2% of the brain (two table spoon) is relational brain. That’s what organizes our thoughts coming from the rest of the brain.
98% of the brain functioning alone produces only intuition.
We have lost our intuition power by losing touch with our raw thoughts and feelings, and communicating through text/email.
Judges are the new heroes.
Facebook is the new public Television.
Tweets are the new press release.
The constitution will be tested and tried like never before.
Every American eligible to vote will vote in the next elections.
If you are waiting for anything, you won’t get it. Patience is an excuse for pain. Either go get it, or let it go mentally.
January is an important month, and this analysis is very important because it will adjust the plan to what is most probably will have minor changes for the rest of the year.
I tried my new plan beginning of 2017 which divided my goals and life into 26 paths.
In the month of January, excluding the last day (which is today), we had 30 days. The 26 paths are divided into 30 steps. That is a total of 780 steps.
Out of the 780 steps, there were 221 cancelled steps. After couple weeks of implementing the plan, I discovered that it will take about 12 hours a day (in addition to work, cook, eat, basic hygiene, spending time with family, open mail, and sleep) to accomplish all these 26 paths simultaneously. So what I did was, I twined some of the paths as to make them alternating. If I accomplish a step in one, I delay the step in the other. So two paths of 30 days each, will be one path of 60 days, taking two months to finish these 60 steps instead of 30.
In doing so, 221 steps were cancelled starting about 9th of January, and it reduced the pressure of the schedule.
The schedule made me super productive, entertained, feeling accomplished, and truly structured my productivity in a meaningful way.
Out of the 559 steps left, 308 were accomplished successfully on time (55%), 52 accomplished successfully but late (9%), and 199 failed or were never accomplished (36%).
Accomplishments of January:
Challenges of January:
I will be discussing in the next blog how should I tackle the challenges I faced in January in February so I may accomplish more success in them.
Also, I will be discussing some reflections from January and lessons learned, and some resolutions and goals going forward.
The point of all this as far as the reader is concerned is this:
If you don’t control your time, it pours away into the mud, and draws you with it sometimes.
“The Holocaust did not start with gas chambers.”
#muslimban
With a look of despair, Jesus looked down at me from his big wooden cross that was
mounted on the wall next to the principal’s office at the Rosary School in Abu Dhabi. That was my first encounter with Christianity. My parents, wanting to give me a better education, enlisted me for Kindergarten in 1980, into a catholic school that was known for its rigorous education. The headmaster was a Lebanese nun, so my parents–being Lebanese themselves–got along really well with her. I don’t recall anything afterwards except bleeding from my ear.
Oh, you want to know about that?! Ok, so at this point, this will turn PG-13, so if you have any children around, stop reading aloud (it would actually be weird if you are doing so!). Here is the story: I did something wrong. I wrote the letter WOW in Arabic from bottom up (Yes! We do have a letter WOW in Arabic, and we also have a letter YAA!!!!, but you will never learn these cool letters because they come after the letters KKHAAA and TDHAAAD and GHghayn so you will probably give up early on in the Arabic alphabet before you get to them). Apparently, there was an international agreement that I missed that resolved to
write the WOW from top to bottom. I was called to the blackboard. I think that was the first public performance in my life. After I finished writing the WOW, the teacher stared at me in anger! She fumed! I couldn’t understand why. It is the first letter of my name, so I was sure I wrote the right letter. – She came up to me and snatched my ear with her fingers, pulled, twisted, and squeezed with the all the might that the Lord Jesus Christ has bestowed upon her. Her fingernail went into my flesh and I bled. Well, now I write my WOW from top to bottom, so well done Sister! My father actually came to school and all I remember is his stance at the door with his black suit and his manly full moustache next to the headmaster, while the teacher apologized to me in front of the class. I don’t know which experience was more traumatizing to me: the public ear-pinching or the public apology of my teacher who will continue to teach me for the rest of the year in humiliation!
As a branch manager of the National Bank of Abu Dhabi, a newly expanding government bank in a newly formed country (1973 was the formation of the United Arab Emirates), my father had to move a lot, accepting promotions and managing new branches.
In 1981, we moved.
Sand and beach … that is what fills my early childhood memories in a place called Ajman. Amidst that canvas of sand and salty beach under the scorching sun, I can barely recall other memories. They are all happy images of playing on the beach between the sand and the sun. I went to the Ajman Model Elementary School in first grade. I recall nothing from the school, except my box of pencils and instruments that had the Arab World map on it.
You see, we were raised with the notion that all of the Arab World was one world which we were the citizens of. We have been submerged into concepts of Pan-Arabism and Islamic identity from childhood, and this was the way in which we perceived the world. This ideal happy vision of one Arab world, with no borders, intertwined itself like a vines over our innocence. Both chattered together once we were at an age that required a passport.
Wait, I have a memory that I think I should not skip: of when I broke the idols and shouted “Allahu Akbar”. Here is the story.
The Quran is just the New New Testament.
How to speak to People who don’t respond well to facts:
1. Keep emotions out
2. Discuss, don’t attack
3. Listen and articulate carefully and slowly
4. Show respect
5. Acknowledge
6. Show then how accepting the fact doesn’t change their believes or world view necessarily.
Source:
Brendan Nyhan, Dartmouth College
Jason Reifler, University of Exeter
The word of 2017:
GASLIGHTING
Gaslighting is a form of manipulation through persistent denial, misdirection, contradiction, and lying in an attempt to destabilize and delegitimize a target. Its intent is to sow seeds of doubt in the targets, hoping to make them question their own memory, perception, and sanity. Instances may range from the denial by an abuser that previous abusive incidents ever occurred up to the staging of bizarre events by the abuser with the intention of disorienting the victim. The term owes its origin to Gas Light, a 1938 play and 1944 film, and has been used in clinical and research literature. (Wikipedia)
#gaslighting
There is no such thing as a US interest first. It is the Human Global interest first.
If it is a US interest but harmful globally, then on the long run, it is not US interest. The US does not live on a separate planet. When are we going to learn this?
Wissam Charafeddine 