Saturday, July 19, 2014.

I woke up later than usual since I have re-worked my schedule. I was able to finally sleep in until 7:00 AM rather than having to rise at 5:30! It felt good and I was mostly refreshed when I woke.

I always start the day with a glass or two of water, a spoonful of peanut butter with honey, a twenty minute workout of dips, pullups, pushups, crunches, and situps, right?! Well I didn't this morning, instead I walked out on to my balcony on the second floor of my apartment--which sits atop a big hill--and overlooks the entire city. From across the way on another hill I can see the campus and it's newly renovated football stadium, apartment complexes, and a sky-crane hoisting materials around the job site where a new dormitory is being constructed.

As I sit drinking my glass of water (ok it was a plastic cup) and looking over the city I thought about my goals, dreams, and the reality of where I am. I don't mean just geographically, though that did cross my thoughts, I mean where I am with my life. I have fallen short of 90% of the goals I have set for myself. That's a lot.

Just to give you an example of some of my goals that I have not reached (mostly because I'm lazy and complacent):

1. Marry my long-time girlfriend. We've been together for over five years and I haven't proposed.
2. Graduate in good standing within a field of my specific interest.
3. Create an outstanding business.
4. Become a good friend and reliable person.
5. Eliminate fear, doubt, and worry from my life.
6. Be Godly.
7. Achieve financial success.
8. Make new friends every week.
9. Travel to exotic locations.
10. Love unconditionally.

It's just ten things that most people have already accomplished at my age. Oh yeah, by the way I am 26.. I realized I have never mentioned that before so it's better to get it out there.

Another thing that has been on my mind a lot is a friend. I went to college with him for a year and half during my days in engineering. He was a petroleum engineering major and also on the football team. He came from Wyoming and was damn proud of it! Actually, I think he is still proud of it haha. But he's a really good guy. He didn't do well in his major but I think it was because he didn't really enjoy it. --You have to do what you're passionate about--. Now let me tell you something about this guy; he's thrives on high energy and is a total extrovert. I think this was the first time he came across something he couldn't do. In the middle of our second semester sophomore year he left back to Wyoming. I guess he'd had enough of Montana and engineering. I saw it as him quitting, just giving up and running away with his tail between his legs. I lost respect for him right there.

After that he fell into obscurity in my life. I rarely talked to him and didn't think much about what he was doing. I deleted Facebook and quit the whole social aspect of the internet so I didn't really know what he was up to. Come to find out, his life didn't fall apart. He was depressed or thrown into a spiral of doom like I thought might happen (yes I am a super depressing and dumb guy for thinking things like that). He had his ups and downs and wasn't happy with not succeeding in engineering but he ended up finding his true calling and discovering a kind of joy that most people, including myself, only dream of! He picked up a pen and notepad and went back to school. Studying business management in his home state of Wyoming he did well. Actually, well doesn't really describe it accurately.  He did outstanding! While he was in school he took that knowledge and immediately applied it to creating his own business. That business led to another, which led to a third. While I was caught in one of the most depressing times of my life, he was out making money. Were not talking pennies and dimes, no way! He was making six figures within a year! It was absolutely insane and I had no idea any of this was happening.

Then one day out of the blue I received a text from him asking if I, or anyone I knew needed his services. I said no but decided to look into what he was doing. I was simply blown away. He had a new house, truck, nice clothes, and was living the dream. Huh, pretty interesting I thought, right? I brushed it aside and figured he just got lucky. Well, this lucky guy got even luckier then if that's what it was. He made connections, met a girl and within two months of meeting her they married! Turns out she has her own business as well and they work together on a lot of their projects.

Today, they have been married over a year, he has left his old-self and has become a man of intense power! I admire him more than almost anyone, and he doesn't know it. Along with his successful marriage, him and his wife travel around the world attending financial and self-help conventions, working, taking vacations, and freeing sex slaves around the globe! I cannot put into words how amazing of a person he has become and how I proud I am to call him my friend. He's taken it a step further and become a Christian, a very vocal and proud Christian at that! It's weird talking with him, looking at his Facebook profile, and now his own website that has his full name as the url, because he's become an entirely different person then who he once was. He has never stopped working! All this time while my life was on hold his was not. He picked himself back up and accomplished more as a result of his initial failure in engineering than he ever would have had he not failed.

Amazing!

