Only So Many Tomorrows

“Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.” Michael Landon

We’d like to think that there are plenty of tomorrows ahead. Most of us put off things we should be doing, planning to do them later. But later stretches over days, weeks, months and years.

But the fact is that life presents no guarantees. Fatal accidents can happen to anyone. The life of a young soldier on the battlefield can be snuffed out by a stray bullet or bomb. Many young people have a false sense that they are someone invincible and can experiment with drugs and engage in risky behavior. Yet how often do you see young lives snuffed out in a fatal car crash or shot from an altercation at a pub?

Age creeps up quickly and with it comes the aches and pains. The experience we get as we suffer through another migraine, or a bout with the flu reminds us that life is too short. It can’t be squandered away over trivialities. Too many waste the precious moments of life in a constant struggle to make a dollar, yet fail to realize that there’s more to life than the accumulation of wealth.

Many people simply waste the gifts they possess. They fail to use their skills and talents that could make them happy and successful. Their focus is a narrow one, centered around a job and paying the bills while enjoying what little time they have over the weekend to go drinking with the buddies or watching endless football games.

But life must have meaning. It must be lived in such a way that it contributes something toward family and society. So many people fail to see that they could make the world a far better place if only they set aside their greed and selfishness and focused on working toward a worthwhile goal.

Michael Landon, famed for his starring roles on Bonanza and Little House on the Prairie knew the value of life and made it special. He made every tomorrow count and so should we.

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Looking for Solutions in the Wrong Places

“Very often we travel the world over in search of what we need and return home to find it.” George Moore

Dissatisfaction is a common trait of human nature. We all have the tendency to look outside ourselves for solutions to our worries and problems. Many people rush to weight loss clinics, try the latest fad diet or count the calories of everything they buy at the grocer’s. And while there is nothing wrong in seeking out help, for many, looking for solutions become excuses for not making personal changes.

The book “Acres of Diamonds” talks about a farmer who went in search of diamonds to get rich. He sold his farm in order to finance his travels to parts of the world where he might find diamonds. In the end, he ended up broke, having found no diamonds. Yet the man he sold his farm to found a sparkling stone in the backyard that was later found to be one of the largest diamonds ever.

This lesson should teach you that the solution to your problems might be as close as your own backyard. Your best bet is to search yourself first before you look elsewhere.

For many, when they fall ill, the first recourse is to pay the doctor a visit. However, the solution to their problem can lie in making some simple changes to their lifestyle rather than depend on a pill the doctor prescribes. Today’s major diseases are the result of living a wrong lifestyle. But actively making those changes take a back seat when all that’s necessary is to pop a pill to make us feel better. Unfortunately, medications only treat the symptoms. We are so accustomed to looking for solutions that we fail to see that the real solution lies within ourselves.

Reliance on outside help should always be tempered with logic. Today, the H1N1 virus is greatly exaggerated. The media and the medical establishment scare the populace for the need to get the flu shot. And many rush to get the shot without considering that it may do little to protect them against any new strains that develop from year to year. The experts can only guess which strain will attack and create a formulation to meet it.

The solution always lies with you. You and you alone must take control of your health, your finances, your relationships and your life.

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The Risks of Making Decisions

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” T.S. Eliot

No one knows for a certainty what the future holds. Taking risks is a necessary part of everyday life. But we cannot know if making a decision will be the right one. No matter how long we delay or how much we fear the outcome, taking risks cannot be avoided.

But no one ever learns anything in life unless they decide on a course of action. While failure is as sure as success in every decision, procrastinating and putting off difficult decisions is worse than making a wrong decision. The fact is that nothing can be learned unless we fail and fail often. This is how risk defines itself. If we don’t act, we don’t learn. Without taking a chance we can’t learn how far we can actually go when we extend ourselves beyond the border of fear, doubt and worry.

While we must take risks, we can minimize the impact they have on us if we should fail. Many business executives make decisions that impact their business for better or worse. But they make those decision based on the available data. When they do act, they don’t look behind. They focus their attention on the outcome of their decisions. Boldness and conviction are the tools they use. More often than not, they make the right decisions.

