I’m glad the rules of football require time limits on making decisions.  Can you imagine any football game if  it took the coaches hours to make a decision about the next play while the players stood on the sideline freezing their butts off. If the Commander-in-Chief (CIC) continues to run the war as he has, Congress will have to begin passing laws limiting the amount of time the Chief has to make a decision. Of course, with the ass kissing Democratic Congress we have now, it is highly probable that Congress would write the law requiring twelve months to make any decision that was not on the Liberal Left agenda. If POTUS were the coach of an NFL team he’d have more pressure on him then he does as Commander-in-Chief. 

    Being that POTUS is a basketball player, I have to believe he understands the concept of winning. He leaves me wondering if he has the same philosophy when it comes to beating hostile tribes who are hell-bent on destroying the United States. Then again, he is doing a pretty good job of that himself. Could it be that he is one of them?

    POTUS gave an un-inspiring speech at West Point the other night. In it, he openly announced his game plan for the war. I’m sure the Taliban has already begun an exodus from Afghanistan to begin a holiday that will last until September 2011.  After our troops begin to pull out, the Taliban and Al Qaeda will begin their hostility anew.  In the meantime we will have spent another sixty billion dollars plus for nothing.  POTUS confirms Sadam Hussein’s prediction that the US has no stomach for war and that we would leave the mid-east after a very short time.

CIC will attempt to pull Euorpean countries into the fray to assist him in his mission. As usual, they will all have more important things on their plates. POTUS will be forced to take it on all by himself. We all know he won’t do that. He’ll leave and quit even though he has openly declared, in the war against the people of the U.S on Health Care Reform, that he is not a quitter. 

POTUS needs to learn Ronald Reagan’s policy regarding war; “we win they lose.”

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1. A belief that, to meet a specific deadline or a performance goal, some corners must be cut;

2. A lack of resources (human or otherwise) or time needed to accomplish a particular task, thereby necessitating some drastic or improper action;

3. Peer pressure;

4. Pressures from higher up the chain of command to produce and to get the job done no matter what;

5. A belief that the decision or act is not really illegal or unethical;

6. A belief that the decision or act is in the individual’s or the organization’s best interest and thus would be condoned by others;

7. A belief that the decision or act will never be discovered; and

8. Fear of authority.

Keep in mind that God, in His sovereignty has placed you in your situation to demonstrate His character to people in desperate need of a model. Job’s intense announcement of his determination to maintain his integrity should serve as an encouragement:

“As long as I have life within me, the breath of God in my nostrils, my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will utter no deceit…till I die I will not deny my integrity. I will maintain my righteousness and never let go of it.“ (Job 27:3-6)

—Facts of the Matter

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The 2009 Black Book of Outsourcing client experience survey investigates a subset of over 3000 Business Process Outsourcing contracts held by 800 corporate buyers of BPO.
18 Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) or criteria are employed specific to BPO buyers within all verticals and sectors, scored on each respective vendor and ranked per KPI.
Key Finding: Most Important Customer Satisfaction KPIs in Cross-Industry BPO Sector
Innovation, customization and reliability are the most important attributes influencing Cross-Industry BPO client satisfaction with their 2009 outsourcing providers. All three KPIs were overwhelmingly praised by the clients of HCL BPO, which captured the overall honors across all verticals and horizontal functionalities this year.
Key Finding: Vendor Dissatisfaction is uncommon in the BPO Industry Outsourcing Sector among Top Tier Ranked Suppliers
Strong dissatisfaction is uncommon among the largest and most comprehensive suppliers of BPO occurring in only 6.5% of financial and accounting clients and 8.8% of transactional services clients.
US clients are among the most satisfied with cross-industry BPO services delivery averaging 95.5% with 2009 projects delivered from North American based suppliers (US, Canada and Mexico). Stronger dissatisfaction was more commonly reported from engagements with offshore outsourcing vendors with 13.7% of all surveyed BPO clients (Philippines, India).
Key Finding: Comprehensive Services Vendor arrangements from Full Service BPO Vendors produce the Highest Satisfaction Rates
Vendors offering comprehensive BPO and ITO Services ranked highest in the overall survey by all clients. Cross industry clients showed significant preference for vendors who are capable of offering more extensive service lines once satisfied with initial projects.
HCL BPO compiled the highest rankings and client experience scores across three of the four major functional subdivisions of BPO services this year.

