How to Cope With the Media's Parade of Dysfunctional People

MISSISSAUGA, ON, May 28 (MARKET WIRE) --
Reading the newspapers today is like watching an endless parade of bad
choices.

Pro athletes taking steroids, Wall Street executives lying to investors,
drivers insisting on driving drunk, celebrities visiting rehab like it
has a revolving door -- and life coach W. Granville Brown wants people to
try to learn from it as best they can.

"There was never a doubt that we live in a media-driven culture," said
Brown, a certified life coach and author of Choices,
(www.wgranvillebrown.com). "But what we see in the media plays out as if
it's an endorsement of the behavior. It seems that we're more interested
in the people who screw up their lives than we are with people who are
happy and successful. It's as if making good choices is less interesting,
and so we wind up with a steady barrage of dysfunctional people. It can
create a skewed sense of reality for people, and I think if we are going
to continue to maintain a prurient interest in these stories, we should
try to do so as people who want to use them as lessons on what happens
when we make poor choices."

Brown believes that hidden in those stories are nuggets of personal truth
awaiting us all. Temptation -- a big factor in what we see in the media
today -- can be valuable because of the potential lessons in how to avoid
it.

"All of us, no matter how much we succeed in life or who we are, can
still fall prey to temptation, lust, greed and having our faith and
beliefs shaken -- if not tumbled," he said. "But in the end, we are
people of free will, not puppets, and no one can make us do anything we
don't wish to do, as long as we have the faith in ourselves to persevere.
The only thing that can elevate our souls is within each of us, and it
begins with our choices."

About W. Granville Brown

W. Granville Brown graduated from Hamilton University with a degree in
Business Administration. Brown believes a writer's words are his or her
voice. He also mentors youth, teaching them that writing is a more
powerful outlet for their emotions than other destructive means of
expressing themselves.

Rachel Friedman
Rachel@newsandexperts.com

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