Conviction and the willingness to act is lacking with many men and women today. Marriages are based on fear. Nuptial agreements are made in case the marriage fails. Unfortunately, creating a nuptial agreement insures the marriage will fail since it is created based on the fear of making the wrong decision.

It is those who challenge themselves by taking risks and pushing themselves forward that discover how much success they have. The courage to step out builds self-discipline. It enforces the conviction that the individual is more capable of doing more and going farther than he or she thinks. Ultimately, it’s those who take many risks that stand apart from the crowd and are rewarded for their efforts.
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On Courage

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” Ambrose Redmoon

Throughout history, there have been many brave men and women who have achieved extraordinary feats. They were creators of new products, innovators who saw something that needed changing and acted to make life more comfortable for themselves and others. Many braved ridicule and even death to reveal the truth about human nature and challenged repressive societies. They were not content with the status quo.

In today’s world, many have become accustomed to the status quo. Few people have the courage to either better themselves or create the changes to make a better society. They would rather go with the flow of life. Their doubts and fear hold them back. They feel inadequate with their abilities. This attitude only plays into the hands of the powers that be as they more and more take away the rights and freedoms of the people.

But fear is mostly an illusion. When fear is faced with courage, it often evaporates. Many people have discovered that they accomplish far more than they believed they were capable of once they faced their fears.

Courage comes from a conviction and desire to change. Too many find courage at the last minute when the situation becomes too intolerable. It is only then that they act. But courage should be employed in daily activity and not just during a crisis.

Employing courage every day insures a better future whether it is personal or far reaching to society in general. Make courage a daily habit and you will have less fear and doubt.

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The Myth of Permanence

Much as we’d like and no matter how hard we try, we can never insure that things will stay the same. Everything changes and must change. No matter how satisfied you are today, you will always look for something better. Man is a restless being. While peace and happiness last for awhile, the urge to do more and do it better always rests in the soul. Everyone is looking for that mystical pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Permanence is an illusory quality. Today’s joy can melt away to heartache tomorrow. Something that makes you happy at this moment can lead to sorrow within minutes.

Reaching that long sought after goal can leave a feeling of emptiness.

Many people study for years to perfect their knowledge in a career that might not exist after graduation. Setbacks and disappointment occur frequently through life. While we crave to find some solidity to life and hold on to some ideal we think would make us happy, we simply can’t grasp it or hold it for long.

Permanence is an illusion since most of us base permanence on physical substance alone. But what is physical in nature deteriorates over time. It is impermanent and that makes trying to get them fruitless. Yet millions of people sacrifice joy and spend a great deal of effort to accumulate wealth which by its nature slips away. Anything that can be grasped and held will deteriorate. That new home will rot and fall apart unless it is constantly maintained. Today’s new car will develop rust and its parts will have to be replaced.

No matter how hard we try, we cannot control circumstance. We have no power to make time stand still just at that point when we are most happy with ourselves. As physical beings we are subject to illness and death. Youthful energy eventually disappears to be replaced by the aches and pains of old age. We would rather prefer to turn a blind eye to the certainty of death. And many delude themselves into thinking that there always will be a tomorrow. The illusion of permanence gives us something to provide meaning and solidity whenever things start to fall apart around us.

The lack of permanence forces us to think of the reasons for existence. Are we as real as we like to believe? What is reality? What defines it? Does having a million dollars in the bank make us any better than someone who makes enough to get by? Of course we define ourselves based on perception and past experiences. But that perspective can be just as wrong as some farmer struggling to feed his family in a poor African nation. Considering that there are some 6 billion people living today, who among them really has a hold on reality?

The way we think, the way those thousands of thoughts that cross our minds every waking day can be looked at as mere illusions. None of them holds the true key to happiness and well being. In today’s society with its fast pace of life, few people have any time to simply stop and question what would create permanence in their lives. And due to that pace of life, few people ever contemplate this most important thought until they reach the age when they begin to realize that all their rushing about to find the answers was unnecessary.

In fact, reality is not as illusive as we think it is. We just need to stop a moment to reflect on our impermanent nature. Anyone who is willing to contemplate on life can find solidity and happiness. They can find the permanence that gives them meaning.

