Planning Ahead or Planning Now

Planning ahead is one of the hallmarks of someone who has their life together, but it can still receive a blow from those who love planning but are horrible at following through. It is necessary to follow through on any goals which you have, or you will not make progress on them at all. Unfortunately, the perpetual planners, as I like to call them, can really make a lifestyle out of what they are going to do, and never really make any progress on doing those things. What are some of their excuses and how can you avoid these pitfalls?

 Many perpetual planners make outside circumstances the excuse for not getting anything done, and this is unfortunate, because ANY outside situation or external reason can be completely accounted for, and not just before the project begins, but it can always be accounted for while the project is progressing. Blaming lack of progress on these external reasons is simply inexcusable.

In addition to this, progress takes a backseat when surrounding circumstances are allowed by the individual to take precedence over their individual decisions. There must be a knowledge or understanding that your individual decisions are more valuable and stronger than those of another and of anybody else, no matter how much you admire or respect them. Otherwise, again, progress can be stopped by outside circumstances quite easily.

It involves using new muscles in your body and in your mind, so to speak. It involves thinking and performing in a different way than you ever have performed before. To stick with your guns and your decisions and see them through yourself is not difficult, per se; it just requires a lot of focus and determination and self discipline. It involves fortitude and looking out for yourself. It involves self respect, because that is required to continually value your own plans above the advice or urgent pleading of others.

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Australian Society Must be Free

Freedom is a fickle thing, although most people believe it to be a clearly defined term. When people are violated of their perceived rights, half the population can become righteously indignant and half can become happy that rules are being set and followed. There is a certain amount of order which must accompany the freedom, or it is consider by everyone to be anarchy. Freedom for one person would be considered wishy-washy and rootless to another. Freedom comes in many forms, from personal freedom to societal freedom, between two people or between two continents.

In fact, freedom, in its extremely ethereal and highly subjective from is touted as the one thing worth killing for by just about (if not every) nation on earth. And yet, no one can agree about what freedom really is. It’s an interesting little problem, of course, and it means that each individual must personally define what they consider to be free and what they consider to be bondage or violation of those freedoms.

Finally, businesses must also define freedoms within their own ranks and for how they interact with people and with other companies. Apparently, everything must be defined, including alcohol and drug testing. While just about every large and medium sized company implements employee testing, you can bet that they all do it for extremely different reasons. In fact, if you tried to mandate why a company should implement testing, you would probably be met with scoffing and contemptuous laughter. To each his own, and to each company its own.

In the workplace, one must control drug & alcohol testing prices, as well as how regularly they implement said testing. One must decide if every employee will be tested at the same time, or if they will be staggered over several time periods, and if there is to be random testing available for dispatch. Drug testing in Western Australia is full of possibilities. You could even implement just drug testing, like with our Oraline drug tests or our Medix Drug Test, and only use our LifeLoc FC10 personal breathalyser devices when they seem to be necessary due to apparent drunken behavior. The possibilities are endless.

Stable Minds and Higher Returns

There is something to be said for high quality self discipline. When people think of self discipline, particularly those who are not disciplined at all, they often think of sacrifice or self sacrifice, neither of which seems like something that they would wish to invest in. however, self discipline should really be thought of as a form of investment. When someone has a quiet stabile mind, they are able to review and evaluate services and production without allowing those things to affect themselves. It is this devotion to taking care of your own boundaries which assures that others cannot cross over them and which gives you the inner confidence to know that you can easily and successfully defend your own personal boundaries.

Stable minds come from exercising self discipline with regard to your own decisions. Your decisions should be made for yourself and for only yourself. Other people can be benefitted by them, but they should not be the reason why you make them. As long as your own personal needs and desires are not being directly met by your decisions, then you are sabotaging yourself in a pretty direct way. However, the counter-argument might be about being selfish and not allowing anyone else into your world.

Setting and enforcing personal boundaries and making decisions on your own behalf are not selfish. Deliberately stepping on someone else who you dislike in order to get there might be, but the original reasons are for your own benefit. You cannot give love to others when you have not given yourself any love. You cannot pour compliments and praise upon others if you do not first pour compliments and praise upon yourself. The proof is in the pudding. If you cannot give something effectively to other people, then you may not have any of it to give. First, fill up your own reservoirs, then pump it out to neighboring oil wells.

