Category: Inspiration

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‘Duo Transcend’ Mary and Tyce Nielsen amaze the judges and audience of America’s Got Talent with their mind-blowing acrobatic performance. Tom: Do not watch if you have heart problems!

https://www.flixxy.com/duo-transcend-americas-got-talent.htm

Reminds me of the line, “Most people grossly overestimate what they can get done in a day and grossly under estimate what they can accomplish in a decade.”

So your question for today is, “What activity do you do that is a relative waste of time for 90 minutes a day or 10 hours of your week? Or, if that is too harsh, “What do you presently do for 10 hours a week that is a low priority activity that you could easily drop from your schedule?”

Because that adds up to, let’s see, 10 hours a week is 520 hours a year, 5,200 hours in 10 years divided by 40 hours a week is 130 weeks divided by 52 weeks in a year is 2.5 years.

What major goal would you like to accomplish if someone said, “You don’t have to work for the next 30 months, your bills are covered, go for it!”

Reminds me of the line, “Most people grossly overestimate what they can get done in a day and grossly under estimate what they can accomplish in a decade.”

So your question for today is, “What activity do you do that is a relative waste of time for 90 minutes a day or 10 hours of your week?” Or, if that is too harsh, “What do you presently do for 10 hours a week that is a low priority activity that you could easily drop from your schedule?”

Because ten hours a week adds up to a lot over ten years.
10 hours a week is 520 hours a year or 5,200 hours in 10 years.
5,200 hours divided by 40 hours a week is 130 weeks.
130 weeks divided by 52 weeks in a year is 2.5 years or 30 months.
What could you accomplish if you had two and a half years to do it?

Thonk about what major goal would you like to accomplish if someone said, “You don’t have to work for the next two and a half years, your bills are covered, go for it!”

Now allocate that 10 hours a week to it!

And enjoy the proud satisfaction of production and accomplishment of something worthwhile!

What major goal would you like to accomplish if someone said, “You don’t have to work for the next 30 months, your bills are covered, go for it!”

I found this interesting for a couple of reasons:

1. The amount of effort and the magnitude of scale put into a sctructure that was intended to fail, in order to prevent a bigger destruction and
2. The great example it was of the philosophy of the Lee Child character, Jack Reacher, “Hope for the best, plan for the worst.”

A philosophy sadly lacking in our state and federal governments.

So, as it is the start of a new year, what are you doing to hope for the best with your goals for the year and plan for the worst with your disaster prepardness plans?

When men form communities they soon come to recognize that the protection of property is the paramount consideration in drafting constitutions. Such legal protection, however, has never proved sufficient deterrent to a man or group of men from expropriating the property of others. This theft is often perpetrated by those elected or appointed to make or enforce the law and historically these legislators will go to great lengths to perpetuate their power and their influence over the property of their compatriots.

In light of this propensity of the powerful to deprive the governed of the full measure of their God-given liberty, the trial was developed as a way of providing those accused by government or by other men of violating the law of the land with a process by which guilt or innocence could be declared by a group of men equal to the accused in legal standing, in other words, a peer.

https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2019/09/09/trial-by-jury-a-jewel-of-freedom/

I just had a major realisation on something I have been doing wrong all my life on the subject of communication.

There is a particular person I interact with who is very opinionated. When I discuss a topic with this person they will come up with examples to support their opinion.

I would disprove the validity or applicability of the data but the opinion would not alter. Obviously this dicappointed and frustrated me because I was “unable to change their mind”.

My big realisation was that THEIR MIND DID NOT CHANGE BECAUSE THEIR OPINION WAS NOT BASED ON THE DATA THEY WERE TENDERING! The invention of the data was as a rationale for their opinion came AFTER their opinion. So disproving their data did NOTHING to alter their opinion! The tendered data was too late on the time track.

I just launched the petition “Federal Politicians: So ScoMo doesn’t think firefighters are a priority? Cut parliamentary benefits and perks!” and wanted to see if you could help by adding your name.

My goal is to reach 100 signatures and we need more support. You can read more and sign the petition here:

http://chng.it/4w2dQSyv6q

No matter how abundant or renewable, solar power has a thorn in its side. There is still no cheap and efficient long-term storage for the energy that it generates.

The solar industry has been snagged on this branch for a while, but in the past year alone, a series of four papers has ushered in an intriguing new solution.

Scientists in Sweden have developed a specialised fluid, called a solar thermal fuel, that can store energy from the sun for well over a decade.

“A solar thermal fuel is like a rechargeable battery, but instead of electricity, you put sunlight in and get heat out, triggered on demand,” Jeffrey Grossman, an engineer works with these materials at MIT explained to NBC News.

The fluid is actually a molecule in liquid form that scientists from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden have been working on improving for over a year.

This molecule is composed of carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen, and when it is hit by sunlight, it does something unusual: the bonds between its atoms are rearranged and it turns into an energised new version of itself, called an isomer.

Like prey caught in a trap, energy from the sun is thus captured between the isomer’s strong chemical bonds, and it stays there even when the molecule cools down to room temperature.

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-develop-liquid-that-sucks-up-sun-s-energy