Levels of Adequate

Feeling happy?

Well, I am not sure about that, but the weekend is here and despite the challenges to set it up, last night - just as the intermission was ending - I was able to use the MetaMask browser to connect a wallet to Splinterlands and then purchase two white list positions for the Runicore card.

My new work lanyard ^ I have been trying to get one for a while.

I like rainbows.

It is exciting.

Though to be honest, I am a little too tired right at this particular moment to get too excited over anything at all and perhaps, I should just lay down and have a nap instead. As usual it seems, there is a lot going on that it is competing for attention currently, and I am trying to give all the attention they deserve for whatever reason that might be.

At work at the moment, with one week left in the quarter, I am doing my best to complete the quarterly tasks that qualify me for a bonus, which while not a massive amount, is also a nice little sum that will make life a little easier. Recently, we had to change our kitchen design slightly, which added 1500€ to the total, but payable soon - which we hadn't budgeted for at all. These kinds of costs arise in the renovations, but this late in the game, they are rare.

I was thinking about this recently, where unexpected costs arise or, things happen that immediately change our needs, like illness. Then, no matter what we were doing previously, we have to completely change our direction and behaviors. Over the years, I have seen it happen to many people where they were powering up and then, life happens and they power it all down.

But, I think that part of financial life is understanding that these things happen and then trying to be prepared for when they do. For one thing at least, multiple revenue streams can help, because often, that is the "point of attack" where income fails. And often, making the "unexpected" costs, far more expected.

Over the last years, I have been trying my darndest to increase revenue streams, because I have spent so many years in my life relying on thin trickles, that could end at any time. When it came to work, I essentially had to take everything that came my way, regardless of whether it was suitable for my skillset or not, which meant, not always getting the best results, or the results the job deserved. Incompetence in skilled positions frustrates me a bit, but what frustrates me the most, is my own incompetence in skilled jobs I am meant to be performing.

But, as a skills trainer, what has to be recognized for most positions is that we aren't going to be highly skilled at all areas equally. But, for any particular job, all areas of the job have to be covered at least adequately, and it is best to have a few areas of highly-skilled specialties.

And, if one is looking to build alternative income streams, it is also useful to build highly skilled specialties in areas that can provide additional work. A lot of people have hobbies that they love, but most hobbies don't come with earning potential, they are for entertainment purposes only. There is nothing wrong with this at all, until there is the need to have that supplementary income.

And this is something that I have consistently seen on Hive over the years, as when I talk about financial areas, there is often someone who says, "money isn't everything", yet watching those same people over those years - they often discover that at times,

It is.

And when they need and don't have access, their attitude changes, their positivity wanes and often become bitter and resentful. And also, it is common that they lament their actions of the past, regretting some of what they have done and said. It can be quite sad, when people realize that the position they find themselves in was perhaps avoidable, if they had been better prepared and willing to change their behavior a little.

We all have regrets in this life and due to hindsight, it is generally pretty easy to image what could have been, if we had done something different. Though, counterfactuals aren't always useful, as we can never know for sure what outcomes would have resulted, as nothing is certain.

So, all we can do is look ahead and hope that our next period of life is going to be one where we do the right things that get us to where we want to go. However, our default programming is strong and most will find, that even though we start off with the best intentions to change, it is very easy to fall back into old ways and often, continue down the familiar path, even when we recognize that what we are doing wrong, is the same thing we were doing wrong before.

This time will be different.

Probably not.

The past repeats for a reason, even though the future is unknown.

Taraz [ Gen1: Hive ]