Make It Happen
The
Royal Bank of Scotland has a
new advertising campaign; the slogan is "Make it happen" and features crucial, life or death scenarios where everyone observing discusses what the issue is and how to resolve it but does not take any steps to do it. Someone will then wander into the scene, do what is necessary and leave.
This is wonderfully haunting imagery of what Corporate America has become: the individuals with the authority and the ability to make decisions and cause change, spend all of their time talking, searching, researching and regurgitating without every moving toward concrete progress. Executives are so timid that they refuse to take necessary risks--solidly calculated risks--and instead wait for someone else to Make It Happen.
Georgia Public Radio Stations
I've enjoyed
WABE for years, but I was completely unaware that
Georgia Public Broadcasting operated any (
lots!) of
radio stations.
Disciplining my film queue.
This past week, I reread
How to Rearrange the World... by
Todd Temple. My mother gave it to me when I was in high school and, while I can't know for certain, I suspect its subliminal impact on me has been significant. A dozen or so years later, it still has things to teach me.
Just before I picked up the book again I'd started making a list of films I wanted to see, primarily culling from top rated and award winning films, but also hitting a list of top grossing films--this last list tended to be much more recent and much less worthwhile, but I included many because of their sheer popularity and I believed they would be fun.
When Todd Temple discusses discipline in his book, he includes an approach from a unique perspective: Discipline is not about denial or punishment but about efficiency. We avoid bad things to make room for good things and we avoid good things to make room for great things. Sure, we can eat cookies and cake and chips all day long, but then we won't enjoy other things we like, things we like MORE. I can watch all of these popular, top grossing films but I won't have time to watch what I will
really enjoy. So instead of hitting what's popular or faddish I'm going to focus on things that will lead me to think, to learn, to grow.
What I won't focus on is the truth that I'm only redirecting myself now nor that most individuals will never do it in their entire lives.
