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Thursday, 16 September 2010
Hospitals have their own hegemony
The Hospital Visit
Hospitals have their own hegemony
They are filled with:
Patients
Visitors
The unseen staff; managers, administration
The visible staff; receptionist, cleaners, porters, canteen staff, etc.
Nurses
Doctors
The hegemony of the hospital is medicine, illness, doctors, nurses and authority.
Through this hegemony: the patients, employees and visitors; attitudes and actions are influenced upon their individual attitude and position within this authority.
There are good and bad; patients, staff and visitors, who are measured by all within the hegemony, and this is done through the self-policing of the hospital hegemony, and all hegemonies are created and exist though continuity and change.
Once the continuity of hegemony has been created it polices itself and changes through consequences, without consequences there is no order, the hegemony collapses.
The unseen staff concern themselves with the operation of the hospital. They are employees of the hospital and their job is to see that their place of employment not only runs like a hospital but also is seen to run like a hospital. Their expectation comes through their cultural perception of the hospital hegemony, their job description and their employer’s perception of the hospital hegemony.
Thus not all hospitals are the same, they all fit within one major cultural perception of hospitals, but they also change within areas, towns and even individual hospitals, and Private or National Health.
Hospitals have their own hegemony
They are filled with:
Patients
Visitors
The unseen staff; managers, administration
The visible staff; receptionist, cleaners, porters, canteen staff, etc.
Nurses
Doctors
The hegemony of the hospital is medicine, illness, doctors, nurses and authority.
Through this hegemony: the patients, employees and visitors; attitudes and actions are influenced upon their individual attitude and position within this authority.
There are good and bad; patients, staff and visitors, who are measured by all within the hegemony, and this is done through the self-policing of the hospital hegemony, and all hegemonies are created and exist though continuity and change.
Once the continuity of hegemony has been created it polices itself and changes through consequences, without consequences there is no order, the hegemony collapses.
The unseen staff concern themselves with the operation of the hospital. They are employees of the hospital and their job is to see that their place of employment not only runs like a hospital but also is seen to run like a hospital. Their expectation comes through their cultural perception of the hospital hegemony, their job description and their employer’s perception of the hospital hegemony.
Thus not all hospitals are the same, they all fit within one major cultural perception of hospitals, but they also change within areas, towns and even individual hospitals, and Private or National Health.
Wednesday, 8 September 2010
What do you do when the worries and stress get to you?
Stress and Anxiety live in the darkness of the unknown, even just one unfortunate thought will generate thousands more to give you unrest and unhappiness. They can turn a person’s attitude and flip them like a coin from positive to negative and vice versa.
The thing to do is to bring everything out into the open so you can see what is happening, it is what we don’t know that frightens us, so take out a pen and paper and write everything down and list all the possible outcomes good and bad.
Write down every bad thought and deal with it, once we see how ridiculous these thoughts are we can start to break them down and take away their power.
The thing to do is to bring everything out into the open so you can see what is happening, it is what we don’t know that frightens us, so take out a pen and paper and write everything down and list all the possible outcomes good and bad.
Write down every bad thought and deal with it, once we see how ridiculous these thoughts are we can start to break them down and take away their power.
Monday, 6 September 2010
Belief
Belief is one of those tricky words that is difficult to explain without using an example, because it is effectively a psychological state. It is where you psychologically hold the concept in your mind that something is true. That is one accepts a specific proposition or premise to be true.
Belief can be driven through blind faith in which no scientific explanation or proof needs to be provided to prove the belief to be true.
Belief can be driven through experience in which that if something occurs with such predictability and consistency it is almost impossible to discard it as being true. Even if something does not replicate exactly on random occasions it can still be dismissed as fluke or a statistical blip, and the belief keeps its authority and its psychological essence of being true.
Belief can be driven through fact or scientific or mathematical truth, reliability and consistency. A mathematical equation such as two plus two equals four is a pretty difficult fact to deny or destroy.
The hardest beliefs in the world to destroy are those driven through fact and blind faith. These beliefs are almost cast in stone, and are the rocks on which the foundation of our social existence, religion, culture, economy and society we live in are built.
However not all beliefs are such rocks of scientific, social or psychological magnitude, it is those beliefs that are built from experience which are built upon the foundation of paper cards and can tumble and fall with even the slightest doubt.
It is these beliefs that are the hardest to learn, discover or copy. This is why just learning what one successful persons beliefs and attitudes are, does not equal an ability to reproduce their success.
This is because their specific personal beliefs were borne from their specific personal experience, which would be impossible to reproduce. To learn their beliefs and attitudes to write them down and sell them as millionaires secrets is absolutely of no use or help to anyone else except the individual them self.
Beliefs are our most important psychological assets, If there is anything that is going to protect you from conflict, opposition and obstruction it is your belief in what you want to achieve. If there is anything that can give you the courage to take the plunge and do what is necessary regardless, it is belief.
