John C. A. Manley
The Nutty New Normal has invaded our world, directly affecting at least three billion people. Servitude. Starvation. Sickness. Senseless compliance. And while it’s hard to say how many are buying the official narrative, few are doing much to stop its progression. For the 5% of us who are fighting back (peacefully), we often feel like we are left with an impossible task.
A reader from Montreal (who has spent a few days in jail for merely planning an act of resistance) wrote me: “The war has just begun, my energy is terribly depleted. I must learn to fight more wisely and efficiently. Conserve energy and employ the principle of leverage to reduce the strain and effort.”
His words echo the wisdom in the book The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results. Author Gary Keller says:
“You have only so much time and energy, so when you spread yourself out, you end up spread thin. You want your achievements to add up, but that actually takes subtraction, not addition. You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects. The problem with trying to do too much is that even if it works, adding more to your work and your life without cutting anything brings a lot of bad with it: missed deadlines, disappointing results, high stress, long hours, lost sleep, poor diet, no exercise, and missed moments with family and friends—all in the name of going after something that is easier to get than you might imagine.”
This same realization has been haunting me these past months. I’ve been writing seven 300-500 word articles a week (exposing the COVID-19(84) deception) since our Prime Minister announced the lockdown under a dark moon March. I’ve also been spending at least one hour a day writing COVID-27 (a dystopian novel that may yet have a new title). I’ve also been posting letters to the Ontario Ministry of Health, trying to stop the mask mandate. All the while, I care for a wife who is in her twelfth year on dialysis and a blind son in his thirteenth year of homeschooling.
While I’ve kept up with 7-8 hours of sleep a night, 7-8km of running a day and 7-8 hours of breathing exercises a week; I’ve fallen behind in many other areas of my life. 200 unread personal emails. Just paid the June and July utility bills. Two months behind in bookkeeping. An overflowing paper inbox. I realized I was past my limit. I had to narrow my focus.
Narrow Focus Equals Extraordinary Change
I had to take to heart the key suggestion in Jay Keller’s book: Go small. By that he means “ignoring all the things you could do and doing what you should do. It’s recognizing that not all things matter equally and finding the one thing that matters most. It’s a tighter way to connect what you do with what you want. It’s realizing that extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you make your focus.”
As the title of Keller’s book suggests, the question to ask yourself is this: What is the ONE thing, if you could do nothing else, that would allow you to make the biggest contribution to stopping the COVID-19 deception? The answer will be different for everyone depending on their time, circumstances and skills.
Here are just a few ideas:
• If you’re a people person then forming ONE protest group in your local community may be the way to go. Every week you pick ONE place in your city to protest and lead your growing flock there.
• If you’re an artist you could paint ONE masterpiece that satirizes or exposes the Nutty New Normal in one unforgettable visual scene. Sell prints, T-shirts, postcards and mugs.
• Pick ONE thing about the COVID-19 police state that bothers you the most and focus on that. It might be unemployment. It might be social distancing. It might be the mistreatment of the elderly, forced vaccination or the mask mandate. Focus all your energy on that ONE issue; as that ONE issue will also be the ONE thing that tips many people over the edge to our side of resistance. Fight a battle; not the war. Conquer a hill; not the mountain.
• Focus on one group of people and their unique problems dealing with the Nutty New Normal. If your profession has been hit hard by lockdowns, unite with others of the same profession (Plumbers for COVID-19 Truth). If you are into science fiction and fantasy, then rouse your fellow Star Wars fans to a real battle against the Dark Side. If you are religious then focus on awakening others in your religion (e.g. Catholics Against the Corona Hoax).
• Is English your second language? Perfect! Your ONE thing could be translating English articles and videos (that expose the truth about COVID-19) into your native language. Pick a site or YouTube channel you like and offer your services.
• If you’re a musician create a viral YouTube music video that exposes the COVID hoax with a parody or original composition. It may take you 20 hours to compose. 20 hours to film. And another 40 hours to promote. That might be your ONE THING for the next three months.
• If you’re into comedy, take the example of JP Sears or Greg Wycliffe and start producing skits online, on stage or on street corners. Maybe make a full-length movie. It shouldn’t be hard to find enough material in this Nutty New Normal.
• As I suggested in my article on the power of reading, you can pick ONE person of influence — a celebrity, author, business owner, religious leader — and write that person ONE letter a week exposing the many layers of deception, ONE lie at a time.
• If you’re a tech person, your ONE thing could be to launch an online directory that connects people fighting the COVID-19 deception at a local level. It could be the ONE place everybody goes to form local groups and find like-minded people in their own neighbourhood.
• Or your ONE thing may be to offer financial support to people or organizations on the real front lines of the COVID-19(84) battle. Or pay unemployed people in your vicinity to print and distribute flyers. In other words, focus on making extra money and donate it to grass root causes.
All that said, your ONE thing may be far, far from the Nutty New Normal target. Recently author Derek Sivers sold $250,000 of his books Hell Yeah or No and How to Live (according to his blog). Already having more than enough money he decided to donate all the revenue to charity. When I first read this, I cringed. I figured he’d donate it to some COVID-19 cause like buying masks for homeless people. Instead he ignored the global pandemic and reported: “Yesterday I wired the entire $250,000 to the Against Malaria Foundation. That will buy 125,000 malaria nets, protecting ~225,000 people, averting ~65,000 cases of malaria, preventing ~125 deaths.”
