Brick Walls

If you haven't seen the video of Randy Paush's "Last Lecture" I urge you to check it out. It is long but it is excellent. The short one is alright but I felt I got much more out of the full lecture.

If you ever run into a brick wall like randy talks about you will know, it will hit you like a ton bricks, your heart may well, the lip start quivering and you really want to hit something. when someone tells you that you can't do something, in their mind it is impossible. Don't let their thoughts limit your abilities. Sometimes our Friends and Family can be our worst enemies, no matter how much you still love them. There are times when you need to go with your instinct and ingore the consensus. Have you ever seen the experiments they have done about how people will fall in line with what the others around them are saying. It is creepy to think that we can all be that gullible. If everybody around you is running in one direction you might want to step back and take a look, You may even want to run the opposite way.

One of my favorite books is Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway, by Susan Jeffers. This goes extensively into how we stop ourselves from doing things, all in our heads, how others stop us and how we believe what others tells us that we can and can't do. It is sometimes disheartening to come to the realization that the ones closest to us can stop us in our tracks, and that our brains don't always work in our favor. I have seen this happen many times in my own life as well as witnessed it happening to others.

"Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it."
- William Penn

This is one of the main reasons I tell most of the people I know to not pay attention to MSM(main stream media - for the unknowing). It is propaganda that most of the crowd is going to go for but is more than likely way off base. I must say to this watch what goes into your head it may not be what you thought it was.

I am still working out the kinks of writing this and getting into the swing of this so bear with me. I will go more extensively into many things I touch on in these first few posts once I get more comfortable posting.


JB

Strategy

Is strategy used anymore at all? I have recently gotten in to thinking about strategy, as i have just read Miyamoto Musashi: Book of the Five Rings. I never thought of it much until it hit me one day that I was never a very good strategists myself and thought I should learn something about it.
It seems that more recently though people are giving up on strategic planning and following through on those plans to make them work correctly, they just want to get it done. They figure they will deal with the consequences after they occur, and consequences will occur, often for a very long time to come. Goal planning is a part of strategy but without a goal you can not plan properly how to implement anything.

"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them."– Albert Einstein

I take into account my recent start in Tae Kwon Do, I have been practicing this for only a year and am at a blue belt status. This has opened my eyes to many things I have come to believe. More than any, and what is a reoccurring theme is that everything is in your head. I started thinking I couldn’t do very much and that I was out of shape. Now I am in better shape but have gained weight. I lost control of my strategy, I felt that by simply joining Tae Kwon Do I would loose the extra weight I had put on, but I started eating unhealthy and not paying attention to what went in and as a result I need to reformulate the plan again. All this even though I have lost weight in the past doesn’t mean I had the best strategy to keeping it off.

I keep searching for things that can help me change and challenge myself; I have been studying several things for the past few years. I have read several books on psychology, learning, self help and life in general. Some are great others not so, but most of them you can get something out of. I feel that anything you do, anything that has come into your life has done so for a reason. These things guide you to your next step help you down your path. They can open your eyes for new adventures and help to close doors on things you want out of your life. You must recognize this and figure out how to use it, than get out of your way to use it.

"Our greatest battles are with our own minds."- Jameson Frank

Now finally on my opening thoughts, I would like to say that this is a first for me. I am a very quite person, I don’t like to stir the pot but I felt things had to get out of my head and this may help others. I like going off in tangents and finding crazy links to things that I feel sync up. If you can catch on great, we are on the same wavelength. If not don’t get upset at me for loosing track, I will get back to the point eventually pay attention. As I read about the professor who lied to his class to get them to pay attention, people only pay attention if you are interesting and throw them off once in a while.

JB

"Others won't believe in you until you believe in yourself"