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New Year Reminder

January 19th, 2010 • Comments »

Just a reminder to stay focused on what you are doing as the New Year unfolds. The world has been overflowing with opportunity and creativity like never before. But most of it is profit-driven regurgitation and mass-marketing of empty hype and latest trends. Stay away from the garbage and keep your mind focused on your goals. Distractions may snag your attention for a moment, but you’ve got to catch yourself as soon as possible and realize that you’re wasting valuable time unless you’re doing what you truly want to be doing.

Consider these illustrative examples:

Example #1 You are working on the Web blogging about something interesting. One of your goals is to grow your blog into a successful website. As you write your article, suddenly an email rolls in and you find yourself reading the latest chain-email of humorous nonsense. At this point, you stop yourself and realize that the email fluff is utterly irrelevant and requires nothing more than a simple click to the Trash bin.

Example #2 You are spending time with your family and enjoying one another’s company. One of your personal goals is to enjoy your family more and spend some genuine quality time. Everything is going great until you decide to see what’s on TV. Moments later, you are staring mindlessly at some insipid bit of television programming. An hour later, your family is elsewhere and you find yourself alone on the couch, sucked into the latest distraction. Instead of giving in to the brain-dead comfort of TV, wake up out of your mental stupor and stay focused on the moment. Enjoy your family, friends, or whatever is most beneficial to you. Hint: TV is not it.

Example #3 You are waiting in the dentist’s office for a routine checkup. The anticipation is making you uncomfortable, so you grab a cheese rag from the corner table. Thumbing through the sleazy, greasy pages of celebrity trash and commercial garbage, you recall one of your goals: to live in the moment and grow as a person. Is filling your mind with cheap marketing ploys and nonsense going to help you achieve these goals? Probably not. So do yourself a favor: drop the sheep feed and focus on what you are doing. There is no better time to listen and grow than while you are faced with unpleasant circumstance.

The point here is that you are better than what the Global Media Empire has been feeding you these days, and your mind deserves so much more than greasy commercials and empty Hollywood garbage. You have goals this year and you want to grow as a person, find the balance, hang with friends, love your family, succeed at work, draw closer to God, and all of the other good things that are possible in this life. So I encourage you to stay focused and don’t let the media marketing rubbish pollute your mind. Stay clean this year, feed your mind the good stuff, remain focused on what matters, and achieve your goals.

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4 Responses to “New Year Reminder”

#1 • beyond • February 22, 2010 at 3:30 pm

Just stopped by to see if there were any more posts… check back again soon (get to work).

#2 • Jeff Starr • February 23, 2010 at 11:16 am

Thanks beyond :)

I have some things in mind and will be sharing some new content hopefully soon.

Keep crackin’ the whip!

#3 • Harsha • April 28, 2010 at 9:33 pm

Just a purely speculative question, which might not be related (sorry), but what would qualify as a suitable goal?

It has come from my limited (hey, I’m 15, don’t expect big stuff) experience that the human race is far more developed than other animal species. This leads me to suppose that we are different from other animals in many ways, and therefore our focus should be more expansive:

1. We are capable of complex emotions and stick close to a morale system provided by general society, which while derived purely from animal emotions, have become more finely ingrained into present society. (e.g. If we get angry, we don’t try to hurt each other, rather, most find other, not-so-violent means of coping)
2. We are capable of deductive reasoning and an amazing attention span to an advanced degree. Through this, we plan ahead into the future, and we can also deal with multiple situations at once.
3. We have a deep conscious which is capable of re-evaluating the instance of itself (which sort of drives your posts, doesn’t it?)

And yet, with this and more, why is society today content with “survival”? Haven’t we already mastered battling to stay alive? Why are most people content to work their jobs, live out their life, marry, have children, go into retirement and enjoy their last days leisurely, or go on actively participating for a simple cause? It might sound baseless coming from a 15-year-old, but why? Isn’t this sort of behavior slightly synonymous with the wolf that grows up, leaves it’s pack (finishes school), makes its own (starts a job), finds a mate and rears children? If we, as a complex species in our own right, have much more to make use of than real instincts, claws, and teeth, why don’t we always use it? What good is standing around, spending “good quality time”, when you know that your existence is temporary, and might, like most, just pass by without meaning anything to the lives of billions of people. What is life if you have so many gifts, yet can’t use even one of them to change the world forever? As far as I know, only a few have ever reached that status, where they tried to mold the world to their liking and succeeded in some ways. (The first one that comes to mind is Hitler, but that’s a bad example isn’t it?). I think I’m done now.

This really has nothing to do with the post, does it? I’m sorry, but I really just wanted someone to answer this question, and well, my classmates don’t really seem to get it. Then again, it could just be my word choice and the broken and random way I present my ideas …

#4 • Jeff Starr • May 3, 2010 at 1:15 pm

Hi Harsha, not sure about some of your assumptions, but you ask some great questions. Your questions say a lot about how you perceive the world around you. We all see and understand things differently. The way I see some of the scenarios discussed in your comment leads me to different conclusions and questions about human nature and potential. From my perspective, existence is eternal for each of us, and everything that happens is significant and interconnected with all other events. If you want “to change the world forever,” you only need to change yourself. Even in a perfect world, humans would continue to suffer due to their own imperfections. The world exists only as you perceive it. Always seek the Truth with an open and honest heart and you will find the answer to all of your questions.

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