Born and raised in Vancouver, Severn Suzuki has been working on environmental and social justice issues since kindergarten. At age 9, she and some friends started the Environmental Children’s Organization (ECO), a small group of children committed to learning and teaching other kids about environmental issues. They traveled to 1992′s UN Earth Summit, where 12 year-old Severn gave this powerful speech that deeply affected (and silenced) some of the most prominent world leaders. The speech had such an impact that she has become a frequent invitee to many U.N. conferences.

Just watch it. Nothing I say will have a greater impact than you pressing play. 

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to get the clear picture that, the people on this planet are far from free.
Without bashing on this specific country I’ll use it to give the best example possible. People are controlled by governments and societies are managed carefully by them. This is an absolute fact. Freedom is not an easily described word or concept.

To be free means: “the power or right to act, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint”.

As we know, no one out there can act as they want, because what’s good for someone isn’t always good for everyone. This applies for you and me, you and your government, and even you a simple tree.
Countries like the US and other european countries often use the word freedom to have an impact on their citizens and their lifestyle, to create a pshycological impact on societies, so that all its members continue to work like cattle. In freedom what you see isn’t always what you get.

When talking of freedom, lets face it, no one actually knows how to manage it. Our freedom often impacts other people’s lives, like poor countries and their corrupt governments, which enslave their people so that someone profits from their over-populated poor country.

China is an example of how far the powers that be, are capable of streching their iron fists in order for the powerful to remain that way. People work like slaves and get paid miserable wages so that you and I can have our TV’s, shoes, clothes, mp3 players, computers, you name it. Is that a right way to procede?
Should companies be able to exploit our poorest brothers and sisters from this same planet? Shouldn’t there be laws against taking your contry’s work force and just send it to a far, over populated countries where you can spend ten times less money ? Shouldn’t these people be taxed 10 times as more for doing that? Shouldn’t we all unite and share the same wages and lifestyle? Why is greed such a part of our lives?

Companies are growing and treating their people like cattle in order to get results and more money. At the end of the day we’re like dead batteries.. you just swap them for new ones and it’s done.
Why don’t we get that picture all the time? Because companies are trained to treat you like they care, to give you objectives to run to, to give people more work than they can handle (and in case of failure it’s not because you had too much to do, it’s because they gave you a goal and you (and no one) could acomplish them)

Let’s give out an example.

You are given an objective: Work hard to get your customers to invest more in your company. If you manage to get 10 companies to renew their contracts (to more expensive ones) you’ll get a 1000 bucks plus some vouchers to redeem somewhere.

- what do most people do? They’ll work their asses off for the prize, for the objective to be completed, so that they’ll feel special and earn something special. That’s it. You want to please! So that in a couple of years you’ll get paid 100 bucks more monthly.

So now lets focus on what happens most of the time: You’ll manage to get 8 or 9 companies to renew their contracts. Oops… didn’t you hear it was 10? All you’ll get is a lame excuse because 9 isn’t good enough, and your bonus or prize was just flushed down the toilet. You will feel like you’ve let your master (AKA Boss) down and you’ll even apologize some times.
On the other hand your employer is jumping happy for he had an objective of 5 and was able to get 9, and better yet… no one will get any bonuses because he’ll keep them all for him and his board buddies.

What happens to a company when they promiss you and won’t deliver? In case you haven’t noticed, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

They call you free so that you feel good about yourself, and once you realize nothing in your life, related to your job and lifestyle, is actually 100% free. Your freedom is shrinked to be able to say what you think and in some cases get away with bad mouthing your government (which doesn’t happen that often as you might have noticed)

So our freedom isn’t worth much, because the powers that be hate that we can speak our minds, and are determined to ignore those who speak their minds and have ideas that they consider are not in the best interests oftheir society (aka their own pockets)

Unfortunately there will always be wars, because someone will have to make billions off of military arsenal and steal other people’s OIL and that’s something I can’t cope with.

Why go around stealing people’s liberties and invading countries with fake excuses (that even now that everyone knows its nothing but a bunch of lies, people still go to work and do nothing about it), making life harder for everyone because of increasing prices (that only profit those who make our rules) when one day not far from now all you greedy power hungry sons of bitches will be dead anyways?

