Good morning Team! It’s Friday!

I was reading an article this morning about the dead internet and all of the bots that make up fake influencers and impact ratings on products and services that unassuming people put their faith in.

Last night, at a playoff basketball game, the fans behind us were especially obnoxious spouting expletives every other word, roasting opposing team fans sitting close and babbling the entire time loud enough for me to know they were clueless on a number of fronts.

Anne and I watch national news four nights out of seven (on average) and local news maybe three out of seven. In general, the focus on bad behavior, negativity, disasters, corruption and the like would leave you to believe that we are all on a fast track to hell. Just a spinning ball of garbage. Ugh.

Today, you have to make hard choices when it comes to what you’ll listen to and what you won’t. Not in a selective hearing kind of way as much as deliberate filtering of information that you feed your brain. If your ears had lint-trap-like devices where you could stop the spin, clean the trap and go about your business, this would be a little easier. But that’s not a thing.

Turn off the TV sooner. Put down the phone more often. Be selective with your sources. Do not succumb to the overwhelm of bullshit. Pause before you react. Breathe. Things are never as bad as you allow yourself to believe.

Have a blessed weekend and Mother’s Day!

Eric