This does not mean that if you find yourself in conflict with another person because that you believe that you are in the right and the other is in the wrong that you should not back down. One should always remain both clear-headed and inwardly strong so as to be able to meet ones opponent half way. To bear out conflict with another will only have negative effects.
However you cannot simply buy and sell beliefs based on experience, that is by simply adopting one successful persons belief system and following their actions does not mean that you will end up with the same results.
You will already have your own belief system that has been built through your own personal experience and simply learning a few beliefs and imposing them piggyback style on your own belief system will not work. Just as being infected by a virus into your physical body will be defended and fought of by your immune system, your psychological system will defend and fight off your newly adopted beliefs and it will only take one small doubt in your mind for your subconscious to do this.
Thus you can start a new project with all the emotion and excitement of success and then just the smallest niggling doubt can destroy your belief in an instant leaving you deflated and feeling like giving up.
Its at this stage that you can so easily be tempted by a clever piece of marketing and the promise of more secrets of success and rush for the next best business on the internet that will make your fortunes.
This is the cycle you need to break.
Belief can be driven through blind faith in which no scientific explanation or proof needs to be provided to prove the belief to be true.
Belief can be driven through experience in which that if something occurs with such predictability and consistency it is almost impossible to discard it as being true. Even if something does not replicate exactly on random occasions it can still be dismissed as fluke or a statistical blip, and the belief keeps its authority and its psychological essence of being true.
Belief can be driven through fact or scientific or mathematical truth, reliability and consistency. A mathematical equation such as two plus two equals four is a pretty difficult fact to deny or destroy.
The hardest beliefs in the world to destroy are those driven through fact and blind faith. These beliefs are almost cast in stone, and are the rocks on which the foundation of our social existence, religion, culture, economy and society we live in are built.
However not all beliefs are such rocks of scientific, social or psychological magnitude, it is those beliefs that are built from experience which are built upon the foundation of paper cards and can tumble and fall with even the slightest doubt.
It is these beliefs that are the hardest to learn, discover or copy. This is why just learning what one successful persons beliefs and attitudes are, does not equal an ability to reproduce their success.
This is because their specific personal beliefs were borne from their specific personal experience, which would be impossible to reproduce. To learn their beliefs and attitudes to write them down and sell them as millionaires secrets is absolutely of no use or help to anyone else except the individual them self.
Beliefs are our most important psychological assets, If there is anything that is going to protect you from conflict, opposition and obstruction it is your belief in what you want to achieve. If there is anything that can give you the courage to take the plunge and do what is necessary regardless, it is belief.
This does not mean that if you find yourself in conflict with another person because that you believe that you are in the right and the other is in the wrong that you should not back down. One should always remain both clear-headed and inwardly strong so as to be able to meet ones opponent half way. To bear out conflict with another will only have negative effects.
However you cannot simply buy and sell beliefs based on experience, that is by simply adopting one successful persons belief system and following their actions does not mean that you will end up with the same results.
You will already have your own belief system that has been built through your own personal experience and simply learning a few beliefs and imposing them piggyback style on your own belief system will not work. Just as being infected by a virus into your physical body will be defended and fought of by your immune system, your psychological system will defend and fight off your newly adopted beliefs and it will only take one small doubt in your mind for your subconscious to do this.
Thus you can start a new project with all the emotion and excitement of success and then just the smallest niggling doubt can destroy your belief in an instant leaving you deflated and feeling like giving up.
Its at this stage that you can so easily be tempted by a clever piece of marketing and the promise of more secrets of success and rush for the next best business on the internet that will make your fortunes.
This is the cycle you need to break.
Sunday, 5 September 2010
Desire
Desire
Desire is critical to success, but what does it mean? It would be nice, I really need, I’d like, I have a longing, craving, yearning. Desire like all words has a semantic content and so it has different meanings to different people. Desire is a word that has an emotive content and the synthesis of success from desire will come from a wanting that has both physical and mental properties.
Its amazing what we can do through desire, it can help us look after and protect our children / loved ones. It can help even the hopeless cook prepare a great meal. When we really want to accomplish something it can help us all the way.
So why is having a desire to earn money, not sufficient to conjure up the idea of what to do and how to be successful at making money? The desire is what makes you cling to the idea of what you believe in and it will give you the sincerity that would influence even the most intractable opposition.
The biggest problem with desire is that we are naturally configured to desire what we want. This may seem strange, but it is the reason why so many people fail at achieving what they need to do to make themselves successful.
It is because they spend all their attention on what they desire, which is the end result rather than what they need to do in order to create the result they desire. The problem again is that there are a lot of people who will sell you what you desire, they’ll sell you what you want rather than what you need.
