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2012

As we ring in the New Year I look back on 2011 with mixed feelings, both bad and worse. I am the first to admit that 2011 was not my best year, nor was it my worse. There were a lot of negative things that happened during the year but it was that negativity that has inspired me beyond even my own thoughts.

I began this website with the thought of marketing my freelance writing skills and getting some extra work out of it. We all need a financial boost some more than others, thus I created this website. But somewhere along the way this website changed into something more, much more. At some point I decided to help me help me. But to help me I need to expand my thinking and it was at that point I realized just how much politics is actually controlling our lives. Everything thing we do, every breath we take is now controlled in some manner by a rule or regulation established by a politician. When I realized that I asked myself why? And in a split second the answer was blatantly oblivious, at least to me it was. But what was obvious to me is not obvious to others hence I decided to change the direction of the website to what it is today, The Politics of Self-Improvement.

I have not regretted that action at all, in fact I am looking forward to a more robust year in this arena of self-improvement. I realized that by engaging in this political self-improvement activity I am actually helping me. Now my end goal is the same – to earn more money. I make no apologies for this statement, because if we don’t aspire ourselves to do more, to be more than we are nothing. Now the money is actually just a score card in the game of life we play and if I am at zero than I know that I am not doing enough to help others. Only by helping others can I help myself and when I really help others than the law of the universe will kick in with its own form of compensation.

I cannot wish for money, it will never appear. I cannot count on the lottery. I will never inherit it as I don’t come from a rich family. No, the only way to get money (the honest way) is to earn it. And this is where belief in ourselves comes in. Only by working, by giving of our time to others only then can we achieve more for ourselves. We can have a normal job giving our time to a boss for pennies or we can work for ourselves and set our own pay scale. The choice is up to each of us individually. I prefer to work for me. But it’s not easy and currently the pay is zero. But as time passes I learn just how powerful I really am. I can control my own destiny, my own paycheck but only if I obey the rules of the universe.

This last year the most important lesson I learned about me was to have faith. I didn’t make my goal but I will. I know I will. I know where I messed up and I am taking steps to correct that situation now. I have hope for the future because I know that I can control my future despite the political landscape. With over 81,000 pages of Federal rules and regulations being enforced this coming year I know darn well what the politicians are up to. Nationwide there are over 40,000 new laws that have been passed just for 2012 alone. It's a nightmare how politicians want to control our lives. Yet this is still America where we can control our own destiny if we so desire and the political elites can't stop us, no matter how hard they try.

It won’t be easy but I encourage you, just as I encourage me, to believe in yourself, to stand tall, and to have faith in your abilities. Yeah I may be flat broke now but I know I can be rich and the hell with the political entities that tell me I can’t. And the hell with those that say money is evil, if money is so evil why did God create rich people?

I am better now today than I was a year ago. I have more belief in myself and my abilities. I have a stronger faith now than I did 12 months ago. What I didn’t have then was a burning desire to work my faith, but today I do because faith without works is dead. Did I make mistakes? Oh yeah, a lot of them. The biggest, I failed to market myself properly. This is a mistake I cannot afford to repeat this year. And I won't.

I encourage you to look forward to 2012, not with dread and animosity, but with hope and vigor. The politicians and political elites will do everything in their power to discourage you and make you feel that you need government to survive. But you don’t need government, especially this current crop of politicians whose only desire is to increase their own power by taking it away from you. But you can deny them this option by controlling your own destiny, just as I now control mine. Painless? Not by a long shot, but definitely worth the effort.

I don’t know when I will meet my goals but I will. I have set timelines, established a plan, and I am working to make it all happen. The question is am I doing it right? Only time will reveal that answer, time and a burning desire to improve myself. The bottom line is I know where I am going; the question is, do you?

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