Stores closing but retail sales up; on-line traffic soaring.
Cars smaller, more expensive; but safer by design,
crush-zones, more electronic sensors.
Auto deaths climbing; cars safer; electronic gadgets in use
while driving seems cause.
Global warming melting ice caps; seas rising; coastal areas
see rise in flooding; colder
climates have mild winter; less
snow
Work force shrinking; manufacturing plants dwindling; robots
and automated processes
grow.
Americans have more time on their hands; depression rates
rise; new careers possible.
Intellectual careers growing; creative ideas mushrooming;
new businesses forming.
Change is uncomfortable. It forces us to make our livings
differently. Change also forces us to drop old habits and find new ones.
Sometimes change eliminates jobs and causes poverty, bankruptcies and other
forms of suffering. But change can be forecast. People can prepare for
change. They can even find new areas of interest and prepare to work on them before
losing the old job. The more we think of these things the more flexible we
become. Adaptability becomes a strength rather than the lack of it being a
weakness.
What do you like to do? What makes you happy some of the
time? All of the time? Rarely euphoric, but predictably capable of such
happiness? Identify these things. Focus on them. Learn where to find them and
how to make them more frequent in your life routines.
We deliberately avoid happy things that are destructive –
drinking to excess, overspending, drug addictions and the like. These
destructive lifestyles end in early death and lots of suffering. We are not
talking about finding happy at all costs; no, we are looking for that which is
not obvious and will continue to make you unique. And happy.
Like starting your own business, what makes your service or
product unique in the marketplace? Are you sure it is unique? Will it be so
temporarily until someone else invents a better widget to replace yours? Is it
only a matter of time, or do you have this uniqueness tied up in a neat little
bundle just for you to take advantage of?
How often do you think about these things? Do you have the
freedom to do so? Do you get a kick from doing this type of thinking? Do you
discipline your routines so you have the time to think freely?
This life style is at the heart of creativity. It teaches us
to think outside the box, and to free-associate with ideas that otherwise
are quite common. From such simplicity comes complexity. From complexity comes
new simplicity. Who would have thought that?
You did. I did. A lot of us did, and do. And it is the future
of our culture and our nation.
Don’t avoid this activity. It will free us up to discover
the new in life that will propel us past so many other problems that are obvious
to so many. So obvious they pay too much attention to them. They get glum and
wallow in the negative. The negative controls them and they begin to complain
and whine. They keep themselves busy doing this. And their complaints keep us busy combating them!
In no time they have no time; and they have no happiness
either. They manage to find blame elsewhere but where the blame actually
resides. They could find the elsewhere in any mirror they take the time to peer
into. Ignoring the need to find the positive is the first slip on the down
slope to unhappy endings.
All they need to do – needed to do – is flip their
situation upside down and rethink it. The answers are already there. We know
what to do; it just needs doing.
When do you suppose they will awaken? Meanwhile, what are
you waiting for?
The sun shines somewhere on the planet each and every day.
Know that and rethink your life.
April 12, 2017
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