Sat. June 25, 2022. (So the American VIRUS has even spread into the world, an Oslo mass shooting? My friend says even in Eretria (will check spelling) their beautiful way of life is declining.)
I have been in worse and worsening DESPAIR at the state of Humanity for a decade. (King's "The STAND", anyone?) But by now MANY of us feel pure panic. But have we made a mistake, that we humans have lost our brain capability, or are just MEAN? I meet so many great people (I am a weird STRANGER lady who is always talking RANDOMLY to everyone, everywhere. I probably get away with it, being an OLD lady?) All the people I meet are almost always very nice .. which is not what I see in the news and on the screen. Do check out Steve Hartman's (link) "news" spots on CBS, wonderful displays of Human kindness and compassion that makes me think that all will be just fine after all.
I am hopeful again and this idea of MORE OF US than there are of "them", can pull us together! When I was feeling pure panic and seeing no hope for a future whatsoever, the goal of SOMEHOW making others feel better, became impossible. If we concern ourselves for others, not living a "me first, screw you" life, we can ignore all the idiots screaming nonsense and quietly come together here. We can take back our power by QUITTING all we are forced into. Free country, democracy, blah blah. Remember Janis .. Freedom is the word for "when there is nothing left to lose." So we never DO anything, too afraid to LOSE out on the latest fad or improvement in "convenience".
I believe that good, kind, considerate WIN / WIN people are NOT the ones we hear screaming insults and division in the media. Those are the more Left brain ACTION Doers, along with shallow Right brains opposing them. Those who manage, control or are the COMPETITIVE WIN/ LOSE types are LOUD. Those are who we hear everywhere, so we hear only division. Screamers do not DISCUSS opposing views, they only move toward DEMONIZING others.
Are we the quiet "church mice" nobody notices? I hope I am right, because it is a comforting HOPEFUL thought! By our very (considerate of others) character, we tend not to be in power or famous, since that involves winning, while others must lose. We like WIN/ WIN SYSTEMS. WE are the more quiet inventors, creators, artists, philosophers, innovators, visionaries. We are the curious, the "wonderers" of WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING?? Together .. first in a Digital community and then in REAL "go to" local COLLABORATIVES, we can create change.
The masses are the consumers. If we quit CONSUMING nonsense, we take back our power. Unless we keep "buying in", there is no PROFIT for them! We have REAL actual "power to the people". In 1970 My university offered the first Consumer Studies class. They taught us "planned obselesence" and "Dollar Voting". Guess what course disappeared? See what I mean that NO System is actually built for OUR benefit?? We are in debt for "education" .. but LEARNED nothing of importance. This started as building a REAL Heath, not "care" system .. Let's add REAL useful "LIFE Education" to our new System.
You can learn from me. I swear I was asking the question of why things were weird when I was a little kid. (I was fascinated why we would go to a doctor for a disease name and drug instead of build a better body to begin with. Coke was HUGE back then. So you can have almost 7 decades of curious and frustrating questions all answered CHEAP from my research. The answer is so simple! The SYSTEM was never meant to work for US! Nothing works because it was never MEANT to work .. for us. All our silo "systems", education, health, the economy, even religion? were set up purely to work for THEM!
Things were much better in the 50's, but began getting worse faster and faster. AHA!! OMG .. the TV was the first invention able to control our minds. The "internet" is mind control on steroids. If the TV turned us to couch potatoes, "the screen" has made us lose our humanity! Now it seems they are purely checking on us, to see if we are finally the shallow zombies they want for their own needs.
Why else would they steal "WOKE" and mutilate the good term to bad? Yes, WAKE UP people, only together discussing problems for our solutions will we survive. And I mean OUT of the political system if we still can .. without being in jail for some fake reason. I will probably be in jail soon as an INSURRECTIONIST. I purely mean STOP being part of the establishment". We are going to follow Mennonite or Native ideas to build a simple trade SHARING Collaborative. No screaming or violence needed. Only courage and sacrifice. Can we still do it?
We can take back control. But we must sacrifice and take personal responsibility
If enough of us can do that, we have the power of the masses. But I fear we have become weak and not brave. Our resolve and responsibility is destroyed by a shallow, selfish, stressed "Society of convenience and EXTREMES of everything". "Me first, screw you." has taken control over us. Can you go back to the simple local meals of my time? The simple experiences and adventures? I doubt it .. I probably can't either. But we could maybe gradually reduce our desire for special and convenient. We never even had running water when I was a kid! .. there was only an OUTHOUSE, and cold sponge bath on our farm even in 1956. Desiring access to Black and white TV a few years later, made me mean and I ran away from home to get access! What sacrifice will I REALLY make? But together we can encourage each other. You know how dieters or people who exercise do. Only for us, our very SURVIVAL depends on our Self discipline and Personal Responsibility shown.
But the Natives had even far less than outhouses and having to PUMP water! And they never destroyed the earth for some say 14,000 years! We white guys come along and in less than 300 years, we DESTROY EVERYTHING! But they were the "PRIMITIVES". I suggest they were far more brilliant and decent than us.
