written by Drew | 2010.32 Tue 02 Feb
Yes folks, the bearer of positivity and all things wonderful has yet another rant. But there is a purpose behind this particular rant: it’s in anticipation of the upcoming V Day – my least favourite day of the year, for reasons that should be obvious by now. If you’re going to be single by next Sunday, my thoughts are with you.
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written by Drew | 2010.25 Tue 26 Jan
At the Millionaire Mind Intensive seminar last year, I took what was at the time a rather suicidal plunge into the final activity: breaking an arrow using only your neck. (It’s not quite as scary as it sounds.)
The idea of the exercise was to use the arrow as a metaphor for a held “limiting belief” – when the arrow was broken, the limiting belief would be shattered. Each person who took part wrote down their limiting belief on the arrow before starting.
I hinted at this exercise in my Insight #3, where I mentioned the lesson of hesitation being painful; that one has to take the chance and do something before it’s too late. The key to the arrow-breaking exercise was to move quickly into the arrow, so that the person would not feel pain in their neck.
I didn’t die from the exercise, and although I moved slowly and hesitantly into the arrow, I managed to break it into two pieces and one splinter. What a rush.
But while others’ arrows splintered into several pieces, when I examined the pieces of my arrow, the words of the limiting belief I’d written on it had remained intact.
Those words were:
NOT GOOD ENOUGH.
written by Drew | 2010.20 Thu 21 Jan
At some point, you’ll have heard someone dispense the age-old classic sentence solution:
Be yourself.
Basically I’m here to tell you that – in my humble opinion – “be yourself” is both the most empowering and arguably the biggest bunch of bullshit concept that ever existed.
written by Drew | 2010.3 Mon 04 Jan
It’s the end of the Christmas/New Year honeymoon, and I’ve had a massive week off work (not including the weekend). I’m not looking forward to going back to work, but it’s 2.30 AM and I can’t sleep – despite being in bed for the last eight hours! I’ve watched two movies, went on YouTube and Facebook, and did some coding, but it looks like I won’t be sleeping tonight. So I’ve got to rant about something.
Back in the Internet’s infancy, where the mainstream thought it was “sad” to spend anything longer than an hour online, if you were using a chat system or were on a message board/early online community of some kind, you could not get away from people using fake photographs, either to give the impression of being sexy, or simply to get attention. Back then we were still using 35mm (and if you were really shit at taking pictures, APS) cameras, and it was actually rather complicated to have photos digitised, so very few people had pictures of themselves readily available.
These days people demand to see photos of other people, as if it’s absolutely essential to see what someone looks like before talking to them is even possible. Even those who claim they’re not obsessed with looks, or even that “looks don’t matter”, will eventually hound you for a “pic”. (And isn’t it funny how the guy always has to send one first? How did that happen?)
written by Drew | 2009.348 Tue 15 Dec
This morning I seriously considered taking out health insurance, even though I have never had a serious injury or complaint (apart from my 21st birthday, I guess).
I left my local GP this morning, with no clue as to whether I had to show up early, or book in advance, to see a doctor or nurse. I was told that I could either come back at 2pm (which wasn’t possible), or to make an appointment for next week at the earliest, to see someone about a very annoying and rather serious issue (but not an emergency).
This small incident reminded me of a very important policy that I live by, and one that I think anyone with an ounce of self-respect ought to adopt:
Never reward bad customer service.