Its easy to sell people what they want and for a short time it will be very profitable, but like all dreams they come to an end and everyone is left deflated.
Then most people either give up or run to another dream, they know the problems with the last dream and now are prepared because this time they have found the dream they want. All the time, ignoring what will really take them to achieve what they need to succeed.
This is the thing you really cannot do
This is the thing you hate doing
This is the thing that you put off and put off
How do I know you have not done it?
Because, if you have not done it you can’t complete it.
You need to desire what you need and not what you want.
If what you want is money, then you will not get it by dreaming and desiring the things money will buy you.
Thinking through success is not about thinking about the results but about thinking through how you will get the results and to do that you will need a way to earn money.
There really is only two ways to make money, and what’s more it’s easy and every one can do it, from the very young to the very old
Sell a product or provide a service. That’s it
Forget everything else;
Ignore the hype, that’s for idiots – even bankers and stock brokers get caught up in hype and lose billions of pounds over night and cripple economies.
Ignore the secrets – what secrets?
The secret is desire, we desire and pay for what we want, a fantastic secret that can get us whatever we want, the magic formula that will make us rich.
A system
Poker systems
Horse racing systems
Greyhound racing systems
Dice systems
Money Making sytems
MLM systems
Matrix systems
Who really gets rich from these systems other than the people who own them and for how long before they crash?
You need to forget about systems and start making plans.
Your own plans.
You need a solid product or service, not a fad, or a whim, what you need is a business, either work for somebody else’s business or your own, but you need to provide a product or a service, that has substance and people need.
What are the most successful businesses in the High Street?
Supermarket
Banks
Hair Dressing
Mobile Phones
Clothes Shops (mainly women’s)
Café / Coffee Shop / Bookshop
Music / DVD / Computers / Electrical
Fast Food / Restaurants
Cinema
You see the same shops over and over again and often you will get four or five shops the same all next door to each other and all making profit. These companies are now growing on the internet all of them making vast profits, ferrying these products and services to peoples homes.
What do they all have in common?
They are all business and they are all about business and they were all borne from the desire to provide products and services to conduct business and grew from plans to make business.
The first step in business is the idea and you may feel that the only way to make vast profits is to be original, but really what original business is not catered for on your high street.
The fact is that what makes a business popular is not its original thought but its unique thought. The part about you that makes your business idea so unique and fits in with the social and psychological needs of your community and time frame.
You first need the DESIRE to provide a product or service
Something that is unique to you, something you can put your stamp on and make yours.
Desire is critical to success, but what does it mean? It would be nice, I really need, I’d like, I have a longing, craving, yearning. Desire like all words has a semantic content and so it has different meanings to different people. Desire is a word that has an emotive content and the synthesis of success from desire will come from a wanting that has both physical and mental properties.
Its amazing what we can do through desire, it can help us look after and protect our children / loved ones. It can help even the hopeless cook prepare a great meal. When we really want to accomplish something it can help us all the way.
So why is having a desire to earn money, not sufficient to conjure up the idea of what to do and how to be successful at making money? The desire is what makes you cling to the idea of what you believe in and it will give you the sincerity that would influence even the most intractable opposition.
The biggest problem with desire is that we are naturally configured to desire what we want. This may seem strange, but it is the reason why so many people fail at achieving what they need to do to make themselves successful.
It is because they spend all their attention on what they desire, which is the end result rather than what they need to do in order to create the result they desire. The problem again is that there are a lot of people who will sell you what you desire, they’ll sell you what you want rather than what you need.
Its easy to sell people what they want and for a short time it will be very profitable, but like all dreams they come to an end and everyone is left deflated.
Then most people either give up or run to another dream, they know the problems with the last dream and now are prepared because this time they have found the dream they want. All the time, ignoring what will really take them to achieve what they need to succeed.
This is the thing you really cannot do
This is the thing you hate doing
This is the thing that you put off and put off
How do I know you have not done it?
Because, if you have not done it you can’t complete it.
You need to desire what you need and not what you want.
If what you want is money, then you will not get it by dreaming and desiring the things money will buy you.
Thinking through success is not about thinking about the results but about thinking through how you will get the results and to do that you will need a way to earn money.
There really is only two ways to make money, and what’s more it’s easy and every one can do it, from the very young to the very old
Sell a product or provide a service. That’s it
Forget everything else;
Ignore the hype, that’s for idiots – even bankers and stock brokers get caught up in hype and lose billions of pounds over night and cripple economies.
Ignore the secrets – what secrets?
The secret is desire, we desire and pay for what we want, a fantastic secret that can get us whatever we want, the magic formula that will make us rich.
A system
Poker systems
Horse racing systems
Greyhound racing systems
Dice systems
Money Making sytems
MLM systems
Matrix systems
Who really gets rich from these systems other than the people who own them and for how long before they crash?
You need to forget about systems and start making plans.