Now we talk all the nonsense re natives and pretend our remorse ..Let's bring back the culture they HAD and show real AUTHENTIC respect. But as I said I doubt we could sacrifice and live a simple life. Those of us who want to give an upgraded "simple" life a try .. please join us! Bring family and friends willing to follow the one rule (link) and I think we can promise we will have better quality of life than we do now with our 375 kinds of beer. The stress and overwhelming income insecurity are just not worth the AI, Apps or Apple Watch.
We have forgotten all but MONEY and TIME as available resources .. (and maybe celebrity?) in what we value! What horrible people we have become .. we have lost our humanity! WE as humans are have not been valued. That will be our biggest change. Every single human has special VALUE .. but not in the way irresponsible parents teach their kids self centred self absorption. We are like a forest, every tree special. BUT the only way the forest survives is by the fungi connecting the community shared what each individual tree requires to survive. Without each other, we willl not survive. Selfish unparented children of. today will have a horrible existence in their "me first, screw you" society. That is if they survive the coming civil war and then climate catastrophe.
We were disrespectful from the start. In Canada we eventually put the native people in schools to "civilize" them? Seriously?? .. we are the UNCIVILIZED ones! Native people respected and conserved nature and respected each other for THOUSANDS of years! We come along and AROGANTLY consume everything with our ENTITLED disrespect for its creation and collapse our world within a few HUNDRED years! The shameful ARROGANCE of it .. oh but am just a VIRTUE SIGNALER. If only! Life would be so much easier having no contemplation or conscience!
I like the Pioneer "church", General Store, Barn Raising simplicity, also probably because Cape Cod and Philly are my favourite places. Maybe the REAL people back then were kind? William Penn and his Quakers certainly seemed to respect others and nature. Maybe all the unfairness and injustice of our "white dominance" was ALWAYS mean selfish Left Brain dominant people? Hmm .. were is that thinking emoji? 🤔
With our world gone crazy, surely there is a Management Team somewhere running this whole cosmos? Surely there is a CEO, or his HUMAN RESOURCE person we can complain to? And BEG TO HELP US. We have Management Teams and CEO bosses to manage our not working concrete "communities" . The cosmos and our earth is fascinating and amazingly beautiful and used to WORK beautifully. Come on! Somebody had to be in charge! I suggest there HAD TO be a CEO, a pretty amazingly talented on in fact.
(God etc) the Creator, the Higher Power is the CEO of the cosmos. He designed and developed and built it. But he made the mistake of putting selfish stupid people in charge of the Earth community Maintenance Team. (sorry I will just say god because I am lazy (and I tried out every ?christian religion so its familiar .. BUT THEN I JUST MADE UP MY OWN RELIGION! JUST BE NICE! Be kind giving and considerate of others and everything will work nicely .. WITHOUT 10 Commandments because you just have a good "heart"!)
So God was the Developer CEO, and we have messed up his creation BAD. We are lucky I am not god .. I would have wiped us off earth 10 or 15 years ago. Our disrespect and destruction of resources is too appalling. But half of us cared .. our voices were just over run with LOUDER rougher more selfish (Left hemisphere predominant brains.)
Forget religion. Seems to me it is just MORE division. That is coming from a preacher's daughter who later tried out every christian (dogma). So I made up my own. (God) loves and wants the best for every one of us. He needs us to be like him and do his work being kind and helpful to everyone. Since he is no puppet master, he gave us a MAGIC MAGNET that brings us what we wish for. But too many of us never got loving nurturing, so we feel subconsciously undeserving. The magnet ends up bringing us struggle and loss. that our subconscious feels we deserve. come on .. why else can it be so many JERKS, self absorbed hypocritical people seem to get everything. Money and power are certainly what I would choose .. but a life a bit easier would sure be nice! If we feel there really must be a "law of attraction" it gives us a tool for hope in this mess we have made. I mean it took centuries for everybody to believe the world was not flat, that there was no fear of falling off. Let's quickly USE this science for our own tool for hope. Maybe we do have "FREE WILL" to just BELIEVE god does nt WANT good people to live a life of struggle, pain and loss?
Wallace Wattles wrote "The Science of Being Rich" in 1910. (Yike!! did the power people kill him? why did he die soon after at only ?50. I mean if we can REALLY follow the Law we become powerful and might compete with them.) It is my belief and I will re study this .. that Wallace's title does not reflect HIS real focus
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Life is just easier when you do not feel you are facing the chaos and struggle alone. Our mission to simplify and live truly more conserving lives has HOPE in it. We do not need such extremes of everything to have a good life. simpler will be so much easier and our quality of life will be so much better.
We went from no manners, to no civility, to now losing our humanity. Every time someone runs into me, or lets their dog touch me, or is so loud I can't read in the waiting area I get ENRAGED. Seriously you don't want to know HOW enraged when people are rude and act like I do not exist. WHY do I do that/ Am I an idiot? Yes! I saw this coming a decade ago .. and 3 years ago it was getting ridiculously rude, and oblivious to others out there. So all these years I daily waste my energy and DISPOSITION on what? ZOMBIES! I live in THEIR world now and waste my life screaming silently at the injustice of "me first, screw you". Yes, I get the trophy for being right all along but am giving myself a heart attack from STRESS. Would it not make more sense for me to GET OFF THE HAMSTER WHEEL of same old insanity .. and just side step the zombies I share the world with?
