If you don’t accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position of defense. — Holly Lisle
One of the things about sales, the one item that superior sales leaders have learned, is to focus on the needs of the customer. And they do that by answering a simple question: How can the salesman make the customer’s life just a little easier? It’s a basic question but a powerful one and it often leads to many, many sales.
The condition of the human being these days is to focus on ME, ME, and ME. It is a provision we have ingrained into ourselves ever since the beginning of the baby boom generation. And I admit I am a baby boomer.
In truth maybe this way of life started before the baby boom but it is the baby boomers that have brought this state of mind to full bloom and who created the world we have today.
So why do I say this? Well I read something the other day that got me to thinking about this website and me. Specifically these articles I write and why I write them. Looking back it seems that I put all the focus on me and I guess I do. I have stated and continue to state that I created this website to help me help me. And you know something I will continue to say that because it’s true.
But it goes much deeper than that. The focus of my website is to help you realize just how dangerous the political elites and their policies can be to your day-to-day living. But the only way I can do that is to discuss the one item I know a lot about – me. I know how political policies are affecting my life and if they affect me they must also affect you. By being frank and honest about my failures, my hopes, and my dreams I am hoping that the words I write can inspire you to become much better than you think you are.
I have never heard a politician; with the exception of one tell the American people just how special they are. I don’t know what happens to an individual when they get to Washington, I don’t know why they change from that idealistic hard-charging candidate into a conformist. I guess it’s the water or the atmosphere. Maybe that is why most politicians believe in global warming, what with all the hot air floating around that city.
The political elites today are out of touch with reality, and that’s putting it mildly. The politicians live in their own world supported by us the working class. These established politicians think and actually believe that we work for them and not the other way around. Hence it is with great delight when I read news articles which state that another established politician bit the dust in their primary race, bested by an opponent who is not a Washington insider.
We are a great and noble people but if you read and listen to the news media and the politicians you get a different idea of us. And here’s another kicker, the world believes that we, Americans, love to kill and murder babies. You know something, the world is right. Thanks to the political elites we are killing and murdering innocent lives by the millions. So why is this? Money. Only money. Killing babies has become a favorite business for the elites and the ignorant among us. The progressives among us have decided that to have a baby is a crime and the crime must be eliminated.
To be a progressive in America today means to be compliant, to think that government is the all powerful god, and to instill hate into the streets of main stream America. Of course progressive is just another name for liberal. Still I must hand it to those folks they really know how to sell snake oil to the masses.
I know I’m all over the map with this post which is really not good for me or you. Still so many issues invade my brain right now I feel that I am lost in a fog and have forgotten my focus. And I have. I know this is true because my hits/visits are way down and they were never high to begin with. Thus I had a long talk with myself and realized that I needed an attitude adjustment, badly.
I didn’t make my goals last year and instead of working harder I decided to just give up. But I know that I can’t give up, I won’t give up. Yet it is so difficult sometimes to keep going that all I want to do is surrender to the powers that be. So I kicked myself in the butt and slapped myself up the side of my head and gave me a good lecture. In short I forced myself to adjust my attitude and refocus on why I got started in this direction to begin with. Then I realized something else, something very, very important:
Falling down is NOT a sign of weakness, staying down is!
Thus I am recommitting myself to my goals and even increasing my goals. This is important because I and I alone control my destiny not some low life politician. This and the fact that I haven’t made a blog entry in over three weeks (totally unacceptable) is driving me towards this re-dedication. If I can’t focus on improving me how can I focus on helping you overcome your own self-imposed limitations.
My frustration level is at an all time high so for over two months I stayed on the ground, refusing to pick myself up. I felt helpless and worthless. But I’m not helpless and I’m definitely not worthless. Frustrated, yes beyond any doubt. So what do I need to do?
First I must acknowledge that I am frustrated. Second I need to refocus on why I am doing my website and these blogs. Third I need to put myself back into action. And finally I need to motivate me because no one else is going to do it.
It is hard to admit these feelings but if I don’t I am only deluding myself and letting you down. For decades I have let others down and I can’t do that anymore. I won’t do that anymore. So in the past while I unintentionally hurt others I definitely hurt me with all my bad intentions.
I have written many good articles in this blog and I meant every damn one of them. But I can do better. God said that if I hide my talents He will strip them from me. So yeah I fell down and for two months I refused to get up. But now, now it is a new day and I’m meeting it head on.
