Complexity

There is a simple remedy for complexity of all shapes and sizes:

Simplify, Repeat.

This is a truly revolutionary concept that once applied will greatly improve your day to day life. Take a moment and drink it in.

This startlingly simple concept of only 2 words will upturn the apple cart of your mind and you will discover that simplification is a process and not a weekend retreat.

Let's start where we will see the greatest results first: Simplify...
What does it mean to truly simplify? - there are plenty of books, tapes, seminars, advice, and hints out there to help us Simplify our daily life.

Drucker puts Simplification into the forefront with his 2 essential business questions:
1. What is (your) business?
2. How is business?

Adapting these cut to the chase questions can give us insight into what we are truly doing with our lives and how we are attempting to accomplish this.

What is your life?
How is life?

These questions may help you as they have helped me to develop a more balanced paradigm of what is important in life while taking an honest look at how I am setting out to experience life.

Simplicity surrounds us.
Simplicity is there for the taking.

What could you do right now to simplify your life?
If you don't have time to simplify, simply take this challenge:
The next time you are waiting - evaluate rearranging your keyring.
Start small and work up.

Repetition is the key!
Repeat - revisit all aspects of your life - start with the small ones at first and move on to the bigger ones.

Revisit the things you do and ask: How can I simplify this?
Keep asking this question and you will find that you ALWAYS are able to come up with an answer. An answer will come - sometimes it takes time but I guarantee that it will come to you.

Simplify, Repeat.

What Issues are still Outstanding?

Acid rain? Balloons that are unsafe for kids or dolphins? Candy rotting young teeth? Dogs that live in cities and pee on the only green grass for blocks? Environmental shifts? Fortune 500 companies squeezing out mom and pop? Global warming? Having to justify paying over a dollar a liter for gas in the country with more oil reserves than the entire middle east? Inconvenient truths, being sold in convenience stores? Journalism that some how seems out of touch with what is going on? Killings on TV? Love that needs a little blue pill? Managers that don't know what they are doing? New songs that are just a remix of something two decades old (here we go again)? Open season on common sense? People that play games? Questions to politicians that only get answered with more questions? Retirement of the majority of the working class in North America? Scammers on every corner hoking their wares? Turmoil on a global level brought into your home nightly at 6:00 and 11:00? Unreasonable demands from career and family and, and, and? Vicious Cycles of poverty and economic collapse (US Mortgages)? Wondering when it will be your turn to strike it rich or win the lotto? X-ray radiation from aliens, your microwave, your cell phone, high voltage lines? Your paycheck never reaching the end of the month? Zooming around in a million different directions only to end up where you said you would never go?

Let's take some time and check out what issues made your list.
Add a comment with the most Outstanding Issues you are facing.
Jay Mart

Idle hands? No such thing!

There is something to be said for dexterity of the mind as well as the dexterity of the body.
Here is a video that takes a while to get going but I found really amusing. I like the way this individual has put their idle hands to work!
What do you do with idle hands?

First things first!

Alright, so let's get down to some outstanding issues. Best to deal with these before they get out of control.

Can the issues that are affecting us all be dealt with in a manor that affords us a calmer mental environment?

Dealing with the issues is all there really is to do in life. Every time you get some issue dealt with another appears to take it' place. For countless centuries humanity has struggled to overcome all the obstacles in it's path. Getting to the heart of the matter - the quickest solution is not generally the most widely accepted.

How many times do we engage in activities that steer our attentions and energies away from our goals?

Interestingly enough people that head strait to a solution are looked down upon as boring or overzealous. Justification can always be found for our rabbit trails and wandering ways.

Keys to problem solving are simple!

Lots of people know what to do but still refuse to act on their knowledge. Many people have amassed great fortunes trying to motivate these inactive problem solvers. Never has there been so many tools at our disposal to deal with all of the issues at hand. Overwhelming advances in communication link people on a global level. Virtually everything is on the internet in a digital format.

Why then do we still suffer from inactivity when it comes to dealing with our issues?

X-box generation where we would rather be entertained than enlightened. Years ago the struggle was to be the best, to advance all of humanity to change the world. Zelda quests and online life simulations have replaced life it's self.

All of life is choice.
Jay Mart

New Beginnings

I have re-entered the world of Blogs!
There are a few of you out there that have expressed an interest - ever so small in a blog by yours truly and I intend to stick with this longer than the 3 weeks back in 2006 when I first entered the arena of the online Web Log.

With that said on to "New Beginnings"
There have been of late several forces all at work pulling me to share and to write in a more consistent way.

Several of these forces are seasonal - the need to hold up in the cave while the weather howls outside, the cyclical disappearance of all my summertime hobbies.

Several of these forces are creative - the need to give more back to the community that I live in, the realization that I haven't published anything online for almost a year and a half.

And a few of the forces were more spiritual - the need to connect on more than a superficial level with those around me. (FaceBook doesn't count.)

FaceBook is a great way to track down those people who were successful in avoiding you in real life!

There are more ways than ever to connect with people and I am guilty of adding every single person I could rack my brain and think of to my online virtual collections of acquaintances.

So raise your glass to New Beginnings!
Jay Mart