Companies Mentioned

HCL BPO, Convergys, TCS BPO, Quattro BPO, IBM Global, Aegis, EXL Service, Syntel, Firstsource, Transworks BPO, WNS Global, Genpact, Infosys, Interglobe IGT, Perot Systems, Softtek, Vertex, EDS, Wipro BPO, Caliber Point,

More Information:
http://www.aarkstore.com/reports/2009-Top-Business-Process-Outsourcing-Vendors-Black-Book-Survey-2009-Results-31079.html

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A report from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee released over the weekend details the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld blunder in 2001 that let Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden escape certain capture in the hills above Tora Bora. Apparently, American troops and their Afghan allies had bin Laden cornered and frantically called for reinforcements to complete the job. But, not only were their requests denied, they were ordered not to block any potential escape routes in any way!
Before you say, “Oh, that’s bullshit! Never happened!!”, here is an excerpt from the actual report:
“On or around Dec. 16, two days after writing his will, [Osama] bin Laden and an entourage of bodyguards walked unmolested out of Tora Bora and disappeared into Pakistan’s unregulated tribal area. Most analysts say he is still there today.
Fewer than 100 American commandos were on the scene with their Afghan allies and calls for reinforcements to launch an assault were rejected. Requests were also turned down for U.S. troops to block the mountain paths leading to sanctuary a few miles away in Pakistan.”
You should be saying, “Are you fucking kidding me??? Public Enemy #1 (with a bullet) was given a free pass?!?!?” Not surprising, really … if you look between the lines to see the reality of the situation.
The spin on this story is that even if bin Laden was caught or killed the war in Afghanistan wouldn’t have changed much from what we face today, and that he would have been made a poster-child martyr for Al Qaeda recruitment for years to come. While the latter assertion merits some consideration the former is not only full of holes, it is the very reason he was allowed to take a Sunday walk into the mountains of Pakistan.
When the tragedy now known as 9-11 happened, OBL was the face of responsibility that was put on it. The “War On Terror” was born with bin Laden as the target for success. Thus, if he had been “taken down” on that December day the “War On Terror” would have effectively been over before it was allowed to consume our attention and resources – both, financial and human. The Bush gang wouldn’t have been able to pursue the Taliban, which was used as the “logical” launching point for senselessly going into Iraq to hunt down the “guy who tried to kill my (Bush’s) father”.
Get it yet? Cheney wouldn’t have been able to make a disgusting fortune from his warmongering stake in Halliburton (anybody find that missing $9 billion, yet?); Bush and Rumsfeld wouldn’t have been able to make similar profits from their oil & gas investments that soared as the conflicts fueled a manipulated spike in the energy complex; and the right-wingers wouldn’t have been able to have their man in the White House for an additional four years, as a war-President is rarely voted out of office.
That’s right, they let the most sought after man in the world get away in the name of money and power. Like I said, not a big surprise. Appalling, yes. Disconcerting, absolutely. But, shocking? Not really. If you look at most of the decisions made by these Nazi-youth rejects you find that love of the almighty dollar and narcissistic hegemonic hunger are usually the motivating factors.
So, instead of claiming a quick victory in this war, that is beginning to span a second generation, we have squandered billions of dollars that could have solved all of our domestic crises – including healthcare, education, and infrastructure. Plus, we could have funded 100 “Manhattan Projects” to address our dependance on foreign oil (interesting how it always comes back to oil). Worst of all, these selfish and disturbing decisions have led to the loss of over 5,000 of America’s finest and physically changed the lives of over 50,000 (not to mention the mass psychological damage to our troops that never makes it into the casualty reports).
In effect, this miscarriage of responsiblity has done more damage to our country than bin Laden and Al Qaeda could have ever managed to accomplish themselves. Between accosting the Geneva Convention, lying to the country about the necessity for the Iraq invasion, and now the revelations that they aided and abetted our nation’s supposed biggest enemy, it is amazing to me that these repugnant crap-weasels haven’t been brought up on charges.
Enough with the Tiger Woods domestic crash coverage, people! THIS is the story we should be discussing, ad nauseum!! But, I guess everyone else would rather wallow in their ignorant stupor, watch another episode of Jon & Kate Plus Eight, and delude themselves that Michaele and Tareq Salahi are the real news story of the day. Well, not me, dickwads … not me!

Have you ever wondered how a woman’s brain works?

Well….it’s finally explained here in one, easy-to-understand illustration: (click pic to view animation)

Every one of those little blue balls is a thought, about something that needs to be done, a decision or a problem that needs to be solved.