They seriously are brain dead form seeing the bigger picture of others and their opposing needs. Zombie brains are shallow and short sighted. Their brain actually can not function in a more normal way. Just as my fired brain can accomplish even LESS action today than 10 years ago. Both Thinkers and Doers are DISABLED from our past fully functioning BALANCED BRAIN. If we can be UNDERSTANDING and work together we may yet survive. You know like the old 3 legged race? 2 people with middle 2 legs tied together in a race. those 2 MUST WORK TOGWTHER. Please come on board and help me learn to be more compassionate to less detailed thinkers. They just want to get the job DONE and we need them!
We always knew one day we would die! Why is it so terrifying to think it is soon? It is! I know! But last summer the dead talked to me and for awhile I could laugh at my terror of THE END coming.
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How does "breathing" help when we feel utter panic, unable to pay the rent? How does yoga help when we have no food? How can mediation (controlling our mind) change the terror we feel that everything is collapsing around us? We WILL use these tools but FIRST we need some renewed HOPE. We need a new "possibility", a new belief that we CAN make things better for us. We and the other good, kind, considerate people like us need a raft of "positive" to hang unto. Otherwise we are going to drown in hopelessness and panic. Mean, selfish people are NOT welcome here. I know stress can make us selfish to just cope. But if you are just a "me first, screw you" type, you must first change your selfish, self absorbed habits. Then you can try back with us once you succeed in putting others FIRST. There is a reason some are called "selfie" people (selfish and very shallow).
Our REVERSE WORLD "church" is for kind, considerate HUMANS. Sadly our society is losing its humanity. First manners died, (just considered QUAINT), then CIVILITY died .. and now even our humanity is completely being obliterated by the "power system". (THEY must think we are just ants or bugs, using up THEIR resources and just in their way). A merely Political divisive "Democracy" linked to capitalism, is actually destroying us. But we can still win if we STICK together! We need a new system though .. and REVERSE WORLD "church" is a new SYSTEM that can fix all our crumbling silos. Ours will be a WIN/ WIN community, unlike our current win/lose competition. Enter a VISIONARY use (instead of bitcoin casino "stock" idiocy) for the Blockchain Ledger! If we use it with vision, the blockchain has the power to improve society far more than the internet did. The web is only info. The blockchain is a trading ledger, so we can go back to pioneer systems and start over BETTER! We are resources too, not only$ are. But we have been forgotten and disrespected. Our community increases resources by respecting and valuing mORE than money. Our trade ($) will be called PRISM because a glass prism INCREASES light colour and energy. The system we have disrespects and DECREASES all resources. Ours will MULTIPLY resources.
Rather than a house with garden and a picket fence, 2 kids and 2 cars with a restful summer vacation .. too many mid 40 year olds today .. have NOTHING. (Unless they are brainless and do not see our systems are collapsing and had kids as if nothing is wrong.) And there are only more job losses, and pay cuts to look forward to. In a few decades half our jobs will be gone to AI, robots and driverless. Ohh, they say .. "Don't panic! Just take a yoga class. Just learn meditation and watch more comedy to relax. Don't be so negative." SURE! Say those very people who got us into this mess by their OBLIVIOUS to any consequence actions. They were able to easily create success because a simple brain can just have a NOW profit mission. No worries about the new problems created in the future! A complex thinker sees "PAST causes" and "FUTURE consequences" .. but nobody would listen to us. We were just worriers stopping PROGRESS. The Action Left brains got things done! And look at the result! NO HOPE!
Progress only with an easy, or profit mission does not work for the long term. We are now at the conclusion of a BAD social experiment. Toxic "progress" destroying everything it touches is never REAL success. Sure we have "successful" billionaires but they will have to move to space to survive! Is that success. .. or progress? The profit obsessed mindset of the last 6 decades is now collapsing every system. There were many OTHER valuable resources we had but we destroyed or diminished them. We reduced the value of everything that was not money or new stuff. We chose to diminish the value of all of them, with our disrespectful attitudes. Society chose fast, easy, convenient profit with no though to future consequences. We chose shallow phoniness over REAL actual quality of life. But if us Thinkers get together we can still hopefully prevent our ship from sinking. But we must hurry and we will have to SACRIFICE. Something we are sadly no longer used to. BUT .. the many unions and strikes now forming give us much hope.
You wake in panic and don't want to face another stressful day. They say .. "you should breathe .. just really breathe and be grateful you are at least waking up". Are they speaking from their ENTITLED life? .. where they are rushing to get to yoga class, and are stressed, impatiently in line waiting for their 7$ Latte? I know all those ideas, breathing and mindfulness etc. definitely work .. but life today just feels so FAKE. What does that lady preaching to us to be calm KNOW about the stress of life. It is like the old people in my nursing home saying "your kids should work harder like we did! Why are they struggling?" Sorry .. but I want to MURDER them every time! Such oblivious phoney FAKERY we live in today. Everything is stupid or "SHALLOW on STEROIDS"! Hmm .. I like that! We live in a "shallow on steroids society!" That would account for all the IN-authentic simple answers to everything! We live in a "brown crumbling outer onion skin" world where the REAL "THINKING" LAYERS of the onion (real human brain layers or wiring) are MISSING!
