Not FDR, but FEAR

I have some time during work. I thought I blast some thoughts and opinions on what absurd comments I saw this week. The first one that come to my mind was the inspirational speech by Mr. O. Without a doubt he knows how to speak to people and uses word of inspiration. But my gripe about all of his speech and what he choose as his weapon to combat the issue of the nation, makes me wonder if the guy lives in reality. My ultimate question is this, just because someone speak of what is right (or wrong), call out the right (or wrong), does that mean what he execute is working? He made a few mistakes already and yet people continue to praise him. If the same actions were done by someone else I doubt we would give that person that much slack. But let's focus. His speech talks about being responsible and taking ownership. The problem is that many people are having a hard time in this economy are the responsible ones who pays their bill on time and tried to be the responsible citizen. Now what about speak to the irresponsible people? Well by telling them now that they should be responsible, would that cause them to suddenly change their behavior, unless they are in the hole already. So bottom line, we all know people needs to be responsible, but as a leader your job is produce results not try to point out the problems that we already know.

So from my evaluation of the guy's behavior since I had a chance to better analyze him, brings up some things that concerns me. For one I do believe he is smart, he is very stubborn or strong headed about things, and as well as eloquent which with those combinations makes him a bit concerning for me. He does not like being wrong even though he comes off as wanting to be the open and acceptable president. When he is wrong, he learns to disassociate himself from the situation and brings up that it is a group ownership. Look back and examine the times that he uses the word "I" in his sentences and when he uses the word "We". My opinion is that sometime as a leader you have to be lucky as well as to be some what smart. Look and examine all the CEO, presidents, leaders of the companies out there. The belief is that if you are able to stay at a position long enough, things will turn around. But in the mean time creat a constant motion in the team so that activities will suggest progress. The perception of change will eventually become reality. Like one time I heard from an executive VP at work, that it is not about what is right or wrong it is about setting the pace.

With that said I do thing some of thing is is doing is with some level of good intentions. But most people are not 100% good or 100% bad. There we should judge base on what they do and not on a constant fairy tale of what things should be.

Well one last thought. If down falls below 7000 mark, then we are heading into a depression. During that time people act a bit crazy and sometime their survival instinct bring out the worse of them.

Unorganized

I wonder if I ever blog when I have good things to say or positive thoughts to flow out. The truth the matter is that I have a whole flux of emotions day by day as well as hour by hour. It is quiet strange but I can't remember the last time I was completely mindless, without cross directional thought. It seems to me I always feel the need to overlay thoughhts with additional thoughts and those thoughts are cross referenced with other thoughts. All are related in minor ways, while other do not at first, but eventually do. With that said, I guess this couple of days been a bit unorganized for me. I guess that would be my theme for this blog. In case it was not obvious already. When I have this moment of unorganize ramped thought I know that something is troubling me or that my intuition is telling me that something is about to happen. It is a no brainer I guess that this year is about change, but then I not sure if I completely understand it yet, emotionally that is. So from what I know this moment, I know that the economy is looking to be in bad shape and my worse feeling may be coming to reality. I blogged a few months back about how the market will reach the mid 7K mark and that the O factor to the market. Emotionally I hope that I was wrong and that the hope for change can spark something. Logically, that just does not seems to make any senses and also indicated a real danger to be over optimitic and rely on hope. Now what we are getting into is the damamge of the numbers or what we call the economy of the world, but what is more concerning for me now is that we are approaching close to the emotional damage of people's psychy. Those two factors make it very difficult to navigate especially it does take a lot of coordination of the government, the people and other organization, which surprised me that Bill C made the right observation aboutt. Well the next few weeks are very important time for everyone, not sure if people know it, but that defines the rythem of the economy for the next 2 years.

Along with that thought, I feel that it is tough to stand out and be different or not adher to the majority. At work I've been right about the things that need to be done or undone. Yet in doing so I've offended a few people. It seems like somehow the past couple of days, I had to be correcting mistake of other people. Usually when you do that, even though you are right, you end up making enemies, which makes it so wrong. That goes the same thing with what I feel about other things, such as big O, social systems, relationships, friends, and all other things. I obtain feeling and thought where sometime I wish I am wrong about, because sometime it is just easier if you do not know. That way you can at least be wrong together, where as the opposite, it is hard to be right and to have to prove it as well as stick to what you believe is correct. By no means do I think I know everything. I just feel that these days it seems like being right actually make me feel so wrong. It seems like fighting been my theme for 2009 so far. Maybe the horn is getting stick to things that usually it does not get stuck to. Whatever it is, confrontation sucks.