Just Do It

It's way too easy to talk about doing something. "I'm going to start going to the gym and get in better shape!" "I'm going to study harder and get better grades!" "I'm going to save money!" These are all very nice things to say, but actually doing what you say and actually following through? These goals are ideals that people do not visualize themselves achieving. Saying that you are going to do something is a good start. Taking steps towards the goal is even better, even if they're small. Just do it!

I think the problem is the mindset behind these goals. Usually, when people set these goals, they visualize themselves going through a great ordeal, making it to something similar to the top of a large mountain and finally breathing that great air that is the goal you've just finished. This is way too ideal. People are facing these goals as if they are torture. Setting the big goal is fine, making drastic changes toward the goal is not.

The best way to go at these goals is to start small. Make it easy to achieve at first. The more these small goals are achieved, eventually they will just become habits and those small goals won't even be something to be achieved. It will be integrated. Something like "I'm going to get in better shape!" would have small steps such as parking farther from work so you would walk farther. Taking the stairs instead of the elevator. Drinking water instead of soda. These small steps are all takes to achieve a goal like getting in better shape.

If only...

One thing that would be really cool is if that batman was real. I mean, come on! Batman would kick all those republicans butts to the floor! All the corruption that the religious right contain would be obliterated by batman. All the lobbying and fox news corrupting the world would have everything to fear if batman were real.

Batman's greatest enemy: the media. It sounds pretty good already. Liberals would be cheering for individual rights and the conservatives would be like "Batman is a villain!" or something along those lines. Batman would be scaring those conservatives to be like, "Stop trying to make the village idiot in the entire country feel bad for him! This country is better than that!" The conservatives just keep wanting to make cuts on health care and education. Making cuts to health care and education seems to me like the most illogical thing to do ever! Batman would totally be stopping these "politicians" from making idiotic decisions that are not based on the wishes of the people. Having Americans throw away money on unnecessary wars and having companies basically bribe politicians through lobbying would totally go against the wishes of Batman.

If batman were real, there wouldn't be many actual villains. Just two; the government and the media. The government has ties everywhere! Influencing the people to do good and do all the right things like raising taxes for the rich and pulling the troops out of the war. The biggest villain, if it can be idealized as one, would be the media because their place in Batman's world would be to threaten him and make Batman be a vigilante out to do evil. The media would spread propaganda about how evil batman is when all he is a politician doing what's right for the people!

I have no bias in this at all. I swear! Even though I'm an atheist and a liberal, I am absolutely not idealizing batman to my own beliefs whatsoever! Don't give me that look.