I was just thinking what will I be involved in, or should be involved in, three years from now?

The world is moving too fast to project any further than that.

I am asking you the same question.  I just want you to think about this.  You don’t have to share back your thoughts.  But if you choose, I’d enjoy learning from what you have to say.

In the next 3 years I am thinking I will likely have moved my residence, either living outside of the country, or at least having found a second place to live outside of the usual reach of the masses, FEMA, etc.; or I may be in jail (too many enemies, domestic and professional), and have moved away from the online world (everything electronic is being watched).  However, I want to be “in the world, just not of it.”  I don’t want to be holed up some place where I am of no use to others.  As far as reach goes, whatever I have to offer others can be dispatched around the globe in a fraction of a second, and it can be electronically archived, but only 500+ million out of 7 billion can read it in their language.  If you reach all of those English-speaking people you are still a little fish in a big pond.

I am thinking I first need to aim myself in the right direction.  The specifics and details will take care of themselves.  I am thinking I need to move closer to the following, personally, investment-wise or otherwise.

Water

Energy

Gold and silver

Self-care; access to dietary supplements and knowledge how to use them

God/Bible

Liberty

Relationships, personal and business

Small as opposed to large

In the past 3 years I have seen 3 acquaintances begin to grow marijuana commercially.

In the past 3 years I have seen too many close friends lose their jobs and income and remain dismayed and paralyzed over their plight (except for Nick who lives at the end of my block and re-invented himself and started a business in rodent control that under his cunning management is growing wonderfully).

In the past 3 years I have had 3 close friends die, all prematurely, all unexpectedly, all beyond help from modern medicine (not accidental deaths).

In the past 3 tumultuous years I learned, no matter how much I tried to hold up the fence, it finally came tumbling down harder because of that.

In the past 3 years I’ve watched too many family members and in-laws become pathetically trapped by the sins and misdirections of their past.  Alcohol is at the top of the list.  Money mismanagement is another.  But nothing tops stupidity.

In the past 3 years I’ve learned most people can’t be helped. In particular, the most difficult things to change are a person’s diet and their religion.

In the past 3 years I’ve learned that just when you have figured out what life is all about you are too old to enjoy it.  Efforts to extend the health span counter that.

In the past 3 years I’ve learned that most people cannot make nor have ever made an independent decision how to manage their health, their money or their life or afterlife.  Most are pawns in the game of life, manipulated by forces they never question.  Most people cannot discern propaganda from truth, whether it is on TV or delivered from the pulpit.  When is God or the Devil speaking?

In the past 3 years I’ve watched some people become more bitter and very few more kind.  There are angry voices on my phone these days. Most of these are single middle-aged males.

In the past 3 years I’ve learned that when I engage lawyers, doctors, marketing experts, I end up having to give them a valuable lecture on what they should be doing instead of the other way around, and they still send ME the bill.

In the past 3 years I’ve been dismayed at the new heroes being paraded in front of American kids:  Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook who never had a working business plan and who scammed the world by using other people’s content (family photos, stories, etc) to enrich himself; Elon Musk who hasn’t saved a drop of oil by making electric cars that have to be charged from sources that use oil to generate power; Warren Buffet, the investment billionaire and poster-boy for the investment world who is let in on investment opportunities you or I will never be offered; Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook whose only claim to fame is that she was on the right boat when it hit pay dirt.  All of these are material-minded, moral midgets, all elevated by their handlers on Wall Street.

Steve Jobs is a modern hero, particularly among the “techy” crowd.  But even his followers fail to see that brilliant Steve was felled by his lack of knowledge about personal health.  Oh, he tried alternatives and was belittled and was misled by the homeopaths who haven’t cured a single case of cancer to date.  In the end he was forced to rely on others in arrogant white coats to save him from his life-threatening disease when they had no cures in hand either.  He pushed the wrong button twice.

In the past 3 years I’ve learned not to cast my pearls before swine.  Only those who “have ears to hear” will benefit from whatever my lips have to say.  I’ve learned that those who are closest to you are the most likely to reject what you have to say.

In the past 3 years I’ve learned that fearful people make the worst decisions, self included.

In the past 3 years I’ve learned that self-indulgence should become the 8th deadly sin (lust, gluttony, greed, laziness, wrath, envy and pride are the first seven).

In the past 3 years I’ve learned towards the end of life we ought to devote ourselves to mentoring young people and catching kids in their formative years before they buy into the trappings of modern civilization.

In the past 3 years I’ve learned to ask, how can I release God’s words from my lips?

And your next 3 years?