Writing with an agenda

Almost everything that gets written has an agenda behind it.

Newspapers are owned by often wealthy people who want their opinions voiced and most newspapers will not write anything to offend a sponsor/advertiser. This is the same online.

Whatever we are reading there is an agenda to a greater or lesser extent, yet we seem to view articles or posts as if they can be the only version, the only voice, how it is. We seem them as definitive.

Often, the agendas are hidden and what things seem on the surface is not the real message being sent.

The thing is as long as we realise there is an agenda, then it is our choice as to how we interpret it.

But rarely is anything completely objective.

When to stop?

It’s a question we ask many times. When to stop a job, a relationship, a business, a piece of art, whatever we may be doing.

We all get to a point where we might want to add more, take something away, or it might not be working.

We are constantly bombarded with this macho ‘don’t quit’ mentality and just keep going.

There isn’t a magic formula on when to stop, but it is a personal choice and we don’t need others permission and we can choose what feels good and right for us. We do not have to keep doing something to prove a point to ourselves and especially not others.

Stop when you want not when we are told to.