It’s Not That Bad

“A large majority of the population seems to be mentally programmed to pay attention to the negative side of life and unfortunately, ignore the positive”.  Bob Proctor

Are you living someone else’s nightmare? I believe that most of us are bombarded with negative ideas that are preventing us from enjoying our creative positive side.  Sometimes I feel like a glass of pure San Francisco water that colored dye slowly drips into and eventually darkens and dirties the water (my mind) with negative stuff.  Now my thoughts are not my thoughts they are someone else’s negative ideas that have colored my thinking.   My solution was to stop reading the newspapers, stop watching CNN and stop googling the negative information filling the internet air waves. Believe me my attitude in just one day improved greatly.  I stopped filling my mind with negative stuff.  Television news feeds society fear, uncertainty and doubt that cast dark shadows and shakes our confidence.  This lack of confidence is growing and spreading under the identity of “Occupy”.   It was said by someone that if you look for the bad in everything you’ll find it, or it will find you, because it is out there searching for an idle mind.  READ and LISTEN to things positive.   Negative destroys and stagnates society while positive allows creativity and progress.

My Head Hurts what about yours?

In a time of environmental turmoil, government disenchantment, high unemployment, religious upheaval, and geographic colonization, our future seems almost hopeless. Where does one focus his/her attention, commitment, and energy?   If you live in California, specifically, San Francisco the important topics are numerous and each must be considered with equal anxiety.   Most issues are surprising even to the people that make it their lifelong purpose to consider and find the worst of everything in life. 

What is on top of the mind most San Franciscans? I thought about this question for a while and I came up with a list of what may be waking us during the night with cold sweats in our silk pajamas.  The following topics flood the local and national newscasts for what feels like around the clock reinforcing all the negativity in the world.  What is important to deal with first that is the question?  What would resolve or solve these crises so we can all get back to doing whatever it is that we do after watching the morning news (negative energy while sitting/standing).  My head started hurting putting this list together.

 Japanese Nuclear Crisis

The non-working radiation detectors on the West coast

Ousting Libya’s Qaddafi regime

The National Budget approval

The States (California) budget approval

Unemployment (Job Creation)

Foreclosures 

Corporate Greed

Homeless in San Francisco

America’s Cup Race

PROP 8

Disappearing 6oz Irish coffee glasses (Should San Francisco sue Buena Vista  for hoarding all the glasses from the rest of the restaurants?)

The Iraq war

The Afghanistan war

The Libyan war

Iranian issue

North Korean issue

Iranian espionage on US soil

Another terrorist attack

Google’s takeover of Silicon Valley

The floating islands of plastic and trash in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Amazon not paying sales tax

Oil shortage

Deteriorating pipes

Southern California succession from the North

Supporting the "Occupy Wall Street" protesters

Oh boy, I sure could listen to  an hour long Jim Rohn audiobook right now

Elevator pitches are out...Thumbs are in...Silence is golden...Really?

Will it be the next generation that inherits a debilitating disease caused by smart devices spreading across the globe?  I am going to call the new disease Smart Device Head-hang (SDH).  If you don’t believe me look around.  Oh?  You can’t!   That is my point your head is hanging over your smart devices (iPhones, PDA’s, Kindles, iPads, Droids and Androids, etc.).  The top of our spines will curve downward from the shoulder after eons of hanging our heads down looking at our smart devices.  I am guilty too for having the same posture when I should be paying attention to the real world.  I am guilty of missing the world around me while I text, email, tweet, and like on all the different social networking media and most of us have every social App including LinkedIn which we have to have right?  Come on people how important can those BTW, OMG, LOL and :-) text messages be and what about updating our status or checking in are they really helpful?  Has anyone ever come up to you and said, “Hey, I just read that you checked-in at the same place I am and I wanted to introduce myself and have dinner with you.”, yeah right?  Will the world end if you miss one call, text, tweet or email?  If the world ended would you have noticed?  What would your Facebook status include or check-in location be?  Would you have anything to “Tweet” home about?  We are all going to look up someday and realize that we have wasted so much time communicating back and forth with a computer instead of real people on the other end of the Internet and those right next to us.  Something else to think about is that in 1000 years human beings could evolve into mouth-less creatures with eight more fingers and two more thumbs to handle multiple devices and keyboards.  We hardly talk to each other using our vocal cords anymore, we let our thumbs do the talking for us and our thumbs are dumb. You should read what they type.  We are the greatest thinkers and innovators of the modern era yet we created the smallest keyboards for the shortest, thickest and biggest finger on our hand, though it’s really not called a finger.  It is far too easy and comfortable being mean to one another knowing we’re separated by clouds, space and reality.  What happened to the real art of “social engineering”?