I don't know how you perceive the headlines news, but to me it appears to be more negative and designed to persuade rather than inform. Watching or reading most of it tends to raise my blood pressure and leaves me questioning its accuracy. Very little of it is neutral or objective reporting; the talking heads or newspaper reporters seem to interject their personal views more often than not.
We are greatly influenced by what we read and see. Whether or not you agree with the way stations or papers report life around us, they greatly influence many of us on how we see the world. The media's hidden agendas often tend to bend your thoughts away from the neutral and toward their way of thinking.
However, if you have a clearly developed set of goals and work on them day-in-and-day-out, you can avoid being set adrift in the news media's, or other’s, own world. Personally defined goals and destinations prevent you from falling in line with false aims and goals that are not your own. Your goals provide legitimate ways to improve yourself and prevent others from persuading you toward their ends.
This week, renew your faith in you own goals and then turn off the TV news, stop reading biased reporting, or being persuaded by other people’s concerns. If you are serious about improving and making positive change for yourself, don't listen to others, but concentrate your efforts on self-improvement and building your own potential instead. You can transform your world and you don't need others, especially the news media, to tell you how.
“Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground."
- Ralph Marston
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