Category: Inspiration

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How To Get More Of What You Want Out of Life

So you want to be more successful?
To accomplish more with less effort?
Let me share with you some of the most powerful truths I know.
To be maximally effective, do these steps.
Decide what the purpose is of any action in which you engage.
Craft a clean, simple statement of the purpose.
Clearly define the product you want to accomplish.
Work out the actions you need to perform in order to obtain the product.
Identify and secure the prerequisites necessary (and only those absolutely necessary) to obtain the product.
Keeping the purpose in mind, perform the actions, as rapidly and as succinctly as you can, always looking for ways to streamline them, shedding any actions that do not specifically add to the quality, quantity or viability of the product you are producing.
Remove any barriers to increased production.
Add any organisational steps or actions that support improved quality, quantity or viability of the product you are producing.
During the time you have allocated to the task, ignore any distractions.
Do not dilute your efforts into peripheral activities but stay focused on doing that which produces the product.
If you find your motivation waning, rekindle your purpose.
Keep in mind that the more you do this, (given that you are producing a product you feel is beneficial to the recipient) the better you will feel.

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Grass-Roots Anti-Corruption Group

Represent Us
Represent Us are a US based grass-roots movement wanting to rid elected government of corruption. Something sorely needed! Here’s a newsletter they sent me:
Tom,
We said that the people would be the ones to Drain the Swamp. And it’s happening.
On Inauguration Day, we launched 100 Days to Drain the Swamp – the grassroots campaign to build enough momentum to pass Anti-Corruption Acts in four to eight states in 2018.
And it’s. really. happening.
Since the start of the 100 Days to Drain the Swamp campaign, Represent.Us chapters have passed 9 Anti-Corruption Resolutions, 2,249 new volunteers have joined the movement, and we’ve launched 9 new chapters.
Here’s what Represent.Us members and our partners have done so far – these are the efforts that are already or could very well end up on the ballot in 2018:
South Dakota: Represent.Us members in South Dakota will soon launch a petition drive to go back to the ballot in 2018 with the Voter Protection and Anti-Corruption Amendment.
New Mexico: We’ll have the chance to help pass a ballot measure establishing an ethics commission.
Nevada: We have a chance to help pass a ballot measure for automatic voter registration.
Missouri: Our members joined a bipartisan coalition called Clean Missouri to fight corruption, tackle gerrymandering and get big money out of politics.
Massachusetts: Several democracy reform efforts are coming together and our members and partners are gearing up for petition drives this fall.
Utah: Volunteers will soon gather signatures to put a gerrymandering measure on the ballot.
Arizona: Partners are exploring getting money in politics reform on the ballot.
North Dakota: Represent.Us members are meeting with partners to explore lobbyist gift limits, campaign contribution limits, ethics and election reform.
Michigan: Our chapters are working with partners on a redistricting campaign.
Ohio: Our chapters are working with partners on gerrymandering reform.
Oregon: We’re gathering from Portland to Eugene and Salem to meet with partners to develop a strategy to build on last year’s successful ranked choice voting win in Benton County and money in politics wins in Portland and Multnomah County.
Florida: Represent.Us members are participating in hearings of the Constitutional Revision Commission calling for anti-corruption reform to be referred to the 2018 ballot.
If you’re in one of these states, or if you wish your state was on this list, now is the time to volunteer. Join or start a chapter now.
http://volunteer.represent.us/chapters?akid=12840.491315.-uBRTf&rd=1&t=3
From ranked choice voting and ethics to campaign finance and gerrymandering reform, people on the right and the left are coming together across the country to push for real, systemic anti-corruption reform. We’re now four months into a multi-state anti-corruption tour, and no matter where we go, people are excited to make real change happen.
Last year we passed the largest wave of anti-corruption reforms America has seen in decades. We can do it again in 2018 if we keep up this unprecedented momentum.
Join or start a chapter now.
Onward,
The Represent.Us Team

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LESSONS IN LOGIC – 1

1. The vast majority of people correctly perceive that most politicians lie. So the politicians want a population that cannot tell truth from lies. (Read “The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America” by Charlotte Iserbyt http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/) The politicians erroneously believe they are best served by a blindly obedient, non-questioning, ignorant population.
2. The drug companies make money by selling drugs. The longer a person is on drugs, the more the drug company makes in profit. So there is no profit for them in a healthy, disease free population. They do not make money from curing people, they make money by inventing drugs that create perpetual customers.
3. The courts have convicted the drug companies and fined them billions, yes, billions for all sorts of immoral and illegal activity, all in the name of profit. So we have established their motivation is money. Above any consideration of ethics. Agreed?
3. These are the very same drug companies that promote deadly destructive “solutions” like the Paxil antidepressant that increases the suicide rate 800%.
4. But these drug companies say they have a “solution” to disease that is a vaccination. The government buy this solution and want to force it on us.
And we believe this?
As Mr Spock would say, “That is highly illogical!”
I think the Yanks have a saying,
“Burn me once, shame on you. Burn me twice, shame on me.”