I just thought I would share that because it's been on my mind a lot lately and it gives me hope and at the same time makes me feel ashamed of myself for being negative, egotistical, and lazy. Complacency and negativity are two of the worst habits a person can develop. It wears you down and crushes your soul, and defeats your mental edge. It prevents you from developing relationships, from liberating yourself from debt and financial strain, and can send you towards a black-hole-like depression.

Like any habit, it can be changed by substituting all the bad things for good ones. That what we all must do in life. Live as fruitfully and happily as we can through the creation of good habits!

Political Deadlock.

While congressman, representatives, and senators take a break from their jobs while still demanding special services provided for them at taxpayers expense, the rest of continue to work, attend class, and carry on with our lives.

We must ask and find answers to these questions: Why has our government shutdown? 

Let us investigate:

The reason the shutdown has occurred is because of a refusal to raise the debt ceiling by republicans with representative John Boehner leading the cause.

I am not going to focus on what the debt ceiling is and how it affects us as I have very briefly touched upon it in another section, and there are many sources out there providing readily available information for anyone seeking to learn more. Instead, I will focus on the root causes behind this quagmire, and seek to answer such questions as: why are the republicans refusing to cooperate? What are the root causes of it? What is going on in the minds of the republican party? I will also question the democrats: What are their agendas? Why are they seeking to increase the debt ceiling? I believe that during this journey we will uncover many other truths about both parties because republicans have a specific or specific reasons for refusing to raise the debt ceiling and endangering the entire nation, but are any of those reasons worth the risk? What is their ultimate goal behind this?

Obama meeting with Wall-Street!

President Obama is meeting with the CEO's of many large insurance and banking firms, including Lloyd Blankfein and Jamie Dimon. The meeting was organized by the Financial Services Forum, a trade group representing the CEO's of the 19 largest banking and insurance firms.

Let's get to work on this topic...

The first thing we should notice here is the fact that Obama is meeting with these guys (CEO's), at the White House.

We should ask  "who/what is/are the Financial Services Forum?"

And lastly, we should ask "why is the FTF meeting with Obama?"

On the first point, let's examine this situation. President Obama is meeting with the CEO's of the most powerful banks and insurance companies on the planet. These are the banks and institutions responsible for all of our financial problems since 2001, including the infamous financial meltdown of 2008. So why is Obama meeting with these wicked guys? I say guys because there are no women CEO's involved.

On one hand it is not an entirely dumbfounded meeting. Banks and insurance companies are tied to the economy in a very close and precise way, so their profits are overall business are directly linked to the political events that occur on the Hill. With or without any degree of government regulation this is how the economy works, so in such a case it is not completely without sense to have a meeting between the President and banks with which hold the people's money.

However, what is unnerving is that these CEO's are the ones responsible for all of our financial problems, and these guys are meeting with the president. If these CEO's had a reputation for helping society and of being of some benefit then there would be no issue, but the fact that the president is meeting with a group of men who literally have no more intelligence than that of your average five year old (less if you count the degree of greed), who are less than human and are essentially the scum of the earth, and want nothing but money at absolutely any cost, is cause for concern.

The most corrupt and evil of men have scheduled a meeting with the most powerful man in the known galaxy for reasons known as the 'debt ceiling', which is a problem in and of itself to be sure, but no one knows the specifics of the meeting between the president and these guys.

What is the FSF?
-It's a trade group representing the CEO's of 19 of the largest banks and insurance firms.

Why are they meeting with Obama and what does it matter?
-They are meeting with president Obama to discuss the matter of the current stalemate in congress between Democrats and Republicans regarding the debt ceiling. The debt ceiling is the maximum amount of debt allowed by congress that the U.S. can legally hold.

By not raising the debt ceiling, government will shut-down. According to Bank of America, this should not have an effect on Permanent Open Market Operations (POMO), but stocks will and already have been affected as investors react accordingly. This is cause for concern for the financial sector hence why they are meeting with Obama. It's all about the bottom line.

The mystery of Carpe Diem.

The mystery of Carpe Diem is a reference to the lack of faithfulness found in our politicians.

That is, faithfulness to their country. America.

Before anyone assumes this is nothing more than a rant I will assure you it is not. I want to make this clear, concise, and factual.

To any die-hard conservatives out there: shut up!
To to the left-wing militias: sit down!

I want to analyze both parties in eccentric detail and break them down into such fine particulates of data that anyone and everyone from every background will easily read and understand the information I am presenting them.
After this presentation and analysis I intend to present my solutions and offer my advice based upon experience, facts, and science. Yes! Yes it can be done!

This piece shall affiliate directly with my other blog "American Disease."