Jackson on Edinburgh
Hi! Jackson here! I’d like to cut this piece down to three sections, (1) Edinburgh – what? and how? (2) Pushing through with intensity (3) Lifestyle.
(1) Edinburgh - what? and how?
For the past three weeks or so I’ve been up here in Scotland’s Edinburgh punchin’ in with my new show ‘Jackson’s Way’. Usually my stuff picks up an audience and Scotland’s been no exception; we started out with ten or fifteen people and now it’s selling out Jackson style!
Let me explain just a little about my work for your readers. The work is based around the systematic and repeated use of pointless acts and things. Now we’re not talking about mere silliness. Dressing up as a store employee and tricking customers does not qualify. That has a point: to amuse (yourself and others). No, something really pointless would be the repeated scratching of the arm of a couch (a neither pleasant nor unpleasant sensation), for over an hour for no benefit whatsoever. Something properly pointless would be (to return to our first example) wearing a store employee’s uniform not to trick but to actually help customers much in the same way a genuine store employee would (directing customers to the correct places, answering questions etc.), effectively becoming an extra shopping assistant without any apparent gain, financial or otherwise. I’d just be an unpaid store employee telling people where the eggs are.
Like what you’re hearing? Me too! And this stuff has taken off in Edinburgh because people just wanna hear it.
(2) Pushing through with intensity
One very satisfying part of the Edinburgh experience has been the street work. We’ve held a few impromptu workshops around the city and the response has been awesome. I’m always amazed and humbled by the work passers-by come up with. Just yesterday F, a sure tip for this years ‘Gold Towel’, (Jackson’s Way unlike other life methods is experimenting with a really competitive approach to teaching and learning), did some work with part of a traffic cone which blew me away. Earlier we had tried to move the National Gallery, before being informed that it is in fact moved nightly (along with several other of the larger civic buildings in the lower part of the city) into what is effectively a building park under the hill. This is to provide parking space for the military tattoo. We pushed through with intensity though and tried tp push and pull it even an inch! Futile!
(3) Lifestyle
A life coach has to stay fit as the show is pretty physical. So I’ve been on a pretty healthy regimewhile I’ve been here. Home early for some TV about Scottish Islands and cooking. Jogging. Bran. No drink (the one exception being one night at a bar called the Jolly Judge. Yikes! Couple of sailors, a guy on crutches, and me!)
See you all at a future seminar or hopa! Keep pushin’ through!
Jackson