You can handle the tasks one by one, but when they pile up, you start to lose your calm. You need to keep your calm. Your calm is very important. Your calm is the lubrication for your engine. Without calm, your engine overheats and things break.

You need to refocus when things stack up. When you take things one at a time, you will work through the queue faster and more efficiently.

You chose to be here. you could choose to disassociate with the system. You chose to stay as a part of the system, though. You like the system.

You flip your hand and hit a switch and a light comes on. This makes it easy to see. You turn a knob and heat is created, which makes it easy to cook.

The system is designed to bring comfort to those who are a part of it.

There are three types of people in the world.

• Those that are part of the system and follow it
• Those that are not a part of the system and get no benefit from it
• Those that control the system

In order to control the system, you must learn how the system operates. The system often rewards those that work hard and study. The more you know about the system, the more you can manipulate the way it acts.

The system abhors hypocrisy, and therefore, you must follow the system to reap the benefits of the system. If you do not follow the system, you get no benefits. You can also have no control of the system if you are on the outside.

You can control the system. You just need to learn about the system and how it works.

The system is not a worldwide conspiracy led by men in cloaks, it is merely society.

You often yield in conversations. You tend to tolerate people when they are lending excuses and questions instead of solutions. When you are the leader, you must control the conversation at meetings. If you are interrupted, stop the conversation and bring focus back onto the topic on the agenda.

If you allow others to dictate the conversation in a meeting, you are wasting the time of everyone in attendance.

You can probably find a way to be blunt without losing your manners.

Good Luck.

You have fine tuned your engine to run at maximum output with the best possible efficiency.

Everything about your vehicle is in tip top condition, except you forgot the tires.

So there you sit, in a mud puddle, or grass, or slick asphalt, spinning your wheels. You have a machine that can race against any car out there, but you are stuck at the starting line.

When you slam your foot down on the pedal, you get no where. You need to take a deep breath. You need to take it slow. Give your incredible machine some time to build momentum.

Eventually, you will get up to speed and being a force to reckon with.

In the back of your mind, you know that any actor, politician, musician, sports icon or otherwise famous person is just like you. They suffer from constipation, and dislike the way being around their parents makes them feel. They forget to floss, and have at one point, with all certainty, urinated on their own shoe. Some celebrities may be urinating on that very shoe when you meet them. Or yours.

You would do well to let go of the system shock. Dry your palms, send forward a hearty greeting, even congratulate them on their latest project. Be mindful of their time and interest, and if you detect that interest waning in the slightest, be the first to proffer a friendly farewell, and make your exit. There is no better way to present yourself to a celebrity than as a reasonable and emotionally stable person. They do not want to go to bed with you, or read your script, or withstand your criticism of their newer music.

It is okay to admire a person, and it is perfectly healthy to have role models. You simply need to make sure that whatever pedestal you place a celebrity on remains at eye level. The higher you hoist such heroes, the greater they will one day fall in your eyes, as all people do. You are not any more or less of a person than they, regardless of what a comparison of your bank accounts might indicate. You are simply different, and they are no better informed or aware of this world than you are.

Instantly, you are awash in advertising disguised as content. Local news affiliates vie for your attention, teasing the “real” stories in a seemingly never-ending stream of “coming up” and “when we return”. You plow through repetitive weather bleatings demanding that you recognize the immediate danger tomorrow’s potential six millimeters of rain may entail. You dread the appearance of the pompous and over-haired jerks wearing gray jackets, each cleverly informing you of the almighty struggle between steroid-infused athletes as they seek to catch-hit-throw-block the movement of a ball.

You could handle all of that, were it not for the prattle. The constant, yammering back and forth between the male and female anchors. They jaggle and lisp, editorializing all content with shallow admonitions, mock outrage, and vainglorious chuckleheadedness. It is disheartening, and so you idle your thoughts as your eyes pass over b-roll footage shot six months ago of whatever event is being discussed. You struggle back to consciousness just as yet another lazy typo scrawls across the screen, further frightening you. If these are the people watching for trouble, this boat is screwed.

