Shut up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life: A Kick-Butt Approach to a Better Life, Second Edition, Revised & Updated

CHAPTER TWENTY

WHAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT?

Seems like such an easy question to answer. The average, normal person would quickly say “my kids,” or “my family,” or “being healthy” and so on. I bet those answers are about what you came up with when you first read the question too.

It's just that I'm not buying those answers. I'm not calling anyone a liar who recites those quick and easy answers; it's just that I don't buy that's what is really important to most people. Why would I say that? Because there isn't too much proof to suggest those answers are the truth.

One of my basic philosophies is that your time, your energy, and your money go to what is important to you. So if kids and family and being healthy were as important as most people say, it would follow that is where people would focus their time, energy, and money. Follow? Well, it isn't happening. Look around and you'll see that people are clearly not putting their actions into the important things in life. People are putting their time, energy, and money into lots of things, but more often than not it's the temporary, the mundane, and the instantly gratifying. The ridiculous occupies people's time, saps their energy, and seduces the money from their fingers. And the media help with that fascination. But I don't blame the media because they only give us what we beg to see. It's not their fault they are capitalizing on our preoccupation with the stupid; it's our own. Watching stupid stuff on television is voluntary participation. ...