Showing posts with label Path. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Path. Show all posts
May 6, 2018
April 30, 2017
Strategy, Strategery, Stratego
Strategy is our way of trying to forge a coherent path ahead.
Of course, as humans, we are imperfect and don't know what we don't know.
But whether we call it strategy, strategery, or stratego, the goal is to have a method to our madness.
We can't just rely on luck, gut, intuition, or subjective whim to get us wherever.
Having no strategy is brainless following or aimless wandering.
Strategy means your thinking ahead what you want to achieve and then at least trying your best to accomplish something.
Ample course corrections allowed and encouraged, as needed. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
July 4, 2016
What Path Are We On This July 4th?
According to recent polls, around 70% think we're moving in the wrong direction!
Very pessimistic bunch or something more going on?
Despite all the technology advances--from smartphones to video-on-demand, drones to 3-D printing--people are still feeling like things are a mess.
And the upcoming election seems to have given everyone with half a brain, reason to pause.
The world seems like a very dangerous place these days with a resurgent Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, and ISIS with your guess as to where terrorism of the day will be hitting.
Moreover, weapons of mass destruction are proliferating from nukes to chemical and biological weapons...can anyone say $350 billion in the next 10 years to modernize America's nuclear arsenal?
Deadly diseases from Ebola in Africa to Zika in South America are striking without warning and causing horrible sudden death and frightening birth defects in infant babies.
The economy and politics of the world are grossly unstable with many banks now offering negative interest rates and Brexit tearing at the very core of the EU.
Hundreds of thousands are dying in the Arab Spring and Middle East wars and millions of refugees are streaming to Europe and as far away as America.
Ballooning national debts are leading to the looming bankruptcies of not only Greece, Spain, Ireland, and Puerto Rico, but also the 3 pillars of American entitlements: Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
Unemployment shows at a deceptive 4.7%, but yet anyone looking for a job knows this is far from reality, and robots, artificial intelligence, and automation loom large over any future prospects.
Racism and hate are all too alive and well as tempers seem to be boiling over in city after city, with or without police shootings precipitating things.
Already as a kid, I always used to ask my dad rhetorically, "What's gonna be?"
As an adult, I understand that this was a question born of the deterioration of the moral and leadership fiber of our society and a future that was far from certain in the inner city or beyond, along with the anxiety born of wanting to have some reassurance that things somehow would end up being okay.
But things aren't okay in our f*cked up world!
Especially with political jockeying to gerrymandering, from sit-ins to sequestration, from pork-barrel projects to outright fraud, waste, and abuse...the system is getting so broken.
Now when I think in my head, what's gonna be, my mom and dad are not here anymore to reassure me that everything will be alright, and frankly in this day and age, those reassurances would not even be able to ring true.
We need change and hope, but perhaps we must look Heavenward for it to come, because down here, things are looking more like a creeping hell, than a heaven that awaits.
But good people can help to change things...one good thought, word, and deed at a time. You and I can be influences for good, for a brighter tomorrow, for peace, for freedom and equality, and for prosperity for everyone that doesn't buy into the status quo and the spin and lies that sustain it any longer.
This is our magic wand to wave and wave and make good times based on values and faith return again. ;-)
(Source Video: Andy Blumenthal)
June 2, 2016
Should You MYOB?
Great Salt And Pepper comic in the Wall Street Journal today.
"What makes you think the meaning of life is any of your business."
Man goes to mountain.
Man seeks to know the meaning of his existence.
Mountain tells man to mind your own business.
I guess it's just not that easy.
No one will just tell us how each of us is to make our difference in this world.
Of course, there is faith and religious teachings to guide us.
But each and every one of us must find our path to G-d and our mission to his world.
In doing that we struggle through life's trials and tribulations.
It is painful at times, but we change and grow especially when the pain of what we are doing wrong becomes greater than the pleasure we gain from it.
The meaning is in the journey and in the destination we seek.
Our paths are not straight, but winding and hilly and not without obstacles--but it is a trek not only to the mountain, but to the very heavens itself. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
May 24, 2016
Heading Down The 613
This one is a country road between Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
How apropos to be on the 613 road!
Tomorrow, in my next post, I hope to show you where this road is personally taking us now.
But wherever 613 leads that is where I want to be. ;-)
(Source Photo: With gratitude to my dearest sister, Roz Blumenthal)
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