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Where’d All The Time Go? Page 2
By Anthony Douglas Gere
The people that can afford to pay these ridiculous prices to go to the games, are not the
people buying the two hundred dollar sneakers or throwback jerseys in abundance that
represent the players playing in the games. The many kids and fashion crazed
spectators that wear these garments, can’t afford or select not to pay the asking ticket
price to go to the professional gladiator events. From my research and understanding,
the people watching the games are television, are actually the ones the advertisers
want to hit. Within the stadiums there are stores and vendors, but not to the level of
commercials that make a two and a half hour game, last forty percent longer than it
should. Now maybe I’m a bit slow or have never been a position to see things in this
manner, but to me and in my humble opinion, these sporting events now like never
before, have gone so corporate, that the average fan or laborer in America, cant
afford to go. The seats we sit in, the cost for tickets, parking, food and souvenirs to
just one game, is many peoples car payment or rent for a month. Its simply crazy,
and more than ever, those there, are not there for reason you think. Trust me, I
know. Now many are fans on a certain level, but not the fan that actually bleeds
the teams’ color when they decide to give blood at the plasma center. The ironic
thing about all of this is that the people playing in the games are basically a form
of entertainment. They’re skilled in their craft, don’t get me wrong or think I’m
trying to take anything away from them, and many of them can actually do things
many of us can only wish. But at the end of the day, their basically
entertainment for the millions that pay homage to them year around on many
more levels. But this theory isn’t about that and about something else. So let
me fall back into the vibe of a Moodsetter CD, continue checking out the
scenery at a blur and write this theory I call what I called it. And welcome to
my day.
One lesson a mentor of mine told and taught me when I joined his personal
design team, was to maximize my efforts for the moment, based on my
experiences from the past, to make the next moment better for my future. His
concept was that we die for the moment, so we can live unconditionally in the
future. Its not an all or nothing system or approach, but one that allows you
to focus and apply the things you gather correctly, based on your mistakes
and short comings. He asked all of us in the team to go back in our mind
five years, and write down what we were doing then, and why we were doing
it. He also had us categorize that time frame using many different elements.
He told us to place them in a columns title; financial, mental, physical and
things like that. He then asked us if we could have worked ten minutes
harder, fifteen minutes more efficiently and imagine if we have financially
saved ten percent of our daily earnings. Think about that concept or vision
for a minute. If you were to go back five years, which calculates into one
thousand eight hundred and twenty five days, think about your life and where
you could be? Think about how much more knowledge you would have, the
many things that would have come with your knowledge, and the money
generated through interest, if you placed it in a market you learned about
through this now acquired knowledge. Even if you had a low paying job, if you
saved just a fraction of it five years ago, your options today would seem
endless. He then asked us to envision where we would like to be five years
from that time then, and what steps we feel we need to take and that are being
taken, to get us there. He then informed us to list our self accessed limitations,
obstacles, vices and self-made detours.
By Anthony Douglas Gere
The people that can afford to pay these ridiculous prices to go to the games, are not the
people buying the two hundred dollar sneakers or throwback jerseys in abundance that
represent the players playing in the games. The many kids and fashion crazed
spectators that wear these garments, can’t afford or select not to pay the asking ticket
price to go to the professional gladiator events. From my research and understanding,
the people watching the games are television, are actually the ones the advertisers
want to hit. Within the stadiums there are stores and vendors, but not to the level of
commercials that make a two and a half hour game, last forty percent longer than it
should. Now maybe I’m a bit slow or have never been a position to see things in this
manner, but to me and in my humble opinion, these sporting events now like never
before, have gone so corporate, that the average fan or laborer in America, cant
afford to go. The seats we sit in, the cost for tickets, parking, food and souvenirs to
just one game, is many peoples car payment or rent for a month. Its simply crazy,
and more than ever, those there, are not there for reason you think. Trust me, I
know. Now many are fans on a certain level, but not the fan that actually bleeds
the teams’ color when they decide to give blood at the plasma center. The ironic
thing about all of this is that the people playing in the games are basically a form
of entertainment. They’re skilled in their craft, don’t get me wrong or think I’m
trying to take anything away from them, and many of them can actually do things
many of us can only wish. But at the end of the day, their basically
entertainment for the millions that pay homage to them year around on many
more levels. But this theory isn’t about that and about something else. So let
me fall back into the vibe of a Moodsetter CD, continue checking out the
scenery at a blur and write this theory I call what I called it. And welcome to
my day.
One lesson a mentor of mine told and taught me when I joined his personal
design team, was to maximize my efforts for the moment, based on my
experiences from the past, to make the next moment better for my future. His
concept was that we die for the moment, so we can live unconditionally in the
future. Its not an all or nothing system or approach, but one that allows you
to focus and apply the things you gather correctly, based on your mistakes
and short comings. He asked all of us in the team to go back in our mind
five years, and write down what we were doing then, and why we were doing
it. He also had us categorize that time frame using many different elements.
He told us to place them in a columns title; financial, mental, physical and
things like that. He then asked us if we could have worked ten minutes
harder, fifteen minutes more efficiently and imagine if we have financially
saved ten percent of our daily earnings. Think about that concept or vision
for a minute. If you were to go back five years, which calculates into one
thousand eight hundred and twenty five days, think about your life and where
you could be? Think about how much more knowledge you would have, the
many things that would have come with your knowledge, and the money
generated through interest, if you placed it in a market you learned about
through this now acquired knowledge. Even if you had a low paying job, if you
saved just a fraction of it five years ago, your options today would seem
endless. He then asked us to envision where we would like to be five years
from that time then, and what steps we feel we need to take and that are being
taken, to get us there. He then informed us to list our self accessed limitations,
obstacles, vices and self-made detours.