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What is RalphCarlsonBlog, Part 2

by on October 31, 2011

(If you didn’t read part 1 you may want to read it first)

Who am I?

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Retirement Lifestyle Design

So now I describe my role in life as designing a retirement lifestyle. I never designed a lifestyle before. I just made due with the lifestyle that came with my other life decisions. I had a job which meant that I had to live within commuting distance of work. This job had a predetermined income that controlled how much I could spend. Finally I had a perception of a society that expected a me to measure up to standards. When all was said and done, I had very little discretion in my life. I wasn’t an individual. I was a cog. I had the illusion of freedom. I could pretend to be the master of my domain but when push came to shove, I was a rat in a maze.

I didn’t even know I had a choice.

I think it is common for people to refuse to see their situations just like I did. They are blind to the real choices and pretend that they have chosen a lifestyle. They may be unsatisfied and unhappy but they see only limited options, principally finding another job that defines them differently.

At this point I leave to Tim Ferris the job of taking the blinders off people in the workplace. I wasn’t open to clear thinking about lifestyle when I was working. I don’t know how to make others see what I was blind to. Right now not having a job and discovering who I really am and how I really want to live is about the most I can manage. There is more to me than my work title but it is all hidden.

Who am I really?

What skills do I possess? What kind of lifestyle would make me happy? What skills do I need to master to make that lifestyle possible? All the questions I should have asked and answered as a twenty year old still wait for me. Am I up for the challenge?

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Leaders are not enablers

by on October 28, 2011
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953
34th president of US 1953-1961 (1890 – 1969)
But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it’s been done in America for 221 years — block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.
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Barack Obama (1961 – ), Election Night Speech in Chicago, 11-04-08

Times Change

Dwight Eisenhower ,34th President of the United States was one of the great generals that saved the world from tyranny in World War II.  He was raised as a simple Kansas farm boy, went to West Point and then when the war was over served two terms as President.  He was no intellectual but he understood America.  He lived and valued the principles that were the foundation of our government and the strength of the American people .

It is quite a contrast to see what Barack Obama , the 44th President values.  His mission is to remake the country.  It seems that privileges need to be shared by all.  Nothing said about principles, either his or the American people.  It’s a new world and I wonder how long we will have the privileges that have been so much a part of our counties success in the new country he is building.  What will the new vision he promises us mean to American tracitional values.  Stay tuned to see whether any of our traditional principles will survive.

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