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Post by X factor on Apr 12, 2015 10:45:35 GMT -5
The more you hang around with common people, you begin to realize why they are common
The wealthy are not 'common people'.
Whether wealth acquired through illicit trade or deals or whether wealth acquired through savvy business deals, sales or through athleticism or talent, those who are wealthy, and or who maintain that wealth or grow it, are not common people at all.
It's why many athletes go broke soon after they leave the league, cause they're common people, jocks, who just got paid a lot of money for a while but never had a vision of how to maintain it or grow it or invest it.
If you give a common person a lot of money, they'll loose it all in a few days, weeks or months
You can tell the type of people you're around when at a party or club, where does the conversation go after people or someone has had a few drinks?
Uncommon people (as far as business or getting ahead in life is concerned) will talk about business whether drunk or not, will always engage you about fiscal possibilities.
Common people, when drunk, will just BS about nothing, tell stupid jokes and basically play.
There's a time for both, but if not at the top yet why waste time BSing over nothing.
When not at the top yet, all thoughts and manner of off duty time should be spent on devising ways to earn more money, create a new business, or expanding the one one already has.
You soon discover why common people stay common in that they keep repeating same behavior, mindset that keeps them common.
Not that being common is wrong in the sense of morality and ethics, but to rise above everyone else, or at least to meet ones own fiscal goals, you can't be common.
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Post by X factor on Apr 17, 2015 21:46:43 GMT -5
Some people don't understand the process of 'winding down' after a long brutal 5 day work week. And that when Saturday does finally roll around, sometimes you just want to be left alone, to do whatever you feel like doing, with nothing on the schedule. All week long things are scheduled at work, demands made, deadlines ect, so that when Saturday finally rolls around the last thing one wants is more stuff on the schedule. You just want to relax, Saturday should kind of be a day of 'nothing'. Even to 'God' of the bible, Saturday was considered the 'Day of Rest'...  Not that everyone rests in the biblical manner of rest, but people in modern times still find their own ways of resting on the 7th day, which is now called Saturday. And one way I rest is to just not schedule anything, especially in the morning. Whatever I do end up doing is totally spontaneous. The minute you start thinking of what you should or could do the day before, that 'rest' has already been disrupted, especially if someone else or others are expecting you to fulfill some obligation. On Saturdays just leave me alone. I don't want to be bothered with nothing, at least not before 10:00 am. Whatever happens after that happens, but I don't want to think about it ahead of time. |
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Post by X factor on Apr 20, 2015 20:22:26 GMT -5
You can wake up and work the nominally paying 9-5 job for the next 400 years and still never get anywhere.
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Post by X factor on May 3, 2015 23:19:48 GMT -5
I feel like rebelling against tomorrow or Monday be either coming in late or not at all.
You're not free unless you're free from that whole Monday doom and gloom feeling.
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Post by X factor on May 4, 2015 9:45:35 GMT -5
Doing the same thing day after day, without any noticeable results, seems to be a spirit killer. People always say there's a path to whatever you want to do, but that path takes energy and motivation which is not automatic. A car can go from point A to B, but there's a lot of mechanisms inside that car that have to be working in order for car to function.  In order to move forward a car must have tires, gears, gas, oil and many other things. Humans are the same, in order to move forward down 'that path' things are needed, both physical and mental. When one has those things the path seems effortless, and one looks at others like 'Hey, I did it, am doing it, so why can't you?'Their metaphorical car is working fine and think yours should be to. But the mind is way more complex than a car, and there's a lot of gears up there. When the gears are aligned in the mind the largest task, obstacles can seem small, when gears in mind not aligned, the smallest task, obstacles can seem like mountains. |
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Post by X factor on Jun 21, 2015 18:55:24 GMT -5
A part of me wants to take Monday and Tuesday off, just to regain me sanity and peace of mind. I don't get that from mindless labor, if anything it robs me of. Sanity, right frame of mind and peace, just mean more to me, my over all health right now than a check. Can work rest of life every single day, and still not get anywhere, system is just set up that way. Unless earning Millions, with no expenses, just can't get there anymore. Or unless married, two incomes and good credit. But if single, forget about it. You could work a wage job for next 300 years and still get no where, just would always have enough to pay basics, but not enough to relax. I think I was happier, more gung ho before I woke up to that reality. Yes, I use to think if you just worked hard, you'd get ahead, that some how earning would go up, banks would like you, someone would promote you, and in 5 years you'd be a millionaire just from working hard...ye right.  You go Kermit... Anyways time to lay back and do nothing for a while, also the people you're around will greatly effect how far you get in life. I wish I had known that earlier. Two, just two like minded people can change the world. But that's easier said than done, most give excuses and are just bogged down with other stuff. |
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Post by X factor on Jul 1, 2015 6:20:25 GMT -5
Get tired of the whole dead end routine after a while, none of it will ever pay off, but we pretend it will, as a way of staying motivated.
