Category: Observe

CategoriesObserveReframe your thoughtsThink About It

Who Has Your Attention?

Posted on August 28, 2024

Guaranteed you are paying attention to someone or something, a person or a group. Have you thought much about this? Did you think through what they are saying, why they are saying it and what impact it is having on your life?

For example, if you follow sports closely, do you have a favourite team or player? What do they stand for or represent? Do they make you a better person? In whose eyes?

People usually think the people they follow are the best. This is true for sports teams, religions, political parties, authors, schools and even fishing clubs.

If you are interested in the greater good, for you and others, it may not matter as much who you follow as what positive influence you’re getting from it.

However, if you drop a notch and only want the greatest good for your group (not the population at large), then that is where division starts and troubles begin and it may even lead to conflict.

Groups and associations can be great. They are not all equally good. So be mindful about how much you rely on them being the only way with the correct information. You can get good information anywhere. Make sure you don’t fall for second tier info from a top tier source.

0
CategoriesObserve

“I Know”, Is A Weak Reply

Posted on August 27, 2024

If you are replying, “I know”, to something, oftentimes it is because something was to be done and it wasn’t.

If you really know, then please sort it out. Then no one will have to tell you.

You may as well not know if you have done nothing about it.

0
CategoriesActionHealth & FitnessObserveThink About It

All Natural

Posted on August 25, 2024

All natural is the ideal it seems. Vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, meat, and milk are pretty natural foods.

Sure, sour lollies are fun to eat, but they really are manufactured. Planes are also manufactured, because humans can’t fly naturally, like birds.

So many people want to encourage everyone else to eat, live, and be more natural. Unfortunately, many of these same folks want to eat, live and be manufactured, man-made or unnatural.

Why is that?

0
CategoriesActionGoals, Results & New ThinkingObserveReframe your thoughtsThink About It

Avoiding Work Is Avoiding Opportunity

Posted on August 24, 2024

It is easy to dismiss work as hard, boring, dirty, tiring or dismal. This is not a helpful way to look at things. Check yourself if this is the only way you see work, as you may lean to the negative, which you may want to adjust.

Work can also be interesting, fun, enjoyable, creative, confidence-building and energising.

How you see it is in part how you see things generally and also what it is. You can change what you do and you can change how you see things, so don’t delay in making some changes.

0
CategoriesObserveThink About ItTimeVideo

In The Moment

Posted on August 18, 2024

Live in the moment. I take a lot of pictures, but I rarely go back to them. Even if I did, would I want to relive all 70,000 moments? It’s like reliving my life while pausing what is happening now for several years!

(Assume 5 seconds to see, on average, each photo. That’s 3 years of 40 hour work weeks to see all the shots. That does not include video.)

And then what do you do with these when you pass? Your children might want a few pictures of you and them in them and that’s it.

Then do you bin or delete all those pics after years of taking them?

Maybe our maker did a better job preparing for this. Only really important memories are kept. The rest disappear. And when you pass, they all go with you.

Think about that. And live in the moment.

0
CategoriesObserveThink About It

Life Is A Fine Line

Posted on August 10, 2024

Life is precious. A bullet missing a major organ by millimetres can mean you’re alive. A few unfortunate words or good ones in the wrong order could see you in jail for several years.

Misrepresenting the real situation by changing a word, tense or emphasis, could mean certain death, jail or freedom.

Life is full of fine lines. Cross them at your peril. Push things too far and the Universe will snap back. The French Revolution, a ball thrown in the air, or playing with a dog and going one step too far, are all examples of limits being crossed and the (natural) consequences.

Understand where the line is and was, and then adjust quickly, before it’s too late.

0
CategoriesObserveReframe your thoughts

The 1%

Posted on August 7, 2024

The media and many people spend too much time on the wrong 1%. Focusing on the wealthiest 1% generally breeds jealousy, envy, greed and contempt. Who does that really help?

The 1% we should be focusing on is the 1% that has a criminal element. And that should be the sole metric. If they do criminal activity, you throw the book at them. Only those that consistently demonstrate a desire to reform have the potential for any leniency. Like law and order used to be.

Treat all criminals the same, without exception for race, religion, or nationality and you will reduce social unrest immediately. People want equality under the law for everyone. No special treatment.

The people who are protesting now were simply sitting at home 3 and 10 weeks ago. They were not in the news.

But then the police and media and government seemed to be playing around with a very tragic situation which stirred things up. Stop doing that. These three institutions need to do better: and quickly please.

0