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So old photos of fires and the Amazon has been spreading around.

These are the photos featured on the Tweet that seemingly reported on Mexico aiding the rainforest as well as the return of rain. I used some basic journalism training to inverse-search the images that were featured on this tweet.

It’s a bit difficult to tell how old this photo is and what it dates back to. I have been seeing this one on recent August 2019 posts.

This photo appeared in a 2018 blog post regarding a documentary.

This plane image appeared from an article that dates back to 2011.

And what the search result yielded doesn’t suggest that these photos capture the most current events. So I don’t know for sure if Mexico really is confirmed to be sending help or that it’s raining again in the Amazon, BUT I know 2 out of 3 of those photos on that Tweet do not represent the current events. 

And circulating old photos associated with current events is not uncommon and unfortunately misleading. Read Fact-Checking Articles that delve into aged photos being used to represent the current events.

- “Madonna, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cristiano Ronaldo and Emmanuel Macron didn’t fact-check before posting images about the Amazon fires”

If a woman wants to get an abortion because she is financially unable to give birth to and raise a baby, the organization will pay for everything she needs during the pregnancy and after, until she’s financially stable to raise the baby on her own.

This organization won’t stop women from going to the abortion clinic, but would rather hve a healthy conversation with them. Ask them if they can help her with anything in order for them to keep the baby. They also hand out contraception in the streets for those who can’t afford it.

How To Be Consistent

1. Progress - the best motivation. Taking action is the key to being consistent because actions create progress and progress becomes addictive. In order to keep the needle of progress moving forward we have to continue taking action.

2. Diet - being mindful of what we feed ourselves. The subconscious mind is a bank vault - we can only withdraw what we deposit. We must feed ourselves the fuel that will encourage us to continue, rather than mindless content that aims to distract.

3. Breaks - refreshing the mind. Often times we can feel hesitant to continue because we’ve “hit a wall”. These walls only exist in the mind and can be knocked down by taking breaks and coming back with a fresh pair of eyes.

4. Distractions - things we don’t need to be doing. Removing distractions such as negative people, television & meaningless conversation gives us a lot more time on our hands to invest in what we love.

5. Tribe - surrounding ourselves with doers. Investing our time with others who are taking action on their dreams will inspire us to do the same - we become the average of the people we spend the most time with.

6. Passion - loving what we do. It’s pretty hard to stay consistent without burning out if we don’t enjoy what we’re doing. When we are doing what we love we look forward to doing it and consistency comes naturally.

7. Knowledge - being a curious student of life. The more we learn about our craft the more we improve, when we think we’ve learned all we can we become complacent and this encourages laziness.

8. Vision - knowing where we’re going. Having an idea of what our finish line looks like gives us a target to aim for and reminds us that we need to take action regularly to hit the bullseye.

Consistency comes from taking action every day.

Peace & positive vibes.

Well one day this asshole who had been kind of tagging along with us asks her why she talks like that because it makes her sound dumb and I still remember her response word for word.

“In Russian I am so intelligent and clear. In English I am like [an] idiot”