Time is a tricky thing, a cruel mistress, and a crafty BEAST. Time eludes some, and grasps at others. Time uses people as she sees fit, with no regard to their objections. Time takes from the old to give to the young. Time is always against you, and with someone else. Despite these actions taken against mankind, Time is still held in high regard here on planet earth. People run around worshiping Time. Disgusting. What time is it? How long until? When are you? I don’t have time! The ramblings of madmen…lunatics. The enemy must be fully understood before a solution can be sufficiently worked out.

Be RULED by Time no more!

The first part of my three part series “Killing time” is also the first of my online How-To, DIY, Tutorial, etc…I want to give you practical step by step advice on how to deal with issues in life. The Sensei is committed to helping you, help yourself. In order to actually help yourself in any other area of life, time must be conquered first. Stop issues BEFORE they become an issue. How are you going to go back in time and stop yourself from looking foolish in front of the boss, in order to get that promotion if you can’t control time?  You can’t do it. Go back in time and stop your mom from falling in love with future you, so she can marry your dad, so you can exist in the first place!

Now that you understand a little bit about who we are dealing, prepare yourself for an important life decision. Once you’ve killed Time, you won’t be able to take it back. Time is not forgiving. You’ve heard it said, “Time heals all wounds.” FALSE. Time leaves big nasty scars for you to remember her by. Scars that frighten the children, push away loved ones, scare potential mates, and cause terrible feelings of disgust when you look in the mirror. Let me just say, You Are Beautiful. Don’t let Time push you around anymore. Freedom doth draw nigh!

A distraught father had to make the hardest decision of his life – choosing to save the life of his drowning wife over his son, who was trapped in a submerged car.

Silva Natana Horton, 13, drowned in the Whanganui River on Saturday night after the car in which he was a front-seat passenger went off Somme Pde and cartwheeled down a steep 10-metre bank into the water about 9.45pm.

His mother, Vanessa Horton, who was driving, Silva’s best friend, Robert Palmer, 14, and the family dog escaped with minor injuries.

Silva’s father, Stacy Horton, arrived from their home in nearby Stewart St less than two minutes after the crash to hear his wife screaming in the darkness and to see Robert and the dog scrambling up the bank.

He clambered down and saw his wife in the water. He tried to dive down to their Mazda MPV stationwagon, which was nose down, more than a metre beneath the surface.

Silva Horton

“I tried to get down and get him but I couldn’t, it was just too deep. And Vanessa was going under,” Mr Horton said.

“I made a call to pull my wife to safety. I looked back and I could see the tail-lights but it was too far and I couldn’t get him.

“Instead of going down and risking my life as well as my wife and son’s, I chose to take V back and sat on the shore praying. It was all I could do.”

When emergency services arrived minutes later, police also dived in, with two firefighters using breathing apparatus – a full face-mask with oxygen tank backpacks normally used in smoke-filled buildings – to try to reach Silva.

Wanganui senior station officer Gary Wilson said the water was dark and murky and the firefighters struggled to reach the car.

“We tried everything but to no avail. It was a longshot but it was worth the risk to try and save him.”

Mr Horton said the family had been at home when a group of kids was heard wrecking their letterbox.

The group ran off and his wife, Silva and Robert quickly followed them in the car.

As Mrs Horton slowly pulled over to talk to the group by the riverbank, the car “kept going” on the grass.

“I do know my son was unconscious when he drowned [after hitting his head on the dash]. It’s just a freak accident. We can’t blame anyone.

“I’ve forgiven the kids who were wrecking our letterbox,” Mr Horton said.

“My wife is emotionally distraught and drained, like I am.”

Divers recovered Silva’s body early yesterday. His funeral will be held in Taihape.

Mr Horton said Silva was an outgoing boy, who liked to spin a yarn, and was a budding moto-cross rider who won his age grade competition in Wanganui this year.

The last Saturday of November started out as one of those kinda aimless days. I had a bit of work-work to do and I had some house work also. Deep down I was an unhappy camper for reasons I can’t always get at. I just know what I feel, not why.

Earlier, I had come to the awareness I am content with my work situation, but I am not fulfilled in it.

In conversing with God about this the way I do, I made pretty clear I was discouraged, and I desperately needed something to strengthen my confidence and hope for the future. And just in case the wireless heaven-line was busy that first time, I repeated it. “Hello: I need a new sign of hope.” It was said in various ways with various levels of lament or gate-of-heaven smashing defiance. A few requests found the happy humbler middle.