HAH! It is like Nancy Reagan's "just do it" has taken over society. (President Reagan's wife in the ?70's)Thank you! I never thought of that before. Nancy, girl, if we could JUST DO IT .. do you not think we would?? Some of us get addicted. This was referring to DRUGS .. just don't take them. I think Right brain THINKERS who want to UNDERSTAND (McGilchrist Divided Brain .. LINK) tend to get addicted .. with me it is OBSESSION with wondering why the world does not work. Why the hell would un knowing me have BETTER solutions for so many things? That obsession takes over life .. as drugs or alcohol must take over others. Nancy do you really think we want to be losers? NO! Our skills are just different from you and your Left Brain ACTION minded husband! Our society is a disaster becaseu Left brains have taken over! fast unthinking action does NOT create REAL success. We now have the disaster to clean up of our uncontemplated TOXIC progress. WE Right brains can not just BREATHE and JUST DO IT .. we are busy worrying about consequences and wondering and wanting to UNDERSTAND what CAUSED the problem to begin.
Besides our emotional, economic and societal HEALTH collapsing so is our PHYSICAL HEALTH. It has been for 50 plus years because we slop a name on the problem and the disease gets a PRESCRIPTION .. INSTEAD OF FINDING OUT THE CAUSE of the problem and just removing it. (sugar and wheat cause my disabling arthritis pain, stop eating!). Do you see what I mean? Everything we do is "simple" as in shallow, easy, convenient FAST. Shallow goals .. sadly ALWAYS PROFIT focused. No other resource is considered and ASSET. Just profit .. money, that is all that matters in our society. Humans have been forgotten. Our new system will put the HUMANITY back in our COMMUNITY SYSTEM.
So yes .. we are going to breathe and be mindful (CONTROL our mind) to calm ourselves and reduce the panic .. but we are going to do it in a community of like minded people who see that this shallow, easy, fast, society of extremes and division .. will now be our downfall.
2020, It is so sad only people lashing inward (suicide) can easily find a Help number! What about those of us so angry at all the injustices suffered, that we are by now ready to LASH OUT .. not in. "Action" vs "Thinker" personalities handle overwhelming stress differently. Please look for support here, if it is not readily available in your area at this moment. (We must try to rectify this with a Police proposal and improved ease of finding someone supportive to talk to.)
Of course we fear being ARRESTED for our raging thoughts, but at this point, THEY CAN"T ARREST MOST OF US (yet?). Most of us are by now very sad or very angry! "why we are angry, and what to do" a good link to help us. At the end of this informative article, see also their link "Control your anger BEFORE IT CONTROLS YOU!" We do NOT want to be part of the Law and Justice system that tends to NOT work well for us.
PLEASE HANG IN THERE! WE ARE GOING TO CHANGE THIS REALITY WHICH HAS LONG WORKED ONLY FOR THE WEALTHY. I am talking to YOU, special reader .. lots of people who know nothing about you, CARE about people like you/ us. You are us, but we maybe had just one resource more, that made life a little easier for us. A friend, a connection, an inheritance that saved us from ruin? Unfortunately everyone does NOT have the same Life Resources available to them. If we are walking by a homeless person, "There but for the grace of god go I" is a Thinking, caring person's response. And there are many of us! We do NOT think "He should have worked harder, like me." That is a "Left Hemisphere" Action person who will NOT be in our group. Unless they begin to respect us THINKING Right Brain individuals (who they feel are only victims looking for excuses). see Dr Iain McGilchrist's work .. In the Future he will rival ?Darwin.
If you feel too stressed to read .. go to the "Gift of Calm" video further below.
There are those who say "Why should I share, I worked hard to get what I have. Homeless guy should have got his act together, probably just lazy." This kind of closed mined, BINARY, NON Compassionate thinking has to go. Wake up people! Until you face the inhumanity of those words .. you are not welcome in our positive supportive energy. Action and thinking brain hemispheres used to be a bit balanced within each of us. The imbalance of our destroyed brain wiring has created a very inhumane world. We demonize each other and have lost our decency.
But sadly many also MUST think "me first, screw you" as a way to reduce the stress of the overwhelm. The stress OVERLOAD of our digital dystopia has desensitized them. Being selfish has become a coping tool, in order to gain any security for life needs. Bring those STRESSED souls with you, if they promise to be more thoughtful of other's needs. They can connect with us and feel safer. When life gets too hard it is much easier to simplify, "He should have tried harder, I can't help him". That homeless person could be us or our child, especially with todays failing systems.
We will be COMPASSIONATE to those even less LUCKY than we are. Sure successful ACTION (Left Brains) worked hard, but some of us worked 18 hr days obsessed with innovation and still fail. Do we deserve to starve on the garbage heap? No! Thinkers are often the great inventors and visionaries .. but often homeless and unknown til death. Our community accepts everyone who is kind and supportive of others who are doing even less well than most of us. People who think ME FIRST are usually OK $ wise. Life is just harder, more complicated when you also worry about others, not just yourself!
