Lady Di and The Need to Know Immediately

In the past I have blogged a number of times about controlling your inputs, avoiding the negative news and watching who is telling you what. Last week, a friend of mine said that she “needed to know what was going on” and that was why she watched the news everyday.

My first thought is of Lady Diana. When she passed away there was 24 hour coverage of her death, the paparazzi, the car wreckage and the family reaction. None of that coverage brought her back. None of it really changed my life for the better or hers. It was a frenzy of re-playing the same facts over and over again. Once you got the story, did it help you to sleep or cope in your own life? Probably not.

I was actually on a house boat trip the weekend she died. I didn’t hear about it until 3 days after her death. I returned and was still able to get ALL the coverage for weeks to come even though I missed the event. In a sense, I didn’t miss a thing.

So my thoughts are this … if it is a big event, you will hear about it anyway. No one who is illiterate is unaware of the economic challenges (I don’t support the use of the “R” word). How is that?! Oh, because unless you are the unibomber living in a shack you hear about big news from people around you.

If you didn’t know Diana and weren’t in the car, does it matter if you get the news now or 2 days from now? Some argue yes but I challenge you to answer why? Not to me, to yourself.

Think twice before you allow someone or some organization to sell you on their negativity and your need for it. Focus on what you need to make today better … exclusively!