Bryant McGill's Blog, page 86

If you are not creating value for others then you are wasting your time

Someone recently asked me for my best social media tip. They seemed dismayed at what I told them. I have major issues with almost every single social media strategy article I read, but somehow I am what many would consider successful with social media. Much of what people are doing with social media is a complete waste of time. You can spend your days and nights liking, clicking and commenting until your fingers bleed, and then what are you going to have? There is much more to life than repo...

Technology: a weapon of exclusion or a Promethean flame of enlightenment

Technology should be shared rather than used as a weapon of exclusion and control. At the heart of our inner-conflict with technology, are the competing visions of a eugenic technocracy versus a world of hope and enlightenment for all. As we break through the levels of reverse-engineering nature, the orders of magnitude suggest possibilities of orders of magnitude. Concentrative bottom-down manufacturing is inherently inelegant and violent; creating a lot of environmental collateral damage....

Be selfish in your forgiving

Be selfish in your forgiving. Forgive for yourself and for the peace it will bring to your pain. Forgiveness has very little to do with the other person. Forgiveness is about your peace of mind. When you don't forgive, you are the one who suffers. Have compassion for people as long as you are one of them too.

To forgive another person means you have first condemned them. When we condemn others we condemn ourselves. When we judge and agonize over another's faults, we become attached to their i...

The incalculable beauty of the gift of life

Please take some quiet time to meditate on the incalculable beauty of the gift of life. Remember to take some time each day to play. Touch the Earth, walk on the grass barefoot, swipe the dew from a leaf with your finger, take a deep breath and remember what you are — you are a beautiful child of creation. Glory, glory, glory to you "people of beauty" everywhere, and to the wonderment of each breath. Thank you, thank you, thank you — that from somewhere, somehow, a new smile is available for...

Your future begins with your next thought

If you are unhappy with your life and the state of the world, the best place to start changing things is within yourself. Sometimes your evolution involves changing your behaviors and habits, but more often the essential changes that need to be made are merely with your own attitudes. Your attitudes lie at the heart of any possibility for changing your life. Your attitudes are literally seeds for the growing of your future self. Your attitudes contain your future. Attitudes are like the DNA...

Forgive more, worry less and be grateful everyday for life

To live a wonderful life create more, buy less, hug more, scold less, give more, take less, forgive more, worry less and be grateful everyday for life. Live with kindness, integrity and spirituality. Comport yourself with grace under pressure. Be an asset in the lives of others. Put people before things and live from your heart. Be intelligent, but know it is better to be kind than smart. Be a peacemaker who values peace and takes peace everywhere you go. Learn to understand your energy and...

Cultivating a Brilliant Creative Team

When cultivating a creative team, don't make the common mistake of only looking for technicians. And don't fool yourself into thinking you can just "hire" smart people and manage them with traditional leadership if you want to achieve something spectacular. Brilliance and super-creativity can only be cultivated and recognized by creative brilliance itself. You can't ask for or get what you don't understand yourself, and this is one of the key challenges of leadership.

To even have a conversat...

Conscious Creation through Intention and Word Power

So many people are obsessed with the illusion of knowledge and knowing. At one time I regarded myself as a deep thinker, but now I see myself only as a deep feeler. I've given up my belief in so-called knowledge. People are feeling creatures, and no matter how much knowledge they possess, they are all going through the same emotions, feelings, trials and tribulations, and we all share those same human emotions that define our experience in the only real world we will ever know, and that is o...

Assassin's Creed III, Ubisoft Montreal and the Culture of Violence

Game Warning: "Mature 17+, BLOOD, INTENSE VIOLENCE, SEXUAL THEMES, STRONG LANGUAGE."

Let me translate the manufacture's warning above for everyone. This game is a rape against the soul and cerebellum of the untainted and sensitive psyche of any human, who has not yet been desensitized. This game is toxic soul-poison. Yet many feed on it seemingly unaffected, because they are conditioned and well-adjusted to a diet of violence.

In today's sad and degenerate, beastly gallery of horrors; the lite...

Escaping old patterns to become a better you!

At the very basic level all people are creators. We are all creating at every moment. Sometimes we are creating positive experiences and sometimes we unfortunately create negative experiences for ourselves and others. We all want something out of life and it is very natural that people want to create, re-create and develop themselves. It is natural and healthy to want to enhance your creative skills and abilities, so you can access your own version of joy and abundance. The problem for many...