The Magic Number

I've really been making a conscious effort this summer to employ certain ways of thinking and certain ways of living into my everyday life. I'll probably share some in future posts but the one that I've been working on the most so far is a way of thinking of numbers.

When we look around numbers dominate a large part of our lives. Sure, numbers don't lie but they don't always tell the entire truth, the entire back story. Numbers often cause so much unnecessary stress and worry because we allow them to. Knowing this I've been making a conscious effort to not worry about numbers.

I've seen so many people, myself included, stress over grades, tests, gpa, weight, money, time etc. While I can understand why we do it, I'm not so sure what the benefit is. I'm trying to make a conscious effort to remind myself that as long as I put the work/effort in the rewards/results will come, maybe not in the form or at the time I want them but they will come.This means I don't have to constantly look at my degree audit to check my gpa, I don't have to sit there trying to figure out how many points I need to get an A, I don't have to think "OMG this ONE test is 60% of my grade." Nope. Because as long as I put the work in and study efficiently the results will show.

What about weight? I don't have to always weight myself after exercising or get nervous before I get on the scale at the doc's office because as long as I know that I am "putting in the work" and exercising and eating in moderation and not pigging out the scale will show that and I don't have to worry.
Money? I don't have to always have to be a penny pincher. If I have the money by all means go out with friends, have fun, enjoy myself.

and Time? Well I tend to rush if I'm even a minute late, driving and walking swiftly to my destination. I need to remind myself to slow down. The world won't end if I show up to class 4 minutes before it starts instead of 5. And if being late is a problem then I need to get up earlier or leave earlier simple as that.
By changing the way I think about numbers (among other stuff) I've become significantly less stressed and can honestly say that I haven't been this happy in a long time. I guess the Magic Number is really the place holder 0. Zero unnecessary worries over numbers.

New Boy

I found this short rather intriguing.
I was reading this comments on YouTube and some of them were just ridiculous. It's odd how we as a society place so much importance on skin color and race yet in the entire human genome it is believed that only about 6 genes (reports vary) determine skin color. Six. So much importance for something that is such a small part of our genetic make-up.

-La Rhino