When you fall off of a horse, it is best to get back on it again.

 By Stanley Dean Thomas. 

Years ago a person I knew who was a truck driver had an incident when he was driving down a rural highway. Another car came in the road in front of him and he turned the steering wheel sharply to avoid hitting the car. He flipped his truck over on the side. It frightened him at first as he was shaken up over the incident. But his supervisor had told him that when something like that happens the best thing for you to do is to get right back in a truck and drive again the next day. If you don't you will be too afraid to ever drive again. And in football there are times when you notice like on special teams when the team is receiving a punt and the return man doesn't catch the ball but muffs the punt and he has to wind up either falling on the ball or a teammate falls on the ball or worse. The opposing team falls on the ball and now it's a turn over. Now the coach may talk to the player and tell him it's going to be okay, it's going to be all right. The coach will have that same player receive another punt the next time around. In other words, the coach would never give up on that player. The best thing for that player to do is to return back on to the field and to receive another punt. If that player was pulled from that position then he would never develop any confidence in receiving another punt again. He may not have confidence to be on the field playing. It's best to get right back into the game and play even after you make a critical mistake. You need to regain your confidence. The one thing you don't want to do is to lose confidence. It's important to understand this and also to have leaders in your organization who understand this principle. This could mean the difference between failure and success, a pattern of always failing or a pattern of continuing to achieve greatness.

The AI revolution, Why it's different this time.

 By Stanley Thomas 

Why it's important to save for retirement.

 

By Stanley Dean Thomas. 

Retirement is a very important time in one's life. It is necessary to be able to live the rest of your years with ease and comfort after you have worked for 40 years. You need to think about your retirement while you are working. You need to start saving immediately even if it's only a few dollars a week. The years roll by fast and the dollars will add up as well. As you start to get older you can put more aside. 40 years may be a long time but you would be surprised at how soon the time will sneak up on you. It's important to have enough money in your retirement for you to live on without working. You need to be able to provide housing for yourself or a loved one. You also need to be able to eat as well as continue to groom yourself. You also have to factor in health and dental costs. You still will have to purchase some type of health insurance after your working days are over. And whatever your health insurance doesn't cover you will need to have some funds to cover for it. You will also have other expenses such as upkeep of your house or dwelling . If you have a house you will still have repairs that need to be made, upkeep of the yard as well as keeping hedges and your trees trimmed. One thing you can always count on besides death and taxes is the occasional emergency. You may not be working anymore but emergencies are always working, and you have to be prepared for them. So it's very important to consider the source of your savings and how much you can have saved for your retirement. Even though you may get social security and retirement you will still need additional funds from your savings since social security will only be a supplement to your retirement income.

AI Is Overrated.

 AI is overrated. By Stanley Dean Thomas

Do you believe that AI is the future? 

Do you think that AI will take over the majority of industries? 

Do you think that 90% of jobs will eventually be replaced by AI? Well these beliefs are shared by millions of people. 

And while it definitely looks that way, that AI will take over many businesses, it's also a very difficult challenge for this to happen.

 Many people think that everything is going to be done away with and that no human being will have any kind of a job in the future, and that we'll all be paid universal basic income. 

But the problem is this, AI is not human. It cannot fully replicate what a human being can do.

 The reason why AI has taken off and has grown at such a large rate as it has so far in 2025, is because of the fact that many companies and many executives and CEO's and entrepreneurs want to change the businesses in which they operate. 

They want to design them to where they won't need a person to handle repetitive tasks.

 They want to do away with the need to hire a single person just to turn a screw. 

They don't want to hire people just to do a simple repetitive motion filled task that has to be done over and over one million times. 

They figured out a long time ago that robots can do those things.

 But not only that, they can also do certain tasks that may take a little bit of thought that can be repetitive. 

Basic decisions like, what are we going to have for lunch?, or questions such as “what is the number to the HR department?”

 Business leaders much rather have a machine to answer those questions. 

Also mundane things like doing research where you have to go online and look up other companies and businesses and other sources in order to do research on a particular topic can be done by AI. 

Scientists have discovered how to get the computer to think about those tasks and to complete them using AI of course. 

But the thing is this, certain jobs are just not going to be functional with AI .

 You’re still going to need a human being to think rationally, someone who has a moral compass, who can also look at a situation, and analyze the situation, and think on their feet, make a decision and act.

 AI is not ready to do all of this. 

Now AI can do a good job at going out and fetching some information online and bringing it back to you. 

Also, AI can record a conversation you're having with someone and also learn about what you do and what the other person does and make decisions on what may be best for you to do. 

AI is also programmed to make suggestions based on the input it receives.

 But how can AI replace journalism for example.

 With Journalism, you may have a war going on in the country and you have a journalist on the ground reporting the story of what is going on.

 Now how can AI do that?

 If you give the task over to AI, it may fabricate the story which would make it a false story at that point.

 How could AI be in the clergy industry? 

How are you going to have AI perform as a priest and pray over people?

 Now AI can preach a good sermon. 

There are hours and hours and days and days of good sermons online that AI can study to learn how to preach.

 But AI isn't something that has a spiritual conviction where it can recognize who God is and have a deep relationship with Christ.

 AI cannot have a deep relationship with Allah or any other God. 

If anything AI would be the very thing that could be used to replace God because of its broad scope of what it can do.

 But AI is not a good Bishop, Deacon, or pastor, or someone who can serve in the church to administer to the lost. 

Nor could AI lay hands on someone and pray to facilitate healing on someone. 

I don't know, maybe scientists are working on a way for AI to do just that. 

But AI along with robotics have some very serious limitations when it comes to doing very difficult tasks. 

