Intentionally Vicarious: Having more fun than anyone else you know! - Self-Actualization - Lifelong Learning - Think About It - Explore - Try New Things - Life A Full Life
You’ve got a good job, you’re paying all the bills, you’ve got awesome people in your life... Now what? What else??? What next??? How on earth do you sort through all the options of fulfilling, exciting things you COULD do? You gotta’ be intentionally vicarious... Listen to in-depth stories of what other successful people are doing to reach self-actualization!
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 7 minutes
- Episodes
- 100
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2022
Whither The Post Office?
I'm appalled that we allow our federal government to employ more than 600,000 people to expend 95% of their work effort to deliver trash to our homes; while annually burning 146 Million gallons of ga…
Quick Thought 58 - The Coach Airplane Seat
Quick Thought 57 - Political Correctness
In Defense of Millennials
Pampered, self-absorbed, lazy, narcissistic, entitled, reality-TV-watching, participation trophy bearing, smartphone addicted, self-esteem obsessed ne'er do wells, still living in their parent’s base…
Episode 106 - Higher Education Ain't What It Used To Be
Not to sound too harsh, but... a good 80-90% of those wallowing in unpayable student debt are suffering due self-inflicted wounds. For sure, there is no need for one more individual to get self-saddl…
Quick Thought 56 - Winning the War On Poverty
In the 50 years since 1970, the total number of people living in abject poverty decreased! The total number of the abjectly poor today is less than half what it was only 50 years ago!
WOW!!!
Episode 105 - Public Servant My ...ummmmmm... Foot
Can you think of a politician who does things out of guilt, obligation, duty, or for a reward? Ummm... Wouldn't that be ALL of them?
Quick Thought 55 - The Wizard of US
The Wizard of New Zealand is a real guy who has been in office and guiding that country’s political process since 1990...
Episode 104 - Healthcare & Crony Capitalism
The easiest, fastest and best strategy to reduce the insanely high cost of healthcare in the U.S. is to seek out, attack and eliminate crony capitalism. It's all really quite horrifying....
Quick Thought 54 - What The World Owes Us
They say we’re entitled to health care. They say we’re entitled to a “living wage.” They say we’re entitled to a school or workplace that is free from words or actions we might find to be offensive o…
Chicken Little & The Green New Deal
We humans are getting more and more and more health, nutrition and life-improving stuff using less and less and less energy and earth’s natural resources. Seriously! We are!
Quick Thought 53 - Political Promises
Politicians promise the moon. ...as long as you send more money...
Quick Thought 52 - Good Advice
I decided to figure out the single best piece of advice I’d ever gotten that:
- Applies to both business AND personal life
- Seems off-kilter at first, and...
- Is spot-on accurate
Episode 101 - Karl Marx & the NCAA
Thanks for nothing, NCAA. Thanks for nothing, NCAA Conferences. Thanks for nothing, college presidents, administrators and coaches. Thanks for nothing, all you capitalists who tout capitalism up to t…
Quick Thought 51 - Daylight Savings Time is D-U-M-B!!!
Pink Floyd had it almost right...
Leave the clocks alone!
Episode 100 - You Choose: Tolerate Poverty? or Escape Poverty?
Imagine the founder of a charitable organization firing an employee for helping a poor family. Sound crazy? Yes, but...
Learn more about the fascinating story of the Family Independence Initiative.
Episode 99 - Lessons From Brexit
The citizens of the UK are saying, “Enough is enough!” with regard to centralization of political power. The European Union, created for an extremely good reason - preventing war among European count…
Quick Thought 49 - Learning
Always be alert for new things to learn, and always recognize that the education may come from an unexpected source.
Episode 98 - The Congress-Inflicted Student Loan Debacle
Congress served its own self-interest by passing at least 19 bills they proudly touted as “making higher education more affordable.” In fact what they did was subsidize the banking industry.