I would love to tell you that I would be able to change the way I think or feel about something today. I would also love to tell you that I will be able to change the way I will feel tomorrow. I would also love to tell you that I will be able to change the way I will act tomorrow. In the end, we all don’t change.
The best way we can change is to change our thoughts, not our behavior. In fact, change is so hard that it requires a lot more than just thinking differently. It requires doing a lot of planning and thinking about it out loud. Some people simply cannot change their thoughts or behaviors without going through a lot of planning and planning out loud.
That’s a really good point. Planning is really hard in life, but the more planning you have, the easier it is to change. If you are not planning, you are planning.
The problem is that most people who are successful in life do nothing more than plan. Most people who are successful in life have planned for the future in ways that are completely different than how things are going right now. Some people, like me have planned for the future in a way that is wholly different from the way things are going right now. I still can’t imagine how I could be any other way than I am right now if I tried.
Just last month I started a new job that I love. With my new job comes a whole new life. The problem is that I have no plan for the future. I am not planning to do any of the things that I am doing now. I am planning to do nothing. This week I’m going to start another one of these new jobs that I love. I haven’t planned for the future yet, so I am planning to do nothing for awhile.
The jobless person would say that it’s not a matter of planning for the future, it’s a matter of not doing anything. But it’s a little more complicated than that. I think that at least in part the problem is that we don’t really know what we want. We’re always trying to figure out what we REALLY want, and it doesn’t always pan out.
I think the real problem is that we have a choice. Whether we want to work or not, the question is not will we get a job. The question is will we get any work. The first step to getting any work is to get off of our asses and realize that if we want any work at all, we will have to do it.
My kids are really good at this.
Well, I think we can all agree that it is not the same as working for free, and I think the biggest problem we face as a society is that people are all in a headlong rush to get to the next paycheck. We want to hit the next big thing, get the next big thing, even if it takes two weeks.
The next thing is to actually get out of the way. We need to stop the flow of work we are supposed to be doing. We need to stop the flow of work that our friends in the social network are all in, so we can really work the system for ourselves.
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