You Have Genuine Super Powers!

It is interesting how action movies display superhuman strength, x-ray vision, the ability to fly, to run faster than the eye can see as super human abilities.

While these action flicks satisfy the urge to have more drama in our lives, is their portrayal of those fictional superhuman characteristics a distraction, a misdirection, an altered importance that takes our eye off where we should be looking?

When I look around me, what I see observe is that most people do not have any idea of their basic purpose in life, spend more time planning an annual vacation than they do planning their life, pay scant attention to regular exercise or an optimum diet and are spending more time on distractions than on living a fully real and authentic life.

Henry David Thoreau said, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”

This is sad.

What if there were a simple, effective way to alter this situation?

What if there were a way to move a person from living a life of quiet desperation to a level of calm, satisfied competence?

It has been noted by more than one person that you get that on which you put your attention. Well, let me suggest you put your attention on some abilities I see broadly lacking that if you put your attention on and mastered, would make you appear to others like a super hero masquerading as an ordinary human being in street clothes!

What are these abilities?

Being fully present in the here and now without having your attention dragged back in time or elsewhere is a super power.

Confront and integrity (the willingness and ability to see what is really there, not what you think is there or what you want to be there or what you are told is there) are super powers.

Having the confidence to clearly communicate what you wish to is a super power.

The ability to learn and skillfully apply that newly acquired data is a super power.

Competence, the ability to start, continue and fully complete a task without distraction or error, quickly, efficiently and effectively, is a superpower.

Loyalty is a super power.

Honesty and truthfulness (the ability to say what you think should be said despite potential negative consequences) is a super power.

Persistence is a super power.

Consistency is a super power.

Responsibility is a super power.

Self-discipline is a super power.

The ability to envisage a future goal, to plan the steps necessary to attain it, then to perform them in sequence until you attain the desired result is a super power.

The ability to acknowledge something you did was wrong, to rectify it and thereafter change your operating basis is a super power.

These are not fictional powers, they are genuine, real super powers for they enable production at a much higher level and the enjoyment of a far more satisfying life.

If you have read this far then you probably have many or all of the above super powers, to a greater or lessor degree.

Let’s look at what would happen if one by one, you took each of these abilities as something to work on in yourself, and, improve your ability to do it for a week before moving on to the next one.

You would progressively improve your morale, your self-confidence, your happiness, your self-respect and your ability to get things done.

This will set an example to others that some will want to emulate.

Imagine what would happen if enough people did this? If a civilization is the aggregate of the basic building blocks, the individuals in it, what would happen to a civilization if all the individuals in it had the above super powers to a high level?

Tom Grimshaw

P.S. If, while improving your super powers, you hit a brick wall or are not progressing as quickly as you would like, reach out to me.

Net Trapped Whale Rescued

Net Trapped Whale Rescued

A female humpback whale had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines. She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her body, her tail, her torso, a line tugging in her mouth. This is her story of giving gratitude.
A fisherman spotted her just east of the Faralon Islands (outside the Golden Gate) and radioed for help. Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined that she was so badly off, the only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her…. a very dangerous proposition. One slap of the tail could kill a rescuer.
They worked for hours with curved knives and eventually freed her. When she was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous circles. She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, nudged them, and pushed gently, thanking them. Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives.
The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth says her eye was following him the whole time, and he will never be the same. May you be so fortunate …To be surrounded by people who will help you get untangled from the things that are binding you. And, may you always know the joy of giving and receiving gratitude.

Truly Winning

Truly Winning

At 17, Jarrett Adams was just a boy when the gavel fell. Wrongfully convicted, silenced, and sentenced to 28 years—for a crime he didn’t commit.
But prison did not swallow him.
In a cell meant to break him, he built himself instead—book by book, law by law. He studied case law in the prison library. He helped other inmates fight for justice. He became the advocate no one had been for him.
Eventually, his voice grew loud enough to reach the Wisconsin Innocence Project. And after nearly a decade behind bars, the courts admitted what he already knew: he was innocent.
He walked out at 26, not as a victim, but as a warrior. He earned his law degree. He returned to courtrooms—this time, on the other side of the bench. And he now fights for those left behind, running a nonprofit called Life After Justice.
Jarrett Adams didn’t just survive injustice. He transformed it.
He turned a stolen childhood into a career of defending the voiceless. He became the kind of man who helps others find the light—even if he had to learn to walk through darkness first.
His story is not just about a broken system. It’s about what’s possible when one man refuses to let it break him.

The Oort Cloud

The Oort Cloud

Think the solar system ends with Pluto? Think again. The real edge of our solar system lies in a mysterious and distant zone called the Oort Cloud, a massive sphere of icy objects stretching up to 100,000 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun. That is about 15 trillion kilometers away.
To put that into perspective, even light traveling at nearly 300,000 kilometers per second would take more than a year to reach its outer rim. That is how far the Sun’s influence truly reaches.
The Oort Cloud is believed to be the birthplace of long-period comets, the kind that take thousands or even millions of years to return to the inner solar system. This distant cloud of icy debris is thought to contain trillions of frozen fragments left over from the formation of the planets.
Though we have never directly seen the Oort Cloud, its existence is widely accepted based on orbital patterns, comet behavior, and powerful theoretical models. It also represents the gravitational limit of our solar system the invisible boundary where the Sun’s pull finally weakens and interstellar space begins.
What makes the Oort Cloud so fascinating is that it challenges our idea of what the solar system really is. It is not just about planets and moons. Our solar system is a sprawling cosmic neighborhood, filled with distant and mysterious regions we are only beginning to understand.
So next time someone says Pluto is the last stop, let them know the solar system stretches much farther than they ever imagined.

The impact of vitamin D supplementation on your blood pressure

Research shows that optimizing your vitamin D level can lower systolic blood pressure within weeks.

People with low vitamin D levels saw the most dramatic improvements, making testing your level a smart rst step if you struggle with high blood pressure.

Vitamin D helps lower blood pressure by reducing uid retention and relaxing blood vessels.

Taking vitamin D alongside magnesium and vitamin K2 increases its effectiveness and reduces the dose needed to reach optimal levels.

Have your vitamin D level checked to establish a baseline. From there, you’ll be able to determine whether you need more sunlight exposure or need to take an oral supplement.

https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2025/May/PDF/vitamin-d-supplementation-and-blood-pressure-pdf.pdf

A gentle reminder…

Homecoming

After two long years serving overseas, my husband finally walked through our front door, his eyes bright with joy, eager to embrace the family he’d missed so deeply.
But it was our golden retriever who moved me most. For two years, she’d waited by that door every evening, hoping he’d come home. When he finally did, she let out a sharp, almost tearful bark, then flung herself into his arms, tail wagging wildly. They clung to each other in a hug so tender it seemed to erase every lonely day they’d spent apart.
I managed to capture the moment on camera — a soldier and his dog, eyes closed in relief and happiness. Watching them, I was reminded that some loves don’t fade with time or distance; they grow stronger.
In a world obsessed with chasing more, this was a gentle lesson in what truly matters: love, loyalty, family, and the simple joy of finally being home.