In other words, your ONE thing to help stop the Corona World Order may be to just ignore it and focus on doing good where good needs to be done. COVID tyranny isn’t necessarily everyone’s battle. But since you read this far, maybe it is yours, just as I feel it is mine.
My ONE Thing That Took Me Seven Years into the COVID-19(84) Future
My ONE thing is writing COVID-27: A Dystopian Love Story. I’ve almost completed 60,000 hand-written and transcribed words. There will be 40-60 revisions to follow. I’ll split it into three parts, so Act I can be out by Christmas. COVID-27 begins in July of 2020 and ends in 2027. It seeks not to predict the future but to prevent it.
When you find the ONE thing you know it, because it feels like the ONE thing. Instead of stressed you feel peace, even if it seems like a long shot. An entertaining and moving story will affect and awaken people in ways information never can; much like To Kill a Mockingbird or Uncle Sam’s Cabin did for the civil rights movement.
But every book needs a waiting audience to get it going and a platform to promote it. Hence MuchAdoAboutCorona.ca. Yet I realized I needed to shift my focus from the site to the book. The site needs to support the ONE thing, not get in its way.
Now, instead of seven corona articles a week, I’ll only be doing ONE. And the ONE thing I’ll be focusing on in those articles is activism. Some articles will double as printable flyers that people can distribute. Others will be letter templates they can mail. And many will be articles like this one, filled with practical ideas that the average Joe can use for stopping the Nutty New Normal. There are already great alternative journalists reporting the latest news, deceptions and whistleblowers. What seems lacking is direction on how to fight back and tools to do it with. Constructive action creates hope.
The other six days a week, I’ll be emailing COVID-19(84) Red Pill subscribers short and useful quotes from other articles and videos that I’ve curated as part of the research for the book, flyers and letters. As I promised on the sign up page, these will serve as a daily inoculation against the propaganda we are seeing. This ONE site will unite the many people seeking out the truth with those people and organizations that are publishing the truth. That’s the ONE thing the site will do. Other people and organizations can do all the other ONE things that need doing.
Your ONE Thing is Your Unique Thing
Often, when we are looking for the ONE thing we can do, we think we need to do more of something that’s already being done. That’s may be true for many; but the opposite is often closer to the truth. Creativity, individuality and uniqueness are all on our side; and sorely lacking in the mass media movement of COVID conformity (outside of a few nifty mask designs). Let’s all do something unique, while still working together.
In order to make time for the ONE thing we need to get rid of the MANY things. I’ve already started handing off more and more work to other people – both volunteers and paid contract work. My ONE contribution should be writing. The more I write, the better I get. I’m moving tech, design, graphic art, cover art, proofing and email support to other people. I’m also taking advantage of rampant germaphobia to have stores deliver books, office supplies and household items (no more shopping!). I’ve also not watched a movie once since March; but I still put aside an hour each evening with wife and son to play music and read them The Lord of the Rings.
The ONE Problem to Rule Them All
Ah, Lord of the Rings with its “ONE ring to rule them all.” Right now, the world has many problems, but I feel the COVID-19 deception is the ONE problem to rule them all. It’s too big too ignore, too encroaching to tolerate, too far-reaching to escape.
As Frodo says: “I wish it need not have happened in my time.”
To which the wizard Gandalf replies: “So do I, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
With the time that have been given me, I’ve decided my ONE central focus is writing COVID-27 novel. Indeed, writing a novel has always been the ONE thing that haunts me. I’ve been writing stories since I learned to write. Before my son was born I had two self-published novellas (out of print now). Prior to April I had just finished the tenth draft of an urban fantasy novel. I put it down to write a short sci-fi story set in a near COVID future. 40,000 words later I realized I was writing something bigger than I expected. If the novel is the next Da Vinci Code and becomes an international bestseller, that’s great. I think I’ve sacrificed enough that I won’t resist the royalties. (If you can monetize your ONE thing, go for it. Because the more money it makes you the more time you can give it).
So that’s my ONE thing to stop the Nutty New Normal. What’s yours? What can you do that would act like a domino causing other things and people to then act? Keep in mind that whatever that ONE thing is, it will involve persistence and patience before you see much result. It’ll be at least 200 hours of work before I publish part one of this novel. It took about 60 articles before MuchAdoAboutCorona.ca saw its first 100 subscribers (with the unexpected help of GlobalResearch.ca and Off-Guardian.org). Now it gains that many subscribers in a week.
Often the ONE thing isn’t much about instant gratification. It won’t bestow the immediate dopamine hit of much-liked Facebook most.
Being busy like an ant won’t save the world
In chapter 4 of The One Thing, Gary Keller writes about how everything is not equally important or effective:
“As Henry David Thoreau said, ‘It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?” Knocking out a hundred tasks, for whatever the reason, is a poor substitute for doing even one task that’s meaningful. Not everything matters equally, and success isn’t a game won be whoever does the most. Yet that is exactly how most play it on a daily basis.”
The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results is available from lockdown-exempt Amazon.com, Amazon.ca and Amazon.co.uk or can be put on order with your local, social-distancing into bankruptcy, bookstore.
John C. A. Manley has spent over a decade ghostwriting for medical doctors, as well as naturopaths, chiropractors and Ayurvedic physicians. He publishes the COVID-19(84) Red Pill Posts – an email-based newsletter dedicated to preventing the governments of the world from using an exaggerated pandemic as an excuse to violate our freedom, health, privacy, livelihood and humanity. He is also writing a novella, COVID-27: A Dystopian Love Story. Visit his website at: MuchAdoAboutCorona.ca
