You NEVER give your own gun up in a hostage situation (well almost never)! Stalemate @ best!

Somebody or something whispers a lie in your ear and screws you all up -so then you tell yourself your own lie to straighten out the wrinkle emotionally. And as it turns out, your lie was not too much of a lie after all. And it definitely did the trick anyways -it got you back on track emotionally. 🙆‍♂️ My friend Lenelle used to tell her self stuff all the time… Things that for example would piss me off…. Like people running a stop sign in front of me at the 4 way? She would tell herself things like maybe they have to go to the bathroom. Maybe their wife’s having a baby… Maybe there breaks one out… She would tell herself things just to diffuse the situation.

Some people are very good at diffusing a situation. Many more are not. If I’m pissed about something as a customer… And I get on the phone with a representative or I go back to the store and deal with an employee…. And my anger and frustration are only increasing… that employee or representative is practicing escalation rather than diescalation -because even if the employee or representative cannot resolve the issue, the fact that they are showing empathy or not showing empathy; the fact that they are showing a great interest in resolving my issue or not showing a great interest in resolving my issue; the fact that they themselves are calm and respectful or not calm and not respectful… All these things add up to the direction in which my mood goes. True story

How is it that some people almost always seem to succeed?What’s their secret? When you’ve eliminated all risk of failure the only outcome is success. People miscalculate. People leave something out in their calculations. People’s perceptions are not in line with reality. Then of course others have a tendency to throw a wrench into… Or maybe it’s simply not God’s will.*

Being in touch with reality

Uncommon sense

Sixth sense

What’s The Secret to never being disappointed -never failing? To simply be as water as Bruce Lee stated. To have no agenda other than that of life’s agenda -God’s agenda!

Life’s unpredictable enough with one nervous system in the mix -start throwing in multiples… 🤷‍♂️ (relationships)**

*Sure, God gives us free well… But that doesn’t mean that when our will is in collision with God’s will -that we win.

** I used to think relationships were like a plaything or… Like plucking an Apple off of a tree. Now I know they are the most demanding, rewarding… They taxes like nothing else in the universe! And if we are truly to succeed we must be at the top of our game when engaging in one:

•Sanity

•Maturity

It always amazes me how a system comprised of (built around?) people… how can so many people be limited in their success(es) when dealing with…. well, people! I mean calm if we were dealing with aliens, aliens that we didn’t have much grasp on an understanding of… but it appears to me… that many of us when dealing with our fellow human beings -don’t have much of a grasp on an understanding of… 🤷‍♂️ And I wonder… I wonder… If we all had the sort of grasp or understanding of one another that one might expect…. I wonder how that would impact the elitism (elitists) of our 🌍? Is this breach or break being perpetuated? Fostered? People who absolutely insist on -having power or being in charge are always up to something!

Poker is an excellent example of knowing when to win and when to lose. In life however people go for the gold every time. If that was the strategy employed in poker you’d end up broke. A lot of people don’t see the correlation but the fact of the matter is you need to know when to lose and when to win in life in order to come out on top in the end.

It’s very interesting to watch people turn down opportunity – It’s even more amazing to watch people throw it away based on principle(s)!

The world operates largely by having, having what others have, and wanting what others have, taking what others have.

One’s willingness to learn may be more important, or critical than one’s ability to learn.

A disabled human being with the drive to succeed and accomplish versus a perfectly healthy human being who lacks the drive to succeed and accomplish -which accomplishes more?

Some people care about how far you’ve gone while others care about how far you’ve come -My money’s on the latter!

Everything and everyone has their place according to God, according to our agreement with God before we came here? I mean if you figure your free will… if you figure some of the things that God allows based upon free will -then why would He change that plan by sending us down here with a prearranged destiny which has little or nothing to do with our own will? 🤷‍♂️ But by the time we get down here -we ourselves have changed the plan! Suddenly, we all want the same things!

•Title credited to “The 4 Tops” song of the same name. Written by Holland-Dozier-Holland (1965).

Is your partner replaceable? I mean if they died tomorrow would you move on a year or 2 from now? What are some of the things you love about your partner? And try to be unique!

I dated a girl who told me all the time how attractive I was but she never once said anything about my character or personality for that matter 🤷‍♂️

You think some government official is gonna make your life better? Someone with a wrong (their own) agenda?* When was the last time they did so? You are the only one that can make your life better! And as far as making the nation better only we as as a combined effort and unified effort can make those changes! It’s not gonna happen going to work and coming home and watching CNN. And as far as becoming better as a race or species -that goes double!!!! How foolish are we to think that all we gotta do is go to avoiding to a voting booth and most of our problems will be solved. Tell me how many of them are solved at all by going to the voting booth? Booth?

If one vote makes the difference then I’ll buy into the idea that my vote counts!

*If you who are completely vested in solving your own issues and cannot -how can you expect someone who is vested only a fraction to solve yours? I’m watching the movie the omega code. And it makes me wonder if people are really gullible enough to depend on a man to solve the world’s problems -haven’t we learned anything about man’s history/track record 🤷‍♂️ The vast majority of mankind is not our friend!