works

Edge

verb · the character of the thing

To move a thing forward little by little in a chosen direction — and to give it a border.

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  1. 01To move gradually and deliberately toward something
  2. 02To advance by degrees where force would fail
  3. 03To furnish with an edge; to sharpen
  4. 04To border — to finish a thing at its boundary
  5. 05To trim so the shape becomes definite
  6. 06To incline or urge in a direction on purpose
  7. 07To hem, as a queen hems her weaving so it will not fray
  8. 08To gain a small advantage and keep it
  9. 09To press quietly ahead of where one was
  10. 10To guide something toward its opening rather than shove it
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O

The Perfection · WHAT she holds and increases

Openings

noun · the office and the resource

What she increases — one opening recognized becomes many doors she can hand out.

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  1. 01Many ways through, held at once
  2. 02Opportunities she creates rather than waits for
  3. 03Positions and places she can now fill with other women
  4. 04Markets opened; doors made where there was wall
  5. 05Entrances built into a house on purpose
  6. 06Accesses given as inheritance, not as favor
  7. 07The plural of one recognized chance, multiplied
  8. 08Clearings made in the forest so light reaches the floor
  9. 09Beginnings offered to those with no beginning yet
  10. 10Increase measured in doors, not in dollars alone
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The Wardrobe & the Adventure · Day 8

The Trade Winds

Adventure CEO · Form

Sailing wrap

monsoon indigo cotton

You dress for the season that is actually here.

Architect CEO · Function

Star-glass

brass and horn

You navigate by something fixed, not by mood.

Sovereign CEO · Dominion

Merchant's sash

gold-shot silk

You carry cargo worth the crossing.

Where this law was proved · The Indian Ocean · Arab and Swahili traders · 1st century

Navigators learn the winds are seasonal, and stop fighting the ocean

The lesson from the past

Wealth came to the ones who learned the timing of the wind, not to the ones who rowed hardest against it.

The future it opens

Find the seasonal wind in your work — the month people buy, the hour you think best — and sail with it.

The burden Christian sets down today

Rowing against a wind that will turn on its own.

From the classics · Hinds' Feet on High Places

The detour into the desert — the wrong direction that was the right road.

The Classics Shelf →

Write it by hand · the day's three lines

  1. 01What season is my work actually in?

  2. 02Where am I rowing against the wind?

  3. 03What is my fixed star this month?

Connected · Cooperative · Coordinated. Establish · Extend · Expand. Organization · Organizer · Organizations. Same law, three heights: profitable, then profitable and sovereign, then prosperous.

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