This unjust unfair reality of WEALTH vs NO QUALITY OF LIFE has to be removed from society. But power is so entrenched and greed so obsessive it is now very difficult. Maybe now there is no other way than to look to the new theories of Science and Religion converging? Apparently atoms are just energy and we can create our own reality! Let's learn more about this magic quantum formula. In the meantime PLEASE DO NOT HARM YOURSELF OR ANYONE ELSE. We can get through this. Think of all the wonderful giving people we see amidst those horrible "me first, screw you" JERKS. Let's imagine a kind of heaven on earth where compromise and collaboration is EASY. That is the hardest part of life, isn't it? If you were raised with a belief of Heaven .. it must be where there is no CONFLICT. If new science says different realities CAN exist at once (particle wave theory) no conflict could actually happened!
Everyday when I run errands (although we are supposed to STAY IN) .. there are people losing it, talking to themselves loudly, screaming alone OR at a poor cashier. We are on the verge of societal collapse. So do not feel alone! We are all LOSING it together. So let's figure out how to create a reality like those lucky people completely oblivious to our struggle. Like the jerks in my Retirement complex. They are probably nice people ( just turned selfish). Maybe we can get their available money along with their needs into our "Trade" community. If I had a little money I would be happy to pay for somebody to listen to me and at least ACT like they care! or teach me tech. I could not pay the real value, but even 25$ would help someone at least EAT! We need to connect "buy nothing", with Blockchain, with REAL Human Resource management. We will create a new basic Quality of Life for all SYSTEM.
Assault, robbery, attempts at murder, and suicide happened when people feel disrespected, uncared for, rejected, alone and worthless. It seems reasonable that REDUCING feelings of worthlessness (and constant injustice) would also REDUCE a lot violence? All People want to be successful and valued! Instead of simply punishment, more Tools and SUPPORT for success would prevent SO MUCH TRAUMA! We are going to build solutions to these BIG problems together. Many have expertise in areas we need. Pulling these Tools together in one easy to find place can help us begin.
It is much easier to succeed when ..
1) WE FEEL SUPPORTED .. most BIG problems (911 calls) arise when we feel alone, uncared for and worthless. We have been in that black hole just like you! But we will no longer feel alone, because TOGETHER we are finding new better ways!
2) WE FEEL WE HAVE SOME CONTROL ..
Our body and mind are somewhat in our control. By practising and building our self discipline we can get body/ mind more in our control. This can make us feel more POWERFUL.We are going to learn how to breathe, and control our MIND. Like "meditation and mindfulness" except for DUMMIES.
Strangely I totally believe that the buddha?/ yoga stuff works, but it just feels strange for me. There are tons of web sites and places for yoga, vegan, kale people. This "QUALITY OF LIFE manual" that you have been given, is for the rest of us .. not quite comfortable with Meditation etc. We can feel more in control with paying attention to our usually ignored breathing as a start. (see below video). With breathing helping us feel our body is now in our control, we then work to control our mind, dragging it into a more positive place. We take responsibility and learn self discipline. Then we will feel MORE in control of our own life.
3) ONCE WE ARE MORE CALM, WE CAN CHOOSE OUR NEXT ACTION ..
More calmed, it feels good to CHOOSE the next task. Choices feel like we have some control! Do we want to take ACTION toward "new money"? .. to learn more about where to find HOPE today? or to start connecting with others to build our community? You can do that online or hopefully gather some like minded souls from your church or neighbourhood. If we are introverts we have to start opening up to other souls, because this struggle today is SO MUCH harder alone. Someone to share ups and downs with makes life so much easier. Comcast NBC have even begun a new Health Business in recognizing how important connection and belonging is. see PAPA
The workers in "Jobs" have long been disrespected. What if we go back a little, think of Pioneer times? We could trade our skills and talents amongst our community like they did. Some Boomers realize the world is completely different for young people, with few opportunities left in an era of A I and robots. Those aware and kind Boomers will invest in our community, happy to pay for the talents we can provide aging seniors. Pioneers survived decently with a General Store, their family, and their church. They had NONE of our societal systems but I bet their life was less stressful than ours. None of our silo Societal Systems work FOR US .. let's just set up our own "system". We put IN our time and skills, we get OUT a decent quality of life.
On Algonquin Island (TO) there is a cart when you cross the bridge, "take what you need, add what you can do without". Why can't we do that with survival and quality of life needs? Except as a combination of stuff AND services? AND to keep everybody accounted for it is a ledger like they had in the General store. If you had enough meat for everyone, you then got vegetables for the winter as fair trade. But it means we. have to quit putting up with the corporate things we think we NEED.
We have been lulled into thinking we are powerless, that we have no control if someone does not GIVE us a job. If those of us a bit more fortunate start keeping ALL THEIR MONEY JUST BETWEEN US, we can just trade our talents amongst us. Yes our life will be more plain, but isn't simple and less stressed better? Let's try "buy local" for REAL, and on steroids!
Check out PAPA .. a service that provides even just friendship for lonely seniors, a new kind of "job". The units on a floor in a Rental building could become "family". "Church" will be our version of science and religion converging. We are all energy and when we think positively together we can create wonderful new realities. see "the Power of Eight". Sorry, could you get it from the library? or try an ebook?
see also New resources "how to make $"
We can trade our skills, stop begging for a "job". We can create our own income.
