Health Warning Labels Make People Want to Smoke

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"Choose a Motive"

Every day we decide, to one degree or another, what to wear based on what we want to accomplish. I was going to call this entry being effective but chose the title you see because I consider it more beneficial. It's comes closer to cause.

I'm not going to spend much time on it because it's really a simple concept and all the whys are covered in earlier writings. Choosing a motive is just like any other decision we will make in life. I used deciding what to wear because it's a good mental picture. You wouldn't wear a ball gown to fix the pipes under the house. So first we have to decide what it is we're setting out to accomplish in our lives. I have decided that my life will be spent being as useful to life as I can. The sentence contains my motive. My motive is to be useful.

Everyday I ask all of the intelligence in the universe, or the intelligence that is life, or however you choose to see it, to direct me to what is best. I sit still and open myself to whatever communion is available. My brain thinks I suck at this, I know it does because it tells me. In spite of all that goes on to make me feel I'm doing a crappy job I have steadily moved in a direction.

Its possible that the decision to be useful, then doing those things I identified as useful, has led to a channel being cleared between me and the intelligence. Probably something resembling that but words become inadequate at some point and searching too much is tiring. The crux is that motive is a key to accomplishment. There is one prime motivation that is shared by everyone. That is to be happy. There is a great deal to gain from understanding this and I suggest that it be examined fully. I'll be writing more on this because it is key to understanding the system. But for now I include it because it's going to be a factor in your personal examination and its good to be aware of it before hand. Whats happening in ones life has a direct relationship to motive. If your life is not what you would like it to be then identify your motives. Write them on paper. Concentrate on this topic until you are able to get a better picture of how things work. The system of life is like any other system, as we learn the system we get better at operating within it. We can learn a system and decide we want nothing to do with it and that is a completely legitimate decision. Finding out what the system is may well be the most important thing anyone can do.

If the goal of the reader is to get started on a self determined path then this area of motive must be examined. The first thing that needs to be done is to find out what your current motivations are. Look for where they came from. Ask if these are motivations you would suggest to some one you like. Ask questions. Write them down. They will be answered once you've got them written down. Getting good answers is all about asking good questions. All the help you may need is available. Myself, millions of others and the totality of life are here to be of service. I'm sure you have a lot to consider so I'll get out of the way. Remember to have as much fun as you can.

I wonder if it has anything to do with nag burnout. Many people are getting tired of government constantly nagging. There is a hidden resentment that makes people want to do the opposite.

I'm pretty sure the author of that book is misstating the results of the study. It seems far more likely to me that showing a smoker a piece of cigarette packaging makes them want to smoke, period. It doesn't sound like they compared cigarette packages with and without warning labels.