Part 3: Present

Anyone and everyone can achieve BOP! It is that ambiguous state of greatness that top athletes refer to as “being in the zone”—when they’re at the top of their game—performing flawlessly and feeling seemingly effortless joy. Good news! That state of greatness is not just for athletes anymore. BOP = Balanced + Observant + Present.

Balance, the first step in BOP, is essential to everything in life—if you are not in balance the slightest obstacle will knock you off course—that applies physically, mentally and spiritually, but you must begin by balancing your body physically.
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Part 2: Observant

BOP—being grounded in the ultimate state of readiness—is a solid foundation for all the greatness you will achieve in life. It is the Essence of Excellence! When you are in BOP, you are:

B = Balanced
O = Observant
P = Present

BOP is being ready and available to the most that life has to offer you—emotionally, physically, spiritually, and mentally. Once you are Balanced and ready for action, you must turn to your greatest teacher: your own power of Observation. Being Observant is the second step in BOP and one of your most powerful tools. It incorporates everything we perceive through our sensory acuity as well as everything we perceive both consciously and unconsciously.
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Part 1: Balanced

When I became involved in the theory of BOP, it reminded me of my youth in the late fifties. Those were the days! There was this dance craze going on at the time called “The Be-Bop” or as my mother used to call it, “The Dirty Boogie.” My grandmother was worse; to her it was the devil’s music! I used to sneak out every chance I could to go to my friend’s house. We’d listen to records like Elvis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Bill Haley and the Comets and we’d rock around the clock! So when I came up with the term BOP, it brought me back to when I was a teenager and all the fun I had just listening and dancing the night away.
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Today let’s chat about why funny is money…and break this down.

CHA-HA-HA-CHING!

In any relationship, be it professional or personal, humor can be part of the glue that holds it together and moves it forward. Making a customer laugh can get a waitress a bigger tip. A humorous salesman can relax the customers and make them less critical, hostile or aggressive. For actors, the ability to make others laugh can be essential in getting ahead - in casting sessions, the actor most likely to book the part is the actor with a sense of humor because he will be fun to work with on the set. With friends, family or spouses, humor can disarm a tense situation and lead to a more relaxed environment where honest communication is possible. When you make other people laugh you, relax them… and yourself.
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Everybody luvs a good fight…

…if the fight is evenly matched. But this cat fight made me wet my pants - yes I peed in my pants from laughter.

It reminded me of the movie, “The Mouse that Roared” The world’s smallest nation, the Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their economic woes is to declare war on the United States, lose and accept foreign aid. Staring the late, Peter Sellers.

Here is what I am going to do: I am going to paraphrase and reprint some of John Reese’s  ”Pissed off Post,” because it is too long.

So let’s get ready to rumble!

This is not the whole thing. John said, “I was recently called out and attackedby Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins over at the blog Mashable with his latest post, Is Twitter Vulnerable To Marketer Attack?.”
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