New followers, Welcome!

There have been some new followers here at the workshop and I would like to welcome them in. Coffee is over on the bench, getcha a cuppa and lets chat.

I need to introduce myself again and clarify a thing or two. I’m Dio and this is my little space in the chaos, a place where I can vent frustrations, do a little bragging which is out of character for me in meat space, tell tall-tales for giggles; basically, let my odd side show a bit.

I’m a small ‘l’ libertarian, leaning towards what Bill Buppert calls an abolitionist, I want to see slavery in all its forms at end: wage-slavery, welfare slavery, and most specifically, slavery of the mind. I want to see people wake up to the indoctrination they have been spoon fed since birth, the indoctrination of a superstition called government. I haven’t jumped on that particular soapbox much recently, but it is always there, waiting for me.

You may be any of the myriad different political factions, from Conservative, conservative, Liberal or whatever. Doesnt matter here. You may not agree with some of what I say and thats fine. (read the marquee above, says it all.) I probably won’t agree with you either, at least not all the time, probably not even some of the time. It all depends on how you present your case. If its all based in emotions, don’t even bother posting comment, I will probably just delete it. I like facts, figures and results. “Feels” can be allowed only after a serious showing in reality.

Another thing, I dont give a rats ass what your skin color is. Never have and never will. Results! Character! Willingness! Those count here: victimhood displays amount to, ‘theres the door, don’t let it hit you in in the ass’ on this blog. I have said it several times, here and elsewhere, we are born equal, not created equal. We are born equally helpless, equally ignorant, and equally demanding, as infants. Where we go after that becomes a personal choice, and I find that most people are just lazy and choose the easy route over the rewarding route. Yes, there is some ‘societal/tribal/familial’ aspect of who we are, but to remain within a societal/tribal/familial is a choice. If you ever felt something was ‘not right’ and went along with it anyway, you made a choice.

Don’t take me wrong here; I am equally fallible in making a few too many ‘easy’ choices. I know that when I am pointing that finger, I have three pointing right back at myself. I stopped blaming others for my failures because I have learned enough to realize that even the not so obvious failures were directly linked to some choice I had made. Live and learn!

And that is really what this blog is about: learning. My learning things, my re-learning, and you might even say in some cases, my deprogramming myself. Recently, there has been a lot of that deprogramming/reprogramming going on here. And its nothing political, but financial.

And amazingly, I am seeing positive results and in very short order. I have to keep pinching myself because its so obvious and easy, and yet I had missed it completely for a couple three decades. Hindsight is 20/20, and if it weren’t for ignorance and bad programming,,, well, no regrets, I learned lessons that can’t be learned any other way. Thats why my Alma Mater is HKU; Hard Knock University.

Ok, some may be curious, so I’ll spill it in short form. Pay yourself first! Heard it your whole life and did nothing because it sounded hokey, Right? It works though. I pay my self 10% every time I get paid, no matter how I get paid. I am my own utility bill in a sense. If for some reason I have to dip into it, I make a payment plan to pay it back, on top of the 10% I am already paying and another 10% interest on the ‘loan’. Been doing this for 2 months now and am seeing 4 figures in savings. And oddly enough, I don’t feel any pinch: quite the opposite, I feel like I have more flexibility. And not by touching that account! An aside to it, and I am extrapolating here, is from my confidence levels. I have been approached more for side work since I started seeing savings results. And not the BS sidework where they want something for nothing.

Still learning and I am investigating what I will do when those numbers hit a level where I can send them out to work FOR ME, instead of me fighting to earn them.

So thats whats in the shop, and who Dio is, was, and is becoming. So I’ll leave you now with a quote from one of my favorite authors.

If you practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

Richard Bach.