Category Archives: WisdomGrams ‘n WonderBolts
Addicted to Technology
Today’s guest article, written by long-time friend Peter Vajda, takes a close, careful look at the hair trigger we’ve all developed – a hair trigger that responds instantly, unquestioningly to all forms of electronic communication. You know what I’m talking about. You’re sitting with friends enjoying a leisurely dinner and your phone rings (chimes, plays, sings, announces, barks, or whatever your ringtone is), and you go, “Oh, excuse me. I have to take this … hello?”
Same with email coming in, facebook notifications and all the rest. It’s become an instant, kneejerk reaction.
Persistence vs. an Ugly Voice from the Past
Persistence is a crucial trait.
And it’s this quality that keeps you going through everything. But sometimes flashbacks can get in the way of persistence.
Flashbacks? Yeah, you know – ideas, voices or mental pictures from out of your past. Stuff that rises up out of the back of your mind to haunt you – undermine your determination. And that’s exactly what happened to me a few years back.
Goals that Won’t Die on You
Want a couple of simple hints that could help you inject real long-staying power into your projects and goals?
Hint 1
Have a moveable goal. Often I see people achieve their long-held objective, but soon afterward, all forward progress stops. Example – right up the street are two different coffee shops that closed very soon after they opened. My educated guess is that their goal was something like, “I open my own coffee shop, I open my own coffee shop.”
Downloading Intelligence
Got a nice, newsy email from long-time friend and charter member Russ the other day. In it he mentioned the idea of implanting new knowledge into the brain as in the film “The Matrix.”
Here’s a suggesting for future articles: I’m REALLY CURIOUS about this new concept of ‘downloading’ intelligence and then ‘uploading’ it again into a new body of our choosing. With all the advances in technology, I’m convinced that this is going to be a reality sometime within this century! I’m hoping it will be within the next 37 years – before I hit 100! Yeah… sign me up for that!
Sucker Promises
I’ve got a pet peeve. And that’s when somebody tries to sell me something which they claim will change my life. The price will be surprisingly low, but despite this, they vow that their system / club / product / seminar will produce results so automatically that I’ll have to put forth little to no effort to reap these miraculous results.
They often state that their system / club / product / seminar will provide results so quickly that I won’t
The Letter but Not the Spirit
So many purists who know the letter but not the spirit of what they’re trying to talk about … oh my my my
People who follow the law (and maybe some whom the law is following) talk about “the letter of the law versus the spirit of the law.”