Mornings present the harshest contrast between where the mind wants to go and to where labor leads you.
Sad thing is, there's no place to escape to anymore, no land available to just 'hide' on and be left alone.
Only the extremely wealthy can actually live their days as meant to be lived.
So many brilliant thoughts get washed away by those who maybe have them, but are thrust into meaningless labor pool where thought isn't valued, but mindless labor is.
I think the older some get, the more some or many really do hope and wish there is a God, a paradise, that's not ran anything like current world configuration.
Cause the older one gets, the more one realizes all the things man, this current system of life, offers you is all fleeting, a mirage, that most never catch...chase, but never catch.
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Post by X factor on Jul 10, 2015 6:46:00 GMT -5
Sometimes I wonder if I still have the drive to get ahead in business anymore, that takes a lot of motivation and risk.
To be continued.
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Post by X factor on Jul 13, 2015 7:02:16 GMT -5
One scary economic reality is when you get to point in short life when you realize continuing down same path is getting you know where. Yet lack the charge to do anything about it. The scariest thing in life is when you see or feel that you're loosing the charge to create positive change in life. Now that's scary. Like being in a sinking boat and not having the energy to climb out, and so get comfortable instead as boat or ship sinks. Lock yourself inside a cabin and just get comfortable.  There was a scene like that in the Titanic, where one couple just decided to bunker down inside a cabin and climb into bed, rather than expand the energy to escape, they just climbed into bed and accepted their fate. They could have possible escaped, but it would of taken a lot of energy, frantic energy and a strong will, but neither had it and just gave up. And it's sad when you get to a point where you can only think about, imagine, what it takes to be successful, but simply lack the drive or courage. Sometimes being safe and comfortable does mean going down with the ship. |
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Post by X factor on Aug 3, 2015 7:40:12 GMT -5
In a few moments I have to step outside of serine (sur-reen) quite calm sanctuary amd make contact with 'the world', dial in, seems like a gross injustice to self.
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Post by X factor on Sept 20, 2015 12:30:14 GMT -5
Rich people do not pay your check, biggest lie perpetrated by talk radio educated duncesSorry, but this idea that 'Rich people pay your check' is one of the biggest lies perpetrated by the likes of Rush and other on talk radio, and then repeated by their none thinking low IQ listeners and fans. When they perpetrate that lie, they're basically stripping or diminishing any role that labor, human labor, has in the over all success of company. All companies must move their products, ship their productsJust like all companies that sell 'touchable goods' also must manufacture products, package products ect. This takes labor... Even Resturant's must move their food from the grill to costumers table. All products must by moved or shipped in some way shape or form in order for consumers to utilize product. Without that movement, product will just sit. (employees are paid by profits generated by product or service, not from personal bank account of rich person sitting on board of directors), (it's why when profits drop, people get laid off) Let me break down in more simple way for time sake...let's look at logistics.  No where in this chain does any 'rich person' pay any of the employees out of their personal checking account. Rather workers are paid based on profits generated through each phase of transit, and each phase of transit is (now days) owned by different specialty company's, example Sea Star shipping line, Supplier may be Walmart warehouse, distributer may be Werner Enterprise trucking, and retailer may be Dollar store. Each step in the supply chain generates it's own revenue from specific services in order to get product moved. And it's organized labor that gets it moved, Truckers, warehouse workers, retail clerks, rail ect. It's this labor, movement, that allows company's to earn profit well and beyond what labor gets as a check. Without the labor, floor personal, none of it could, would, get done, thus company would collapse. So it's actually the sweat and hard work of labor that generates wealth for corporations, companies, and share holders, who share small % of those profits in the form of pay.Sure it's a bit more complicated than that, but for the sake of time I just wanted to condense it all and counter this nonsense I always here about how it's the rich who pay 'your' check every week, BS, more like it's your labor and hard work that pays for and creates wealth for investors.
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Post by X factor on Oct 24, 2015 21:21:20 GMT -5
This whole 'If you just work harder, you'll get higher pay' is a pile of crock in the year 2015
This notion, that some are stupid enough to still push, that if you just work 'harder' than you'll rise up and magically get a raise is a pile of crock.
I know plenty of people, men, who have worked hard their whole lives, labored away in coal mines, as truck drivers, roofers, or in warehouses ect, and unless promoted to management or have ownership in company, all the hard work in the world did not lift them out of working class poverty.
