It’s a weird trick, but a trick that almost every partner utilizes if he or she or they are “about the buzz” and “in the know”. It is a little trick that we are allowed to utilize on Saturdays. Only on Saturdays.
It’s something that involves a movie projector, a screen, two lamps, and a living room in a two story home in a nicer, whiter part of your nearby city. Even though it is a nicer and whiter part of the city, electricity is still harder to come by and expensive, so the two lamps and the movie projector can only be turned on one day a week – Saturday.
You can play whatever movies you want to play on Saturday, every Saturday, but they have to be in black and white and they have to have been filmed before the year 1965. They can be foreign films, that part doesn’t matter. Both lamps are turned on for the entire day, a lamp on the left hand side of the projector screen and a lamp on the right hand side of the projector screen. The lamp to watch for is the one on the left hand side.
It won’t look like anything special, and the light coming from the lamp won’t look any different – not brighter and not dimmer. And it won’t flicker or anything. Basically, it won’t stand out at all.
But if you start to hone in on it, start to really fixate on it, it will begin to radically change how you are feeling on that day. It will also untangle all of your thoughts, unspool them and leave them in a mess on the ground at your feet, so that your thoughts are completely empty and free.
But you cannot just be passively looking at the left lamp, watching it from the corner of your eye while you are also watching the movie. No, you need to be completely focused on the lamp and blocking out the projector screen, so that the screen is the distant thing that is more in your periphery. You can obviously be listening to the sounds and the dialogue in the background, but you must not be watching any part of the movie. If you accidentally watch the start of the movie, that is completely fine. What is important is redirecting your eyes as soon as you are able.
The left lamp’s effects start to sink in within the first fifteen minutes, generally. But you cannot leave once the effects take hold. I mean technically you could leave, but the day’s effects would not last. You must stay there in the living room and stare at the lamp for at least three hours. After three hours you can leave, and the blissful effects will last for the remainder of the day.
Even though the effects fade away once the clock chimes midnight and Saturday switches over to Sunday, the benefits of Saturday’s effects have a way of setting you up for success and making the other six days of the week much more bearable and even enjoyable. We have received this feedback from multiple partners, and I have found this to be the case for myself as well. It’s as if Saturday is one giant reset button. I can say for myself that I certainly notice a big negative difference on the weeks where I don’t take the time to reset by looking at the lamp on the left hand side of the projector screen on Saturday.
One of the trickier parts of this trick is figuring out how to sneak into someone’s house, or asking permission to use someone’s two story home in a nice whiter neighborhood and find someone who also happens to own two lamps and a movie projector and screen. Some of us are lucky enough to already be white and live in nicer neighborhoods and own a movie projector and screen and two lamps, so we’ve already got it made. You can reset on Saturday from the comfort of your own home. It’s obviously more challenging for those of us who have to sneak into someone’s house or get permission.
Sneaking in is quicker but it’s also riskier, especially considering the fact that most homeowners like to relax in their own homes on the weekend. Getting someone’s permission is more sustainable but it’s far more difficult at the outset, all that explaining and trying to convince. And you’re lucky to convince a homeowner to let you use their movie projector and screen one time, but to make it a regular thing where you use it almost every Saturday? That’s much more difficult. Also, how many people in this day and age own movie projectors and screens? This is a challenge in and of itself. The sales for movie projectors and screens across the nation skyrocketed when this trick was first discovered.
I cannot stress enough that this is not a necessary action or routine for survival and employment. Technically if you’re part of the Smart Group Family, you don’t have to make this procedure part of your weekly routine. But gosh darn it, isn’t it nice. Isn’t that Saturday reset button just a beautiful transition, a nice little break, like slipping into a warm bubble bath and gazing around at all the scented candles.
And research has shown that not only does this trick make partners at the Smart Group Family happier and calmer, it also increases their daily work productivity and longevity at the company. Looking at the left hand lamp by the screen for three hours in the home of a rich white neighborhood every Saturday is not required for being a member of the Smart Group Family. Once you’re Family you’re Family for life. Yep, you’re stuck with us!
Pressing that reset button isn’t a requirement, but it is strongly encouraged and recommended. Heck, it even gets a thumbs up from our founder and president, Mr. Barnsworth!
Please, think it over and get back to us.
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