• What would your face look like at age 40 if all you watched was the NEWS?
• what would it be like if you only watched comedy shows and movies?
• Would you look like a million dollars if all you watched were financial channels?Just like some people start reading the newspaper from the back to the front and vice versa, some people have watching patterns that only seem to grow into one area in life without them noticing.

Some people only watch sport channels, others only watch opera winfrey like shows. Some people pop on DVD after the other trying to finish a never ending stream of episodes like LOST and Prison break and desperate housewives and anything that comes out.Originally they were meant to be weekly episodes, no not me says the active follower, all or non!

Having a diverse sense of program/movie watching will widen ones scope in life and affect his general well being in the process. Can you imagine sitting with a person that only watches financial news for 2 hours and you don’t know what the currency is for france is? no its not the French Franc, they changed it a few days ago to Euro.

What about a combination of two people one likes Sports and the other news, I mean real hard core political news. I can imagine the dialogue:

“Did you see last night’s semi finals?” “ Oh yeah it seems like the Bush administration is falling behind, sorry! is that what you meant?” BORING!

What we should do is keep a piece of paper beside the TV and write down all the things you watch for a few weeks, lets say 21 days. Take that piece of input and see how much time you spend on each area or category. It should give you a better understanding of what you appear to other people. Why do I say appear, well you can tell allot about people from their diverse conversation capabilities, some just go blank, while other sjust amaze you with their knowledge.

I am a more a reader than a TV watcher, but I do put in hours of TV watching when i am on idle, and it seems to carry me away. I have found out that i do not shy away from seasons of new material or shows, I tend to find the ones that end daily, so I don’t have to come back for more, what about my time? So a good example here would be Las Vegas, and not LOST( who cares after a while, they’re on the island, off the island, back to the island..come on).

I can say I am 70% into humor and 30% everything else, everything! I don’t watch horror movies, had my share when I was young with the basic Frankestien, werewolves and vampires. I like National Geographic with all its amazing footage and adventure on our planet.

There is this one gentlemen who watches movies back to back, even re-runs on a movie channel for 2 to 3 days, alone. Would you like his number? very sociable young man,NOT!

So in the end, you are what you eat, what you read and also what you watch.

Mamdooh Al-Radadi

me@mamdoohalradadi.com

Have you ever wondered where time seems to fly? Where do all the weekends and months go? What about the years for all you over 25/35/55? Did you ever stop and ask yourself what is going on?

Let’s say you actually do work more than the average joe and put in some 14 hours daily add to that some 5 hours of sleep, leaves you with 5 hours to do everything else including showers and toilet visits.

So lets say you are doing all that and managing your time, time still seems to slip out of our hands and into thin air.

Well, If you are like everyone else and do complain about this lost time, I think its about time you started to look at your life goals in a more serious fashion, a serious one that actually works day in day out, simply because time does fly when your having fun, or not.

When I was much younger before hitting the famous 20 mark, life seemed to drag on, taking forever to complete a week, let alone a month. So It does have a lot to do with growing up and responsibilities, the ones you like and the ones you don’t.

Take a pen and paper and write down 5 areas you need to do something with: Career/Business, Financial, Family, Health, legacy.

Fill in the dots and break them down to SMART Goals which stands for:(Specific,Measurable,Achievable,Realistic,Time bound). A person should know what he wants exactly, picture it in his mind, frame it, and capture it,You should be able to achieve it, so if you want money you don’t just say filthy rich with gazillions, you say

an achievable value that is possible with your capabilities and future training,realistic goals are a key ingredient, you cant say you want to learn 12 languages in one year while it took you 4 years to barely speak spanish!, When is this goal due? a year five?ten? a week? be specific.

In my humble opinion I think people will continue to lose track of time and feel frustrated as the coming years go by, nothing is slowing down for anyone anymore, it is just one big movement towards some unknown goal to many, leaded by the visionaries out here that tend to shape your day, even if you live on a far away land. They work hard for this movement, they never stop moving, neither do we. So if you are doing something or your just  being a comfy couch potato, you will be catch one of the millions of waves moving somewhere or the other.

A person who is doing something SMART with his life will feel more in control than a cruise controlled individual hooked onto some icon on a navigational system that does not belong to him. Imagine if you will the escalator, with many people on it, some ahead of others. Even in this example you will notice some actually walking on the mechanical platform, others will be running. And at the very end of the line you will find Mr.Average joe, chilling in the back, clueless just following the

crowd.

My message to you, its cool to be lazy every once in a while, but when you have some kind of benchmarks grooved in your Goal meter, you would feel the pleasure of relaxation after hard earned miles.

“Life is like riding a bicycle, you must keep moving to keep your balance”- Einstein.

Mamdooh Al-Radadi

me@mamdoohalradadi.com