Goals

In lieu of New Years resolutions, I have kept yearly goals for some time.

I'm having trouble in 2022 as coming off 2020 where the penned goals were to survive physically and in my current position.  2021 was a bounce back of sorts, with goals and accomplishments at the start of the year.

But 2022 has started with a spudder, and an almost blank page of goals for the year.

Whether thats motivation, or mood, or inspiration, the goals then shift to smaller, more achievable goals.  Monthly goals, goals for the weekend.

This helped signficantly when I was working 7 days a week, trying to keep sanity.  The goals tethered my resolve while giving hope through the goal line.

I've always looked at the results without understanding there's a process.

I.e. I still look at the result and ignore the work to get to the result.  There are some analogies to the feeling but my mind only went with golf.  I.e. if I want to break a certain score, only focusing on the number and not on the micro tasks to get to the goal.

So, as I digress in writing, I also digress in goal making.

Hoping to pen some weekly goals, in lieu of yearly goals.  Until the motivation and the inspiration arises.

Doing what we love vs Doing what we have to

At some point, all of us do what we have to.

This takes away from what we want to.

Whether this is at the macro, or micro, level, this focus on Production in our everyday lives, whether thats at the 9-5 or through support of our relationships ie parenting or in partnership with another.  That, in a sense, is the Production we want but its also the necessary daily Production, that can easily turn into consumption.

The desire to Produce in a more macro level with Production that is driven from desire and forward thinking diminishes...and we create a world that is not focused on Production but consumption to get to the next day.

I read an article today about a man a couple years younger who was able to dispel his student loans through the public service program and he immediately felt the need, and runway that wasnt afforded him in indebtedness, to run for local political office.  He then stressed the student loan relief directly allowed him to have this path, and that diminishing amount of civil servants or those looking to serve in the comminity is dwindled by the inability, and weight, that comes with large debt burdens in result of student loans.

It is rather ironic, as with many things, that we move forward by indebting our lives to creditors to not be able to move forward to the positions and careers we're paying to forge.

It's not irony.

Its capitalism.

An angry, hungry, unregulated (or unregulated to protect the mark and allow the rich to get richer) animal looking to devour any life for its marginal gain.

Production isn't an easy daily proposition, but with burdens outside the normal, consumption continues to the same harrowing levels.

Possibly this is where the separation happens, to unzip the middle class and allow the upper to oversee the peasants, to rinse and repeat history and a storyline we've written ourselves.

Extra Production

I guess its in the margins where we win.

But if its in the meat that we'll spend most of our time, is it worth settling for negative production.

Consumption is what our economy is presicared on, the necessity to crear capitalism.

But, very much in the same way, is the production side.  The empitomate yin and yanf of each other.

However, what occurs in a capitalistic society is capital rules.  So, production is in fact worth much more economically as that is where the extra comes from.  While a consumer uses their extra for consumption and creates a loss of economic "wealth" to fund a necessity.

If fair price is exchanged for the good, then capitalism does not play as significant a role, however, capitalism puts a cash premium on production, so either way, the consumer is going to lose economically to gain a good/service.

Consumption is a necessity to get us through the day: basic food needs, shelter, clothing, these are needs of all at a minimum.   But the consimption of extra is where the margins are lost and won.

I am very bad at feeding my family takeout for most dinners.  For the most part, there is usually a fair exchange for the good, a necessity for human living, however the premium exists and is scalable to the good/service.

To not be one of these 100k plusers, whether that be by college, health, life or otherwise, consumption should not be life' plan, goal, or daily pursuit.

Production.

But production in a vast sense, while these daily musings are my poor attempt at production.

Consumption is easy, albiet exhausting.

Production takes care and thought.

Consume Less, Produce More

I've not had an inspiration to write any goals for 2022, a practice Ive probably done for 15 - 20 years, maybe less on paper.

But with thought, Consume Less, Produce More was the only thought I had as a goal.

The writing I've wanted to put out there was to lean towards this subject, but I've continued to Consume More, and Produce Nil, or production for other parties, mainly work, which has to take a level of our production, if our systems are built that way.

Consumption is easy, and what the world would have us be, especially as the cog in a capatilstic driven society.  With capatilists, there must also be the demand from the consumption.

My consumtpion continues to evolve, as ours do, but that should not outweigh our production so signficantly.  It is very evident where those who have been able to produce versus consume, albiet much less as the system that capatilism has created has a consumer need, so our lives our innudated with feeds to be consumers.

So, my goal for 2022.  The only one I can muster, or Produce, is Consume Less, Produce More.