Your own plans.
You need a solid product or service, not a fad, or a whim, what you need is a business, either work for somebody else’s business or your own, but you need to provide a product or a service, that has substance and people need.
What are the most successful businesses in the High Street?
Supermarket
Banks
Hair Dressing
Mobile Phones
Clothes Shops (mainly women’s)
Café / Coffee Shop / Bookshop
Music / DVD / Computers / Electrical
Fast Food / Restaurants
Cinema
You see the same shops over and over again and often you will get four or five shops the same all next door to each other and all making profit. These companies are now growing on the internet all of them making vast profits, ferrying these products and services to peoples homes.
What do they all have in common?
They are all business and they are all about business and they were all borne from the desire to provide products and services to conduct business and grew from plans to make business.
The first step in business is the idea and you may feel that the only way to make vast profits is to be original, but really what original business is not catered for on your high street.
The fact is that what makes a business popular is not its original thought but its unique thought. The part about you that makes your business idea so unique and fits in with the social and psychological needs of your community and time frame.
You first need the DESIRE to provide a product or service
Something that is unique to you, something you can put your stamp on and make yours.
Thinking Through Success – Brings Good Fortune
Thinking Through Success – Brings Good Fortune
We have to go through all the challenges in life, that we expect to have, only then can we can realise that they were meaningless, and only then will we be ready to accept that all we need is “Belief”.
Introduction
In essence this blog is about progress, in fact everything in life is about progress, (continuity and change) we can get caught up on the idea or the concept of the goals that we wish to achieve. However all success is built from a process of lots of little steps that change and continue to result in the achievement of our goal.
Success should be fun and it usually always is when we finally achieve it, namely for the fact that success is often borne out of stress and anxiety. Progress is our auto navigator to success, we can feel when things are going right or wrong, and those thoughts and emotions can lead us into different directions. Often it will make people give up, that stress of having already spent so much money or having paid too much time and attention, to a particular aspect that makes you not want to stop and try something else. Or it may be that panic or desire can make you leap into reactions rather than stopping to think.
Progress can affect what your doing, encourage you to react and make mistakes or give up, or it can encourage you to go forth and re-double your efforts. Its progress that takes us from start to finish and as such is the master key to success.
We have to go through all the challenges in life, that we expect to have, only then can we can realise that they were meaningless, and only then will we be ready to accept that all we need is “Belief”.
Introduction
In essence this blog is about progress, in fact everything in life is about progress, (continuity and change) we can get caught up on the idea or the concept of the goals that we wish to achieve. However all success is built from a process of lots of little steps that change and continue to result in the achievement of our goal.
Success should be fun and it usually always is when we finally achieve it, namely for the fact that success is often borne out of stress and anxiety. Progress is our auto navigator to success, we can feel when things are going right or wrong, and those thoughts and emotions can lead us into different directions. Often it will make people give up, that stress of having already spent so much money or having paid too much time and attention, to a particular aspect that makes you not want to stop and try something else. Or it may be that panic or desire can make you leap into reactions rather than stopping to think.
Progress can affect what your doing, encourage you to react and make mistakes or give up, or it can encourage you to go forth and re-double your efforts. Its progress that takes us from start to finish and as such is the master key to success.
Friday, 3 September 2010
Remaining persistent and determined; the spirit of the entrepreneur
Unfortunately for most of us remaining persistent and determined is a skill we have to learn, social conventions and schooling in western societies organised by governments that want to produce a work or labour force, are organising the school curriculum to produce a workforce that does specific tasks and are told what to do rather than think.
Western societies are producing a workforce for a society that is on the brink of great changes. In most western societies now the manufacturing industry is being replaced with the service industry, but even this is changing with the invention of the Internet and mass communication systems.
Thus the spirit of the entrepreneur is something that has to be learnt ourselves, and its something that we learn when we are ready, if that were by chance or just by the very nature of looking to find the information when we feel ready to make changes in our life.
Entrepreneur’s are pioneers and as such have to remain persistent and determined in doing new things and making changes even though mainstream society friends and family will try to bring you back into their world. The world of the safe and secure job earning a wage and being unhappy, even though the job for life is now a myth and no longer exists.
Western societies are producing a workforce for a society that is on the brink of great changes. In most western societies now the manufacturing industry is being replaced with the service industry, but even this is changing with the invention of the Internet and mass communication systems.
Thus the spirit of the entrepreneur is something that has to be learnt ourselves, and its something that we learn when we are ready, if that were by chance or just by the very nature of looking to find the information when we feel ready to make changes in our life.
Entrepreneur’s are pioneers and as such have to remain persistent and determined in doing new things and making changes even though mainstream society friends and family will try to bring you back into their world. The world of the safe and secure job earning a wage and being unhappy, even though the job for life is now a myth and no longer exists.
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