Scott's Soliloquy Is your glass half full? Or half empty? It is neither. The glass is completely full. There is no space for a single drop. While many areas of the world experience massive poverty, hunger, drought, etc., pretty much everyone in North America and Europe is living in incredible abundance. And it's a golden age for movie goers, TV viewers, sports fans. You can watch any sport 24/7 almost. I remember when Hockey Night In Canada had one hockey game, and it was the only hockey game you could watch all week. Now there are hockey games all week long. You can't watch them all. It is impossible. There are more books than you could read in a lifetime published every month. YouTube has billions of hours of video uploaded every day. There are websites discussing every topic under the sun. And of course, reading posts on Facebook or Twitter is a full time job... We are used to be in lack. To be hungry for more. It is in our genes. Now we need to change. When I look at my life, I see aspects that I want to change. I suspect we all do. That is part of the human condition. But we are seduced by the marketing messages, the cultural pressures, our friends' opinions... In many cases, we are brainwashed at an early age. As young children we have no filters, no discernment. Our parents tell us what is 'good, 'bad', 'proper' or 'improper', and as we grow up, we never, or rarely, think to challenge those beliefs. Today, however, if we do want to make a change, we are faced with a challenge unique in human history... To gain, we first have to lose. We have so much, but no time. And change requires time. We have to give up some activity, some habitual activity, if we want to add behaviors or activities we now want to experience. And the "You can have it all" mentality comes full force up against our heart's desires. We are trained to horde, not to minimize. There is always a generational backlash against the previous generation(s). And Millenials, I hear, are thinking they want more (or less) of a life, and less of a constant race on the hamster wheel called a career. Do you think about what you want in Life? Do you think about what you have to give up in order to get it? Do you think about how you can achieve that goal? How you can set yourself up for success? Do you have the patience to wait for the right 'season' to plant the seeds of your new adventure, activity, whatever the desire is? Because while 'all we have is Now', Now is not always the best time to start... I have run up against this. I am starting to desire new goals, new activities, and to my shock I am looking at how I spend my time and realizing that to accomplish those new goals, I have to give up some 'guilty pleasures'. This starts a Tug-of-War between the comfortable habits and the new desires. Is your glass half full? Or half empty?

Scott's Soliloquy Is your glass half full? Or half empty? It is neither. The glass is completely full. There is no space for a single drop. While many areas of the world experience massive poverty, hunger, drought, etc., pretty much everyone in North America and Europe is living in incredible abundance. And it's a golden age for movie goers, TV viewers, sports fans. You can watch any sport 24/7 almost. I remember when Hockey Night In Canada had one hockey game, and it was the only hockey game you could watch all week. Now there are hockey games all week long. You can't watch them all. It is impossible. There are more books than you could read in a lifetime published every month. YouTube has billions of hours of video uploaded every day. There are websites discussing every topic under the sun. And of course, reading posts on Facebook or Twitter is a full time job... We are used to be in lack. To be hungry for more. It is in our genes. Now we need to change. When I look at my life, I see aspects that I want to change. I suspect we all do. That is part of the human condition. But we are seduced by the marketing messages, the cultural pressures, our friends' opinions... In many cases, we are brainwashed at an early age. As young children we have no filters, no discernment. Our parents tell us what is 'good, 'bad', 'proper' or 'improper', and as we grow up, we never, or rarely, think to challenge those beliefs. Today, however, if we do want to make a change, we are faced with a challenge unique in human history... To gain, we first have to lose. We have so much, but no time. And change requires time. We have to give up some activity, some habitual activity, if we want to add behaviors or activities we now want to experience. And the "You can have it all" mentality comes full force up against our heart's desires. We are trained to horde, not to minimize. There is always a generational backlash against the previous generation(s). And Millenials, I hear, are thinking they want more (or less) of a life, and less of a constant race on the hamster wheel called a career. Do you think about what you want in Life? Do you think about what you have to give up in order to get it? Do you think about how you can achieve that goal? How you can set yourself up for success? Do you have the patience to wait for the right 'season' to plant the seeds of your new adventure, activity, whatever the desire is? Because while 'all we have is Now', Now is not always the best time to start... I have run up against this. I am starting to desire new goals, new activities, and to my shock I am looking at how I spend my time and realizing that to accomplish those new goals, I have to give up some 'guilty pleasures'. This starts a Tug-of-War between the comfortable habits and the new desires. Is your glass half full? Or half empty?
by Scott Paton

January 27, 2018 at 12:54AM
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