Tag: thinking

When is the ideal time?

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We often sit and contemplate ‘when will be the best time to do ‘x’?’

Then by default, we are programmed to risk assess the situation and the possible ‘dangerous’ outcomes of doing something. This comes from 100,000’s of years of evolution. We now know that there are no real physical dangers posed by doing most things, apart maybe from signing up to train to become a lion tamer.

Then there are the emotional dangers, the fear of being made to look foolish, the things that stop us doing many things.

The longer we sit and think, the longer we have to compile the list of excuses, and we’re super good at this, left long enough, we’ll come up with a gem of an iron proof get out.

The only ideal time to do something is as soon as possible, and if it is important, as in going to make a difference to your life and of others, then now is the ideal time.

This is because, if we think too much about anything, which always happens with the more important things, we’ll excuse ourselves from showing up.

It’s all been done before

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Often in today’s world we hear the words ‘it’s all been done before’ or ‘you can’t be unique anymore’ or the common ‘that’s the way it’s always been’.

Then we have to ask ourselves, what is the point of what we do everyday then? Why do we bother? Let’s all surrender to a banal and pointless life now.

If we have now run out of new ideas or a different imagination, then what is the future for humanity? Bleak, in all honesty, if that is the case.

Those phrases I put at the top of the page is what the system propagates, it is what we are told, you ‘can’t’. We are taught not to like change and to embrace routine, it’s easier to create compliance that way.

Well we need to start telling ourselves ‘can’ or ‘imagine’.

Imagination has been dulled to almost non-existence by the industrialised world’s brainwashing.

We need to all try to re-engage with our imaginations, let our minds run wild, think outside of the lines, have crazy thoughts, dream of a different world, dream of freedom in our minds and our lives.

Let’s break the rules, challenge the status quo, let’s rebel together, not to create lawlessness, but to create something new.

The world needs imaginative and creative thinkers to think up what hasn’t already been done, otherwise it’s a life of servitude and with very little meaning.

Imagination is a wonderful gift, that we all need to use more.