ACTION:  You can train yourself mentally as a Citizen Soldier. In Silence

The world is on a 24/7 news and information cycle.   You have to control the information input, otherwise it's like opium and crack combined.  Your entire life will be chewed up trying to keep up on information.  In his day, Sir Isaac Newton reportedly read every book in the Western world printed in English, Latin or French.   That's now impossible.  Align your world, interests and goals with your information.  Don't become myopic.  Human beings needs to branch out into new worlds because they are curious.   They make connections between Old and New Knowledge to develop new ideas, behaviors, pathways, inventions and more.

But still, you can't eat all the food in the world.  No reason that you should digest all the Information in the world.   Be particular.  And once in a while, just shut everything off and go sit in your backyard.  Be Still.  Soon the birds will return around you.  Find a Stillness there and think.

Call it what you want.  Zen. Inner Peace.  Prayer.  Silence. Quiet.

In this article in the Financial Times, "I have fallen into recession’s web of fear" author Lucy Kellaway discuss the emergence of a global psyche in regard to the recession and economic malaise.   Her point is fascinating insofar as the psychological state i.e., confidence can change the course of an economic path.

What strategies can we draw from this observation that can change the course from Radical Islam and loss of Western freedom toward Democracy and Freedom.  If you read her statement, it is the daily onslaught of messages - all negative about the economy - that are bombarding her consciousness.