A New Year’s Resolution – Atomic Habits – by Ron Cheong
With the New Year here thoughts turn to New Year’s resolutions – those from last year we didn’t keep and our resolutions for 2022. The way I remember one bit of inspirational wisdom related to this that we heard in our childhood in Guyana, is:
Sow a THOUGHT and reap an ACT
Sow a ACT and reap a HABIT
Sow a HABIT and reap a CHARACTER
Sow a CHARACTER and reap a DESTINY
In his book Atomic Habits, James Clear flushes out this line of thinking, describes its psychological underpinnings, and puts forward actionable strategies for creating or reinforcing good habits and discontinuing or minimizing unhelpful habits – a strategy for keeping New Year’s resolutions. Continue reading
WORLD: Climate: ‘The Fuse Has Been Blown,’ and The Doomsday Glacier Is Coming for Us All
New data suggests a massive collapse of the ice shelf in as little as five years. “We are dealing with an event that no human has ever witnessed,” says one scientist. “We have no analog for this”
One thing that’s hard to grasp about the CLIMATE CRISIS is that big changes can happen fast. In 2019, I was aboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer, a 308-foot-long scientific research vessel, cruising in front of the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica. One day, we were sailing in clear seas in front of the glacier. The next day, we were surrounded by icebergs the size of aircraft carriers.
As we later learned from satellite images, in a matter of 48 hours or so, a mélange of ice about 21 miles wide and 15 miles deep had cracked up and scattered into the sea. Continue reading →
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