Do You Dare To Be Bad?

Imagine an entire day without consequences for any of your actions

You will wake up tomorrow and everything will have gone back to normal without anyone else remember or having the slightest clue what you did. 

There are no punishments for your words or actions and nobody will hold a grudge against anything you did. Would you still be able to do terrible things such as commit murder?

Do you believe that punishments and consequences are the only things that hold people back from any wrong doings or do you believe your conscience has more to do with it than people think?

Marked for Mayhem

Have you ever wondered about what criteria criminals use to pick their next target? After many studies done by criminologists and victimologists they learned that rapists, robbers, and murderers look for certain characteristics in people that sets them aside from others. 

Brad Morrison, convicted for raping 75 women in 11 states claims that if he saw construction boots outside of a house or a person wearing them he would skip right over them but a person listening on an iPod he would take into consideration. This is because the iPod acts as a big distraction whereas the boots make him worry that he won't be able to overpower them.  

Do you agree that race, gender, size, and age don't matter but posture, walking speed, style, facial expressions, and awareness to surrounding does when it comes to picking their targets?

The Art of Now: Six Steps To Living In The Moment

According to this article, becoming mindful allows you to completely live in the moment. Mindfulness is a state of active, open, intentional attention on the present. You become an observer of your thoughts at every moment without judging them.

By being mindful you dont stress about the future or focus on regrets you may have in the past, you simply awaken to the experiences in the now. In return you will have reduced stress, boost your immune system, reduce chronic pain, lower blood pressure, and much more. You will also be happier, more exuberant, and more secure.

There are six steps to becoming mindful:

1. become unselfconscious
2. savor the moment, don't worry about the future
3. breathe, inhabit the present
4. make the most of your time by losing track of it (enjoy what you do and absorb yourself in it)
5. acceptance (if something is bothering you, dont ignore it but face it head on)
6. engagement (don't take things for granted)

Do you agree with these 6 steps? If you could change 1 or more of them, what would it be and why?