Focus… How to be Productive in a World of Distractions

A Book in 30 Days — Day 8

Elijah Claude
Aug 23, 2017 · 3 min read

As a thanks, a sorry, and a sleepy.. I’m going to share teasers from chapters rolled into here.

Its SO easy to procrastinate… now more than ever I think.

And the trend may continue to get worse…

Even now, as I write this I’m distracted by hundreds or even thousands of hours of personalized YouTube content; by webfictions and games and googling and tweeting and FB groups and IG and so on and so forth.

Im even more distracted by thoughts of the immediate future, of anxiety, of fatigue, of restlessness.

Its easy to procrastinate.

To push along the action needed to make any sort of change or take much of any action.

For me it was a matter of perfection, getting it right the first time, and fear of failure… ie achieving anything that wasn’t my ambition.


Poverty… Turning Problems Into Ideas

Poverty is basically my life… but it’s a funny thing.. I never had to live in the street.. yet I was still technically impoverished…

Growing up like this really made me hate the system.. hate money in general.. perhaps that's not healthy or whatever.. but it has fed my visions of the future.

What if people never were limited in their livelihood with this centralized bukake mess of fiat currency we call cash or money?

What would a world witho

ut money look like?

I imagined it would he far better.. simpler, and yet more fulfilling.

Such a world would ideally be one where people don't have to stress that they won't have food or water or a damn place to live just because they find themselves in a situation without money… which can happen for a bad visit to the hospital, getting laid off due to company changes that have nothing to with you; or not being able to find a job due to a lack of businesses in your area and a marketplace that changes faster than you can learn new skills...

Then i realized what currency even is.. what it was meant to be originally… it wasn't a noose around the neck of poor folk... a whip exclusive to rich folk who practically own the poor…

It's not meant to be the despotic bullshit that just ends up putting half the world in a state of poverty and the other half in a perpetual grind just to not be impoverished.. with only a handful of people across the globe actually able to live in abundance.. excessively so…

Its not meant to create classes of people for which others discriminate and abuse and regard as unwanted or lazy due to the very class the current economic system maintains them

It's supposed to be a way to exchange goods and services.. simple as that.

  • Capitalists think everything should be a product or service sold on the free market, where its impartiality determines or interprets supply and demand…
  • Communists think nothing should be a good or service with everything supplied and owned to/by every person equally…
  • Socialism seeks to supply certain goods or services to the people (usually free of cost), typically based on need…

I do6mt know which is right or wrong… all I know is what hasn’t worked… communism hasn’t worked, albeit mostly due to totalitarianism. Socialism hasn’t worked, albeit mostly due to myopia… capitalism, despite the rate of progress and propaganda-like news, isn’t working, mostly due to lack of empathy and accountability…

The so called free market has (arguably) led to an epic, global mess of pollution. The profit-first mentality has led to corporatism, a glut of consumerism culture, and then anti-consumer practices feeding upon that culture…

That’s why I don’t care for any one of these systems… I care for what works.

So my system I want to do of course has as little to do with money as possible, at least when it comes to dictating people’s livelihood….


To be continued…

Thanks for reading!!

Day 7

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Elijah Claude

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Philosopher, Imagineer, Erudite.

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