Friday, June 18, 2010

Who was your teacher?

Is “not having success” something you’re taught? Is accepting 2nd and 3rd best part of the learning curve?



New studies show dogs are extremely willing to accept bad conditions. 100 extremely playful cute as can be fuzzy barking machines placed in a room…each are given a light electronic shock; three percent of them figure realize if you leap over the short brick wall, the shocking stops.



Those left behind accept the tiny tingle feeling no need to improve their conditions.



The study continues; 100 humans and only one elected to make a change, which pretty much says what we fear most…why should effort be placed in continued growth if what we have is survivable?



Let’s utilize the power of Google Earth and pan back the cameras of modern reality: From 100 feet out…libraries are closing, school teachers are losing their jobs, city government has nearly stopped funding park and recreation projects. Go out another 1,000 feet…state leaders can’t find money to finish highways, hunger is becoming visible to the naked eye and law enforcement forces are shrinking while crime is rising. Keep Googling…back up the camera 100,000 feet and we see the earth is bleeding in the Gulf of Mexico, massive amounts of heart attacks and sickness caused by the consumption of fast food are unveiled everyday, a horrible fear of terrorism lives beneath the shaded trees of the American dream and James Cameron made over a billion dollars on a single movie that looked, smelled and felt a lot like a Disney flick called Pocahontas.



Those left behind accept the tiny tingle feeling no need to improve the conditions.



One man’s company creates a history setting smart phone physically designed to be 4G’s faster, four times the pixels brighter with sound that’s easily convinced the human ear that 3-D exists in a music format. But science has yet to produce the cell phone battery that lasts longer than two days. The makers of magic make it too easy to whip out the chord and plug in.



Flashlights are plastic and break when you accidently drop them in the dark. We once became instantly sick when gas prices touched $2.25 a gallon but why complain if McDonald’s is offering more yummys on the dollar menu? One person jumped over the brick wall to offer peace of mind by means of cheap food while the rest took a seat believing life was ok being just plain ok and nothing more than ok.



Who was the first to teach us that “not having success” was acceptable?



Through every book of motivation and inspiration I’ve studied the answer can be found in a single vision: One mans success isn’t another mans treasure. For two point five months I’ve pulled my lazy tail out of bed at 2:30 in the morning to play radio but before anything truly took place I forced myself to write three pages of thought. I felt success at the end of those pages…would you?


Forcing my life and style to remove cheese from the top of my pizza is success. Failure is when the doctor looked at me and said, “Although you’re taking prescribed medication, I’m having a hard time understanding why your blood pressure is still running high.” Could it be that I continue to pour Monster drinks and extremely strong coffee into the system?



Do you see where I’m going with this? Are you the dog that leaps over the fence or the panting giant pawed cuddly puppy that lifts his leg up on the competition then walks over and sits next to the electronic device and says, “Hit me up again?”



As the weekend becomes our new found reality…look into the mirrors of where you’ve been and locate the pieces required to build that bridge over the brick wall. The world isn’t searching for another Bill Gates, Bono, Reagan or Ryan Seacrest…we need Betsy Ross.



Pull out the needle, string and cloth and lets sew our lives back into the flag that makes us stand up proud in any corner we stand and or appear around the world. Get your dreams over that brick wall and create some wind so the seeds will blow in the direction of inspiration and influence. Be the worker bee who picks up the pollen from a swollen flower and haul your supply back to the queen who’ll share the nourishment with those who’ll become our tomorrow.



Stop sitting there accepting these bad times as an oh well it happens moment. Digital television puts over 1,500 channel into your living room and there’s never anything on. That’s why they created the DVR system…whatever it takes to get you to stop talking about junk TV.



arroecollins@clearchannel.com

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