I’m a guy and sometimes I wish the world was ruled by women, for I know that if it were to happen, no wars would be fought and the world would be a better place, because women are the only one capable of ruling this world the way it should be.

Why? Because they’re mothers and know how much everyone’s life is worth, something that man will never understand.

Have a nice day and thank you mother for carrying you and worrying about you when no one else would.

Peace out.

The other important factor is finish what you start. Don’t have all huge projects if you can’ take them forward. Be realistic on what you can do according to your availibility and current situation. Sure you can dream of reaching a higher goal but you’ll probably need to reach some smaller ones in order to get there, just like we discussed earlier.

So, now that you’ve set a goal and are decided to take it forward, what other things can you do?

If you’re interested in a certain subject, most probably you’ll want to discuss it with others, specially with people who share that same interest with you, and that will take your motivation sky high. It will easily increase your productivity and motivate you even further, because you now feel like you’re not alone on this, even if you are. Discussing your goals with other people will dramatically increase your interest and will be fairly important on keeping you motivated. Just try for yourself.
If you have a goal, and you keep postponing it, try talking about it with someone you think has a positive input to giveyou on the subject. You’ll get a whole new perspectives on how to take forward your goal, and motivation-wise it’s the best that can happen to you.

At this point you should grab your newly found motivation and start investigating which will be the best way to achieve your goal and getting to know everything you need to know about your goal.

Lets hope this works for you.

This year the MP3 will turn 11 years old. I still remember downloading a Winamp version that wasn’t even a 1.o. My first MP3 had nothing to do with my music taste but it had some good sound effects and the fact that it had only 4.3 MB was amazing! Only 45 minutes to download a song seemed impressive.

11 years after that, here we are. There’s iTunes, Apple‘s big, record companies are struggling to survive and people got tired of paying 15 euros for a CD with 2 good songs. So the music industry is going through a totally different scene as we speak. But do the people in charge know what they’re doing? Or does it take a 53 year old computer geek and one of the brightest minds in the tech world, to show them how its done? Steve Jobs, saw the opportunity and knew what approach to take. Sell a fantastic multimedia player and a kickass music store where people could buy songs individually. He might not be 100% right but he’s the closest one without a doubt.

Why do old people, no disrespect, run major media companies? They’re not up-to-date with anything because all they care about is making money and wonder off in their private jets, stepping on everyone as they pass. Someone needs to grab the music industry by the horns, and only someone with a notion of future, where music came from, and where it’s headed will be able to make things work for the music industry.

One of the best models in my opinion would be to create a music service where you pay a small fee per month, and we’re talking millions of users, and be able to download the albums you want. Obviously there would have to be limits or else you’d have the typical guys who download just for the “fun” of it.

People wouldn’t mind paying 5 euros a month to download up to 20 albums, now would they? Just do the math. In a universe of 10 million hypothetic subscribers you would have 50 million dollars a month! We’re talking 600 million dollars a year, and we all know there would be well more than 10 million subscribers a month, if this thing were to be well publicized.

So my advice to the music industry is:

Change your board of directors and replace those with money hungry ambitions and absolutely no clue of what people want, with youngsters who understand what’s happening.
Maybe hire musicians for your boards, since they’re the ones one the road gathering people’s opinion on what’s wrong with the music industry, and what solutions they’d like implemented.

Freedom Through Music Integrity (FTMI)

There should be a patienceometer. You’ve always had different amounts of patience for different people. The decisive factor is, without a doubt, how much you like them and care for them.

The other factor has to do with reoccurrence. Sometimes you get so tired of the same problems reappearing, that you get tired of the same people exposing it to you.

Like Ralph Marston said: The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

Patience is in fact something you learn, because you’re not born with it. Babies are patient to cry. They just do. In terms of their survival, they have to be impatient. So it would seem that patience is more a learned characteristic.

Patience: A single word that can determine the success of an individua. “Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow – that is patience.”

So, just have some patience…. And you’d might be looking at a totally diferent and much better future.

Why do people have such a lack of consideration for each other, specially the ones you’re supposed to love the most? No idea. I guess that’s just an illusion that life brings upon all of us.

Knowledge is supposed to be good, and yet, people tend to get as close to what’s politically correct, but on the decency limit.
All we know is nothing happens like it’s supposed to, and I guess that’s just the way it is.

Get real. Buy a book.