"You Can't Always Believe What You Read" 
*  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * 

You've heard the old saying, "You can't always believe what you read."   Information often proliferates and is related as gospel as inaccurate information frequently overtakes valid facts. Daily sources of information become more and more questionable as what we hear and see is manipulated to influence our opinions. To improve your decision making and sorting the fact from the fiction, I offer an alternative to this old saying, "You can't always believe what you read" and restate it as, ""You can't always read what you believe."

 

Seek information you don't usually entertain. Reading, viewing and considering contrary information challenges you to rethink your beliefs, values and convictions. Question what you think and determine if it's valid. Gaining single source of information provides you with a biased view, robbing you of the opportunity to compare and contrast. It is only when you are able to perceive your convictions within the context of contrary information that you can truly accept your stance as a reality.

 

Getting one perspective doesn't provide you with the information you need to make informed choices. It increases your potential for making a bias decision, lacking a broader foundation of options for the truth. The truth often lies somewhere between.

 

In 1985 I contracted viral meningitis. When I entered the hospital I was told that I had either an aneurism that could be fatal, bacterial meningitis that is often fatal, or viral meningitis, which I could recover from. Luckily it turned out to be viral and I survived. But for around 12 hours I had the opportunity to lie in the hospital not knowing if I was going to live or die. When the Doctor came in the next morning to tell me that I was going to live, I broke down. Not because of joy, but out of fear. Over the period of those 12 hours, I had come to accept my own ending. What I was not prepared for was the prospect of living, and contrast it provided to the prospect of dying.

 

Previously, living was the only option I had ever considered. The consequences of the way I was living my life vs. the consequences of my death were beyond anything I had ever thought of. I was suddenly exposed to a drastic contrast; the stark reality of no longer existing and the option of fully living life as it is; life on life's terms.

 

You don't have to suffer these extremes to begin exploring the truth and strengthening your beliefs, values and convictions. It can quite honestly mean opening yourself to alternative information to fully reinforce all that you are and believe, or the enlightening opportunity to change all you know and the very world you live in.

 

Be well,

John

- Just Released -
To Order, click HERE
 
* * * * * * * * * * * * * *
View my profile on LinkedIn

Follow me on Twitter

Like me on Facebook


John's Pic 2
John K Kriger
MSM, LCADC, CPS

Kriger Consulting Official Logo

- COMING SOON -  
Fall 2014 
Calendar of Events 
   

For questions, or to book your next meeting,  

conference or event, 

call today at (609) 387-5226, or  

email us at [email protected]