Businesses and companies are in such a rush to jump on the AI bandwagon. 

They are laying off people in droves thinking that they will never need people ever again. 

As a matter of fact, companies will only need a handful of people to direct this new AI thing.

 I believe that many companies have rushed too fast to get rid of their people, thinking that they will no longer need anybody for anything. 

They're going to have very few people on as directors and that’s it. 

No human beings to do any kind of work will be available. 

They just think that AI is going to do everything and do it better.

 But they're going to be some problems with this AI.

 Now sure AI can work 24/7 as long as it has electricity and some Grease for the machines and some decent programming like a good prompt.

 Also AI won't need breaks. 

They won't need food, air, or water. 

 They won't talk back and it's not concerned with time off or sick leave with sick pay. 

Nor does it care about a 401k or retirement.

 But that doesn't mean that AI is totally flawless, nor does it mean that AI can do anything and everything. 

Hopefully our business leaders will realize this and retain some workers in their company because if we have some serious mishaps with AI, 

we are all going to be in a worl

d of deep crap if we don't have people that can step back in to fix things and to pick up the slack………..

Do this one thing to improve your thinking.

 By Stanley Dean Thomas. 

To be more successful, learn how to talk to yourself. Talking to yourself is a wonderful way of getting ahead. It's actually talking and recording what you're saying is what helps you to improve yourself. It helps with your thinking just as reading and writing helps. You read to learn, and you write to clarify your ideas and to think. You speak to communicate your ideas. And so, if you speak into a voice recorder, record your thoughts, your ideas, and listen to them and play them over and over again. And then you will clarify your thinking a lot better. And also, you could make better presentations to people. You will also be better at articulating your ideas which should improve your communication skills. Recording and listening to yourself can also improve your selling skills by studying the way you present with your voice. But when it comes to selling something, selling a product or an idea, being able to articulate the benefits of a product and to sell a product is crucial to your success. This is what's improved upon. You are writing and you are speaking into a voice recorder recording your ideas, that's what helps you. Whenever you put all of your ideas out, putting them on paper, or putting them on a recording you're exercising your mind. You're giving your mind some exercise. You have to go through all of the bad ideas before you get to some good ideas. All of this helps you to think a lot better. A good example is going to the gym to lift weights. You go there to work out, to get your ideal weight.  If you're slim, you wish to gain more muscle mass. If you’re overweight, you seek to lose weight by losing fat. And so, when you start working out for the first time, your body is sore because you have to work those muscles. You have to wake them up. You have to get past all of the weaknesses when you lift weights and lift heavy. The reason why it hurts so much is because the exercise is burning away all of that weakness that you have. You're getting rid of your weakness. You have to work out a lot in order to grow and to get better and better. It's like kissing a lot of frogs to get to the prince, so to speak. So, when you record your ideas, whether they be on paper or on a voice recorder you're working your mind, and you are stretching your mind to improve upon your thinking you are also improving on your articulation so you can better articulate your thoughts and clarify your ideas. So, recording your thoughts is a wonderful idea and a wonderful practice to engage upon as regularly as possible………

See yourself doing what you want to do.

 

By Stanley Dean Thomas.

So, what is visualization? The only way I can describe visualization is that you have to think about what it is you want to achieve. Whatever that is, that's what you picture yourself doing. You picture yourself doing the very thing in which you want to achieve. What you have to do is reenact the whole scene in your mind and you have to do it step by step and see yourself as actually doing the very thing that you want to do. When you visualize it should take the same amount of time as if you were actually doing that thing. If you want to see yourself having a lot of money you will have to see yourself doing the things that people with a lot of money are doing. Now visualize yourself owning assets. Now there isn't much to picture since an asset is something which puts money in your pocket. So you can just visualize yourself having some type of documentation or paperwork or visualizing money coming into your bank account on a regular basis. Now to really see yourself as having a lot of money you have to see yourself as performing the task that people with a lot of money do. If you look at whatever profession you want to be such as being a doctor or an accountant, you have to see yourself as doing that kind of work. It's like studying. You have to study a lot to get the basic fundamentals, and you have to picture yourself as performing those tasks. In order to visualize yourself as being a real estate developer you have to see yourself as knowing all of the people that you would have to know in order to be a real estate developer. You have to spend lots of time contemplating your vision because the more that you can see yourself as doing it you will be more inclined to act on your vision. Nearly anyone can benefit from visualization. If you have a difficult job, you have to see yourself as performing that job up to a certain satisfactory level. So, you have to constantly spend time working and practicing.  If you are a performer you have to spend time rehearsing and practicing. So, you also need to spend time visualizing yourself doing the things that you need to do. A good time to visualize is anytime during the day when you can stop, and you can take 15 to 20 minutes to have some time to yourself. If you have some time first thing in the morning when you wake up that's another good time. Even the last thing at night before falling asleep is a good time to visualize.  And the thing about visualization is that you want to see yourself as the person who is doing the things that you wish to do. If it is success that you seek you have to think of yourself as if you're already successful. You have to think of yourself as doing and conducting certain activities from the mindset of that successful person. And as far as where you can visualize you can visualize in your car when you have some private time alone. Also, you can visualize in a quiet room. Even on your job when you're on your lunch break, if you can get to some place where you won't be disturbed you can do it then. So, you have to use your creativity to find an ideal place. So why would you need to visualize? 

Well visualization really helped you to be where you are right now. There are certain things that you have in your life right now you saw yourself as having those things before you got them. You may have seen yourself as being in the position that you're in right now and without giving it much thought, the very thing that you've been thinking on, that's what you have accomplished. So that's why if you want to accomplish more you really have to give thought to doing more and you have to visualize…….