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"Your future SUCKS! (Optimists never start their day with that kind of thought process!) " - Futurist Jim Carroll
I'm starting my 7th year of writing these Daily Inspiration posts. Someone asked me why I do them.
In an increasingly negative world, I write them as much for those who follow me as much as I write them for myself. Starting each day with some thinking as to the good I might find in the world around me helps me dispel some of the bad that I know I will see. I don't think anyone focused on the future can do so with a foundation of negativity.
Here's how I take on the issue of negativity on stage:
So with that said, here's what I think optimists need to do each and every day.
See the future as an opportunity, not a threat.
Don't fear the future.
Work the future faster.
Learn how to interpret any particular trend in terms of its upside, not the downside.
Don't fight the future.
Ignore pessimists.
Don't hang out with negative people.
Battle each and every moment of negativity.
Find motivation in small wins.
Clinging to your past is probably the worst thing you can do right now./
Stop trying old solutions to new problems.
Just because it's not happening right now doesn't mean that it never will.
Don't presume your business model will survive the next 5 years.
Don't feel bad about the mistakes you've made - view some of them as a pathway to success.
Stop saying it can't be done - just do it already!
Don't hide from problems - learn from them.
Use aggressive fear of change as a basic personal motivation.
Don't let uncertainty cloud your vision.
Spend every day tuning your roadmap for how you plan to live your life.
Don't be selfish - be magnanimous.
Stop being surprised at surprises.
Avoid angry people.
Make the best of the worst moments.
Regularly nurture your optimism - its fertilizer for your soul.
Take more time to enjoy what you enjoy.
Remind yourself you don't need to love every waking moment - it's ok to get down.
Lighten your mood - avoid the heavy.
Move on from bad things faster.
Remind yourself it could be worse.
Remember it's ok to feel down sometimes - but work hard to chase the 'up.'
Remind yourself that your future only sucks if you make it suck.
Original post: jimcarroll.com/2022/08/daily-inspiration-your-future-suck...
I happened across this painter's bicycle in a little fishing village in Spain, called Caraques. He had probably been painting the adjacent doors, as the brush was in the box, on the back of the bike.
I liked the chain, securing the bike. (As if anyone was going to take it!!!)
I've called it "Optimism" as a result.
I was walking on a nature trail in Tampa, Florida.
The trail ended at an elementary school back lot. It was a Sunday, so I poked around.
There was a dumpster behind the school, and this guy was sitting on top of the dumpster in exactly the pose I show here.
I like his optimism. He's in a dumpster, but he's definitely on top of the situation.
Cool.
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FringeNYC 2012 production, photo credit Lotte Marie Allen
Maxwell and Milo Cramer as Our Man of the World
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to unchartered lands."
--Helen Keller
Open-air amphitheatre at the back of the Brutalist BT Tower in glasgow. Vandalised. In my head I can visualise the architect's drawing with the little people sitting about, reading their newspapers and eating lunch.
Early-mid 1990s slide.
Taken with Minolta MD Auto-Bellows I, Minolta MD Macro-Rokkor 50mm f3.5 and Slide Copier.
A captured male Timber Wolf cautiously approaches through the fresh powder of an overnight snow on a frigid winter's morning at the Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Sanctuary - Divide, CO via 500px bit.ly/2PnQRDU
[This is the back of the quilt, where I used fabric with a sea glass pattern]
Louisiana is reported to be losing 25 to 35 square miles of coastal wetlands each year – one football field of land per hour. The causes of the land loss are from natural causes and human interference, and include reduced sediment flow from the Mississippi River and its tributaries, land subsidence, and sea-level rise. To combat the diminishing and degrading coastal habitats, Jefferson Parish instituted a program that found a role for discarded Christmas trees to lessen wave energy and to combat erosion. Wooden cribs are constructed parallel to the shoreline to hold the trees. Volunteers, the Louisiana Air National Guard, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and others have coordinated the collection and placement of trees in these pens to lessen the impact of waves and storms. The calm water between the cribs and coast traps sediment and allows for plants and aquatic life to establish. Jefferson Parish has been tracking the impact of this Christmas tree recycling project. Between 1998 and 2015, an unprotected area of shoreline lost over 23 acres of habitat, while a section protected by trees only lost 3 acres. The Christmas tree recycling program not only assists coastal habitats but generates awareness among Louisiana residents and provides an opportunity for participation in making a difference for the coast.
The quilt is to be viewed from the top to the bottom, representing a relative sequence over time as viewed at one location. No quantitative data is implied in terms of spatial or temporal patterns sewn. Each horizontal gray strip of fabric represents breaks in time. At the top of the quilt, one sees a wide strip of “plant” fabric representing a marsh coastline, and a smaller piece of “water” fabric representing the coastal water. As one moves down to the next row of plant/water fabric, there is less of the land fabric and more of the water fabric. This is to represent erosion occurring along the Louisiana coast, where marsh habitat is being lost from wave energy, subsidence, seal-level rise, etc. As one moves down the next several rows, there is a continued loss of the coast with an increasing encroachment of water. In the middle of the quilt, a Christmas tree crib appears. The successive rows show a reduction in loss of the marsh over time, reflecting the results shared by Jefferson Parish (still marsh loss but less volume when the Christmas trees were put in place).
This is my story of coastal optimism – a story of habitat loss and degradation that is slowed by the placement of discarded Christmas trees.
Kayla gets ready to head out for a short errand without makeup. She's still happy, though. She's also wearing her tall boots for the first time since MTHF. Her feet still hurt, but she can tolerate the boots again. It's the pumps that are deadly.
This week Valentina (my niece), has become my little muse, she never give up for anything! Even when she has to climb a bit ;)
Nuna... always aware
ODC: optimism / pesimism
67/365 project
Heavy rain and leaden skies but they still have their sunglasses on. We did eventually see an hour's tennis so it sort of worked.
I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door — or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
— Rabindranath Tagore
‘Optimism is a strategy for making a better future.
Because unless you believe that the future can be better,
you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.’
~ Noam Chomsky ~