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| | A Doctor’s Word: Virus as unpredictable as the weather | | | | | | | | A Doctor’s Word: Virus as unpredictable as the weather
Dr. Manoj K. Jain
My 10-year-old son tracks the weather map each day and enjoys the predictability (colder temperatures in the winter) with the unpredictability (50 percent chance of rain). Such is the case for the flu season this year. We have the usual seasonal flu, which peaks in January and February and then nearly goes away in the summer months. And then there is the unpredictability of the H1N1 or swine flu.
The swine flu first occurred in Mexico this past spring and spread to North America. The World Health Organization soon declared it a pandemic. During June and July, it occurred at summer camps, which my children attended, yet luckily none became ill. But when schools began in the south in late August, a surge of cases began to occur. Hospitals had to set up tents in their parking lots as makeshift emergency rooms to triage sick children. The number of people coming into our clinics with flu-like illness was three to four times the usual for that time of year. Nearly all of the cases were suspected to be H1N1.
The H1N1 flu has been unpredictable. Now, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the cases of flu-like illness have been decreasing in all parts of the nation.
From early findings, it appears to be very contagious and seems to transmit easily from person to person, unlike the bird flu, but much like the seasonal flu virus.
Additionally, from early findings, it does not appear to be highly virulent among the reported cases in the United States. The virus in most cases causes a mild illness, and most patients recover fully within a week or so, much like the seasonal flu virus and unlike the SARS virus.
It is unclear what will happen when the seasonal flu cases begin to occur in January and February. Will H1N1 cases come back or just go away altogether? Nobody knows, but my son is not worried. Three weeks ago, his school offered the nasal mist vaccine for H1N1. He and all his friends stood in line to be vaccinated. A few weeks earlier, he had his seasonal flu shot.
Studies show that the vaccine for H1N1 is 97 percent effective, and after 22 million doses there are no serious side effects. Also, the rates of flu vaccinations are lower among minority populations. Even though the cases of flu-like illness are decreasing, there is plenty of flu activity to make a non-vaccinated person very sick.
Even as the swine flu epidemic turns into a pandemic, I am reassured for a number of reasons.
First, the pandemic flu preparedness has been unprecedented, with the use of technology and local, state, national and international collaboration. I am on a daily afternoon conference call or webcast at cdc.gov with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and I get routine CDC updates on Twitter.
I tell my son, there is a 50 percent chance of rain– so taking an umbrella--the vaccine--is a good idea.
Dr. Manoj K.Jain is an infectious-disease specialist in Memphis and an adjunct assistant professor at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta. He frequently writes health columns for the Washington Post.
Gift of Health is supported by grants from The California Endowment and California Community Foundation.
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| | | | | Comments | | | “Don’t Let Your Guard Down” Experts Warn | | | | | | | | H1N1 virus has no cure, but there is a way to prevent it … get vaccinated! That’s the message health experts around the state are telling the public, even though H1N1 flu cases have peaked.
“It’s much too early to let our guard down,” says Ken August, spokesperson for the California Department of Public Health. “H1N1 flu cases may be decreasing, but [the virus] is not going away.”
The first two confirmed H1N1 cases in the country were found in California, and now a majority of counties in the state have reported at least one case of H1N1. The virus has hospitalized more than 7,546 Californians and caused nearly 397 deaths, according to the latest state data (http://www.cdph.ca.gov/HealthInfo/discond/Pages/H1N1Home.aspx).
The state estimates that more than 3 million Californians have become ill from the H1N1 flu.
“The vast majority of flu illnesses are of the H1N1 strain. We’re seeing almost none of the seasonal flu strain right now,” said August, who emphasized the importance of getting vaccinated against the strain that is out there the most.
As of early December, California has ordered 7 million doses of H1N1 vaccine. The number of doses ordered so far is enough to vaccinate about 18 percent of the state’s population against H1N1.
Early supply problems hampered mass vaccination efforts, said Jonathan Fielding, M.D., public health officer for Los Angeles County.
“That’s really caused a lot of problems, because expectations were heightened, and we didn’t have enough vaccine to fulfill them and that caused anxiety,” he said. Los Angeles County has received 1.4 million doses, whereas the high-risk group is 5.5 million people, Fielding said.
Pregnant women, children, young adults under age 24 and people of all ages with chronic conditions are at increased risk of infection and complications from the flu.
