Male or female, young or old, white or black, rich or poor.
The incentive to act is identical…TO GET WHAT YOU WANT.
This is good, part of your original equipment.
Only when what you want is in conflict with other elements
do the challenges arise and present a critical test.
How do you get what you want when the means to the end is blocked?
Your means may be illegal, immoral, unethical, or an attack on what others want.
But most likely it is all about you and your expectations.
What you are pursuing may simply be unrealistic and at odds with your abilities,
education, or income in the context of today’s economy, culture, and traditions.
So here’s the test.
What do you really want?
Dive deep on this one because it may not be what you are getting today.
And there is lots of help out there to engage you in this exercise.
If there is an abundance of anything it is ideas, and many are free.
They offer you a great chance to live a little better day by day.
In time, with only modest changes to your attitude and desires,
what you want will be moving closer to what you have
and, more important, what you want to be and feel.
Changing your behavior is what’s required.
You can’t pursue what everyone else is doing.
It’s not to your benefit because their imagined goals
are no better than you’re imagined goals.
To make matters more challenging the system is also flawed.
Pick any area of life and tell me if corruption is not at play
in some arbitrary form that impacts equality, justice and fairness.
On your side, nonetheless, is a history of hope for a better life.
This is a truth we can count on.
But you have to help yourself and be responsible for what you get.
It is so much more fun when it’s what you really want.
Copyright 2010 William M. MacKay
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