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TAME THE MIND2/27/2023 Have you tried to do nothing for a few hours? Not even think but just stare at an object with no agenda or intention. It's very hard. It's very frightening to some. Emptying the mind is a challenge. There's too much thinking, mindless and intentional. How can we tame it into total submission? I found that the way to do that is to DISRUPT it. Speak something and that thought pattern is cut off immediately. You can clear the mind when you also do something else constructively and that you will enjoy. We call it quiet time or restful time, away from distractions and mundane. Just pacifying thoughts and refocusing to positivity, blessings and great things. Open your mind to the possibilities every waking hour. Let go of anything from the day that takes away your joy. It wasn't meant to be. Maximize an abundant mind.
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ENTITLEMENT2/6/2023 There is a level of entitlement that has totally gone berserk. The radicals are demanding that you change your beliefs and values so that the world will be better. Some people are demanding that you forsake any reason, logic, or common sense for a practice that is not rationale, logical, or based on humanity's sense. Some are demanding that they get your attention because they believe that their story is better than yours, hence, the attention. Students are demanding that they get into the honor roll just for showing up. Parents are demanding that their kids get to enrol in prestigious institutions and will readily bribe officials just to get entry. Politicians are seeking the truth when they themselves are complicit of using science, research, and global consensus to mask what's going on with the pandemic for example. Non-profits are feeling entitled to use their volunteers in order to skimp on organizational support and development and avoid getting the funding for the latter. The social media is full of hypocritical beings who are posers but not real doers, advocates of something that when push comes to shove, not very willing to forgo their convenience, lifestyle, ways of life, and the status quo. How to deal with and navigate around these entitled individuals, organizations, and entities: 1. Reverse their argument. How they would feel if the other person or target group or beneficiaries or constituencies would demand the same? 2. Who benefits from these demands? What actors and groups and causes they are promoting and against? What are the stakes here? 3. Think systemically. How this course of action can lead to more negative impacts down the line? Is this going to be another palliative or flavor-of-the-month solution? Where is that movement is this leading to? Is this resolving an issue or using another group or issue to cover-up or devalue the persistent long-term ones? 4. Some demands and suppositions are downright illegal, unethical, and pie-in-the-sky. Learn to discern and debate well.
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IN MY HUMBLE OPINION12/13/2022 IMHO- Netflix should be boycotted for enabling two spoiled brats and narcissists hogged the mediapshere with their lies, half-truths, and unproven claims and allegations. Total victimhood without consequences whatsoever for their actions is horrible to watch. IMHO-The flipflop on the vaccine gets really interesting. I know a fellow who had 5 shots of the vaccine and given that it is now 'presumably limited in its utility to combat newer variants', the call for stricter rules is logically indefensible. IMHO-The climate energy policies of many governments are cited as one of the reasons for this skyrocketing inflation that in the UK, it boils down to "heat the house or eat." It's called killing the present generation for the future state that is green and carbon-zero. Who wants to live in that utopian fantasy? IMHO-Digital revolution seems like the code name for 'laying off human workers.' There is no such thing as quiet quitting, this malign quiet action have employees being forced out of the workplace through automation and digitalization. Check this out in your own organization. IMHO-When scandal hits a major organization or a corporation, what happens is a series of lockdowns on information, cover-ups, and deafening silence. The sense of culpability is almost nil. Unless the investigators are outsiders and have no conflict of interest in the case, these investigations are at best, an act to say 'we are doing something about it' or a delaying tactic to get themselves or their colleagues out of the mess. IMHO-Where is Karma when you need it? Some of those guilty of heinous crimes of corruption, malfeasance, and other ethical abuse of power while working on public organizations are still on their jobs with a minor 'slap in the hand' reprimands. Who are we kidding here? IMHO- Racism and Anti-semitism are on the rise. But tell me, if everything about you is a race equation, you better look yourself up in the mirror? Life is not all about you, your race, and your skin color. There are things that are more important: character, spirituality, connectedness, service, and excellence. IMHO-In this upcoming festive season, consumers are belt-tightening. Spend more time with loved ones rather than spend your dollars on temporal things that will break, disconnect, and be obsolete in two years! |