Health officials emphasized the importance of getting vaccinated against H1N1 flu, especially those in high-risk groups, and they said it is not too late to do so. As it takes up to two weeks after a vaccination for the body to develop immunity, those who want to protect themselves during the holiday season should get immunized in the next two weeks.
The experts say the epidemic has crested for now, but we’re likely to see additional waves. “We’ve already had a second, we could see a third wave,” said Fielding.
The first wave of H1N1 infections occurred in the spring (April-June), with cases dropping off, but never disappearing, during the summer. Infections spiked again in October, after students went back to school.
Takashi Wada, M.D., public health officer for the City of Pasadena, said H1N1 cases could rebound again after the New Year, as people tend to congregate indoors more during the winter and travel over the holidays.
In Santa Clara County, H1N1 hospitalizations and school absenteeism have leveled off, according to Joy Alexiou, spokesperson for the county public health department. But, getting vaccinated is still a good idea, she says, because flu activity is still high.
“Flus are notorious for changing and getting unpredictable,” Alexiou said. “Will there be another wave after the first of this year? We don’t know.” The message: Better to be safe than sorry. Get vaccinated.
Gift of Health is supported by grants from The California Endowment and California Community Foundation.
| | | | | | | | Comments | | | Get a Flu Shot and Give the Gift of Health | | | | | | | | This Holiday Season, Get a Flu Shot and Give the Gift of Health to Your Family
When you get a flu shot this holiday season, you’re not only decreasing your own risk of getting sick from H1N1, the swine flu. You’re also giving the gift of health to your family, because when you get vaccinated, you’re also protecting your loved ones.
When you get vaccinated, you help build a wall of protection for those you
live with, work with, and even sit next to on an airplane.
Since April, the Centers for Disease Control reports, 10,000 Americans have died from the swine flu. Another 213,000 people have been sick enough to be hospitalized.
“It’s important to understand that the vaccine’s not only for you, it’s also for those around you,” says the CDC’s Alan Janssen.
Experts call it "the cocooning effect" because when you get a vaccine for flu—seasonal or H1N1 -- you in effect are building an immunity wall for those you come in contact with, especially those you're closest to. You're not exposing them through yourself to the virus because you've immunized yourself.
The opposite is equally true. When you get infected, you can pass the virus on to those you care about most.
This is especially important for parents of newborn babies, who have little if any immunity to influenza for the first 12 months of life. In addition, infants under six months old cannot be vaccinated. To ensure protection for the baby, immediate household contacts (representing its cocoon) must vaccinate themselves against influenza so they won’t transmit the virus to the baby.
The same is true for those in regular contact with elderly family members with compromised immune systems, the CDC’s Janssen says.
While studies show the vaccine for H1N1 is 97 percent effective, older Americans can benefit from the additional protection of having their family members vaccinated.
The upshot, Janssen says, if we all build a cocoon around ourselves and our families, we will be able to keep the swine flu from spreading further.
“We’re trying to decrease the number of folks who can get influenza by having a vaccination,” he said. “That way you’re preventing it from getting into the community.”
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| | | | | Comments | | | Hating The Foreigner On Streets Of Seattle | | | | | | | | This post was originally to let you know about my new free meditation classes for the chemically dependent in Seattle but I had to write first about the fact that my family and I were victims of a hate crime this Saturday at Seattle Center's Italian festival. Have you seen rising cases of xenophobia against South Asians in Seattle? Two days ago, a Caucasian woman accompanied by a man and another woman called me a 'd%$#@ foreigner' and raged me to go back to 'f&^%$#$ India' and that 'I should've have an abortion', all because my child bumped into her purse at the park at Seattle Center. My kid was sobbing. She was calling me a 'b^&*@', 'd#$& brown Indian', 'f$/@&$ foreigner' etc.
Thanks to my meditation, I stood there calmly, not reacting to this person, she didn't deserve my attention even for a moment. She was like a lunatic animal that barks at you as you cross the street. I said to her, "and you tell me who you are by how you talk." She was stunned into silence for a moment. Only meditation has given me this perspective. Without it, I would've first chewed her out and then collapsed in tears of rage myself. And my kid would've been even more traumatized. But because my husband and I stayed calm, we were able to calm our child. Finally, we had to call 911 and the police are investigating her. She was trying psychological warfare to make me want to not live in America anymore.
