December 27, 2016

 

So I heard the Word.  Whether that Word is Trouble or Jesus, it is the Word that inspires and that creates that one desire:  Click the PayNow button.  Yes, that Word floats out there amongst the crowd and creates something that cannot be touched.  The something is best product in the world and that is Hope.

 

Only through continuous work and effort can the Word be created.  It cannot be found.  It cannot be mined.  It must be forged in the hearth.  Forged in that place where the energies are combined together with the awesome heat of pure need.

There comes a time when the Public is in such a state that they cry out for assistance.  That cry can be answered with gifts from above. Whether welfare or salvation, the answer must meet that need with a solid YES.  How much more effective can that answer be than to give the gift of hope?

 

The gift of hope must be one of recurring income.  The promise of a job.  The promise of a regular check.  The promise of a way through these times of crises. 

 

Sure there is trouble.  Trouble right here at home.  That is trouble with a capital T which rhymes with D and stands for DUH.  People don’t want to work.  People don’t want to be told what to do.  People want to be told they are smart enough and desired enough to be able to complete a simple task and be paid for it.

 

The simple task is to become a part of something that uses their favorite skills, and takes up just enough time to earn them a check.  That check will pay their bills and give them the power to take leisure in an attractive vacation spot.

 

So what do you have to sell them?

 

December 28, 2016

 

So today I want to write about frustration.  That kind of anger that builds up inside of all of us, when a series of small defeats create cognitive dissonance and results in reaching a wrong conclusion.

       

After a few weeks of being away from home, the nudge in the back of my head kept warning me about what could go wrong back at home.  From burglars to a water pipe bursting, the ideas gnawed at me.  Small victories kept me on track to build a successful trip, but the worry of what I would find upon getting home kept the negative thoughts alive.

 

Of course, I could not know any resolution until I actually walked into my home.  465 miles of treacherous driving and ultra-concentration kept the hounds at bay.  What would I find around the next corner?  Would I have to dig at the end of the driveway to get in?  How big would my electric bill be after the explosive destruction of a water pump spraying the inside and underside of the house.

 

Sure enough, a pipe under a sink let loose.  A connection that I didn’t like in the first place.  The water pressure was at zero, there was water flowing out of the pipe under the sink and the pump was still running.  Fortunately, I had installed gate valves to cut off the water to the bathroom.  A few steps here and a few there, the water was running in the kitchen sink.  Yay!

 

The surprise the next day came after the repair and the first dirty flush.  Visitors in my bathtub told me that I had to go under the house and remove the frozen drain pipe.  Even so, with Christmas only a day away, I waited and adapted.  The temperatures went up, the pipe thawed, the tube drained.   Indoor plumbing had returned.

 

Still the problem persisted. Was there a crack in the supply line under the house?  The pump kept running and took too long to reach the proper pressure.  Oh, that pesky water filter that I thought would be too hard to change last summer.  The holder turned, the filter replaced easily, the water reached pressure faster than ever before.  My blood pressure lowered.  It’s the little things.

 

December 29, 2016

 

The Mayans, as I was told during a visit to Chichen Itza years ago, have a series of customs for the end of the year.  The final week of the year consist of the dias de la muerte or “days of the dead”.  These are the days between (as the guide put it) Christmas and New Year’s.

 

Of course it sells tours and keeps alive the mysticism of touring the pyramids and grounds of an ancient society, but the customs spring from truisms of a culture that exists throughout the world.  When you are wrapping up the business of a year past, it does not bode well to begin anew what awaits you in the new year.

 

The guide went on to describe how children, born in the dias de la muerte, are cursed.  He described how no new buildings were begun nor new businesses started.  In general, things of new were to wait. 

 

We can view this through our modern USA eyes as being sound practice.  Cleaning up and accounting for the books of the year is literally required by the IRS and their mirror counterparts in the States.  Corporations who are reviewed and controlled by stockholders measure their gains and losses carefully during the “holidays”.  This is such an ingrained process that Major Sales have been instituted such as Black Friday and after Christmas mark-downs.

 

What is deemed appropriate by general society’s norms of family celebration often guises the deeper consequences of profit and loss.  Certainly everybody loves to eat well on Thanksgiving amongst their loved ones, as well as relaxing around the tree at Christmas, while demeaning the boss’ demands that the entry-level worker pull a shift on the holidays to keep the retail store or fast-food restaurant open.


Yet, as easy it is to say, losing wages during this busy season or suffering the consequences of an over-stocked inventory, are not seen as so desired during the following weeks.  Feed the family, watch the bottom line, and spend more time during the WHOLE YEAR.  Gather your ideas together and start anew your business ideas of the New Year.  Maybe you can afford champagne and chocolate next year or during the summer.

 

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