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Blowing It Scenario #66-Set Values And Fixed Mindsets.

Is it egotistical or self righteousness to have standards that are too high for anyone to meet?

Even if it is, we never the less should own it, if that is where we place our values. Don’t compromise if you don’t have too. Just know in doing so you’ll be alienating half the people around you, and half the world around you. Values are our life’s compass, our continuous guide lines. Stay within the lines and we eventually get what we want. Go outside of it and a whole new world is opened up for us right before our eyes.

This is not an argument to take one approach over the other.  We don’t need to settle for anything less than that of our highest standards but think of all the possibilities and life changing outcomes if we just open ourselves up to them. Imagine how cool life could be if we were in steady pursuit of our goals yet open to the possibilities that came along throughout that noble pursuit. Not a set or fixed mindset but a growth mindset. Keep continuously growing in all your endeavors, stay true to your compass.  Set the highest standards, have the most unattainable goals and values. Just be open along the journey to them.



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Blowing It Scenario #65-Our Failure To Value Our Time Properly.

Time Is Our Most Valuable Resource We Control.

Yet we squander it as if there is a never ending abundance of it. We’ll take on unfulfilling jobs that pay us barely enough to get by and in doing so, we let someone else put a price tag on our time. We’ll think we’re making money if we sell something online yet often times when we do, those that want to purchase want our time as well. It takes time to meet them, it takes time to make that transaction. Time we don’t account for but never the less time we lose. We wait on others often to attend events. I believe one of the most disrespectful things you can do is to not be on time. When you make others wait for you you are basically telling them your time is more valuable than theirs.

683,280 hours that’s how many hours you have if you live to be the average age of 78. Take out the more unproductive years of your youth and you only have three quarters of that time left. If we valued our time appropriately we’d probably charge far more for work and other menial task then we currently do. Markets tend to dictate price but people tend to dictate markets. We need to make them work for us without the barriers of our time.

We shouldn’t go out of our way just to save a buck when we know it cost 10 times that in time wasted. Just understand time is our most valuable resource. However you wish to spend your time, that’s truly up to you. If it’s spent only chasing what makes you happy, or if it’s spent in pursuit of getting ahead, or both. Just make sure it’s highly valued by yourself and those around you.



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Blowing It Scenario #64-Believing Your Own Hype.

Don’t Believe The Hype.

In the age where everything is posted on the internet, we can find information on just about every subject matter that will either fully support our beliefs or fully disprove them. Yet we buy into these beliefs so fervently that we sometimes refuse to see other people’s truths. Doesn’t matter what it is, you could believe the world is flat and aliens live among us. And you could find “facts” and data to support this hypothesis. It’s just how we interpret the world that tells us that’s right or wrong. But don’t allow yourself to get so polarized in your views that you create a prison of belief around you.

Beliefs are good to have, stay strong in them, but also be pliable in your belief systems. I had a professor in college once demonstrate the power of polarizing beliefs in class one day. Without any of us knowing, not even the poor girl who became the test subject that day. He began engaging her in a topic most get very polarized in, religion. It started out nice and seemed well intended at first, asking niceties about her religious background but as he began to disagree with her beliefs and started to break them down. Cracks began to show, dissension arose and a full out screaming match developed in front of us (the teacher never rose his voice) her relationship with that teacher became forever fractured, never to recover. That was the last day we ever saw that girl in class, she dropped it the next day. But if she could have stayed open and excepting to others beliefs even though he doesn’t share the same views. She could have learned one of the most valuable lessons in interacting with others. That we can never change another person’s beliefs until we can see it from their perspective. When we accept that their truth is also just as valid. We than, and only then can begin to suggest other possible truths.

We don’t always have all the answers. I especially don’t, I write everyday about beliefs but I want these beliefs to be challenged. We need to simply be students of the world, learning as much as we possibly can from better educated then ourselves and passing on the knowledge we have gained. Right or wrong I stay flexible and if better information comes along I had previously missed. I’m surely going to listen and develop my own new conclusions. Just please stay open to all possibilities, poor world views along with opposing views can start wars between friends and family and world leaders. Some that may never heal. Try not to simply just believe your own hype, take others into account too.