You click on the National News. It’s the same turd, polished to a bubbly and sexy shine. Story after story, you drown in the aftershave as contradictions and advertising bias force truth to take a backseat to sensationalism. You do not care about cocaine addled starlets, and yet they comprise 60% of what you are hearing reported on. You are tired of hearing the same stories from the same faces, year after year. You know their deepest secrets, you have read about their struggle to overcome cancer, and AIDS, and overeating, and mescaline, and you frankly find their haircut and bright white teeth a bit off-putting. You switch over to the 24 hour news channel.

You want to throw your remote through the television.

Stop watching the news. Stop caring about the Cult of Personality. Start reading, and better still, doing. The majority of what you consume each day in news is not absorbed. Do you remember the name of the girl Prince William may have been dating? Do you remember which political figure was last caught with his hand in the cookie jar? The world will spin on, whether you are there to count its revolutions and rotations or not. You have bigger things to do. Start.

Constantly.

Where does this need come from? To be accepted, even envied, even hated, for your supposed achievements and accomplishments? You want to know what is sad? They do not care. None of them do. You’re always afraid other people are going to get one over on you, take you for a ride, sneak past you, and rise above you, and that fear makes you try to empower yourself in their eyes.

It will never happen. You need to understand that the gross majority of people out there do not even notice you. You have yet to do something worth noticing. It is time to let go of the illusion of who you wish you were and deal with the establishment of who you are becoming. When you do finally achieve great success, you should be quietly truthful about it, and let others sing the praise of what you did on some fateful day.

You, of course, will be busy working on your next feat.

But most people consider a hero someone who rises to the challenge set before them. A hero is an ordinary person that can face extraordinary circumstances and succeed. Someone that faces an emergency and comes through shining.

What happens when every situation is turned into an emergency? What if every task that you are faced with is elevated to PRIORITY NUMBER ONE?

You end up diminishing the importance of each real emergency. You devalue your level of being able to rise to the occasion. After all, if you have already risen to one occasion, and another follows right behind, you are already up there. No need to come back down to rise up again.

If every task that you deal with is an emergency or high priority, then the real priorities are lost in the mix. People will bring you low priority items, and be forced to elevate them, just so they have a chance.

You will eventually burn out. You will exhaust those around you. You will lose focus and selectiveness.

You are a hero, but even Superman needs sleep.

A man a plan a canal - Panama!

You are intelligent, so it can be assumed that the plan is a good solid plan. It can be assumed that you thought out the next several steps. It can be assumed the goal you are moving your boat towards is an important part of the big picture.

It is understandable why you would be upset that one of the crew members is rowing against the team. Trying to go off on his or her own direction.

Your boat will eventually get to where you are going, but to maximize efficiency, you need all the crew members rowing in the same direction.

When one member consistently questions the method of getting to a goal, and suggests several alternative routes, that crew member is becoming counterproductive.

It could be that this person is actually working against you. it could be that they are afraid of success. It could be as simple as they feel that every avenue should be explored before taking a step forward.

The trouble is, if you scan the entire ocean to find the safest path, you will still be sitting at the docks decades from now. Safe is fine, but safe is stagnant.

You should consider your ship to be a shark. If it is not moving forward, it will die. Anything that gets in the way of forward progress becomes a threat to the life of your ship and is therefore something that needs to be eliminated.

What you don’t see is anyone taking a stand. You don’t see anyone offering a solution. You don’t see anyone trying to fix the problem.

You need to be that person. It is a frightening concept. Being the first person to step forward is always a dangerous event. But someone has to lead the way.

Very few people are qualified to take the first step, and you are in their ranks. A revolution begins with one person. That person shares an idea, an ideal. That concept rings true and mind of someone else. Soon, they join in and help spread the word. Overtime, the message spreads throughout a majority of the people and the world begins to change.

It has happened before. History is bombarded by stories of brave men and women that dared to speak up when the world was set against them.

You are not the squeaky wheel that complains about every small problem, because you understand that sometimes, things are broken. But when injustice place the world in a dark shadow, when people around you see hopelessness, when nothing can be done, you will raise your voice. You will rise up and fight. You will lead the way.

You have a voice.