The PDF above is a Tool for CAREER Re -Education! see also great learning .. https://alis.alberta.ca/tools-and-resources/order-publications/view-new-products/ (see .. recognize strengths/ know yourself/ definition of abilities). All we need then is a bit of "Small Biz or Self Employed Training", to employ OURSELF! Give OURSELF a job! Work on finding the skills you have to share with those not so lucky. Even if it is being great at dusting .. not all of us have that patience.
But that means with enough money left over for food / shelter, AFTER all our investment costs are covered (like buying a bike? a website? gardening equipment? some postcards to promote us?) Uber drivers and Delivery people are self employed .. but no one warned them a 150$ parking ticket and extra insurance eats up far more than the minimal delivery payment you get! Beware of the math and look after YOU! No one else will. The so called "share economy" is Capitalism on STEROIDS! YOU are the one taking all the expenses and all the risk, yet still probably paid minimum wage! We have to wake up and TAKE CONTROL. We are too often taken advantage of and disrespected. So when we start to create our OWN income, let's make sure we take ALL of the costs involved into consideration.
Why were we not taught any of this in school?? .. no need to read the blather below, go straight to the Experts above. Then start thinking how you could CHARGE people $$ for your expertise. I am trapped living in an "OLD FOLKS HOME!!" and I see tons of places where you could be paid .. even just being nice to lonely old people! That is NOT taking advantage of them. It is providing them a service that is MORE valuable than the money they no longer need. They are the Entitled, with a good RETIREMENT income .. yet they feel sad and alone and bored. Teach them to google, then come back to discuss what they discovered! There are tons of old Boomers that need you! .. (and hopefully some will just be happy to pay back what we "stole" from young people. We rather MESSED UP everything!) and I am right because PAPA has created my framework already !!
While you work with the amazing 60 page "Your RESOURCES" PDF above, I will better organize and begin to edit my (7?) websites. But for you to get ANY help here .. you must FIRST OPEN YOUR MIND TO NEW IDEAS! We have become simple, search shallow, closed minded Zombies! We take in no new real KNOWLEDGE, because we now seek only INSTANT INFORMATION! A "fact" is probably not TRUTH. Maybe knowledge is trying to find real Truth? (But our "education" pretty much just asked us to memorize what they said.)
The questions about who you actually are, in the PDF above .. take time to really contemplate. But finding the answers is very much worth it. Investigate who you are and someone will need your special talent or skill! They are probably missing that personal ASSET you have, but they NEED. We trade our Assets for other's Liabilities. We turn everything .. even Liabilities into new RESOURCES to improve our quality of life.
Consider this incomplete site like a Book or (Manual?) .. kind of a FORMULA for us to get through this mess? But the Internet makes this "Book" amazing!! .. because I can share it with you BEFORE it is ready to "publish"! AND!! .. I can easily link to all kinds of expertise! We will aggregate HUMAN Intelligence! .. not A I! We want HUMAN Intelligence. Please forgive the web site mess .. just take whatever can help you. It would be awesome to finally help a few new members or friends.
I have collected these ideas/ rants for decades and had no idea ORGANIZING them BRIEFLY, CONCISELY and in logical order was sooooo hard! Our "Book" (Manual?) will be a work in progress .. that I believe can be useful even before completed. ( I do maybe 6 jobs plus in this "System Innovation" endeavour, none of which I have a clue how to do. Inventor, CEO, CFO, CTO, Photog, Production and filing! So please be patient.) 18 years of "education" to only now at the end of life .. find out what my skill is. (Hopefully my skill is developing and sharing innovative Solution Systems)? Very strange "education" system we have created. How many "educated" souls are Baristas?
My Formula with the "BREATHE" section below, will also be helpful to you, even though imperfect. (see video further down below). Do not let my non professional web skills throw you off. And Go Daddy site design limitations (web boxes allowing only x words) are bad! Don't let this skeleton Prototype version throw off your seeing value in the ideas! There is "old lady wisdom" here, that I want to share with you NOW, when so many most need it. (And this old lady thinks you should start Civil WAR with those ENTITLED Boomers who say that my kids should just get a job .. like they did. What oblivious complete Idiots!) Jobs are gone! Plus who even wants to BEG for one anymore, over and over and over every year or 2! We Boomers had 1 or 2 jobs for life! Most Boomers have no clue about today's world.
If I stay too proud? or embarrassed to give you this now .. you will lose this TIME AVAILABLE. You will lose the OPPORTUNITY NOW to discover new CHOICES and CONTROL for your own success. Good luck! Together we CAN do this! We can change the whole dysfunctional system. Check PAPA and get creative with other ideas for our independence from the old Power Structure!
We have so many Resources available to us, but school (purposely?) neglected to teach us this! We are NOT trapped into begging forever for a fleeting "job". We really can create our own Rent money.. but "they" forgot to teach us that. After working through the HUGE RE Education assignment (in the "ASSESSING YOU" pdf above), we then need to learn how to "sell" ourselves like a Business. Instead of another disrespected worker, we become a (Self Employed) INDEPENDENT Manager of self! No more begging .. "Please sir .. I need to eat! Please could you "give" me a job!". NO!! NO MORE OF THAT NONSENSE. We are taking back control over our lives!