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Blowing It Scenario #63-Chastising Tattle Tales.

We Should Encourage Children To Tattle More.

We have all heard it so many times, parents will tell their children don’t be a tattle tale. No one likes a tattle tale. Or we’ll have fun colloquial phrases like, “snitches get stitches,” or “don’t be rat.” These ideas are reinforced in our mind through movies and television. Snitches really do get hurt and rats are killed every time you watch any gangster movie. So if you are raising your child to be successful in criminal activity or a gangster, definitely teach them to not to say something when they think another is doing wrong.

Children have an innate sense of right and wrong often better than that of the adult who cares for them and protects them. We should nurture their desire to share even if it means they sometimes won’t win approval, or they have to alienate another. And I get it kids will have absolutely annoying and pointless grips from time to time, but if we leave those unacknowledged or tell them to not tell on another. There just might come a time when major stuff happens to them, or around them, that they will be too afraid to come forward with. And they will avoid coming to the person they are supposed to trust most with these secrets. They’ll then begin to harbor these things in quiet solitude. Confined to the prison of their thoughts. And once in that state, there might begin a whole different slew of poor ways these secrets might manifest themselves throughout the rest of their lives. They could become reclusive, spiteful, hateful, addictive, abusive towards themselves and others, self destructive. The list goes on and on. All because they were too afraid confide in another. Because we built up barriers in their younger years by telling them falsehoods about sharing information. And those barriers became too insurmountable and it made them too afraid to speak out.

I’m not saying this is always the case and bad things don’t always happen to good kids that choose not to tell on another. But wouldn’t you rather have an open line of communication that knows no bounds? A relationship where trust is paramount and those kids know they can come to you with anything and you will listen? Kids are always going to tattle, listen and be rewarded. Close them off and they’ll begin to learn withholding is the best answer to their problems.



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Blowing It Scenario #62-Devil’s Advocating.

Or As I Like To Call It, Just Being An Asshole.

First off why would you want to advocate for the Devil? In mythological terms the Devil is the personification of pure evil. And to advocate is to publicly recommend or support actions. So in playing devil’s advocate you are publicly recommending and or supporting acts of pure evil. I know that’s not the intention when friends tell you they are simply playing devil’s advocate, but no matter how you write it off, you often times seem like a complete asshole.

We all have the friend that love’s to play the “what if” game. Or they love to run through worst case scenarios with you, till they’re blue in the face. You tell them your goals and dreams and they’ll begin to crap all over them. What if you fail? What if you fall flat on your face? What if you lose everything? They will then follow it up with a laundry list of all the potentialities of failure and risk. Everything negative standing in your way of success. My answer to them is so what. Yes bad things can happen and they probably will, at least we’re continually working towards a better future. Can they say the same? These people, who often times you want to remove from your life, are sometimes some of the most valuable contributors. They are usually the first test and the first barrier you have to break through in making your dreams a reality. Hopefully making you and your convictions stronger in the process. Get through these naysayers and you’ll be all the better for it. Give up and the devil has won.

If they are truly negative people all the time, completely remove them from your life. Otherwise your journey will be like that of Sisyphus, constantly rolling a large bolder up hill, only to watch it fall down to the ground when you near the top. Imagine repeating that day in and day out for the rest of your life. Remove negativity. It’s important to know the road to success is paved with obstacles and challenges all through out. Devils advocates are just a few trolls along the path, taking their toll. Pay it and move on. For they are the misfortune ones who gave up on their dreams long ago.



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Blowing It Scenario #61-Condom Snorting Challenge, Kids Are Blowing It.

The Follow Up To The Tide Pods Challenge.

Kids are dumb sometimes and although they want you to think they have all the answers they do not always know how to assemble that knowledge in a cohesive way. This is why I think ninety percent of the internet should be off limits to children under eighteen but I don’t believe that should be a Government responsibility, it should be a parenting responsibility. Kids also have to deal with a whole other slew of problems through peer pressure bullying and an education system that is crumbling. On top of all that, they watch other idiotic kids trying to go viral on some online video streaming platform and think that it’s cool. So they begin to partake in all these asinine challenges.

