What incredible success would you have, if you really meant what you said about your goals or wanting to make changes?
If you set yourself up to win, changed your habits and environment, had specific goals and timelines and committed fully to discipline each day rather than motivation, your success would be almost inevitable.
So what’s stopping you from setting yourself up to win?
What you do today sows the seeds for your tomorrow. What seeds are you planting? If you’re not planting healthy seeds, don’t expect much in the future. Are you learning new things? Are you acquiring new skills or honing useful ones?
Your application of your knowledge and skills is required to get some feedback and build a brighter future. Sow your seeds of success today and everyday.
Learning how to assess information without your emotions and bias overtaking you, is a rare and useful skill.
Some folks are so interested in winning the argument, they’re not that interested in the facts or context surrounding it.
If you want better understanding, more than having your view get more votes, then go and engage with people holding the opposite view to you. It may not change your mind but you’ll better understand the complexities of the situation.
You’ll also become a better person and have less divisive conversations. So no need to wait for others to be less difficult in conversations. You can lead the way and be more balanced from the start.
It can be very hard to feel what another person is feeling in the moment. Even if you have gone through the same or similar experience, the lense you look through from all your life experience will be different.
We try to notice one or two key elements and think we are same same. But there are millions of other factors that can enhance or deepen the experience for one person compared to another.
Thanks AC.
Perhaps it could be true. No one else is as good as you. Your sources are the best in the world, your analysis are second to none and you articulate every position with exceptional attention to detail and verbal accuracy.
Or maybe you have a blind spot or two you would rather not acknowledge or didn’t know you had. Consider the possibilities…
It’s great for relaxing, pattern recognition and mental acuity. There’s a great social element too. Even with solitaire (who hasn’t had someone lean over and help them out…)
First, ensure you have several options to consider. Then consider the pros and cons of each. You can then go on to compare each against the other. Finally you will weigh up your options and make a decision. Then implement the decision you made.
Enjoy!!!
How nice it might be if everyone had to say this before they spoke. Or we could use technology to have a sign flash above people’s heads as they spoke.
It’s almost funny how often some people confuse their opinion with fact. Or they think saying ‘my truth’ is very different from saying ‘my opinion’.
If you start your sentence with, ‘The fact of the matter is’, or something similar, it doesn’t make it a fact if it is your opinion.
And please don’t get me started on mis-information and other nonsense words or phrases. If you think someone got some information wrong, say so. But unless you back it up with the correct information, and that 90% of the planet would agree is a fact (not just your tribe or 52% of people), then it is just your opinion.
It doesn’t make you right or wrong. And it doesn’t make you better or worse. Generally it means you interpret something differently than someone else. Which is normal and fine.
You may have noticed a movement or word that your angle, position, experience or education may have enhanced for you. Then you may have filtered that through different thoughts, values and ideas you have from your limited experience and knowledge of the entire known universe.
This can bring you to a slightly different conclusion compared to someone else or even to create a polar opposite opinion.
In addition, you may simply be trying to create a particular position so only select data relevant to your desired opinion.
Rather than be cross, anxious or bewildered by another person’s opinion, try to enjoy watching it unfold. Watch people make up their mind about their opinion, or simply parrot someone else’s (that is socially acceptable among their peer group), and then find the data to justify it or just badger you with their opinion without balanced material. Fascinating.
