I can’t seem to get it together enough to launch Patreon. Even though we are living at the beginning of a new year with endless possibilities lying ahead, I’m just not feeling it.
“The Tau of Steves: What You Don’t Know Could Fill a Book”
Hi and welcome to Thursday’s Episode 149 in the first season of “My 1-Year Natural Experiment” on this 9th day of January in winter of 2020.
“5” Steve McQueen (1930 – 1980): “A project frustrates. Get away from your work for a while, and then you’ll come back with an idea.” Aries
Context
Why?
Is it time to fire up the way back machine? Because, what I do now began long ago.
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- I wrote about the Daniel Boones and Davey Crocketts who captured my black and white television soaked mind as a kid in Dock Watch Hollow and Doepke Lane as proxies for the Howards migrating westward from the Carolinas to Tennessee and Missouri.
- Following trails and rivers was the only transportation available. Pushing the frontier west from the East into the Midwest up against the Mississippi River and out of heavily forested areas whole populations settled and farmed living the good life until the Gold Rush triggered a stampede across the plains.
- Using locations in the Journal of 2020 Foresight — Basecamp, The Ridge, The Outpost and Tribal Territories — I mixed and mashed too many threads into an odd fitting fabric of then and now (actually then).
- The eternal now lies somewhere between understanding the past and projecting into the future.
- Acknowledging I felt the pull of trends and accepted paradigms.
- Mark Twain wrote about the Sierras.
- Buffalo Bill Cody briefly delivered the mail on horseback between Independence, Missouri and California.
- I made that trip, following portions of Route 66 through Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California. Two or three times hauling furniture and dreams.
- It ended at the Pacific shoreline.
- After a brief period in Pico Rivera, and a 100-resume broadcast to every type of psychology-related employer I could locate in Southern California from Huntington Beach to Coronado, we found Corona del Mar for my commute to Fairview State Hospital and the Behavior Modification Institute across Pacific Coast Highway.
Two take aways.
Harry Dent blew my mind in two ways.
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- Demographic trends (economic impact of generations hitting their mid-40s peak spending) and
- The migration of boomers to the boonies because the internet sets them free to do so.
Evidence
And, now we are here. Did it really help with my slip sliding away? Not really. Is there anything in today’s Holiday Tau that can?
Random ones that make me want change my sign.
Researcher’s Note: Like last time, today is still not my birthday, if it is yours you are way more entitled to benefit from this little bit of wisdom. Help yourself, I did.
Today’s Holiday Birthday:
You’re so adept at making your own luck that it will probably catch you off guard when you don’t have to. Fortunate surprises will happen while you’re relaxing.
Wow, Steve. Thank you for your bluntness. I’m going to take you up on today’s advice
“5” Steve McQueen (1930 – 1980): “A project frustrates. Get away from your work for a while, and then you’ll come back with an idea.” Aries
Okay Howey, what do you have for me? I look forward to monitoring the performance of my Patreon offerings — once it goes live.
“4” Steve Howey, 42: “You’ll objectively figure out why what you’re doing is right for certain people and not others so you can broaden or narrow your appeal according to your goals.” Cancer
Hmm. Your Holiday Tau, while not what I expected for today and not even on my mind, is so profound I’m going to give it a “5” because it is so important.
“5” Steve Carell, 57; Steve Martin, 74; Steve Wozniak, 69: “One way to tell love from its imposters is that love is happening in the present.” Leo
Intuition, you say? Since nothing else seems to be working, maybe I’ll combine your Holiday Tau with McQueen’s and fast forward to the end point.
“4” Steve Harvey, 62: “Decisions don’t have to make sense to be good. Have the guts to follow through on your intuition, and you’ll look back with a grateful heart.” Capricorn
Is it because I high “5-ed” your buddy Wozniak’s Holiday Tau that you think I’ll do the same with yours? Guess again, Steve.
“4” Steve Jobs, (1955 – 2011): “You are trading dysfunctional patterns for routines and habits that better support your well-being.” Pisces
Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Inspired by: Holiday Mathis – Creators Syndicate
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