I went about my day, tugging my proverbial bootstraps as if by moving the boots I was motivating me.

It worked. I got busy and my request for new hope – for a sign from God – became a vague darkness in the back of my mind and depths of my heart. I remained alert for signals, looking for them to come in ways I expected: an email from a church inquiring further about hiring me; or a phone call from the bank saying there’d been an error in calculations for all my life and they had $10,000 for me… that kind of thing. Nada. None of that happened. I was watching carefully, remember!

During the week I had written a report to the board in of the camp I live and work in, a report in which among the good things I had to share I had mentioned two things I was dissatisfied with, two things that frustrated me in my work. One was an extremely slow desk computer, the other was a lack of a reversible drill, either corded or cordless to make some of my repair tasks more efficient. Numerous times I had done repetitive screw turning by hand. Reporting these irritants was more about venting and getting things known. It was done without serious expectation of change. Maybe it was even a precursor to the glum feelings Saturday morning. It likely had some self-pity in it. I’m good at that (He said with insecurity-covering-ego-pride, another thing he’s good at).

Well, I need to tell you that it wasn’t until this morning, the day of writing this, Sunday, when I picked something up from where I had set it down yesterday that I realized very unusual, non-coincidental, sign-like things had happened, and I missed them completely, even though I was part of it. I made no connection in the moment.

Saturday a lady came to the camp to do some cleaning as a volunteer. As I went over to check if there was anything she needed and to describe what I’d done to prepare for her arrival, she opened her trunk and said “could you use a cordless drill? And I have a cordless screwdriver here too. Here, take them. I don’t have a use for them.” And so I picked them up, duly thanked her dully and started walking toward the camp workshop to put them away. She said: “No no no, keep them in your house, use them for yourself” and so, my steps a little lighter with a load that was now mine, I dropped them off in my back room and went back out into the dull weather to do some things.

Later, the two guys from the camp board who do the property work came. They said “We’re here to see if we can speed up your computer with new memory chips and a cleanup, and Pete, we brought you a cordless drill” to which I replied “I already got one” and I fetched it and enjoyed seeing their tool envy. I can’t remember ever having others envy tools I had. But still, I was nonchalant in the bigger picture sense of things. No lights were going on for me.

Nothing registered until Sunday, when I pulled the cordless drill out of it’s neatly compartmentalized box with bits and attachments each with their own cubby, and I realized it had two batteries with the charger, it was a 14.4 volt Mastercraft (newer units, I knew, had voltages in the teens, older ones were below 10), a nice darker blue colour that I like with bright yellow buttons, it had an adjustable clutch for if you were either drilling or driving screws, it was not only reversible but had two speeds and, most significant, it looked like it had probably been used once on a Sunday afternoon it was so clean and unscathed. And I held it in my hand, and felt the heft and balance of it and imagined the torque and whine of it, and the ability to reverse and to adjust the clutch… and I realized something unique had indeed happened the day before.

For this lady to show up with a drill, particularly not knowing anything of my whine in my report, and then for those guys to arrive ready to address my concerns when I didn’t expect it, well I had to admit it was notable or remarkable at the very least, and worth a silent restrained-Reformed “thank you Lord” (Hallelujahs are too charismatic in such situations, as is Holy Celebration Dance). And for it all to happen that same day, within hours of my lament! Quite something. I’m not sure how to interpret the sign though. I’m reluctant to give it too much meaning. I’m watching my email still, and waiting for the bank to call…

Somewhere in me I know my problem is that I’m missing the billboard message. I’m missing it because I’m not liking it. It doesn’t fit my plan, my agenda, my hopes and aspirations. God seems, at least at the time of writing, to be reinforcing me where I am with hope signals on request. My problem is my agenda is not the same as Gods.
Who’s going to change agenda’s first?
Stay tuned. The batteries are charging. Will a green light go on for Pete, or will it stay red?

Let one of the world’s best speakers enlighten us …

Closing refers to obtaining a final agreement to purchase. All the salesperson’s efforts are witnessed unless the client “signs on the dotted line;” yet this is where many salespeople fail. It is natural to delay making purchase decisions. But as the time it takes the salesperson to close the sale increases, the profit to be made from the sale goes down, and the risk of losing the sale increases. Consequently, the salesperson’s task is to speed up the final decision. Often, this can best be done by simply asking for an order.

