Friday, April 10, 2009

Misunderstood words

No one plans to fail, they just fail to plan.

This is my favorite saying of the week, and its so true... someone accused me of not being spontaneous this week and I was both intrigued and amused by this comment.
So when questioned as to why they think I'm not spontaneous and the answer I got was because I'm always planning.

I pointed out that I plan only as far as is needed, like I plan to go on holiday I don't plan what I'll do while I'm there.

Now spontaneous is a interesting word because it means to do something like a compulsion and desire at that time.

So as I explained I just do have the desire to do anything right now so I can't be spontaneous only lazy, since I don't have the desire to do something.

Another word I like and again is misunderstood is anarchy everyone seems to think this is so bad... but unless i'm very much mistaken man was living in anarchy for thousands of years without any problems with wars, the so called order we have today seems to me more crazy than anarchy ever was.

To be honest I think I'd rather live in anarchy, at least there are no wars, tax or trust in corrupt systems.

Sunday, April 05, 2009

behavior vs conscious choice

Most of us live in our day to day lives following a set of behaviour that we have learned as we grow up, and we don't think as a result we are doing not thinking.

example think about the first thing you do in the morning and ask yourself, was I doing that same thing last week as well ?

Do you find yourself using the catch phrase without thinking about it?
Do people go away to some distant place when you start talking about the old days ? (because you are telling the same story again)

I think you're starting to see commonality.
See we can all fall into a habit, but conscious choice is also part of everyone it gives you the power to override that autopilot that you're living in and become aware of the world you live in.

Another example, you're in the supermarket and you buy your favourite breakfast (how do you know it's you favourite ? have you tried all the other? or you just following the behaviour that this is what you always have)

When you're at a coffee shop do you try something new or do you have the same order all the time.

These are choices that you can make, however, this is the tip of the iceberg, there are so many choices around you every day that you simply didn't notice before, I hope you will start to see them now and use your conscious choice.