But I want to tell her that I am standing on my own two feet. I am an educated and engaged member of our society and I am not going anywhere. I'm here to stay. In fact, this is for all of you employed/ unemployed, gay/ straight, affluent/poor single or mixed race people. If you have a problem with the Indians in Seattle, let me know. What is being "American" anyway? What was the last patriotic thing you did for your country? And America is a country of immigrants! Exactly who are you intolerant people kidding?
And if you're an Indian who is a victim of a hate crime, it's time we began a dialogue on why abusing Indians won't make any difference to their lives.
Hate crime in Seattle has been low key but it's all changing now. I have routinely seen vitriolic hate mail against Indians from all over the country in the last two years. Even on this blog, techie Seattleites are writing to tell me to leave America so they can get their IT jobs back. I try to quell xenophobia by writing that it's not the Indians' fault that they have jobs in IT. That they are merely doing what generations of Americans have done- making a life in a new country! The Indians are here legally, they are educated, belong to a section of society with low crime and high income. They are hard working, pulling their own weight and hardly any of them are on state welfare.
Most of the 50,000 Indians in town are techies, arriving here in the last 8-9 years thanks to Microsoft, Boeing and Amazon. American workers are reeling under outsourcing of their jobs to developing countries and of course, it's so easy for cowards to target a Brown skinned petite Indian mom, isn't it?
http://blog.seattlepi.com/monsoonmasala/ | | | | | | | | Comments | | | Learning to Think Outside the Box | | | | | | | | By the time I was a senior in high school I had mentally given up on education. I’ve never considered myself much of an academic so the majority of the time everything a teacher said to me went in one ear and out the other. My mind did not feel like it had been infused with worldly knowledge.
By complete accident, I ended up taking a journalism class taught by a new teacher, Mr. Diesel. Mr. Diesel was a progressive thinker who did not confine himself to thinking inside the box. He prided himself on teaching his students about social injustices and not focusing his entire curriculum to prepare for the annual STAR Test like so many English teachers did.
I didn’t have English with Mr. Diesel, but during my free period I would sit in his room and edit the school newspaper while listening to his lectures.
I had never had a teacher analyze the workings of the world the way Mr. Diesel did. For the first time, I was really interested in what a teacher was saying and it made me want to know more. This drive trickled over into my work on the newspaper. Under his guidance I began writing editorial pieces about subjects from the U.S. invasion of Iraq to the major budget cuts hitting my school.
Toward the middle of my senior year, Mr. Diesel encouraged me to go on a trip with students from other schools from around the San Francisco Bay Area to retrace the history of the civil rights movement. “Sojourn to the Past” was a 10-day trip across the South meant to retrace the historic journey of the civil rights movement, from Birmingham to the hotel balcony in Memphis, Tenn. where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered. It was an eye-opening experience that I am very glad to have been a part of. I don’t think I’ve had a more enthralling learning experience than those days I spent driving across the South.
Under Mr. Diesel’s supervision, my interest in the world outside of the classroom grew. I didn’t necessarily become a cynic, but I certainly learned to look at the mainstream news a lot more critically.
During this time my school suffered some major budget cuts that forced our journalism class to become an after-school program. This meant less staff support, and a lot of work was leveled onto my shoulders. I typically would have flipped my lid, but with Diesel’s encouragement and support I managed to publish two editions of the school newspaper despite the heavy financial setbacks.
(Eming Piansay, 23, graduated from San Francisco State university last spring. She is an editor at YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia.)
| | | | | | | | Comments | | | Adding South Asian Voices To Immigration Reform Bid | | | | | | | | Recently, conversations around immigration reform have gained momentum on Capitol Hill and around the country. Leading lawmakers including Senate Majority Leader Reid, as well as President Obama, have signaled that immigration legislation should be a top priority. To ensure that immigration remains on policymakers’ radar screens, it is vital for immigrant communities to continue to pressure Congress and the president to take action. This political moment provides an opportunity for South Asians to play a meaningful role in shaping the debate and elevating our community’s experiences.