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Ever wanted to be a salesman someday? Never? But I tell you is born seller, the difference is not always who you put these into practice speaking skills, by prejudice or even lack of technical knowledge. Well actually only the fact of writing this article, so I features a seller, funny huh. . . Well, good reading and you discover that the seller within you, is my wish. – Ass: Ghanem, Carlos (a seller)

If they ask you whether you are a seller, you can respond two ways. The first: “No, I’m not a salesman.” Behind this
answer a number of beliefs, prejudices, experiences or information that led him to believe that there is a seller. If
these factors are negative for you, then be a seller is offense. You must believe that the professional is a person with little education and without its moral basis. The second answer: “Yes, I am seller”. And that assertion probably
also would end belief, value, experience or information to be seller is above all be a winner. It would be a compliment to any professional. Being seller is ceasing to be offensive. When an advertisement refers to himself or when someone refers to him as a salesman is a qualification efficiency their work. It is a very big compliment. CEOs refer to themselves as sellers. We have examples career success, which reached the top, from a position seller. In his autobiography, Lee Iacocca reveals that graduate in engineering, after an internship at the factory, began his career from the field, working at a Ford dealership.

No would be necessary to list the great personalities and winning sellers, who are tired of you know, like Lee Iacocca, Akio Morita, Rolim Amaro, Silvio Santos and others who have done so much to humanity, not sold, but there was always someone who do for them and for them as Thomas Edison and Henry Ford.

The act of communicating is already a sale. Someone send someone an idea, a thought, leading to an action. The motivation is is an act of sale. Someone motivate others to do something. Its power-related position within the family, as father, mother or older brother, takes the other to do what you want. The school is the same thing. With our friends too. The work then becomes more noticeable. Being seller has to do with leading people and situations. Managing conflicts of interest, broker desires desires and solve problems.

Think about it! Book: Negotiation Skills

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On 14-15 Sept 2008 Lehman Brother went down in flames.

In the aftermath of Lehman Brother crash we published on internet a forecast of the crisis “duration and magnitude”. Interestingly, only a handful of contacts asked us clarifications and to give details on the scale of consequence we had used (is it linked to stock markets? To financial indicators?)…
May be, no one believed that reasonable predictions can be made?

As we were publishing our prediction, we were indeed already seeing in the media statements reporting that “quantitative models were wrong” and other inflammatory statements. As usual, in panic/emergency situations, our society tends to react with little finesse (that’s by the way one reason why Crisis Management Plans are so important to implement BEFORE a crisis).

“Models” as a whole were discredited in the eyes of many readers and “forecasters”, now seen as pariah, became persona non grata.

Apparently no one bothered to say that “some models” are plainly wrong or were very poorly used, but others may work just fine!
No one bothered either to say that may be some ruthless people had used the models in order to get the replies they wanted (we have seen the same happen in fields as different from financial forecasts as humanitarian demining, and we have even published papers on this subject, all along with others).

In the full paper we summarize the prediction as it was made one year ago, and we analyze how it stands in front of one more year of history.

1 Kings 1:1-4

King David was now very old, and no matter how many blankets covered him, he could not keep warm. So his advisers told him, “Let us find a young virgin to wait on you and look after you, my lord.  She will lie in your arms and keep you warm.”

So they searched throughout the land of Israel for a beautiful girl, and they found Abishag from Shunem and brought her to the king.  The girl was very beautiful, and she looked after the king and took care of him.  But the king had no sexual relations with her.

The one part of my job I love more than anything else is being a part of young lives growing up.  I love to watch as they first “get” God.  I love to walk alongside as they begin their journey with the Holy Spirit.  My heart breaks when they stumble and my spirit struggles to lift them back up.  But I MOST love watching them later, as somewhat more mature disciples, when they make decisions that they wouldn’t have made just a few short years earlier.

That’s what I see here in 1 Kings.  David’s lived a long life, from humble shepherd to giant slayer to king’s servant and eventually to the throne itself.  Early in his kingship, he saw a woman he liked, had an affair, and did everything he could, including murdering her husband, to have her.  As a result, he suffered some serious consequences from his actions and repented before God.

Now, decades later, at the end of his life, he’s laying in bed waiting to die and his advisers have a great idea.  ”Let’s get a beautiful young virgin to sleep with David and keep him warm.”

But David’s learned from his mistake and Scripture tells us, “[he] had no sexual relations with her.”

And, in my heart, I applaud a somewhat more mature David who is making decisions he wouldn’t have made a few years before.

