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February 27 4. The SolutionOur leaders commission hundreds of reports each year, they are done by various people at various levels on the various problems.
Lets take alcohol as an example. Abuse, alcoholism, binge drinking, alcohol related deaths and crimes, a subject we are all very familiar with and see frequently see across our media viewing.
Numerous reports have been done, a cost of which I can’t even guess at. The very latest reports have been published in recent times.
This is the suggestion I heard one MP voice
“Put the price up so they can’t afford it”.
I don’t know who said that, and I am sure your intentions were good but come on.
Another amusing one I heard was ASBO related, trying to get kids off the streets. I don’t even need to write much about the amount of research and reporting that has been done around this subject do I?
The suggestion I heard was
“Put lights up that make them look ugly by showing their spots”.
Again, come on.
I pose you a question about mankind. Answer in your head a simple yes or no.
When mankind first discovered the moon were 385,000 km away, seemingly out of reach, did we decide not to bother with the challenge and always stare in wonder?
Another. If you answered ‘no’ then you are probably thinking one of the following
No, we worked as hard as we could and we found a way. Eventually we got there and now are looking and going further to suit our curiosity.
Or
No, we think we got there but I half believe it was filmed in a studio and certainly the bulk of people bought it. One way or another we made it look like we did and subsequently believed we satisfied that curiosity.
Either way is not important, what is important is this. It wasn’t yes. We didn’t back off from our desires or challenges, in fact they appear to have made us try harder.
Consider for a moment that this appears in a more broad sense, the moon is just a metaphor or means for getting a point across. Think of the cars we have built, the speeds we travel at? The buildings that have stood for generations telling the story of history, the music we have made, the feelings it evokes. Careers so well established, years of hard work, teaching others. A huge achievement is our vocabulary and means to communicate clearly concisely and speedily, as I am now from my bedroom from my head through my fingers to the world. Ace.
The point is we can do anything we set our minds to, we prove it on a daily basis. Making things harder is by no way an answer. It is the very force that drives us, sadly in a lot of cases the wrong way.
I will show you in this book why it varies on an individual level, why for some people life seems easy and they accomplish the world, while for others it is a struggle and the smallest tasks can prove to seem mountainous, however at this early stage I want to ask what?
What makes people do the things they do? There in lies the solution.
Why do thousands of people quit smoking, why do we go running, why do we get up in the morning, why did we go to the moon? What makes people do the things they do?
Mine and I suspect your answer is on the next page. Please think about the question before you turn, read the question again and recognise the answer that springs to mind. It is a simple answer, and I believe on some level we all know it.
BECAUSE THEY WANT TO
Do you agree? If you ask any young person why they drink, any smoker why they smoke, any successful person why they worked at being successful, anyone who climbs a mountain why? On some level or wording, the answer is always the same because they ‘wanted’ to.
There is another question of why, this we will look at later but for now to summarise the point is
If we want to make a change, to lower pain in the world, making things harder by reach or spotlight is not the answer it will only make us try harder. It’s in our nature.
There is something we have missed, a key that when used makes life work. Some of us have it, some of us don’t. Some people know about it, some people don’t, even some who have it and like wise some that don’t.
The solution, the key, the guide, call it what you will. It’s written in life, let me show you where it’s found. Enjoy. TrackbacksThe trackback URL for this entry is: http://windowsforpeople.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!1BD54B4FEC834EAD!116.trak Weblogs that reference this entry
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