we can all prosper

Does it have to be a race?  A contest?

In this game, we can all prosper.

I have a team of 30 and I'm gonna make sure we all prosper.

what's missing - a humbleness to say I'm flawed

The number one thing most people lack is to understand they are flawed, and to use that as an advantage and understanding to drive them to become better, or, alas, less flawed.

Somewhere, someplace, someone is doing something.

We, as a people in developed societies, have moved from hunter/gatherer to industrial to technological where the technological wave moves into AI and our experiences continue to be simulated.

As an advanced society, the number one activity is sitting, watching others do things, on innumerable devices, platforms, programs, stations, and topics.

We will continue to grow into mindless rats in some social experiment while some world happens, it has to right?  

Somewhere, someplace, someone is doing something.

Unnecessary , but awesome

I have so many unnecessary, but awesome things, which can probably be said in the reverse, depending on your priority.  Awesome, but unnecessary,  things.

I was holding a novelty golf ball.  Cheap in value but a part of my collection.

We spend money, any money, great or small, on collections, whatever that is, when people are hungry, sick, and dying.

Maybe it's our reach, we deny that due to an excuse of reach.

More so, it's probably selfishness, but more so humanness.  To gain.  To have dominion.  Even over something as minimal as golf balls.

Life is about passion.  (And that's my take)

But it drives us.

However it can't be driven unchecked, and this attempt at gain, or thought of many's purpose (an idea I've taken from Mr Beast of all folks) being to obtain a bigger box, just fuels this realization of capitalism, 100k plus, the day to day 9-5, only being a struggle of our making.  A daily production to only move the tangible that the same system has brought us to need.

Starting to ramble, as we all do.

But to have a purpose is to live, and to be capitalism's purpose, through all but asking to be by borrowing such an agregious amount to then work for that same system, is either irony, ludicrousy, or lunacy.

And I don't  think much else.

But that's what many do.

That's what I did.  Am doing.  And will continue to do until the mindless, blind spelunking of a person looking for a purpose, through direct payment for that purpose, makes another, strike that, a better, plan.

Purpose comes from a plan. (A plan is necessary, whether awesome or not)

Given

100k plus indicates I wasn't given at least the basic rights of a secondary education to guide through the actual preparation to being something.

I wasn't given it but I damn sure wanted to be given it, amongst many other things and situations.

When I was young, I wanted to be given a spot in a band with minimal dedication to an instrument or a dedicated craft.

Now, a bit older, I want a good round of golf, or dare I say, make that my living, which is laughable, but I want to be given that ability.

I believe kids should be given innate rights, like a path to affordable, life appropriate secondary education, amongst many other things.

But I want given much.

Earned is much sweeter, and concrete.  But given is easy.

By wanting easy, by being given, we diminish our place on this earth and who we were meant to be.  Our souls don't reach the heights they were meant to through being given 100k, but through blood, sweat, and tears, earning it.

I'm not sure if I believe that or if I'm trying to convince myself out of the pain of 100k plus vs the other options.

I still hope for the givens, whether that's from the government or a relative.  But that's not right.  That's not a life fulfilling way to go about each day.

I'm not Dave Ramsey.

I'm 100kplus.

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.