Restarting Our Journey
While I like being able to return to my blogs posts and read about how I predicted the state of the economy so precisely, I will leave that exercise to you. These predictions were made back in pre-2008 election before the 2008 real estate bubble had popped, and before Barack Hussein Obama (BHO) was elected to his first term. This blog is called "America Cannot Be Fixed." I would lead you to the following blogs posts that show how close to reality my predictions landed.
I hope that many of you began your journey of Life Simplification (LS) that I began to describe several years ago before I was taken away dealing with my own life simplification that I can now report is complete. I will relate to you my own journey on how I accomplished this and you can do it as well.
Let's review the four steps of enacting changes in your life as the pretense to supporting your LS goal:
These steps can be summarized in this acronym: RIPE for
Realization: that your life will or must change
Identification: determine your life's complications
Prioritization: order by importance each complication
Elimination: remove the impact of each complication in the order chosen
These steps are those I suggested in dealing with your Personal Void (PV): the gap that forms when one begins to simplify their life. The Void is a consequence of removing the noises (things, places, events) that clutter our lives as we pass through our time on this little ball of mostly water. If we don't prepare to handle the Void, we find ourselves increasingly depressed (females), or frustrated (males). Both emotional states can lead to personality alterations and mood swings as most psychiatrists will attest.
Another important factor in beginning the changes in one's life is the DESIRE to do so. I discuss the need for this personal motivational characteristic since as I mentioned my post on this subject, most people want to change, long for change, but lack the DESIRE to change. From my blog, I stated:
Just being dissatisfied with your life is NOT enough to effect change. Most people are dissatisfied with their lives as the renowned American philosopher and naturalist Henry David Thoreau once mused in his essay called Economy:
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation..."
Without the desire to change, life continues as a series of "repeating yesterdays." When you come to the end of your life, will you look back and see a never wavering line of yesterdays, or will you see that you took some chances and made some changes to alter your then unknown future?
Unmotivated, comfortable people don't change. History is replete with stories of this premise. A country stops growing and progressing when its people become comfortable with their lot in life. Has your life become comfortable, really not too bad, or just not bad enough to require change.
In the end, its the desire to change that will force the issue.
Again, I suggest that you return to my previous posts in this blog to refresh your memory on these topics and issues.
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