Monday, April 1, 2013

Find Your Game, Play to the Best of Your Ability, Cheat when You Can

There is an old saying with the green men that goes: "if you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'..." And I believe this to be very true.

At some point in my existence, I was asked, "Are you left handed?" My shivering response was an automatic "Yes!"...followed by "Good, because if you weren't, I would have failed you." For the rest of that day, I proceeded to do everything left handed, including signing my name. That's all well and good since I was in a knot tying class with demolition and the consensus was that my life depended on it somehow.

I reassure you that I am in fact typing this right handed and I just happen to bat the same way...

If you are intending on branching out in your life and you want to succeed, it is important to:

1. Figure out the game you want to play to give your life the change-up it deserves (examples: investor, farmer, marketeer, professional bowler, jockey, taxi driver, taxi company owner, circus clown, writer, used car salesman, whatever your heart desires)

2. Find out everything there is to know about the chosen game and really sink your teeth in. This is an important factor not only for doing your very best as an individual, but also for step 4. After all, we are living in the information age here, anything you want to know but were afraid to ask your buddy is on the web...Below are some how to examples:

Intro to Beekeeping
Learn to Scuba
Metal Roofing (I actually used this one for my own house)
Counting Cards (don't condone because they are watching but scam school is cool)     
Drill Your own WATER WELL!!!
Raising Sheep & Goats for Profit

See? You don't even need to read anymore. If you do, even better!

3. Do the best you can with the talents that God gave you. If you have none, start over with step two or proceed *With Caution* directly to step 4.

4. Cheat as much as you can without legal or bodily harm. This means finding an edge somehow and exploiting it to the best of your ability. Clint Eastwood in The Outlaw Josey Wales displayed this edge finding the best. This DOES NOT mean that you steal money (outright) or sell cars with bad transmissions that you knew about, more than once or twice anyway. It can mean doing your taxes in an accurate fashion to get the most money back. You wouldn't want to be a loafer or leave money with your name on it just hanging out there. This absolutely DOES NOT mean that you pencil in the wrong score on your mini golf card just to win a bet. (Those establishments have a no eraser policy for a reason.) It could mean that you buy land and rent the trailer on it to make your own payments, or find used tools to start your contracting business from others that are going under instead of buying anew.

Clearly, there is a distinction between cheating with malice and finding an edge where and when you can, like a gentleman or a lady.     



The following are some games/professions where cheating of any kind is highly discouraged:

1. Firefighter
2. Craps shooter (May lose a limb)
3. Tax professional
4. Pro Fisherman
5. Guy/Gal that trains Killer Whales (May lose another limb)
6. Archery (either you hit it or you didn't)
7. Pro Skydiver that teaches other people
8. Hot Air balloon pilot
9. Government contractor...wait...this belongs on another list
10. Heat Seeking Missile 

Remember...if you are ever asked if you are left handed...or you if you are the "Gatekeeper" you just say YES and move on like you know exactly what you are doing.

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