Create your future - Milton Berle(?) - DON'T WAIT, START TODAY

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

from: Milton Berle (Maybe, don't care)

Normally I research ( not real "research," just internet research ) the crap out of my quotes. But not today. Milton Berle's "quote" came up on a number of quotation websites so I am using it "as is" because I have to GSD! I have to grow my future.

The pollen of this drive to GSD came (again) this morning while out walking. I was listening to the wonderful Terry Gross on NPR interview Annette Bening. In her movie "20th Century Women," an essay is mentioned. The title of the essay is "It Hurts to be Alive and Obsolete" and just the title struck me. I researched that essay and found out it is about middle-aged women. But the title applies to any marginalized group/person. This reminds me something that was said in a self-improvement class I went to long ago. The speaker pronounced "What people want is to be useful." This moves through me many times. When I am at my worst, darkest moments I feel that I don't have a use.

The ovary of this drive is that my "retirement" is less than 10 years away.
But before, I had decades to get set up. I could be useful to others and put off securing a future - a fine happy retirement. But now I am in my last decade (probably) before retirement so I have to get the ovary fertilized and grow my future.

So I have to change because how things are going is not leading to a clear future. Keep in action. Move quickly through non-productive emotions and get busy.

Gratitudes: Ibuprofen, Bluetooth earphones, quality socks.

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