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Solidifying New Foundations

Humans grow by their very nature, and through this growth, they find new truth and new love, both of which are necessary in order to even survive. However, when we reach new territory in our personal growth, it becomes necessary to solidify our new foundation before we can build anything on top of it. How does one go about solidifying new behavior and new information? Should you keep going and keep growing, stopping only long enough to spy the next target and then push towards it?

The truth that habits are built gradually, but new growth can occur rapidly. It is important to habituate previous good behavior and information utilization in order to have a higher habit to return to if new growth should give way. In other words, if you do not work on making your new foundations stronger, then if something up ahead should not be reliable, you have much farther to fall and must start back over again at a much lower level. If you think about it, this is similar to building a large tree house.

In the beginning, you must make sure that the ladder is well anchored at the top and at the bottom and that it is strong in between to support a variety of weights. If the ladder should go, then you could fall. Next, the foundation of the tree house must be built on strong core branches or it will break and you will be back to standing on the ladder. After that, you must make sure that the walls of your tree are perfectly aligned and nailed to the tree for extra support. The roof must be able to withstand rain, snowdrifts, and hail.

If, at any point during the building process, the next level is not built sturdily enough, you can end up on the ground with a broken bone or two. Each new foundation of the house must be built as strong and as solidly as the last. Habits are these solidified foundations in our lives, upon which we fall when new growth in our lives does not hold up. While growing can be fun and occur rapidly, concentrate your time on the habit.

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Science and Marijuana: The Gray Area Drug

A book by Clifford Pickover, titled The Beginner’s Guide to Immortality, discusses many different topics in a well-organized but seemingly erratic way. The focus of the topics included the effects that mind altering drugs have on the general populace’s views on immortality. Pickover cited several past scientists who supported the theory that Jesus Christ was believed to have used mind altering drugs in some of his healing practices. He also cites scientists who have attempted to study the health and mental benefits of marijuana, but of their subsequent failures receiving appropriate clearances to do so from the Food and Drug Administration in the United States, as well as other blocks received in other countries of study.

The interesting thing about Pickover’s research is that harder, more toxic drugs, such as heroin and LSD, were able to be researched quite easily and, if the marijuana research proposals hinted at finding the detrimental (as opposed to the positive) side effects of marijuana, they were also approved. This means that there are widespread restrictions placed upon the study of possible beneficial side effects of marijuana, whereas the same restrictions seem to be nowhere applied to the study of potential benefits of drugs such as LSD and heroin. Why would this be the case?

It seems that, since marijuana is a gray area drug, one that does not easily fit into a hard drug category, there is greater concern among the medical community and the regulatory commissions that it may become a worldwide commodity which everyone ingests or inhales on a regular basis, like many other prescription drugs.

Whether or not it is legal, marijuana is still easily obtained and it is still a mind altering drug. For that reason, implementing employee drug and alcohol testing in your company is the best solution to keep your assets protected and safe. The cost of drug and alcohol testing does not have to exorbitant. CMM Technology provides drug tests and many breathalysers such as the Lifeloc FC10 Plus. Drug testing in Australia is easily available now.

Riding the Wave of Anger

Anger is an effective tool, and it is used for many destructive purposes, both rational and irrational. Through anger, we can fight back against our deepest fears, and we can also realize some of our most hidden dreams. Anger is a hot, fiery, driving force which can settle into cold actions and become extremely destructive or it can push someone forward, faster and faster, with more determination and drive, to accomplish what they have set out to do. Many things can cool anger, from understanding to respect to abject terror to forgiveness, and it may well be worth it to cool anger long enough to establish a good line of communication between two people. However, it can also be used to realize goals and dreams, but it must be harnessed properly for that.

Anger, in order to be useful, must be unemotional. In other words, anger must take on an unemotional slant, where it is being used as fuel, but not as the ignition or the fire itself. When individuals succumb to anger and explode or become violent, they are using it as the ignition and the fire, but not as steadily burned fuel to satisfy a productive requirement.

Again, anger is a tool, not a weapon, and should never be used as such.

When employees show up to work under the influence of drugs or alcohol, they are succumbing to emotions which they are not holding under control, but to which they are giving their power and their resources. It is unfortunate that so many people abuse these substances, since it deprives them of power and discernment and abundance, slowly starving them of their life and of all the good things which they used to hold dear. Isn’t it interesting how we promise ourselves one thing, and then deliver another?

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