With three out of four South Asians being born outside the U.S., our community routinely encounters the immigration system. While many are familiar with the issues confronting H-1B visaholders, the range and depth of immigration challenges facing South Asians may be surprising. For example, did you know that India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh are among the top ten countries with the most waitlisted family-based visa applications? Or that individuals who did not register with the government during the post-9/11 NSEERS/Special Registration program, which targeted certain male nationals from Muslim-majority countries, including Bangladesh and Pakistan, grapple with resulting immigration problems? Or that Indians are the 10th largest undocumented population in the country? These facts demonstrate that South Asians must add to the array of immigrant voices calling for just and humane immigration reform.
As members of the National Coalition of South Asian Organizations, a network of 36 community-based South Asian organizations, South Asian Network and South Asian Americans Leading Together hear disheartening stories about immigration challenges that drive home the need for change. Below are a few telling examples:
• Lack of immigration status: A Kashmiri man who could not go home to see his annihilated village after the October 2005 earthquake because he is undocumented.
• Inefficient bureaucracies: A survivor of human trafficking cannot see her daughter, who had a serious car accident in India, because she would likely not be allowed to return, unless she applies for advance parole which could take several months for approval.
• Detention and deportation: A Pakistani immigrant who has lived in the U.S. for over 15 years is picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and deported without due process.
• Excessive wait times: A Bangladeshi man living in Dallas since 1986 who ends up losing his job due to special registration and finally dies in 2008 while waiting to have his immigration case adjudicated, leaving behind a wife and two children.
• Impact on employment: An Indian woman on an H-1 visa works for an abusive employer but is afraid to resign and lose her status. She later becomes undocumented when her employer does not properly file immigration paperwork.
Policies, as illustrated in these stories, fundamentally cause fear and intimidation in immigrant communities. Similarly, enforcement initiatives, including border militarization and raids against Latino immigrants, visibly exemplify how inhumane the current system is. Drawing parallels among the struggles of various communities, we believe that South Asians bring a diverse set of experiences that contribute to the broader call for preserving immigrant and human rights. In fact, in this spirit of solidarity, SAN recently participated in the Migrant Trail along the U.S.-Mexico border to recognize the dangerous journeys of those crossing into the country.
As immigration reform discussions continue, SAN and SAALT will advocate for just and humane immigration reform that conforms to certain basic principles, including:
• Ending visa backlogs in order to promote family unity;
• Ensuring strong labor protections for immigrant workers;
• Providing access to services and benefits regardless of immigration status;
• Demilitarizing the border and terminating partnerships between immigration and local law enforcement;
• Guaranteeing fairness and due process for deportation and detention; and
• Offering legalization that is accessible for all undocumented immigrants, including those impacted by Special Registration/NSEERS.
We must all speak out against injustice wherever we see it, particularly now that immigration reform is at a crucial turning point and the prospect for affecting change is great. Community members can take action through a few simple steps:
1. Call your member of Congress and let them know you support just and humane immigration reform (Visit www.house.gov or www.senate.gov to find your member);
2. Contribute to local conversations within your family, workplace, or place of worship around immigration; and
3. Join rallies supporting immigration reform and show solidarity with other communities.
South Asians, like all other immigrants, clearly have much at stake when it comes to immigration. We simply cannot rest on the sidelines when legislation moves forward; we must instead stand side by side with other communities and make our voices heard.
(Tamia Pervez is a policy organizer at South Asian Network, a grassroots group in Southern California. Priya Murthy is the policy director at South Asian Americans Leading Together, a national nonprofit.)
| | | | | | | | Comments | | | Immigration Reform Must Heed LGBTIQ Voices | | | | | | | | Immigrants from around the world come to the United States in search of a better life and a stronger future, often sacrificing much for both themselves and their families. Within the South Asian community, we intimately know the toll it takes on some immigrant workers to leave families behind for long periods of time and wait to be reunited due to severe visa backlogs and processing delays. South Asians do not come here just to be workers – we also seek to build homes and communities in this country. Yet, the current immigration system tears families apart, forcing many to choose between being with loved ones and contributing to the economy and diversity of this country.
Now, consider the story of Amin. He arrived from the United Kingdom on an H-1B visa and worked hard while in the U.S. But every night, he would come home to an empty apartment and feel the absence of his partner of over 10 years. His sense of separation was the same as that of South Asian green card holders who have to wait five years to bring their spouses to the United States. The only difference is that, for Amin, he would never be reunited with his life partner, Subhash, in this country, because they are in a same-sex relationship and, thus, ineligible for sponsorship under current immigration law. Forced with making a difficult decision between working here and being with his partner, Amin chose to return to the U.K. And he was actually one of the lucky ones, because unlike many South Asians who are compelled to go back to India, Pakistan or Sri Lanka, where homosexuality is criminalized, he could return to a country where his relationship could enjoy relative safety.
