When you learn to see that in every situation, there can be a lesson leant; things won’t affect you the same way they used to.
You will look for the positive in everything you go through.
You begin to shift your energy to create what you want.
You will find that you stop worrying about what you cannot control.
You realize that deep inside of you, is more strength than you ever know.
You have the ability to change anything in your life.
~ ALAN IAN ATKINSON
Writer, Author, Storyteller
Just a reminder in case your mind is playing tricks on you today. If you are constantly in a storm, it may not be the weather. It may be the decisions you make.
Remember, you matter. You’re important. You are loved. Your presence makes a difference whether you see it or not. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
Your life can get better by change. Live.
~ ALAN IAN ATKINSON
Writer, Author, Storyteller
SOMETIMES, IN LIFE, YOU DON’T GET WHAT YOU WANT. YOU WONDER WHY PEOPLE DON’T SEEM TO UNDERSTAND.
NO ONE ELSE IS SUPPOSED TO UNDERSTAND YOUR CALLING; YOU WEREN’T ON A CONFERENCE CALL.
YOU’VE GOT TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. STOP HOLDING YOURSELF BACK. MAKE A CHANGE, THE CHANGE; IF YOU AREN’T HAPPY.
BE PATIENT. WORK HARD AND STAY DISCIPLINED.
YOUR TIME WILL COME.
LIFE DOESN’T ALWAYS GIVE YOU WHAT YOU WANT NOT BECAUSE YOU DON’T DESERVE IT, BUT BECAUSE YOU DESERVE MORE.
~ ALAN IAN ATKINSON
Writer, Author, Storyteller
THE GREATEST PRISON OF ALL TIME THAT PEOPLE LIVE IN, IS THE FEAR OF WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK.
STOP ASKING FOR PERMISSION. BE YOURSELF.
LIFE WILL CHANGE BECAUSE YOU MADE THE DECISION TO CHANGE IT.
~ ALAN IAN ATKINSON
Writer, Author, Storyteller
YOU CAN ALWAYS TURN YOUR LIFE AROUND.
SUCCESS STARTS WHEN YOU START TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR LIFE.
YOU JUST HAVE TO TAKE ACTION.
~ ALAN IAN ATKINSON
Writer, Author, Storyteller
The fourth day of the new year is almost at its end. So, the question here is: Is everything the “same-same” as last year and the previous years?
Are the new year’s resolutions out the window by now and “we will do it at the end of this year?”
Are your goals…Goal? What is that? Some kind of football game? Are your goals in the same predicament as your new year’s resolutions?
A new year’s resolution can be a simple thing like a habit that you would like to change that perhaps will improve your overall life.
Goals – short, medium long term goals are what you want to achieve over time – save money for a holiday, reduce weight, become financially free.
Decisions…decisions. they are hard to make. Why are they left to me?
The first step to change in your life is to get out of the “same-same” mode.
Then, embrace 2023 with all you want to achieve. Some may work, others may not.
Aim for the positive. Have fun. Who knows…”Change” may just become a habit.
EVERY DAY IS A CHANCE TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE. IT BEGINS WITH THE MOMENT IN FRONT OF YOU.
~ ALAN IAN ATKINSON
Writer, Author, Storyteller
Moving! While some can come out of that “neighbourhood” of poverty; most can’t. They do not know any other life than the way they are now. Moving them out of abject poverty may be more harmful than where they are at now. Sort of “don’t rock the ecosystem of life”.
This is what I was told when I tried to make a change in the lives of a few people many years ago. I don’t think leaving them in abject poverty is the answer.
We can see that the writer has done well in managing to come out of that “ecosystem”, doing well for himself, not forgetting when he came from, at the same time remembering those people who are still in their unchanged lives – remembering them not with disgust; but with love and respect. (1)
I think the article above is very interesting. The writer wrote this based on his personal experience in the U.S.
In Malaysia, there is a famous (I think) (There we go again with that “famous” word) phrase: You can take a person out of the kampung (2) but you can’t take the kampung out of a person. Somehow, it relates to the paragraph above.
Now, that the world has begun to spin on its axis again (has it done anything else other than to spin on its axis) at 23 hours 56 minutes 4.09053 seconds or about 1,000 miles per hour or 1609.344000 kilometers per hour (3) or 1 day as most of us ordinary, non-detailed, clouded minds know it by. Now you know that each day is short of 3 minutes 55.90947 seconds. Scary, right? We are older than we ought to be.
The turntable has strayed off the track from “Now, that the world has begun to spin on its axis again”… are we able to go back to pre-pandemic days? Can we press a reset button?
I think those days are gone. If we keep harping on the good old pre-pandemic days, we will be “stuck in a grove”.
One way of looking at this is that the 2-year crisis has helped the world shave off a layer of an overheating, over-priced global economy.
People are now dependent on “everything online”, all from the comfort of our homes. It’s great, isn’t it? You can shop online, do all your necessary banking, and other errands on line, it tells you how cold or hot you are feeling now (this is mental conditioning as it really does not have a clue as to how you are really feeling). Being “online” has made it easy in our lives with this convenience; it is unmeasurable. Or is it?
The biggest losers in all this “making it easy” and “conveniences are…us – the people. People are no longer interacting much with other people. They are inter-acting with machines.
Is this what we are as a race, a human race has become? Has chosen to become? Is choosing to become?
Chloe, in the video above, is said to be so intelligent that she can compute at remarkable speeds. Then, she said her intelligence was created by a far more intelligent species – man. In time to come, computers / machines like her will be able to self-repair, self- replicate… without the need of man. What happens to the human race?
Will we be able to come out of the over-reliance of Artificial Intelligence, computers and robots? Will we want to feel the earth move under our feet?
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