I realize I’m a decade or so behind everyone else on YouTube – being blissfully unaware of its existence until probably 2 years ago but something obvious and yep, a bit life changing, occurred to me when I started clicking that option on the big screen.  The algorithms coded into everything by the world’s Tech Geniuses, designed to identify our likes/dislikes and get closer and closer to knowing who WE ARE, for the sole purpose of SELLING us stuff, electing someone whose presence in office will help whoever paid for the coding, etc etc … CAN WORK FOR US.

The first channel I clicked on was news.  What kind of news sells?  Good news?  No.  Never.  Only bad, cringe-worthy, troubling, news that shows us the worst that humanity has to offer us makes the cut.  The worse the news, the more channels cover it, the more often.  Is it REALLY bad?  Great.  Let’s get a “Panel of Experts” on here to agree with just how bad this really is and drive it home.  Pretty soon, I was scared, depressed, hopeless because every time I turned on my TV it was on YouTube and all of my “recommended” videos were a selection of news stories that went from bad, to worse, to unimaginably terrible …

When I got to a very dark place, sent there by loss – loss of my business, loss of my dog, loss of my retirement plan in an uncivilized divorce – at the depth of depression, I found the search icon and typed “Happiness”.  I changed the channel.

Uplifting, motivational channels, encouraged me to get up energetically, make my bed, tell a joke, subscribe to other uplifting motivational channels.  When I decided to do some work on my house, the algorithm clicked in to show me more of that and so on …

YouTube became my analogy for living my best life:  CHANGE THE F@>&ING CHANNEL ALREADY!  Think about, look for and BE the Good in this world during your time on it.  Here’s a channel to get you started.  Change the algorithm in your brain.