Category Archives: Daily Drama

There are facts that are true, but are not palatable to some others. How then, do you communicate about these matters without damaging your reputation, losing your job, or breaking up a long relationship?

I suggest that you consider sharing only information that others can experience easily.

If you find out that the boss is violating the law, someone’s lover is unfaithful, or someone’s child shows seriously evil intentions toward a younger sibling, you may well feel an obligation to disclose this information to those affected by it.

Happiness does not come from sharing bad news, however true it is. You must find a way to communicate the truth in an acceptable manner to someone who will believe you. It is best if you communicate with as little editorial comment as possible.

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Hatred is a last-ditch effort to drive away and destroy that which is about to overcome one.

It is an effort to appear so formidible that the enemy will go away, but it is a sure sign of a group or individual who knows that they cannot prevail.

Only the brave and confident can grant some understanding to opposition forces. They will get angry and take action to right things they perceive as wrong, but they stop short of wholesale slaughter. They are still able to distinguish between enemy combatants and those who are harmless bystanders.

Those who know their ways are doomed have nothing to lose. They have determined that all others are enemies and deserve not the smallest mercy. They teach their children that certain others are their sworn enemies and as a result create a culture of psychotic killers who are hunted down and destroyed most others on this planet.

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We seem to be burning 2004 up at a great rate. Seems like it was a brand new year just a few months ago, and we are already on the downhill side of it.

As I noted many months ago, blogging allows me to look at what I am doing while I’m doing it. Now that blogging has become an integral part of my life, I find the trail of posts to be an interesting indicator of the changes that have happened in my life and in my thinking.

I started retirement thinking that I would write a novel to communicate some ideas I felt might be important. After almost a year of work, I put the manuscript away to “season” while I got on with the task of developing a business that would provide a challenge and more immediate income.

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Whether it’s a severe case of the blahs or your business is grinding slowly to a halt, there is an outside-of-the-box question that may help you unstick yourself.

If you are getting no motion and less satisfaction from work or from life, start by asking yourself this:
What are my products? What services or things am I providing that people are willing to exchange money or support for?

If you are producing things that people want, you will have good morale and a measure of self-esteem. If your morale is shot and your self-esteem is down the tubes, you may be fixated on producing the wrong products.

If you don’t understand this question, that alone should be a red flag. A product is only valuable if it can be exchanged for money or support. If a person produces no products or only bad products, he or she is a drain on their family or the group that supports them. Eventually, they must begin producing or or they will find themselves out surviving on their own.

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