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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: Homestead <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Homestead] The power of focus
  • Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:17:07 -0700

Like the frog in the heating pot, like the erosion of freedom, the Internet has moved into our lives with increasing speed and increasing influence. The recent presidential election was strongly influenced by Internet use and future elections will use it ever more effectively.

The Internet is a tool of great use. It is a sharp tool, it is very strong, and it is double-edged. As with all powerful tools, safe and profitable use requires knowledge and discipline.

All writers who use the Net have a need to be read. Motivations range from mild friendship to strong financial enticement. Professional writers--some disguised as bloggers plus out-front reporters, journalists, critics, MSM employees--all have in common the need to attract your attention to their words. They must do this or lose their income. And so over the years writing has become ever more sensationalistic, from "if it bleeds, it leads," to unsupported rants and charges against various persons and conditions of public interest.

Sensational writing is engaging to the point where it is potentially damaging to one's values, ethics and life successes. The Internet Disease damages by jerking focus from controlled personal plans to wide-ranging and disparate thoughts that have little relevance to one's happiness. The cure for this disease is simple--strong, personal focus, so strong that the siren call of the Net cannot distract. Such focus requires thinking through the disease and the cure sufficiently that one is fully aware of all profits and losses. Anyone with common sense can retake and remain in charge of our lives.

Some people rise, have a beverage, observe the sunrise, wander out to the garden or the shop. Those with the Internet Disease get their beverage and head for the many-eyed monster. Some people are in charge of their lives. Those with the ID get their daily instructions from others.

Focus and persistence, the twin traits of a successful life. Are you in charge of yours?

It's a choice.



  • [Homestead] The power of focus, Gene GeRue, 11/10/2008

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