Instead they just get old, with health issues and die.
People who earn higher incomes do so cause they go into fields that pay more, it's really that simple.
Or they work Government or city administration jobs that pay outrageous salary for basically doing nothing.
Many of these jobs you have to be appointed to, know people who know people.
The only careers where there's a direct link between working hard and high wage is basically sales, entertainers and or professional athletes.
But sorry, if one works hard at Wal-mart, I don't care how hard they work within their hourly pay position, they will not see an increase in pay.
This is not the 1950 where one could start off in the mail room and work their way up to CEO of the company.
Today there's a lot more people looking for jobs, and companies are publicly traded, as such their duty is more to their global share holders, not the hourly worker working in Nebraska.
Also, now days, with so many layers of management, often times even if you do work hard, there's always some mid management personal that simply takes credit for your productivity.
It's a different world today, than it was in 1955.
Most people who 'work hard' physically on the job simply wear out their bodies and get injured.
In the year 2015, labor is the least efficient way to earn money.
The wealthiest people in the world don't labor, rather they profit off the labor of others.
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Post by X factor on Dec 7, 2015 12:21:23 GMT -5
Labor is the worst way to earn money
You're own labor is the worst, least efficient, way to earn money.
Your body will wear out way before you get a good return.
Labor provides you just enough income to 'get by'.
Just one or two or three checks above abject poverty.
If you're young enough still, motivated enough still, get a job that is commission based, or salaried.
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Post by X factor on Apr 17, 2016 13:18:33 GMT -5
It can be frustrating when working full time and still can't pay billsI can be frustrating to work full time, and still not be able to cover bills, and to constantly hear millionaires, billionaires and they're paid for talk radio hosts constantly frowning down on the idea of raising minimum pay. When you can't even pay auto insurance, or afford repair on older vehicle, to hear radio hosts like Limbaugh and Savage and Hannity and Mark Levin and Herman Cain, and all the rest constantly rail that 'you', even though already poor, 'Don't pay your fair share in income tax'...  All these paid for millionaire talk radio hosts, and columnist, love to shame every day common people into feeling bad cause you don't earn millions, as such income tax rate is very low or non existent. There's a big disconnect there, in my opinion.. I mean if already broke, living check to check, what more exactly do they expect you to pay? On the other hand, those who have fortunes worth billions or 100's of millions, when they pay 1-10 million in tax, they don't even feel it, and many times through clever accounting get it all back or don't pay at all. And regardless their fortunes still continue to grow, good for them! But why should they, or their hired talk radio hands, scorn, shame, make people who only earn $21,000 a year feel bad and guilty, then say as crony conservatives, 'Hey, we're on your side buddy'..  The hell they are. Life is short, healthy life is even shorter, and the opportunity to earn, save, while healthy and young enough to do so is all any of us have. Some, most, and many get paid so little that can never retire, or if so will retire to live at homeless shelter. And people wonder why Donald Trump has come along and snatched away all the foot soldier blue collar conservatives who have been told for decades by the business owned establishment and their talk radio hacks, that Government setting minimum wage is a 'baaaaad' thing for you. Yet same cronies are OK with Government establishing minimums when it comes to items that benefit their firms or corporations, that the rest of us are held hostage to!Like forced auto insurance, forced home owners insurance, health insurance and many other force mandated corporate sponsored bills that most don't know about. When corporations lobby, and force Government to mandate their services or products, they, the corps, benefit, and we the people have to cough up more money that many don't have. Not a single talk radio host could do what a blue collar worker does in a week, they'd collapse...yet sit in their studios shaming those who work hard, giving it all they got, into feeling they don't pay fair share in income tax. ___ off Rush and any others who push that cruel narrative.
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Post by X factor on Jul 2, 2016 19:12:08 GMT -5
The longer I stay at my current job, and get no where, the more I'm beginning to secretly resent the person I work for, who owns business, as they prosper from our labor, and we, those who labor (doing various things) get no where.
10 months go by, they, the owner prospers, 10 months go be, we, the those who labor, in same spot or falling behind.
Resentment is slowly building up in me towards any job I work for more than 5 months yet see no personal gain.
I feel myself just wanting to quit suddenly, for no good reason, just like have no good reason to really stay if never going to get anywhere.
Just getting older without any gain, that's a recipe for depression.
Not sure what I'm going to do, apply for other jobs I guess, and when one comes up that can even earn me $100.00 more a week, maybe I'll take it, why not, loyalty is useless, if no personal gain, I'm realizing that as I get older.
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