remembered.

Today I watched a movie on retirement plans. A bit different than the one I watched yesterday. This one was about pention plans, bankruptcy and corporate America. Do you know where your money is going, where it comes from or who controls it. What is in your contract to protect you from someone taking it all away at the scratch of the pen? In all reality most general laborers have no control. They sign the papers because they want the job, need the money, or are just looking for a quick solution to their current situation. It seems to me that the majority of people answer to the boss because there is some level of comfort knowing that someone else will make sure the bread is on their table. If the boss falls short and can’t pay, then the worker has someone else to blame besides himself. When in all reality the worker is potentially as much to blame as the boss, in some circumstances. My thought is that there is this symbiotic relationship between the boss relying on the workers collectively and the workers relying on the boss and the business individualistically. In the case of the corporation this changes, but again, there is still a boss which if you do not pay respects to, can take from your table, that loaf of bread he continues to put on your table.

That is a bit abstract but think of it in terms of thinking for yourself. If you go to work everyday and you are working for yourself and not for someone else. Even if you have a job, it’s still possible that your mind set is geared as though nobody determines your fate. In the case of United Airlines and other major corporations, these workers relied on a bigger giant to feed them for their past services. In respect to contracts they were most likely obligated to that money, but loopholes and bankruptcy takes no prisoners. If you rely on something and it’s no longer their, where is the self sustainability. I believe that I need to create a nest egg that will allow me to weather any kind of storm that is thrown at me. In the way of the wealthy, I need investments that create for me dividends that pay out day after day, week after week, month after month for years to come. In order to do this, I personally believe that one must take great risk with definite purpose, passion and a burning desire to achieve that which seems impossible. Even when their funds are down and their bank accounts stripped of the privilege of money.

How can you, like me, go from zero to hero. It’s not an overnight process. I don’t believe that. What I believe is that it takes at least two years or more, to accomplish such great feats. You do not become anything overnight. Even if you were born into a rich family, were a child star, had everything given to you. You still have not created or done something great. In the ways of the world, many will be forgotten after just a few generations. People will ask what great things you’ve done and if they are few or none, then you will sadly pass on in time and your importance in this world remembered by none. If you are a teacher you pass on great things. But your name is not talked about, not written about and people have no continuing interest in what you might believe now, to be an important life. In all reality everybody’s life is important today. When you’re gone from this world, will your life still be important. Maybe for a while, 20, 30, 40 years or so. Then after that, once the generations have been passed down, you may not matter, unless you make it so. Thus I conclude from this that we need to look at wealth as being a whole. Money being a part of a larger package. What you do to gain that wealth and how you exit out of this world will all be determined by how you live on through those who continue to believe in you. I believe in you, and so would many others if you, like I am will start doing something, anything to make an impression on the world. Again, I think this blog, in time will be a symbol of not giving up in our strive to get that which we want if we know what it is that we need.