The stories of Amin and Subhash and the difficult choices they had to make are shared by thousands of committed lesbian, gay, bisexual, intersex, and queer bi-national couples, including 36,000 same-sex partners who are separated because of this country’s immigration policies. Under current laws, U.S. citizens and green card holders may sponsor family members for immigration purposes. However, LGBTIQ partners of U.S. citizens and green card holders are not considered “spouses,” even if they are legally married in the U.S. or another country, and their partners cannot sponsor them for family-based immigration. All too often, when it comes to immigration, the needs of LGBTIQ families are ignored. This second-class citizenship is not just a minor inconvenience, but a life-altering situation for loving couples who suffer great pains just to be together.
Clearly, immigration reform must address various issues, including visa backlogs, detention, deportation and worker exploitation. Any solution should also allow LGBTIQ bi-national couples, torn apart by inequitable immigration laws, to be reunited. Policies can be changed to permit U.S. citizens and green card holders to sponsor their “permanent partners” who live abroad. In fact, such a legislative fix exists in both the Uniting American Families Act, sponsored by Congressman Jerrold Nadler of New York, and the Reuniting Families Act, sponsored by Congressman Michael Honda of California. As South Asian community members mobilize for just and humane immigration reform from Congress this year, it is important that such provisions be included in the debate.
Critics may argue that there is a potential for fraud. However, as married South Asians know, the government has set high standards for evaluating each marriage’s authenticity. Under proposed bills allowing permanent partner sponsorship, immigration authorities would enforce the same standards of evidence currently applicable to heterosexual marriages, such as proof of emotional commitment, joint finances and rigorous interviews. In addition, penalties that currently exist for fraudulent marriages for immigration purposes would be the same.
Being intimately familiar with the obstacles of current immigration law, South Asian families understand the importance of immigration reform. Yet we can do more to recognize the similar struggles that LGBTIQ South Asian families confront. In addition, the LGBTIQ community can also build bridges with those fighting for immigrant rights. As the story of Amin and Subhash highlights, our communities and challenges are interconnected. Through the National Coalition of South Asian Organization’s One Community United immigration and civil rights campaign, national organizations such as South Asian Americans Leading Together and local LGBTIQ organizations such as Satrang in Southern California are raising awareness and advocating around such shared challenges. Rather than seeing the immigration reform and LGBTIQ rights as separate movements, we need support from each other in seeking family unity.
As civil rights struggles in South Asia and the United States teach us, laws can change with the times. Through mobilization of immigrant communities, policies can become more fair and humane. Working towards ending discrimination under immigration law for LGBTIQ families provides us with a golden opportunity to push for reforms that benefit all of our communities and elevate diverse South Asian voices. By joining the One Community United campaign, South Asian community members can let policymakers know how our struggles are connected and how laws need to change. It is when we stand together against discrimination that we will have equality and justice for all.
(Choksey is president of Satrang, a South Asian LGBTIQ organization in Southern California; Murthy is the policy director at South Asian Americans Leading Together, a national immigrant and civil rights nonprofit organization.)
| | | | | | | | Comments | | | Resolutions in Shakepearean spirits | | | | | | | | “TO BE OR NOT TO BE? THAT’S THE QUESTION” - Anu
Resolutions in Shakepearean spirits
I am not here writing this piece on Annual Resolutions, thinking, “Lord, what fools these mortals be!” and penning down a few words of wisdom for us to follow. I mean, Come on, each one of us is an artist, endowed with grace and intellect. “All the world’s a stage and we have come to play our own parts,” – pretty much each character within us knows how to do our role well. It could only be a question of who has to play harder than the other, after all, in the entire drama, life that is, “The world’s mine oyster” is reserved only for a chosen few. Many, many and yet many of us, enter this stage the world that is, we step forward, the spotlights flash on us, we shy away, we give up, we forget, we fall, we try, we could loose - we wonder, we could win – we wish, we get mocked, sometimes we regret, applause may never happen for us, yet when our part is over, we make an exit, perhaps to reenter in the next act, perhaps gone forever.
