Just a short one. Some basic advice on self awareness and improvement, followed by an update on what I’m working on at the moment and why this particular blog here hasn’t had any updates since March.
So the advice part…
This is just a bit of a reminder. I think this is something that most people are aware of, but it is easy to forget. Part of the reason I’m writing this is for my own benefit, as a reminder for myself. I tend to find that writing things down for others can serve as a way of cementing this knowledge and awareness into my own mind also. It is easy to forget things if you don’t write them down basically.
It is safe to say that when you you look at the world around you and the activities of others, you get agitated. This has been happening to me much less recently, since I pretty much abandoned social media use back in January. I realise I wrote about this at the time, so I won’t get too much into that here. But yes, I just walked away.
Regardless, I am reading at quite a lot at the moment and do follow selected news outlets. I have to do this as part of my daily project, which I will get to at the end of this piece.
So you hear about the stupid things that other people get up to, whether it is local news, your social circle, or further out there in the public arena. A lot of what I my cover on this blog (that you are on now) and my other project website is to do with the Woke Supremacy and Big Brother activities. That can really become demoralising if you let it.
I am in many ways proactive in tackling this, but the main piece of advice I need to be aware of and pass on to anyone reading this, is to first and foremost sort out your own problems before you start sorting out other people’s.
As Jordan Peterson puts it, ‘tidy your room’.
I have been focusing a lot of my mental energy and time recently researching and writing about out what is going on ‘out there’… all the while, all I have to do is look around my house and I can see that it needs some attention.
Of course I am speaking in literal terms here about having a tidy house, but at the same time there are other aspects of my life that I really need to tidy, or rather to optimise.
My financial management for example, my health (physical and and mental). None of this is in a bad state, but optimisation is definitely advisable. So I/we need to remember to put this first before I/we embark on setting things straight in the broader picture, with the outside world.
Before I wrap this part of today’s blog up, I will just be a little bit more specific and give one example. For some financial optimisation, last night I made a quick list of things that I routinely spend my money on every month and looked for quick ways to either eradicate these habits, or divide them by a factor of 50%.
In doing so, I look to be able to save about £150 per month. Then the question comes, ‘what would I spend that saving on instead, to make these habitual vices worth sacrificing?’. Well I am now looking into long-term savings of some kind, more so than I currently contribute to. All positive anyway, but it’s started with me putting one foot in front of the other, with a view to metaphorically ‘tidying my room’. Thanks Mr Peterson.
Anyway, on to the other part. What I have been up to recently and why this blog has been untouched for several weeks now.
I am working on on a much better website that is updated daily and has been for the past couple of months. Check it out, www.thegramophonemind.com – News behind the news, with occasional commentary from in-house writers. Exposing the latest woke supremacy, Big Brother and other culture war related items.
You will find some of the archives on my theantifragilemale.com blog are duplicated over there, although those archives are getting updated regularly, such as the Recommended Reading section. I might actually remove this completely from my blog here and just put a redirect over to the new website. Too many plates on too many sticks being spun otherwise.
That new website is still in its infancy for the most part. I haven’t done much to promote it or get it out there just yet, because it is still being built up and there are many ideas still in development. Plus the site has contributions from other people in my circle, which is great, but will have to factor that in.
Anyway that is all for now. I’m not sure when the next update I make here will be, so apologies if this becomes less and less.
Joseph, 16th May 2021