thenotsomightyom

Create an emergency preparedness plan.

Whatever the Emergency ….follow these three steps and you will be fine.

Qualify- what exactly is the emergency and how is it going to affect your daily routine

Quantify-Analyse numerically the possible solutions and their probability of success.

Quickly Run as you’ve wasted time analysing and being indecisive.

What is a word you feel that too many people use?

At the moment in the not so United Kingdom “Riot” is an overly used word.

There are Riots on the Street our Newspapers and Media Outlets  tell us with glee.

Yet life goes on, a few dustbins are thrown across the street and a 12 year old boy is arrested for “insurrection”(ten years ago the papers would have called him A S.B.O boy)

The Riots can spring up anywhere anytime and the Police must be ready with their Riot Shields to protect themselves and their employers property.

It’s a lost cause,because the Peaceful protestors have far outweighed those who were determined to flaunt authority and create disorder for whatever purpose they had in mind.

Stand easy, Authorities .Peaceful Protests are not Riots.

What brings you peace?

What brings me Peace is when I see the World behaving with compassion.That is what underlies our progress and survival.

There are arguments and discussions at all levels and at all  times,but without compassion,they are irrelevant and misguided.

What profession do you admire most and why?

Nowadays, Professions are a badge of honour.

Increasingly our education system has pandered to providing the qualifications to be a Professional at  a prohibitive cost to many who have the ability and talent.

A few win through and they are the Professionals.Obsessed by their chosen professional passion,they are the ones you want to look after you or your family.They excel.

The vet Noel Fitzgerald comes to mind,he epitomises someone at the top of their profession and who is constantly looking to improve outcomes.

However,by their very nature Professions can be closed shops and professional training can be a tick box exercises or worse still a statistical online algorithm driven pass fail quota.

Perhaps one day we’ll have an NVQ Level 3  in Brain Surgery .

Still a Professional with a passion for whatever field they are in are worth their weight in precious metal

What is the most important thing to carry with you all the time?

I carry my soul everywhere I go,sometimes it’s as light as a feather and makes me want to dance to songs and rhythms that in happy times are like the surround sound of life

Other times my soul is a heavy burden full of the weight and worries of a disheartening world where questions are many and solutions few.

Nevertheless the presence of my soul(not I hasten to add in any religious sense) is the part of me that maintains my sanity and hopefulness.My soul can fill up and empty with my mood and circumstances.It’s ever present and always there to strengthen my belief in good outcomes.

Do we all have one? Yes if we want to acknowledge it , the soul is a great leveller of life and how to live it

What change, big or small, would you like your blog to make in the world?

I hope my blog makes people not follow the crowd and to think independently and thoughtfully to make things better for themselves and others.

Describe your life in an alternate universe.

I realise I have always lived in an alternative universe.

My grandmother on my mother’s side(Nanny),once said I was  like Pollyanna from a T .V series that was running in Ireland at the time.Even at five years old I always tried to see the best in everything and to see the bright side.

Nanny must have known what my parents were going through,my dad losing his job and the family’s  lovely house in Dublin and having to go and start again living in a horrible tenement flat in Glasgow with my dad’s stepfather.

Their little four year old daughter ,oblivious to the downward spiral and just happy to be cared for and looked after by dedicated parents.Even with everything going on the seven of us,mum,dad,three brothers and two sisters were a cohesive unit.

I suppose that was how I grew up always believing that there was a possibility for a happy ending and if not then it was necessary to stay positive and make the best of the situation.

So where does my alternative universe fit into my previously described start in life?

Well I am social and positive.My alternative universe is the people I meet in my daily life who constantly moan about everything.

That alternative  Universe  one that I have to visit and be present in,but I am so glad to remove myself from it when the time comes  and to  settle back to my pretty otherworldly happy place which is my true Universe.

My true Universe is where  perspective and fulfillment is.

The alternative moaning Universe  is dire,but exists with its only purpose  to make me miserable.I have a bucket full of empathy but it is finite ,just like energy is not in infinite supply and we have to conserve it.

Moaning,it seems  is infinite and has its own scientific rule to represent endlessness and the fact it will never stop.So by definition moaning exists in a Universe far beyond what us Humans will ever understand.

I discovered it and I am naming it the Spleen Vent Universe.

In summary I’m currently in my true Universe and will at some point will  visit Spleen Vent Universe again ,but will do so with my bucket of empathy refilled and my batteries recharged.