Contentment - The Enemy of Invention
Nothing’s ever good enough, right?
If you’re anything like me, every achievement pales into insignificance just as soon as the cogs in your head start to turn afterward. Sometimes I curse the fact that I don’t allow myself the opportunity to bask in any glory, and that every new level I hit in business, or even life in general, suddenly seems to bring an all-consuming thirst for the next.
I’ve realised over time that this is a positive trait. Without the constant need to advance and grow we simply stagnate. Humans don’t stand still, you’re either moving forwards, or you’re moving backwards.
Somebody wiser than me once proclaimed contentment the enemy of invention. If ever you find yourself completely content, let yourself dream of the next goal, we’re at our best when we simply need to make something happen.
Recession-Proof
Years after the media started telling us we’re doomed, and yep, we’re still all doomed. You don’t need me to talk to you about the state of the economy, in fact you could be forgiven for injuring me for doing so.
Certain things survive a recession. People may want to pay less for them, but there will always be items or services that people prioritise above having money. Sorry, it’s another list.
- Self-Improvement - In the UK, education is more expensive than ever, and the price continues to rocket, but people will still pay for it, it’s seen as investing in one’s self, and so it justifies huge amounts of expense, even in a world where information and opportunity is more accessible than ever.
- Love - Dating sites will survive a recession, people will still buy valentines gifts, restaurants will still sell meals to couples. And they said money can’t buy love.
- Memories - A quality photograph is cheaper than ever to produce, the industry is booming. People will always pay to encapsulate a moment.
- Money Promises - This is a funny one. I saw an eBook on sale today, 10 tips to making money in a recession. I’m assuming it was a short .PDF - it was £15. It’s an old sales trick really, promise someone that if they buy something from you they will in turn make money out of it, and you’re laughing. If you deliver then fair enough, everyone wins, but I’d wager not many actually do deliver.
I’m sure there are more, in fact, get in touch with me if you think of more. I’m considering trying to be more scientific with this. Maybe I’ll write an eBook. Maybe I’ll promise the earth and sell it for a fortune.
Time Thieves
Takers of time, and so by their very nature things to be avoided. Time, after all, is money.
- Over-analysing - Humans, by our very nature, can only use a small percentage of our brain. Use what you can to read a situation, other than that, use your instinct, your instinct is the part of the brain you can’t communicate with trying to give you a heads-up.
- Over-thinking - Yes, it’s different. Evaluate, of course, and more importantly, dream, but don’t dwell, a successful dinner party host never spent hours worrying about their napkins.
- Don’t procrastinate - “I’ll do it tomorrow” means “I don’t want to do it today, and I probably won’t tomorrow”. Just do it.
- Over-working - Take breaks. Go get a coffee, go get a beer, when you come back to work you’ll be fresh and invigorated, if you’re not in a good state to work, you might as well not be working, in which case your time is being stolen, just very subtly.
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Big Bang in my Head
The Andromeda Galaxy is approaching the Milky Way at about 100 to 140 kilometres per second (62 to 87 mi/s), so it is one of the few blue-shifted galaxies. The Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way are thus expected to collide in perhaps 4.5 billion years, although the details are uncertain since Andromeda’s tangential velocity with respect to the Milky Way is only known to within about a factor of two. A likely outcome of the collision is that the galaxies will merge to form a giant elliptical galaxy. Such events are frequent among the galaxies in galaxy groups. The fate of the Earth and the Solar System in the event of a collision are currently unknown. If the galaxies do not merge, there is a small chance that the Solar System could be ejected from the Milky Way or join Andromeda.
The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he’s on.
