We are coming very close to the end. Day 26 - "Write about an area in your life that you’d like to improve" Interesting.
Every year, at the end of the year, before but mostly after the ball drops in Times Square, people make resolutions. Most of the resolutions are attempts to better their lives. Make them more whole. Make them more wholesome. Make them more something. In other cases, it's to make the less. Lose some weight. Lose some stress. Lose that ball and chain. Whatever. I, every year, lose the resolution. I'm sure there's a statistic out there that tells us the large percentage of people who don't keep their resolutions. I cut out the middle man and refuse to make resolutions. I believe if I need to change something to improve myself, my standards or my karma, I will do it when I damn well feel I'm ready and not because a bloody year has turned over.
I don't want to discuss or make judgment about what is wrong with me. I don't see my faults as faults as much as personality traits. I am who I am. I like me as me. I don't want to change me. The world will need to change to adapt to me. I'm more interested in changing my situation than me. Becoming a kinder, gentler Daddy Tom is not going to do shit for the things that are negatively impacting my life and mental stability.
So, with that stated, the area of my life that most needs a change is my Environment.
I am unhappy with my career and job. I see more young people lacking in intelligence and experience coming into the workforce at higher levels making more money than me. I have degrees out the wazoo. I have over 30 years of business acumen. I have learned from the actions of the best business minds and from the mistakes by the worse business minds. Yet, promotion and fortune continues to elude me. I find that the people who are my superiors truly lack superior intelligence and sound, solid business acumen.
I am dissatisfied with where I live. The house is nice enough. I would rather spend less time climbing up and down stairs. A nice ranch would be preferable or a one floor apartment in a high-rise with an elevator.
I am disgusted with the neighborhood. It has a beaten down vibe. In the ten years I've lived there I've noticed a change in the type of people moving in. To best describe them would be a cross between ghetto and urban hillbilly. I don't fit in. Call me a snob, but I prefer the smell of money and perfume over cigarette smoke and burnt barbecue. I want to move to a snow-less part of the country. I can deal with a little cold, but no longer can tolerate ice and snow. Screw the changing of the seasons. Give me one season: Mild. Give me mid-70s to low 80s year round.
This leaves me to how to obtain a change in the environment. Without using desperate means, I need to sell the house first. I believe the Domino effect will kick in. One thing will drop into place after the other. It takes one good thing to occur to get the next one to fall in line. At least, that's what I keep telling myself. Time will tell.
Next: Day 27 - "where I'm kicking ass".
Every year, at the end of the year, before but mostly after the ball drops in Times Square, people make resolutions. Most of the resolutions are attempts to better their lives. Make them more whole. Make them more wholesome. Make them more something. In other cases, it's to make the less. Lose some weight. Lose some stress. Lose that ball and chain. Whatever. I, every year, lose the resolution. I'm sure there's a statistic out there that tells us the large percentage of people who don't keep their resolutions. I cut out the middle man and refuse to make resolutions. I believe if I need to change something to improve myself, my standards or my karma, I will do it when I damn well feel I'm ready and not because a bloody year has turned over.
I don't want to discuss or make judgment about what is wrong with me. I don't see my faults as faults as much as personality traits. I am who I am. I like me as me. I don't want to change me. The world will need to change to adapt to me. I'm more interested in changing my situation than me. Becoming a kinder, gentler Daddy Tom is not going to do shit for the things that are negatively impacting my life and mental stability.
So, with that stated, the area of my life that most needs a change is my Environment.
I am unhappy with my career and job. I see more young people lacking in intelligence and experience coming into the workforce at higher levels making more money than me. I have degrees out the wazoo. I have over 30 years of business acumen. I have learned from the actions of the best business minds and from the mistakes by the worse business minds. Yet, promotion and fortune continues to elude me. I find that the people who are my superiors truly lack superior intelligence and sound, solid business acumen.
I am dissatisfied with where I live. The house is nice enough. I would rather spend less time climbing up and down stairs. A nice ranch would be preferable or a one floor apartment in a high-rise with an elevator.
I am disgusted with the neighborhood. It has a beaten down vibe. In the ten years I've lived there I've noticed a change in the type of people moving in. To best describe them would be a cross between ghetto and urban hillbilly. I don't fit in. Call me a snob, but I prefer the smell of money and perfume over cigarette smoke and burnt barbecue. I want to move to a snow-less part of the country. I can deal with a little cold, but no longer can tolerate ice and snow. Screw the changing of the seasons. Give me one season: Mild. Give me mid-70s to low 80s year round.
This leaves me to how to obtain a change in the environment. Without using desperate means, I need to sell the house first. I believe the Domino effect will kick in. One thing will drop into place after the other. It takes one good thing to occur to get the next one to fall in line. At least, that's what I keep telling myself. Time will tell.
Next: Day 27 - "where I'm kicking ass".
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