Success – Having the ability to make choices and not find yourself in a position where you have no options. Being able to create or find options when it appears that you have none would be noted a having a high level of success.
People in jail have few options and often end up there because the choices they exercised had negative effects on society as defined by law. This would be an example of someone who became unsuccessful based on bad decisions.
Feeling stuck in a dead end job with no options can leave a person feeling trapped and therefore, unsuccessful. This can lead to some grave decisions in truly desperate times.
The same can be said for most anything that has lifelong or what feels like lifelong effects.
I didn’t start this post with this in mind but a leader who continues to blame the previous leader (presidents come to mind) for their inability to make their own choices that would be good for the organization they lead are by definition, unsuccessful. I think this is where we a nation become divided. That division is based on the definition of good choices vs bad.
Any fool can say that our president is just having trouble leading because of the last one, but the reality is that our country is in the worst shape that it has been in since I can remember. The bad choices made by the current leadership aren’t helping us and to blame the last guy for not really leaving the oval office neat, tidy and rife with easy choices is a cop out.
The bottom line is that by definition, our president is unsuccessful in the fact that he has not been able to find and make good choices for our nation and he continues to blame the last president for those inabilities. To cast a vote for someone who is defined in this manner is to align themselves with failure or if the failures of the president aren’t why a person would vote for him, it must be partisanship.
How can anyone nominate a potential leader based on political party when the party’s foundational core of supporters would nominate a proven failure?
It may appear like I am suggesting which way to vote. I’m not. I am not sure the other guy is any better but I think that this nation voted on hope and change and we landed here. Would it be wise to consider change again in an effort to try new solutions and try to find success or would the continued path of failure be worth hanging onto for the sake of political partisanship? You decide…it’s your vote.
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It’s been a while since my last post. The temps here are cooling down but it feels like summer back home. The hours I keep on the job have really taken a toll on me and in all truth, I’m ready to come home and regroup for another adventure. Mostly because I just don’t get to go out and discover much. I work nights, 12 hours at a time. When I’m off I try to get as much as I can because staying up into the daylight makes it hard to get to sleep if I have been out in the light. I am starting to feel like a vampire. The daylight has become the enemy of sleep.
The lack of daylight back home was one of my concerns before I left and I had been looking forward to being in a place were I would be able to enjoy some good light. In that sense, this trip has been lacking and it’s not what I signed up for. In the beginning it was ok but since I returned from my vacation, work has been a slow steady downhill slide.
There have been major changes at my job but the good thing is that I have meet my goals and I can hang on for a while longer.
This trip has open my eyes to see the world in ways that was not possible without coming here. We tend to have a narrow view of the world and how it really is from our own little corner of earth and only after a person has explored a little do they start to understand.
I have only just started to understand and that is why I am not truly ready to go home for good.
I live on the economy with the locals and I have learned a few things.
1. American television has some great programming.
2. American television’s great programming is ruined by American television advertising.
3. American television is utterly destroying itself with reality TV.
4. Local television filters the crap programming out that ruins American television.
5. Advertisements on TV are almost non-existant on local TV.
6. We really are getting ripped off at the gas pumps. (Big surprise, I know).
7. I can get a full car detail cleaning for about five dollars.
8. The fast lane on the freeway does not have self serving, slow driving jerks/idiots that America has. They use all the other lanes.
9. Flash to pass really works here on the road.
10. Chinese restaurants still play that same cheesy elevator music in most places.
11. The local money is the best money to travel with in the world.
12. There are places where tax is non-existent…and still civilized.
13. There are places where corporations don’t run the country through the government.
14. A dry heat is preferred to humid conditions.
15. America still has the best fast food.
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