Even our Liabilities (our undesirable characteristics) can make us money!! My Liability, (THINKING TOO MUCH .. that which makes people hate on me .. as in always being a worrier), could have made me money! "Worrying" is seeing problems before they happened. Added to my love of Architecture/ Design and "recipes", it could have created my income doing what I love! My Liability .. worrying, would have made me a perfect "Consultant" for Developer's designing their buildings. Or creating better systems (recipies/ formulas) for production of anything.
Great "education" we got. My ability to see problems that others miss, could have saved decades of building inconveniences, living in flawed floor plans that I regularly see. Thanks a lot "Education" System for 18 wasted years plus tuition! I should have been a valuable ASSET to Developers etc, instead of feeling bad that I always saw mistakes and problems everywhere. Instead of turning my Liability into an Asset for income, I tried to be many things I was terrible at! You though, now can see many assets, skills, talents, and expertise areas to create your independent income with. But also look at Liabilities because my goal is to magically turn more of our Liabilities into ASSETS! WE can .. we live in a culture of WASTE!
Since I am old .. you can learn from all my failures .. and skip right to the SUCCESS PART! I was a Teacher and my best class was Bachelor Survival .. which was really "LIFE Resource Management"! Shortly thereafter (Home ECONOMICS) was removed from the curriculum. What? Were we getting too smart at handling our lives? This "Assessing You" PDF is what we should have spent YEARS working on! GETTING TO REALLY KNOW OURSELVES! This valuable ASSIGNMENT will take weeks of investigating and contemplating YOU. It replaces what I WISH I had learned instead of 18 years of memorized "education". Investigating how we can PERSONALLY best CONTRIBUTE to our community, has far more value!
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Are you "a Thinker" or are you "a Doer" .. an ACTION mind? .. or do you like to think about causes, or consequences? My Hypothesis is that there is a spectrum between the 2 types of people .. but extreme opposites will not get along or truly succeed. If you are a Thinker, beware unless you can be compassionate with a less thoughtful, fast DOER. I am jealous of their simple "get er done" ability! And I drive their Action brains crazy being slow and deliberate. Like the Turtle and the Hare! Today those few balanced Brains that are left .. who can think consequences, and only then decide and ACT too, are the Leaders and true Entrepreneurs.
Wars could be prevented with this knowledge, if we could only learn compassion for the opposite "Brain Wiring" side. (link later). We used to be more balanced in having BOTH Thinking and Acting brain wiring before toxic "progress" fried our brain wiring. ("24/7 ON" Stress also makes idea simplification a coping tool for survival.) Being a Leader or Entrepreneur requires this think/ act balance, or we must find an opposite wiring (Biz) Partner. To solve our LOOMING economic collapse, we will HAVE TO work together, sharing/ TRADING, our skills and expertise. No time for "enemy divisions" .. our ship is sinking and we must ALL BAIL TOGETHER!
PS .. re Career Planning .. think "Career" as a way to make your own PERSONAL INDEPENDENT INCOME .. not an outside controlled "job" to beg for. You were never taught how, but we can do this now! Together .. trading ideas!
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There are many other resources or ASSETS available to us! We mistakenly think ONLY time (work) and money can be traded !! We can trade or barter everything! Leave out the Banks and Corporations! (Later the BLOCKCHAIN can be used.)
We forgot the Pioneer way .. TRADING ..
.. Helping each other, while actually helping all of us together!!
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THINK!! THINK! about more than "time for $$", no more incessant begging for a "job".. we can do this! We can trade what we have with US .. "we the people!" For example .. tons of lonely old people have huge houses. Why are good people homeless, when there are old people who need help.
We forgot the pioneer way .. TRADING .. helping each other while helping all of us!! There is so much they can do to help older seniors for a space of shelter! Most homeless are just us, a couple pay checks away.
What is neglected from "education" is all the simple, available things that are Natural in life. Our Education and our Systems have become very UNNATURAL. Like a Builder we need good tools to construct a good life. But if "we the people" take back our power, it is harder for the "power structure" to control us. The masses acting together, would have far more power than those very FEW in Power.
Keeping us stupid, phone faced "sheep ants" is of great benefit to those in power. Since they have forgotten our VALUE in their obsessive quest for profit and power, we must stop .. start over .. rather like the Pioneers. Let's RE PIONEER .. simplify life by working TOGETHER and sharing our Resources. If we don't buy anything from Big "injustice" Corporations, think how fast they would re consider our value as their consumer? Us buying creates their PROFIT? They seem to have disconnected that us Consumers are their profit source. We have power in how we spend our scarce dollars! Dollar voting is even more important than November.
We can cut out of the insane stressed world created, and live a better life right now. A Homeless Tent in a good climate with people who share resources fairly, beets the dog eat dog society we have created. So stop being afraid. No more waking up terrified .. we have so many tools that can help us improve our life. We can trade our talents skills and resources amongst ourselves and survive. Soon we will have a life BETTER than before, stressed out of our minds BEFORE covid!
