09/26/2021
I was just speaking to my Father about this the other day.
I had a set of goals I wrote down FINALLY back when I was on Active Duty.
2012 I scribbled some stuff down and got to work.
But 2014 I got formal about it. Took decisive action, included action steps, sub goals, and set timelines/suspenses.
By 2016 I'd achieved the sub goal that was pre-determined to be the initial capital I'd need to move to the next phase.
By December of 2016 I'd begun deploying.
By June of 2107, I deployed the very last of that chunk that was allocated.
I re-evaluated the goals after the 2017/18 crypto crash wiped me out (gains wise...I've never lost down to the seed...not even close...but try watching a half million bucks evaporate in NO time flat, and you learn some NEW sub-goals might be in order)
So I set some non monetary, but related goals.
The first of those goals, written down with sub goals and a suspense date, was "Become an Accredited Investor"
Anyone with any decent portfolio understands why this is CRITICAL to understand fully, to plan for, and to execute until you check that box. Otherwise, just keep piling into your 401(k) and smiling when you get your match. đ
I gave myself 24 months from the time I retired until the suspense date.
I retired, December of 2019 and then stayed on and vested a Civil Service billet I'd held on Military Leave (Absent U.S. Status).
Punched out of that the end of February, 2020.
Guess what happened the next month?
(Oh, by the way...wash your hands.)
I chose NOT to revise my goal suspense. I reviewed and tightened it up.
Mid year...Divorce hits.
F**K!!!
I chose not to revise again.
Month 16 out of 24 in that post retirement suspense countdown, almost to the DAY, I hit my mark.
Next goal...10x that. (that means the Decimal Point moves over to the right by 1. Not a minor goal)
I gave my 45 year old ass until 55 for that.
I don't talk numbers here on Social for good reason. A few of you know EXACTLY why, and how that was recently made even more crystal clear a few weeks ago (not a good time).
But I DO talk goals.
I have come to believe that the Universe listens to your words, which are Vibration.
"The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us", our religious types will quote here.
Vibration is energy.
"Energy Flows Where Attention Goes" -Tony Robbins
I FULLY believe this.
Your thoughts are vibrational energy. It's been said that "Worrying is like praying for something you don't want to happen"
Same EXACT concept in my eyes.
Be careful and cognizant of your thoughts and your words. I believe they MATTER.
A LOT.
My next set of goals map a path from 45 to 55. That's just under 10 years from now.
My thoughts and my words, as many of you know, and a select few of you REALLY know, made a radical shift after an event in the Aircraft at work, Summer of 2016 in Alaska on a Rescue Alert out of Elmendorf, AFB in Anchorage.
Big time "CTRL, ALT, DEL" moment of reflection. Of what is, what isn't and what really matters.
Literally everything changed after I returned to California from that Alert sit at "Elmo".
No, it has not been a cakewalk. In fact the past 12 months have been both the most productive and successful, as well as THE MOST CHALLENGING and deeply panful and complex that I can recall.
But one thing did not waver...
(save for a short dark period where hope was VERY close to gone...but with people like Jessica Hughes and Lauren Lucero at that critical time, that was a TEMPORARY speed bump...a BIG and s**tty one...but TEMPORARY)
..My goals did not get discarded. They did not get ignored. They did not get modified to extend the sub goals, and thy did not get extended to move the suspense "to the right".
But they DID get audibly read aloud.
Vocalized.
"The Word became flesh..."
If you have been taught the lesson in some class or how-to or self-improvement book, or by some seminar Guru, but you have yet to properly IMPLEMENT those goals as you were shown to do...
..maybe, JUST maybe...that is why THIS post of mine is showing up in YOUR feed right now (the algorithm doesn't guarantee you see it, because I posted it and we are friends...it's gotta choose YOU. And guess what, Bubba....YOU JUST WON!!!)
Maybe it's time to read MY feedback session here that I am giving to YOU, as I tell you that, while YOUR mileage may vary...
..Mine sure as s**t did not.
I just told you what worked...for me.
Now, it's YOUR turn.
Go figure out what YOUR words need to be. What words will bring clarity and Definiteness of Purpose to YOUR journey.
And make YOUR words become FLESH.
"âWhatever Your Mind Can Conceive and Believe, It Can Achieve.â â Napoleon Hill (1937)
CONCEIVE IT.
BELIEVE IT.
And then GO ACHIEVE IT.
Or, if that sounds like a lot of work, there IS a new series on Netflix you could binge watch this weekend. That could be cool, too.
Whatever works.
There will be vibrational energies expended, either way you go.
"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice" -Rush -'Freewill' (1980)
