The essays of Captain Pugwash cover a variety of topics, mainly associated with using common sense to address everyday problems of life.
Today, most people it seems have lost the ability to use common sense to solve their everyday problems. To help with these problems, I have compiled my approach to the simple solutions that seemed to work best for me.
Maintaining the Balance of Risk vs. Reward
Most decisions come down to determining the risk of an option, and the reward for choosing that option. These two characteristics of any alternative are sometimes difficult to quantify. One way to do this is to create a decision matrix. This is an exercise where you list the alternatives for a particular decision down the left side of a sheet of paper, then across the top you have the “risk” and “return” characteristics associated with this decision. Some typical characteristics are …. Cost, utilization of time, effect on quality of life, etc.. The tricky part is to set and agree upon a priority within these characteristics. Then set a value on the priorities. IE: 100 for the most important and 50 for the least important, or whatever you choose and agree upon.
Anger and Stress Management
Anger and Stress mess up your body chemistry. If you are in danger of overdoing it you can usually notice the following symptoms.
· Your sweat smells really foul.
· Your tears will also smell bad.
· Your urine smells almost like you have been eating asparagus.
· You will also get a very dry mouth/throat
This happens over a period of time, not just on an occasional occurrence, but when Anger and Stress are taking a toll on your body’s health.
Who is responsible for what?
Under all circumstances you and only you are responsible for your own actions and deeds. However, under no circumstance are you or the people of the current society responsible for the deeds of your ancestors or your ancestors’ friends.
Depending on others.
Get a Second Opinion
When dealing with Lawyers, Doctors, Realtors, Auto Mechanics, and most all professional service people, GET AT LEAST THREE ESTIMATES. Get a second opinion. Professional Service People, like anyone else is interested in making money, and that may preclude them from giving you the best advice, or they may not be competent, which will also be a detriment to what you are trying to do…..
Greed drives most people’s agenda
Greed is not just associated with money. It is also associated with ego, and power and many other things. A majority of people’s actions are governed by greed. The attitude of “what’s in it for me” governs their daily life. If you find someone that is truly not greedy, as I have defined it, hang onto them as they are precious.
Freedom is VERY precious
We have lost so many freedoms in the last 60 years. The freedom to fail, the freedom to be anonymous, the freedom to take risk in order to have fun, the freedom to be honest in what you say….these are some of the freedoms we have lost and don’t know we have lost. They ones we know we have lost are too numerous to mention, they have to do with tangible things like property rights, government control, and lack of common sense.
Humor IS the best medicine
Our brains make us sick 95% of the time. If our brain is unhappy, we are usually sick, and if we are sick it is usually because our brain is making us that way. If we think we are sick, then we are sick…….it is our brain that is not feeling well.
We know that if we are laughing, we are not feeling sorry for ourselves. The chemistry of a laugh energizes our whole body including our immune system. Therefore if we are continuously happy, we are healthy….Tell a joke everyday to the people you care for to help keep them happy too.
Remember some good clichés
“Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance.”
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