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832 sats \ 3 replies \ @987654321 23 Dec 2023 \ on: My financial goal for 2023 Personal_Finance
This is a very small and packed Personal Finance post. I'll go by your paragraphs.
  1. Embracing Unexpected Change.
When I worked for Best Buy embracing change was one of the programming techniques they used to train employees. It sounds like wisdom but it's all about dealing with the corporation moving according to the market demands. It is good advice and without goals for your personal life it is meaningless gibberish. If you have personal goals embracing change means, "Prepare for rough seas while heading to your destination."
  1. I have a history with the Thai Forest Monk tradition. I study Buddhism. I would not want to raise a child in Thailand. There is a lot of moral relativism there and i'll just leave it at that.
  2. Congratulations on becoming a father! The Buddha has stated that if you could carry your parents on your shoulders for 1,000 years it would not be enough to return the favor of giving the gift of human life.
  3. There is a mural near my house with cosmic moons and stars and colors and it says, "dream". This reminds me of the movie, They Live, which is an allegory for the controller class verses us regular plebs. Taking the bull by the horns is good except we are in the great year of Pisces and the previous great year was Taurus. A great year is about 26,000 years. We are heading to the Age of Aquarius so what is interesting here is that humans have been tracking time for that long! A notable aspect of this tracking is that in 60,000 years humans have also been working on MIND CONTROL and if you don't work on self mastery you are part of someone else's game. The term Swami comes to mind and there is a "Swa - self + mi - master". If you don't have any goals it's because you are a slave, asleep, and it's time to wake up.
  4. Ignore contemporary society. It's a psychological operation against you. One of my favorite books of all time is GOALS! by Brain Tracy. He knows what he is talking about. I bought the Audio and Paperback book in 2003. You can probably find it for free as a PDF. Dreams are sold to us to keep us in the Right Brained prison of relative reality. Self master is not what the controllers want. They want you to do things that you ARE KARMICALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR by relinquishing your responsibility to them which is IMPOSSIBLE.
  5. I haven't used Bitrefil, but I've been using FOLD and another one and stack sats. I have for about 3 years. I've written down my sat goals too, but they must be reviewed constantly. Brain Tracy suggests that you must write down your goals by hand. This is powerful. I have kept hand written journals since 1984. Mostly they were nonsense written about nonsense. I have to constantly remind myself to write about solutions! When I do this things happen that I welcome.
  6. Seven is a very nice number. The polar star has changed over time but there are seven stars of the Little Dipper, Ursa Minor.
My financial goals are to remove my fiat debt. Get rid of rent seeking services. Educate myself on Bitcoin more. Increase my skill set which always finds payment. Write here at Stacker News. Fix my shitty blog that I've ran for 25 years and have paid way to much to services that always close, fold or sell to someone else.
My financial goal is to stack sats, too! My financial goal is also to pay attention to people like you who inspire me to move ahead and work also!
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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @cryotosensei OP 24 Dec 2023
I love your well-considered and thought-provoking response. It feels like a personal email reply rather than a public forum response. And what are the odds that I will encounter another Stacker who has some experience with Thai culture? I feel like maybe you are one of the few who would understand my fascination with Thai culture (and pull me back so that I don’t get embroiled into the rabbit hole 555)
I like how you equate goals with self-mastery (alongside a defiance to stop living according to societal norms and expectations). I will continue to formulate my idiosyncratic goals that make sense to me and relevance to my circumstances. Hell ya!
Will check out GOALS! Sounds like a wonderful book.
Edited: Can’t find GOALS! in my nation’s electronic library database. So I borrowed “Make more money” instead. Cheers!
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30 sats \ 1 reply \ @987654321 24 Dec 2023
This is a link to the PDF: https://www.booksfree.org/goals-by-brain-tracy-pdf-free-download/
Read online: https://archive.org/details/goalshowtogeteve0000trac
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei OP 25 Dec 2023
Thanks! Merry Christmas
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