I’ve decided that I want to be
rich and so I’ve embarking on a broad 'aspirational goal' of
being a millionaire. The great thing about this approach for
getting lots of money is that I don’t really have to do
anything--noting concrete, no goal setting, nothing really at
all. I just have to dream about the prospect that lots of money
will fall into my hands by magic or serendipity (I just like
that word.). I kinda just have to aspire towards it, a sort of
mental leaning and poof! just like that tons of money will fall
into my hands. Those poor idiots who slaved and worked for
economic wealth.
I don’t know why the rest of the
world doesn’t wake up to this fanatic way of goal setting. Just
think how many problems in the world could be solved, if we all
just aspired, without any specific concrete actions, to achieve
our goals. Nobody would have to do anything say, to curb
poverty, or diseases, or making this planet a better place to
live.
But, the really great thing
about this strategy to becoming a millionaire is that I won’t
offend anyone. For those who think my spending the rest of my
life rapaciously grabbing for great wealth is a bad thing, I can
prove that I’m not really doing anything about it because I’m
just making it a broad aspirational goal of it.
For those who think that you’re
not really ‘anybody’ unless you have lots of bucks, I can show
them I have a very specific plan for becoming like them.
Everyone’s happy: my critics, my friends, and me. Except…, I
wonder what the odds of my making a cent? But really, it must be
a great strategy because look: The brilliant leaders of the
world have just decided on this approach—a broad aspirational
goal-- to curbing the greatest problem of this century—Global
Warming.
They haven’t set any solid
goals, or created any binding agreements. The Asia-Pacific
Economic Co-operation forum stood firm in making a string of
lofty sounding sentences towards the great problem on fixing
Global Warming and not doing a damn thing about it.
