Applied Knowledge or Primitive Man

You flip the switch and the lights come on so you can see after dark.  You don’t know how it works; it just does.  You open the refrigerator door and inside is meat and cheese, even though you know nothing about electricity, refrigeration, hunting or farming.  You turn the key and the engine comes to life so you can travel long distances over roads and bridges you don’t know how to build.

Producers used specialized applied knowledge to create useful things for others.  What do you produce for others that they can use even though they don’t know how it works or how do it themselves?

What knowledge do you possess and apply?

Theaters of the mind

What movie has your imagination made up and run over and over that hasn’t actually happened?

Your mind and body will react to all of that as if it was real, and you will act in a manner to make it real, or at least real to you.

Should you stop running that movie? How about creating a new one that represents reality or what you want to be reality?

Failing is not failure

Making mistakes is how we learn best.  If you make a mistake, know that it is part of learning and getting better.  Just make sure you aren’t ignoring the lessons and making the same mistakes over and over again.

What mistakes have you made recently?  How will you get better?

What do you do for fun?

The key to a man’s character is what he does for enjoyment.Sportspark60

What do you do?  What does that say about your character?

Vigilant, Active and Brave

We must be vigilant in identifying threats to our freedom. The biggest threats are within our own government who would curtail our freedoms under the pretense of taking care of us. America’s founders knew that it was the nature of man for this to happen 230 years ago.  

We must be active in calling it what it is, and we must be brave in the defense of what is the greatest American invention – freedom.

Could you disagree?

Resources go where they're appreciated.

If you don’t do your best with what you have, you can’t have more.

Live while you can

Death twitches my ear.  

“Live”, he says, “I am coming”.  – Virgil

Is it really?

If you keep saying to yourself that it is hard, I bet it is.

What are you saying to yourself?

"Self-Made"

The one who is responsible for your life, where you are, and how it’s turned out so far, is you.

You are also the one responsible for how the rest of your life will turn out.

How will that be?

What do co-workers say about you?

I’m the leader of a big organization.  I don’t work side by side with each of my employees each day – it’s not possible because there are too many employees.  When it comes time for picking the next leader, or for making changes of any kind, what do I rely on most?  – What other employees say about that person.

Sure I screen the opinions through the biases I think the opinion giver has, but when you hear from many employees that “this guy is trouble” or “this girl is great” – then I know what is really happening when I’m not around.

I expect it’s like this in many places.  What co-workers say about you, your reputation at work, is important to you. 

What do your co-workers say about you?