One man's comments on everything


Thursday, July 29, 2010

Funny people and vegetarians

It always amuses me when people that live alternative lifestyles find it necessary to make excuses for their preferences. Like Vegetarians and people that do not drink alcohol.  Maybe it is a natural defense mechanism, like in attack before you get attacked.

In most of these cases you will also find that these persons will attack lifestyles that differ from theirs
(that is once they are comfortable with the fact that they have the upper hand by their initial excuses for  not conforming.   Whoever told them they have to explain their preferences?  I do not explain mine.
I have a saying that annoys some of these friends of mine : "I did not get to the top of the food chain by eating grass!"
Please note that I am calling them friends because I have never found it necessary in commenting on their preference of veggies and fruit - hell I even eat some of the stuff myself ! ( sometimes anyway when I run low on the meaty stuff. )

Why am I writing this /  I beg of you to leave my milk, eggs and meat alone - I do not believe the world is going to end because of this ( I do think there is more chemicals and pesticides in veggies than what you will find in good red meat anyway)

Now we can get into the arguments if you wish. I am going to state some beliefs that I will defend to the ends of the earth and because of this stop trying to get me to belief otherwise !

1. Butter is better than margarine.
2. Good red meat is good for you.
3. Red wine is very good for you.
4. When you eat , enjoy it , do not count the calories - It is food not maths you are having
(quote from the bible : Eat your food and drink your wine with gusto)

Oh and by the way - more than 90% of people will agree with me - how do I know ?
This week we had a business breakfast. 34 attendees. 30 chose the farmhouse breakfast - 4 chose the so called health breakfast.   Farmhouse consisted of bacon, eggs, and boerewors.  Health consisted of some fruit and Yogurt (by the way not vegetarian yogurt)

Let us leave the arguments and enjoy what you enjoy and leave the arguments to the scientists who think they know more.  

Thursday, July 22, 2010

The Mind block

I am not a Pshycologist or any other shrink. I am just your average thinking human being,
But of late certain insights have hit me and as my friend Wayne would say " you can teach an old dog new tricks"   Actually you cannot. But he can learn it if he wants to.

What is the key here ? Choices - I can make the choice to learn new tricks - you can try as hard as you want to but if I am not interested you will get nowhere !

Ok, so what?   Any good shrink will tell you that more than 80% of your beliefs are governed by you subconscious mind.  So if I decide to try something new and there are hidden beliefs that prevents me from having faith in the venture I am lost.  Now this is in all probability the reason why so many ventures fail. It is because of these beliefs in our subconsious mind that prevents us from achieving success.

Simple isn't it ? Your shrink would have charged you around a thousand bucks to come to this point.

Ok but now I have stated the (shrinkwise) obvious.  How do we change the scenario?
I am again stating this in laymans terms.  I know I am going to get some smart replies, that is ok if it helps someone to understand this better.  See ?  I have made a statement that only Yesterday would not have been made as I believed that I am right and I really don't care what you think and I would have told you so !  What changed?    I will tell you and this is the key to the whole thing:  I made a concerted effort to not see all critisism as destructive which is in my nature.  Now this is going to need effort.  Whatever I decide my subconsious mind is going to block me if it does not fit into my belief system.  This is a universal law.

Again to get to this point a shrink would have cost a you a few bucks. Belief me.

Right ,  now we(I) found out what the problem is and where it is. Now I have to do something about it.
I have been given a little gift yesterday by a gentleman called Conray Labuschagne and I am going to try the
remedy for a month or so. Some of you might have heard of it , some not.  It is an elastic band.

It works something like this :  You put it on your wrist and everytime you conciously know or find out that your idea is being blocked by your subconsious mind you pull this out as far as you can and let go.
"bloody hell, that was sore"  Your subconscious mind will start associating that blocking or negative thought with pain and it will eventually stop its nonsense.   Does it work ?   I don't know, I am going to try it "Eina dammit, that was sore !)   See the unconsious mind does not even like you messing with it.  It is all in your beliefs.

Another few bucks to the Shrink.   To be continued......................

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Personal targets

This tedious task of setting targets has always been a difficult one for me.  Let me explain.  I do my planning in my head - most of the time.  I do not like to make notes and when I do I very rarely read it again.  I think it is this bigger picture thing - totally right brainer thing.  Because of this I do not have any written goals or targets and I know it should be there.  Now I have come to the conclusion that maybe, just maybe I should start looking at this thing.  If I could be as successful as I have been for the past few years without doing any real physical planning, just imagine what I could do if I did start drafting a proper plan.

Now this piece of wisdom above relates to business. I am now on about personal targets.  We (my wife and I) have had such a personal target about 4 years ago when we decided we are going to Scotland for my 60th birthday.  Where were we on the 27th of October 2008 ?  My sixtieth birthday ?  We landed at Edinburgh airport in Sotland that morning !

So ?  I know it can be done and that is exactly what I will be doing again - not Scotland - THE BIG PLAN

The biggest problem here is : Starting with the bloody thing............Tomorrow!   Ok definitely next week.