Look around you for the David’s who are maturing and changing right before your eyes.  And applaud them.  Encourage them.  Cherish them.

Objectives are the criteria for the decision—the specific details of what the decision is to accomplish. We establish these objectives once we state the purpose of the decision and agree upon the level at which it is to be made. We do this before discussing alternatives, sometimes even before identifying alternatives. Decision analysis is the antithesis of identifying a course of action and then building a case to support it. Instead we are moving from what needs to be accomplished toward the alternative that can best accomplish it. For example, if we want to hire a new executive, we are more likely to make a good choice if we first identify the qualities of an ideal candidate and then begin the interviewing process. No experienced manager needs to have this reasoning spelled out. Objectives are clear measures of the ends we want to achieve, for only with clear measures can we make reasoned choices.

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Bukowski has a talent for writing letters. The best opening line: “Verification of existence substantiated”. I wish those words were mine, they’re good enough to steal. Slept the day away yesterday, I can’t make up my mind about which course of action to take. There are too many possibilities and none of them certain. If only someone could make the choice for me. Not that I would trust anyone to make the choice for me. 

In spite of my enthusiasm to start my idea blog I came to the sudden realization that I would have to start it with just one idea!  I couldn’t mask my identity and give any reader a well rounded view of myself I thought.  No, instead the first impression and what many might consider to be the most important piece would have to be genuine and unique.  There is no way to sum up the more than 8,000 ideas (days) that came before this day in one single idea.  What must happen is a slow unfolding of my present self into what it/I will be one day, when I reach idea #24,298.

So I start with Idea #1.  What better way, I thought, than to start it off with the idea that lead to it all: The idea of the Idea Blog.

What is the Idea Blog?  The explanation may be in the title but that does not really suffice to tell for what has been going on in my mind. The idea blog is a journal some might say.  Nothing more than random thoughts that pass though your mind and then are written down. No different than any journal.  Yet, this is not what I have in mind for Idea Blogs.

Idea Blogs are a very specific form of blogging.  They are not meant to merely discuss what is going on in the world around us and making some idle commentary.  Instead they will demand of the blogger the utmost attention tho the world around them and a mind that is constantly in-tune, like a radio turned to the exact right spot on the dial, to their observations of that world.

The idea of the Idea Blog stems from the idea that every day millions  of people go about their average day-to-day lives without taking serious notice to the musings of their own minds.  Our minds these days are out of tune with much of the world, both internal and external.  We find ourselves staring blankly into what lies in front of us as if we are living, walking, breathing, going to work, and interacting with our families as they stare back at us from a TV screen.  If we are this out of tune with our surrounding world then surely this is born from within us.

The Idea Blog is an attempt to re-connect ourselves to both the world around and within us by tuning in to the interactions between these two worlds that we call thought, but even more specifically, ideas.  To begin, thoughts come about when we the individual in going about our daily lives remark internally on some external stimuli.  Thoughts are observations, information processed and stored by the core (weather that be the brain or the heart or some other place I’m not sure) but the thoughts then lead to idea formation.

The beauty of us, the human being, is the ability to create a hypothetical situation.  We can imagine something that is not.  Try to imagine a a person flying and sure enough many of us can do this.  Or, on a much more realistic note, try to imagine yourself wearing something different right now, getting up to go get a drink, clicking the mouse, etc. etc. The point is we can all do it.  We have this amazing capability to put ourselves in a position not only that currently does not exist but even in situations that have never existed before in the history of mankind.

Now tune in every day to the information, the thoughts that surround us every day, and soon you will see that we are constantly taking these thoughts, coming up with hypothetical situations, and then realizing those hypothetical situations.  This process is sometimes very quick and oftentimes so routine that it may as well be subconscious.  We don’t notice it!  Until now.

The Idea Blog is a catalog.  Like the books in a library it stores the research and individuality of our lives.  The world humans live in is shared by all, the thoughts that we experience are shared by many, but the ideas…the ideas are our own.  Every single day we come up with our own ideas every day and then act on them: Thought. Idea, Decision, Action.

Hey, do you have trichotillomania by any chance? I have been pondering about shaving my own head because my bald spots are in numerous places on my scalp and I’ve been getting to the point where (and yeah I have gotten help and even changed my meds) I can no longer cover up them with my hair because I don’t have have that much left on the top of my head. Do you think I should shave or do you think I shouldn’t but buy a wig?