First there was a Tide Pod challenge where kids literally were eating Tide Pods that are used to throw into your washing machine too wash your clothes. How ignorant do you have to be to think that is a good idea? Now the latest challenge apparently is the snorting condoms challenge where kids are snorting condoms through their nose and out their mouth. Just plain dumb. Yet kids keep pushing boundaries for that ever elusive validation of likes, views and subscribers.

There was a story I recently read of a teen in Australia who was dared by friends to eat a slug. Something most children would find completely harmless and disgustingly hilarious. However slugs often eat a horrific diet and live a life that brings them in close contact with feces of all animal sources. Particularly rat feces. So what this kid didn’t know was the slug he was about to ingest carried a deadly parasite called rat lungworm which commonly causes eosinophilic meningitis. Sometimes it’s its slightly harmless others deadly. However in this child’s case the the disease severely affected him and he went into a coma for four hundred and twenty days. Resulting in severe brain damage and is now paralyzed from the neck down. He requires round the clock attention. A young healthy teen cut down from his prime in his early years, all due to a ignorant challenge brought on by other young healthy, albeit, dumb teenagers.

So kids, be smarter, don’t follow the crowd, don’t do things just for attentions sake. Find a way to educate and not deteriorate society. Parents as well, monitor your children, lock them out of the internet if you have too. If they don’t understand how ignorant these challenges are, you have a lot more work to do.



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Blowing It Scenario #60-California Cancer Labeling Laws Adding Coffee To The Possible Cancer Risk List.

California’s Law About Labeling Possible Cancer Risk Is Good In Theory.

It just seems a little bias at times. How are you going to label one of the most popular drinks in the world as a possible cancer risk, and not every single processed food items on the shelf of a grocery store? Chips, cancerous, Cereal, cancerous, cheeseburger and french fries, cancerous. Soda, yes that delicious lake of sugar, cancerous. Coffee is just one of thousands of potential risk. If you are going to go after such high profile items, do it for all items equally. Don’t pick and choose which product you want to bury.

I was recently told an anecdote by a colleague. He said California had to slap a cancer warning label on sand for sand boxes. Why? Because excessive exposure may cause skin cancer. Not sure how much truth is behind this but imagine that. Just playing out in the sun in a sandbox may cause skin cancer. So I guess we should also add slides and swing sets to the list as well.

Coffee has been the staple of life across all cultures for many centuries. It’s an artful craft and a well loved beverage. And though I don’t drink it myself, I believe their are far worst things you can put into your body. As a matter of fact coffee has amazing cancer healing benefits to it, if it’s used properly. If you are one of the unfortunate to get diagnosed with cancer. And choose a healthy all natural alternative in fighting the invasive cancerous cells, over the noxious poisoning of chemo and radiation. Then you may subscribe to “The Gerson Therapy” an amazing all natural approach to fighting cancers of all forms and many other potentially fatal disorders. The Therapy itself builds up your own bodies immunity through natural foods and juices so it can fight off cancer itself. It was discovered by Dr. Gerson that through certain vegetable and fruit juices the body could be purged of toxins through this juices. However the toxins tended to collect and get trapped in the liver. The bodies garbage disposal. He discovered that if you use fresh organic coffee, used in an anema, that certain elements found only in coffee, can actually open the bile ducts of the liver and release those toxins. Completely flushing them from the body. This has proven more effective then current cancer treatments but it’s illegal for doctors to prescribe any other cancer treatment then chemo or radiation so you won’t hear these life saving alternatives from your highly paid doctors.

Knowing this information, maybe we should also stamp a cancer healing label on coffee as well. Just remember this coffee rule, through the mouth, potentially cancerous, and through the anus potentially cancer healing. So drink up, just be sure to do it through the butt.



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Blowing It Scenario #59-Watching Other People Play And Stream Video Games Online.

Blowing It By Wasting Time Watching Another Waste There Time.

I recently came across an article about a gentlemen who makes $500,000 a month streaming himself playing video games on the platform twitch. The fact that such a platform exist where people just play video games and upload the videos of them playing is a wild concept to me. And the fact that it’s as popular as it is, really boggles the mind. At least my mind.