All that is requires is a simple shift in thinking patterns to find answers. As all physically things are impermanent, one way to find inner peace is to be less focused on them. The fact that we focus too much attention on the illusions of wealth and fame is what makes us miserable. That’s not to say we should have no ambition. We simply need to accept life for what it is instead of trying so hard to establish permanence in a larger bank account. We need to learn from the experiences that life provides and the changes it brings.

It’s when we learn to embrace change that we can find that foundation we all seek for. It’s when we learn from every event, every experience that we find true happiness and peace.

Acceptance, not avoidance is what can make us happier and be more fulfilled. Amidst turbulence can come inner peace.

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What Wall*E Could teach Us

Wall*E is an animated movie set in a future time when the Earth has become one great garbage dump. No longer inhabitable, the last vestige of the human race live aboard the Axiom, one giant spacecraft that roams the universe waiting for the day when the Earth will become livable again. In the 700 years man spends in space, he continues his polluting ways by flinging unwanted trash into space. Unfortunately, during that same 700 years, man has become obese. From the time he gets up to the time he goes to sleep, he rides in hoverchairs, his every need attended to by robots that make his life comfortable and lazy. His feet become useless appendages.

Wall*E is the last surviving robot on planet Earth, his programmed job to compress mountains of trash into convenient cubes which he then piles together to build skyscrapers of trash. When compared to his human counterparts on the Axiom, Wall*E is a rather skinny and dirty machine. He approaches his job like humans, preparing for another day of work. And he does it until a probe from the Axiom lands looking to find life on Earth that can mean the return of the inhabitants of the mother ship..

In today’s world Wall*E hasn’t been built yet but there are some similarities between the movie and the reality of today. If Wall*E were alive and had a few extra vocal chords, he might have some choice words about where we’re headed besides begin compressing some of our own garbage.

The first lesson is quite evident. We’re headed to making this world inhabitable by polluting the air, contaminating the water and filling landfills with garbage. Mother Nature will likely run out of options. While we pride ourselves with the progress that has been made, life has become largely meaningless for many people. Except for the fact that we can walk, there’s little difference between the average citizen today to those speeding along in their hoverchairs with the illusion that they are doing something. While today’s world is unlikely to fill up with so much garbage as in the movie, the pollutants will be enough to make this world inhabitable that much quicker.

Of course another similarity is our physical condition. Obesity is on the rise. While hoverchairs haven’t been invented just yet, there are millions that could use such a device today. While the movie doesn’t talk about the rate of mortality on the Axiom, it can be concluded that heart disease, diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer’s and a number of other diseases are just as prevalent in that far flung future than it is today.

Next comes the blatant commercialization aboard the Axiom. A product of B&L (Big and Large), the corporation continues to promote obesity as the only way of life with holographic billboards advertising the latest in quadruple burgers, jumbo fries and oversized soft drinks. Of course the people aboard the Axiom are convinced by the massive advertising and readily switch suit colors on a moment’s notice. Again, there isn’t much difference in today’s advertising campaigns that project the same message that cholesterol and the latest wonder drugs are all you need to stay fit, happy and full. Today’s advertising, like that aboard the Axiom, mentions nothing about eating fruits and vegetables for good health.

Despite being a machine, Wall*E exhibits remarkable human qualities and Quickly falls in love with Eve, a glossy pure white she-devil who comes to seek for the first signs of life which Wall*E has found during his typical work day. He hitches a ride on the probe ship, trying desperately to revive Eve who has apparently lapsed into a coma after storing the plant specimen in her insides.

The captain aboard the Axiom, like the populace, has grown fat but grows suspicious about the motives of “Auto” the real power running the Axiom. Auto has no wish to have the population return to Earth and attempts to destroy the one living specimen of life.

Here is yet another similarity. Government has given away its power to commercial enterprises which focuses more on profits at any cost, without much concern for the health of the people. While pharmaceutical companies, the food industry and other enterprises become richer, overall health declines. And like the movie, the constant barrage of advertising continues to delude the public that anything can be cured simply by whipping out a credit card.

Wall*E is just a movie, of course. But it’s message is clear. Whether it take 20 years or two thousand years, the world of today is headed for disaster where man might not survive unless he begins building the Axiom now to save his life.