Did we leave anything behind, we look back, as we step down the stairs. Did we do what was to be done, we wonder, in the darkness behind the stage. What could have been done better, we figure out in our sessions with the maker of our melodies.
We are aware that yet for majority of us, “Life is not a mid summer night’s dream,” - when the curtain falls after one act, that is an year that be, we make some resolutions to play our roles better, in the next act of life. Don’t we all want to live a rich and fulfilled life? “What’s gone and What’s past help,” we contemplate on passing of the “Winter of our discontent.” Serious resolutions we make to ourselves - “such stuff as dreams are made on”. We make a list. With our well wishers, we talk about it. We make concrete plans. We begin following. In January we see our resolutions blast off in full motion. In Feburary, we see our plans doing well. “Beware the edes of March,” we hear. Fearlessly, many of us, stay on track. We are good.
But, somewhere, in “the whirligig of time” and various others pressures of life, Hey! Distracted we get and we find ourselves saying, “Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and…Tomorrow.” And there we see our dreams slithering off our hands, “once more unto the breach,” staring at us from the perch of their posting, like a “green eyed monster.” We ignore, we “laugh ourselves to stitches” trying to forget we ever planned something - our “vaulting ambitions” – to play our parts well, so to speak. But can we run away from ourselves? “O coward conscience how dost afflict me!” we hear “on the windy side” of ourselves. In “the mind’s eye” and in “the heart of our hearts,” we speak - “O villain, villain, smiling damn villain,” - our resolutions that appear to us by now.
Folks, don’t we all know, “Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.” In pursuing our resolutions, to begin with, did we set SMART goals? Whether it were to loose “a pound of flesh,” or more; or to acquire a “spotless reputation” in the mastery of an art, a skill, a knowledge; or to practice “thrift, thrift” and “put money in thy purse” to restrain that “itching palm”; or to “cudgel thy brain” for better employment opportunities; or to be a pair of “star crossed lovers”; or just live a
life that is “neither a borrower nor a lender be.”
Kudos to the creator of the concept on SMART goals, thanks for showing us the way to realizing our dreams. “Oft expectations fail and most of there” – but NOT if goals are set SMARTLY – Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Timely. Walking down the dreams into goals, goals into objectives, objectives into targets, targets to aims, aims to tasks, all combined with a resolution to succeed to bring “full circle” to our dreams. “I am constant as the northern star,” we should find ourselves saying during the course as we weave SMARTLY into our life passages.
“Nothing can come of nothing,” we know that, therefore it’s important to have clarity in our vision. Knowing that “There are more things in heaven and earth,” therefore, Specific defines that clarity,– What is it we want to achieve? What is the target? Who is involved? Where? By When? Which of the resources to use? Why we want to achieve? “To thine ownself be true,” in setting this primary objective, for “the tower of strength” rests upon this realization.
“The course of true love never did run smooth,” my Friends. We have a long time frame of three hundred and sixty five days. Therefore, to keep ourselves continuously motivated, measuring How much is done? How much more needs to be done? How far we have come? How far we need to go? Helps Measure our progress towards our aims. Imagine the sense of pride in small acts of accomplishments, the exhilaration to see the progress in our paths, which continues to fuel our enthusiasm, needed to “strive mightily” along the way – “the primerose path,” that be.
Realistically though, we may also sense dissatisfaction as well. Rightly said, Reverend Shakespeare - “How poor are they that have no patience,” therefore, should we not remember to be Proactive, Persistent and Positive to gain Patience that’s so crucial to Attain our objectives. “Cowards die many times before their deaths,” it’s the Attitude that matters - “nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it do”. With identified Abilities and Aptitude, goals that seemed so far away, now move closer and are Achievable.
Since we are the, “masters of our fates,” we can Realize almost any goal, if only we believe that it can be Realized. The trick here is having truly Realistic goals. The ones that are on the high end offer substantial motivational force to make considerable progress in facing the challenges.
Last but not the least, don’t we believe that anchoring goals within a Timeframe would set our unconscious mind with a sense of urgency to see ourselves in motion.
In preparation of our next act, before the curtain rises, before the waiting anxious crowd, …Should I quote, “What a piece of work a man is,” – from fathoming the Mariana Trench to landing on the Moon, and all that falls in between and beyond, needless to point the value faith plays in our dreams once considered impossible…..
ANU SHARMA
Medicinal Chemist
San Francisco bay area, CA
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