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It's easy to confuse a strong belief in a dream with the over-confidence that the dream can be achieved. We can make dreams come true. But more often than not, we need to work for them. This means planning, preparation, perseverance and positivity in good measure, not too much nor too little. Cockiness - Overly self-assertive or self-confident Halfcocked - Inadequate or poorly prepared

I heard this from someone. It sounded inane until I thought about it. All the people I know who spend time cleaning, cleaning their homes or cars or space at the office, complain about not enough time. Not enough time to clean more I guess.. People who like cleanliness tend to find more things to clean. I don't know why really. There is always something to clean. Like there is always something to complain about. In a way, it's even worse than the glass-half-empty people because these people want to throw out the water in the glass and clean it. And then keep it. Making that other person a there-is- no-glass-left kind of person. But be thankful for people who are always looking for something to clean. Their OCD is our gain. And there is almost no end in things to clean.

Was "the more I talk,  the more my words becomes my actions". Although what we say may be carried further than our actions, what we do is our stronger legacy. Abraham Lincoln was known for the Emancipation Proclamation but his legacy is the freeing of the slaves.  But I am not trying to diminish the speech. He was not the first leader to free slaves but he was the most famous.

A reverse take on the famous Mythbuster disclaimer. Time a for a little humor, I guess.

It amazes to no end that people simply refuse to believe that they can make mistakes. It is an assumption that they are right all the time. But that is not true. Everybody makes mistakes at one time or the other. It is what we do once we realize we made a mistake that makes up our character. And we spend so much time denying it or hiding it or ignoring it. Think of all the work needed to make a lie believable. Well that lie is "I am right all the time." When it would have been probably faster to just deal with it . The "believe in yourself no matter what" school of thought has to take some blame. They simply deny the existence of doubt. But doubt is the core of a conscience. Without a conscience how do you keep doing good things? How do you know what are good actions and things? So we end up with per-packaged causes marketed to the people who refuse to doubt anything but still want to do something good. In other words we get told what is good instead of coming to...

Without respect, especially mutual respect, we can't expect true discipline. Often we mistake compliance with discipline. But compliance only looks like discipline and it is often abandoned at the first possible chance.  Discipline is what drive us internally to do the right things in life, the good things in life. Often not the easy things in life. Was "respect is a part of discipline, as a branch is a part of a tree".

We often get into trouble not by accident but by our own means. It is not that we don't know something is a problem. It's not that some things that are bad are a surprise to us. Quite often we convince ourselves that the rewards for doing something bad outweigh the consequences. We are willing to get into trouble because the payoff is worth the trouble. Not that there is just risk. There is no risk because we know for sure that we are going into a bad situation. It's just that we expect to walk away from it better than we when we walked into it. That's the kind of rationalization I am talking about. Not to say that all rationalization is bad.  You can go down that road but not too far. Why? Keep in mind it's still the road to Problem-town. We tend to forget that and end up where we started in the first place: in a whole heap of trouble. Maybe it also means that we have to keep solving problems to keep getting solutions.  We have enough problems as it is, creati...