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Are the Four Horsement About to Ride Through America?

We live in a toxic environment.  Our foods lack essential nutrients that do little to help maintain and preserve health.

The food we consume comes from commercial farms whose soil has been depleted from over farming.  The toxic fertilizers used strips the soil of what little remains in nutrients.  Genetically modified crops grow big and disease-free, yet contain next to nothing in the vitamins and minerals our bodies need to stay healthy.  Herbicides, pesticides and chemical additives insure a bumper crop, but what gets on the dinner table consists f nothing more than sugar and water.

The average American does not get adequate nutrition.  Many don’t meet the minimum Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) of essential vitamins and minerals government health agencies say is needed to stay healthy.

If the lack of nutrition in our foods is a problem, no less is the sedentary lifestyle many have become accustomed to.  The lack of exercise leads to the deterioration of muscles that aren’t used.  With less oxygen circulating,  the brain becomes less alert and the nerves at the farthest parts of the body slowly die for lack of good blood flow.

As if that wasn’t enough, many have adopted habits that guarantee sickness and disease.  While we consume foods laced with toxic chemicals, we also breathe in some 4000 chemicals, 50 of which are toxic, from cigarette smoke alone.  High levels of stress means high blood pressure and clogged arteries.  Being constantly on the go with little to no sleep and skipping breakfast insures that more people get sick and makes life miserable.

Once we do get sick and suffer from the pains from living an unhealthy lifestyle, we take in a cabinet of prescription and over-the-counter medications.  Unfortunately, they do no more than add to the toxic mix already in our systems.

All of these point out a great problem that we are unwilling to solve and feel helpless to do anything about.  As a nation America spends more on heath care than any other country in the world, yet ranks among the lowest in sickness and disease.

And much of the problem is due to greed.  The love of money rules over all things.  Big Pharma rakes in billions as it produces drugs that only alleviate symptoms that produce more side effects that must be treated with yet more drugs which bring  in  more profits for the manufacturer.  Profit and the shareholder’s welfare and not the people’s health is paramount.  Government bodies, such as the FDA, sworn to protect the public, take bribes and approve dangerous drugs while declaring war on natural vitamins and minerals that have proven healthy track records.

Consider the “pandemic” of the H1N1 flu virus, much hyped on the news and through the medical profession. Governments are stocking up with Tamiflu and Relenza, expecting the flu season to be worse than ever before.  Wherever you turn you hear of the need to get the shot to protect yourself against the pandemic.

But when you dig deep, you discover that while cases have appeared around the globe,  few have actually died from it, certainly not the amount who died from the Bubonic Plague and the Spanish Flu of 1918.  Undoubtedly, come the autumn of 2009, there’ll be a large scale effort to educate the public into getting the shot, even if the H1N1 flu fizzles out and becomes history.  The U.S. government has spent a billion dollars to stockpile vaccines and won’t feel too comfortable with unused stocks sitting on their shelves. Best just to unload it on the taxpayer who paid for that stockpile.

Unfortunately, few people realize that the vaccines themselves actually create more resistant flu strains which can only  lead to increased illness and deaths among those whodo  get vaccinated.

While the taxpayer foots the cost, the execs at Smith Kline Glaxo and Roche, happily rake in billions as the media overreacts to the so called “pandemic”.

Today’s world has become infested with profit sharks who want nothing more but to rake in billions at the health, lo\ife and income of the average citizen who is being duped by the media hype.  And the taxpayer is the one who is going to suffer.

Today’s world is ripe for the four horsemen of the Apocalypse to start riding. War, religious persecution, famine and pestilence as spoken of in the pages of the Bible are all man-made events and not due to the wrath of God brought on humanity. They are created, based on uncontrollable greed, by those who should know better but care little.

It’s only a matter of time before the first millions die before everyone wakes up to the need to make drastic changes.  As we have become maddened by the love of money, we refuse to do anything, either on a personal basis or globally to avoid the coming Armageddon.  And the world’s population will see a catastrophe like no other in human history.

We simply cannot hide our heads in the sand and hope that our lifestyle will somehow change without effort and we can continue to live pain-free lives while we continue our mad rush to accumulate more wealth at each other’s expense.

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