I get that their is an entertainment element to it all, similar to watching sports. As I wrote that last line, I realized it’s absolutely no different then watching sports. You just don’t think of video game play as a sport, but I guess it could be considered a sport of the mind. Granted if you are not playing professionally, you are just wasting time. It’s no different then the guy who plunks himself down in front of the television for four hours to watch his favorite baseball team score three runs only to have them lose by one. It’s a complete waste of time. Just as watching another play a video game online or just playing a video game themselves is. It’s escapism, we all do it in some form or another and the reason we do it is because it feels good to get out of the rat race and out of your head and just immerse yourself in entertainment for a brief period of time. Brief being the key word.

This day in age we tend to over do it and often times we get ourselves emotionally charged in the process. We escape one reality to live in another, one that is often times worse for us then the original. When every moment spent not working or being a productive member of society is encumbered by mindless entertainment we do ourselves and our community a great disservice. We become doltish consumers where the consumption of worthless knowledge and side show spectacle is endless. We have to break free from the oppression of this attention vacuum. Do yourself some good. Create and produce. Get out of the trap, shut off the television and get offline from time to time. Go see and do. The world is a beautiful place. Explore it.



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Blowing It Scenario #58-The Affleck Batman.

Quality Actor, Solid Director, Decent Story Line.

So why do I start these Affleck Batman Movies and fall so disinterested so quickly? Everything about Batman and Superman together should scream excitement and thrilling action. Yet I constantly find myself falling asleep during these films. I just watched Justice League for the first time last night and half way through I had no qualms about stopping the movie and heading off into slumber. I can’t put my finger on why this is happening.

Maybe there are lulls between the action that are so mundane that it just activates melatonin production. It has good production quality, great actors and actresses, it just doesn’t hold my attention. Maybe its the somber lighting, who knows. I can’t really bash the film. One because I haven’t finished it yet because I’m guessing it’s similar to taking an ambien because it keeps knocking me right out and two because I don’t really feel they’re that bad of movies. It’s just not what I expected in a film that showcases these super heroes.

Not really sure how to make it much better though, so it’s really a moot point. I’m just wondering if anyone else is having this same reaction? Who knows maybe these films can become sleep remedies for some. Then again maybe I was just not in the right state each time I began these films. Regardless to say, everyone should still see the films and come up with their own hypothesis.



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Blowing It Scenario #57-Shorting Stocks.

Betting against growth.

Tesla’s stock recently plunged because of an accident with one of it’s vehicles. Making those that shorted Tesla’s stock $1.8 billion over night. The action of shorting a stock isn’t necessarily blowing it in my eyes. It’s part of the market and it makes people a lot of money. Just go back to the housing market crash in 2007 and 2008. There you will see the people who were shorting stocks, were the only people making money. I do think it’s a failure to allow shorting in the first place. You are literally making a regressive bet of failure. You want to see that company crumble. And while it does, you reap the rewards. It’s a side bet against progress.

Tesla is making innovative leaps and bounds towards what one would hope will be a better future. They have improved electric car capabilities, they are working towards complete autonomous cars and semi trucks. It remains to be seen if self driving cars will be a massive failure of economy, when it displaces a majority of the work force. But we’re not quite there yet. Either way you swing it, it’s progress. Why bet against it unless you are rooting for it to fail? And in the case that you are doing exactly that, well you may just find pessimism might be a close ally to you as well.

The other area of concern is the fact that on very rare occasions people are dying at the hands of this new technology. An absolute tragedy with each event that occurs. And in an ideal world, progress would be made with no loss of life. However we don’t live in an ideal work. The early tragedies will give way to massive breakthroughs and prevention of accidents to many more in the future. When the first airplanes took off crashes were a common occurrences. Loss of life was tremendous but as the years progressed and technology improved that loss became minuscule. And now it’s rare to ever hear of anyone dying in a plane crash. This is the promising future we may get to enjoy when invention is improved upon. With each iteration the process gains depth of knowledge and all of a sudden one day we just magically live in a world with no automobile crashes. There may be some hiccups along the way. That is to be expected it’s sometimes the price of growth. But betting against future progress is a bet of failure.



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