Below are some of the POWER TOOLS we have, but were never TAUGHT in 18 years of "education". Home Economics was removed because it retained control over our INDEPENDENT SURVIVAL. Let's bring it back with an old Home Ec teacher enraged in the late 80's when it was removed as even watered down "Family Studies".. the founder of these new Systems. (3 areas of our health .. personal Health .. Societal Health .. and Economic and Systems HEALTH!)
We need stress reduction more than ever. The "Gift of Calm" is Art video, that kind of helps us "stop and smell the roses". We are so rushed and overwhelmed, that we miss the simple beauty around us! Stopping to really appreciate beautiful scenes or details, while we learn to breathe more deeply is an exercise that we can do anywhere WTH NO PHONE. But "Turtle TV" teaches us how .. a kind of "Mindfulness and Meditation for Dummies"? I bet that half of us know for sure, how beneficial Meditation is! But we just can not feel comfortable with the ?"Yoga Mindset". "Turtle TV" is a POWER TOOL for the rest of us "dummies" to learn new habits.
If I am overwhelmed, I try napping but am often too stressed to actually fall asleep. Sometimes I remember to just breathe DEEPLY and SLOWLY and it somehow feels that I get back some energy! With that strange energy infusion I can continue trying to solve a problem or finish a task. Maybe this can give us a feeling of power .. a way to control life spinning around us. And if we make it HABIT .. it is a tool we ALWAYS have with us .. no stupid cell phone needed. (Quit with the "screen as life" already people! It is destroying our civil Society!) We need to breathe or we die .. yet isn't it amazing how we never think about that? since we need to figure out HOW TO SURVIVE .. let's use it as a POWER TOOL to help us get thru this re-construction!
https://tinybuddha.com/blog/positive-thinking-doesnt-help/ "even in grief we can look for things to be grateful for! " from tiny buddha, almost homeless in TO? imagine if in Texas freezing, with all the home insurance claims and no one available to fix things.
Have you opened a new location, redesigned your shop, or added a new product or service? Don't keep it to yourself, let folks know.
We are all "SPECIAL", each having individual value to share with others. Each of us has the same value whether Dr or floor sweeper! But we have different skills and talents. Have you ever taken time to consider even contemplate, what you are good at? what you love doing? what is easy for you? That is what we should have spent MOST our "education" energy on. Some things are easy for you, but almost impossible for me. We all get only 24 hours in a day (except some of us are slow .. so even THAT is a LIE!!) Now why would I do in 4 hours .. what you can fly through BETTER in 30 minutes? We have totally lost our way! If we trade our talents and skills we come out ahead. This would be the basis of a new "economy". Why talk universal wage. NO! Those of us next to homeless, also have value and also deserve quality of life! In a new trading REAL PEOPLE economy we each deserve X quality of life and will provide X service to the community in return. We can do this with Blockchain instead of dollars. Step 1, create a local community, and 2) start trading skills between you. What is the logic of me struggling for 4 hours where you Ould come and be done in 30 minutes. In return I feed you dinner for a week. Let's get back to creative! Pioneers came with NOTHING. They did manage to survive with no welfare and no unemployment! Let's take back responsibility and take control over innovating a new quality of life.
We support Fortune 500 Corporations that caused the decline in our quality of life! We buy from them! Are we insane? Think of all the money they would lose if "we the PEOPLE" showed some self discipline and just QUIT SUPPORTING THEM? In the Corporate obsession with profit, they showed no respect for workers, for our community or environment and the Health of our society has been destroyed. But it is our fault because we just went along. Let's get some B - - ls! .. quit giving the big guys their profit! Yes we have to SACRIFICE, but not sacrificing all these years has taken us into HELL. If we are not too late, we better DO SOMETHING! Later if the Fortune 500 wants to become a DECENT, ethical Company they can be certified as respecting other than profit, and we will buy again. Dollar Voting is a tool FAR MORE POWERFUL than a political vote every few years!
What we expect is what we get! Confident or at least believing thy are deserving people succeed more easily. You can see the LAW OF ATTRACTION at work in your acquaintances. Why do not fabulous people so often get to the top or do better than us? They believe they deserve and the EXPECT success. They have failures too .. but they just keep going like an energizer bunny. I know I get all "god hates me" when obstacles happened. Some close to me are "get over it .. get on with it .. always the excuses". I hare it but it is TRUE and I am jealous.
DON'T THINK ABOUT IT! How does worrying about the rent not being paid help it get paid? ..or mind "hamster wheeling" in guilt that your kids have no pension like you do? Or just generally ranting about the unfairness of INJUSTICE AND INEQUALITY. None of this worrying helps anything except it drags others down!b We are not even taught there are MANY kinds of "thinking", useless worry, brainstorming ideas, evaluating ideas, Decision thinking, action or project management thinking. Why are we not taught this? Let's quit wasting time on useless rocking chair, or hamster wheel thinking (fear, guilt or worry). We are fearing a future we don't know. Let's just "work think" to solve the problem. Stay in the NOW, not in past guilt or go into future worry. Don't think about it refers to senseless "thinking", not the same as REAL "problem solving thinking" at all.
To restore SOCIETAL HEALTH or quality of life .. first we need to restore our Personal Emotional Health
sorry .. much improvement is needed in a skeleton PROTOTYPE beginning