Hurt Mind vs. Hurt Heart

Garth Beyer

The mind is slower to heal than the heart. That is why words can last a lifetime while a broken heart will only last until one finds another to fill in the creases with love. A heart can be mended, but words are everlasting and concrete. A heart eventually relieves itself from any scars, while words lay in the back of one’s head like a stagnant boulder undeterred by the ferocity of thoughts. When it comes to recovery, the heart is the quickest due to it’s strength.

The strength of the heart, however, is the source of all that is irremediable in the mind. The retorted saying of “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me” only applies to words that are empty, vacant of the evil side of passion, the fiery side of the heart, the part that keeps you fighting in spite. Empty words are dull and create no infliction. The words that are backed by the darker side of the heart are the ones that are so sharp that they cut into the deepest parts of your memory, left there so you always remember.

It does one well to make the heart and the mind a reflection of one another. That way the heart is invincible and the mind pure – for one cannot live vigorously while the other is withering away.

 

Stay Positive & Minds And Hearts Grow Most Where There Is Love

Garth E. Beyer

Run With Scissors… Just No Cutting.

Garth Beyer

I love boxes. There’s something magical about them. Something truly unique about them. Theres so much to take from them, conceptionaly speaking. Think about it. Everyone living their passion has a box with everything they need in it, they just have different names for it: Toolbox, Thinktank, Craftbox, Time Capsule, Computer, Jack-In-The-Box… (maybe not that last one)

We all have our own box, that’s a given. It basically contains everything in our life. I may even go so far as to say for some of us that our box is our life.

So I have to ask you, what happens if you cut corners within your box?

It kinda quits being a box, doesn’t it?

 

Stay Positive & Running With Scissors Is Actually Less Hazardous

Garth E. Beyer

The “Gloom Effect” And Your Defiance

Garth Beyer

It can be psychologically proven gloomy days affect your mood in a negative way.

But people have the ability to change what they think and believe, don’t they?

So why not break science and tradition to prove that psychologically the gloom effect can actually make you content with life, bring you an understanding of the constant flux of emotion and if you’re an expert, maybe even make you happier and thankful.

Beliefs empower emotion.

 

Stay Positive & It’s Not About The Sun In The Sky, It’s About The Light Inside

Garth E. Beyer

Perks To Staying Busy

Garth Beyer
Staying Positive & Productive

When you aren’t busy, you complain about being bored or lonely. When you are busy, you just can’t wait to have some free time. It’s a never ending cycle and the worst (or best) paradox life has.

There are a few different perks to staying busy.

  • It’s good to be really busy because then you know you will always have a legit reason not to help out or do any favors for the unreliable, untrustworthy and undependable people. In other words, you avoid negative influences because you don’t have time for them.
  • You’re too busy to feel any negative feelings. You can’t engage in self-indulgent over-thinking. Any negative situations that have come to pass recently are shoved out of your mental frame by that which is keeping you busy.
  • The more you have to do, the more you can add to it. When you have  list of items that you need to do and you don’t feel like you can add anything more to them, once you start actually crossing things off the to-do list, you find that you actually have more time for other activities. The more you do, the quicker things get done and the more time you have to do extra and go the extra mile. Take time, make time, while time lasts. All time is no time if time is past.
  • Most importantly staying busy teaches you how to prioritize, delegate, compartmentalize, forget perfection, make the most of the opportunities, and establish a “do it now” principle. Staying busy forces you to take risks, to fail, to recover quickly, to learn the important factors and to do your best and forget the rest. It teaches you management, both time management and a productive management for each situation. Staying busy calls on you to be your best self, to perform emotional labor and to bring your art into everything that you have to do.

Despite that the perks to staying busy are probably as long as your list of to-do’s, some may agree that there is only one perk to staying busy. And that’s to say

You’re doing something.

 

Stay Positive & Look Around, Everyone Else Is Dormant

Garth E. Beyer

Vanishing Steps

Garth Beyer

Have you ever walked down a set of stairs and tripped, skipped a step, or fell straight forward? Damn vanishing steps. Heck, it’s not just when you go down steps, I am sure you have tripped, stubbed your toe and fell forward going up the steps too. No matter the design or direction of steps, when they are taken, there are always some that seem to vanish.

It’s unlikely for you to make a realization as you are grabbing on for your dear life, but have you ever taken a moment after hitting that vanishing step to realize that you actually got to the bottom of the stairs quicker than if it had not vanished? Again, the same goes for if you were heading up the stairs. All the sudden you are either forced to take a jump to the bottom of the steps or army crawl your way up the stairs, both ways you get to where you are going quicker.

Taking it a step further (pardon the pun), what if you applied this same heart wrenching moment of a vanishing step into the goals in your life? What if you strayed away from doing it by the book, following all the rules, and taking all the steps? What if, maybe, just maybe, some steps vanished?

 

Stay Positive & There Is A Cost To Taking Each Step

Garth E. Beyer

 

The Change To A Free(dom) Market Economy

Garth Beyer

It seems that we are finally seeing a slight but steady decrease in monopolies. It is something I hoped for when I was 16 and even when I thought of the most logical step to take to do it. Three years ago, I wrote the following in my journal.

“America needs to focus more on free market and trading and bartering, then it would lower monopolies.”

What I didn’t know at the time was what the free market – trading and bartering – would be made up of. Traditionally speaking, it would be about exchanging a couch for a punching bag, or a TV for food, or a boat for some of the fish the user would catch. We would expect to see a decrease in the use of money and overall monetary value and an increase in personal tangible need.

What I have now come to realize is that this free market that we are riding into is not about specific valuable items, or about money, or about the vital needs for sustainability. In fact, it is a collection of it all. We’re heading into an age where the free market is composed of information, skills, talents, art, passion, action, change, teamwork, and originality.

It’s no longer who has the fanciest house, who has the most food, or who has the biggest boat. It’s about who created a new model of a house, who combined an ancient recipe with their own originality and successfully opened a restaurant with that as its signature dish, it’s about who ditches their biggest boat to bring actual art and change to humanity.

Those who successfully enroll themselves in this new free market enterprise are the ones who will become the monopolies – trusted and valued monopolies.

 

Stay Positive & I Prefer To Call It The Free(dom) Market Economy

Garth E. Beyer

 

Daydreaming

Garth Beyer

The benefit of Daydreaming is that, if it’s done for an extensive period of time, it’s exhausting. Exhausting to the point that it ends up easier to live that dream rather than daydream about it. Try it.

 

Stay Positive & Food For Thought Dreams

Garth E. Beyer