Look around you

So I had a moment, where I just stopped working and sat and looked around me in every direction and did a little exercise. I looked for signs, words, statements, phrases and anything else where a message of some kind is available for me to see and read. 

Things like:

One team one goal - on my mouse pad

Six thinking hats - a laminated poster on the wall close by

Start your summer on us - an A1 poster on a pillar in the distance

Have a break, have a kitkat - a chocolate given to me by a colleague

Learning to fly - on the six hats hanging off the wall close by

Understanding members' individual needs - a piece of paper stuck up by a desk

Up and up - a Waltons calendar perched on the desk

Maybe it's interesting to consider that so much of what we know, what we do and how we act, is determined by subliminal messaging which we are exposed to every day. Messages about how to eat, what to eat, what brand to choose, what thoughts to think. 

Can we sit back and say 100% that we are who we are because of ourselves, or because of some sort of conformity to some message which we read, without even thinking about it. 

I don't know...but I can say this...now that I am aware of it...I am going to think about it more...probably in the middle of the night while I am doing the duvet tango with my two cats, both vying for bed space.