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# Ertia Unlimited

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- [WORK ETHIC](https://ertiaunlimited.com/work-ethic/) - Posted to the FAM message board: “Humming birds have finally arrived! (7/25/2026, Wilmore, KY) Wonder of wonders: I replaced the nectar in the HB feeder earlier this week.” Dad * * * * * * * * * * * “Those lazy hummingbirds need to get off the welfare dole NOW and forage for their
- [HUMAN BEHAVIORAL BEARINGS](https://ertiaunlimited.com/human-behavioral-bearings/) - I have been struck by how human behavior so strikingly gets in the way of human development. We keep “acting like animals” and ending up debasing ourselves and regretting it! As it turns out, we ARE part of the Animal Kingdom and have evolved with all of the associated assets and baggage, primarily arising from
- [TRANSCENDENCE](https://ertiaunlimited.com/transcendence/) - “ … the ability to go beyond the usual limits; existence or experience beyond the normal or physical level.” https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/transcendence TRANSCENDENCE, as represented here, is the art and act of stepping outside and above the influence of the Animal Kingdom Brain Core to follow a “higher calling”. That “higher calling” might be an ASPIRATION or
- [AFFORDABILITY](https://ertiaunlimited.com/affordability/) - “Affordability” has become a scapegoat “hoax” contrivance in Donald Trump’s administration. Asked whether he was concerned about the economic pain felt by Americans in connection with the Iran war, Trump replied, “Not even a little bit. I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation.” However, let’s be brutally honest. We need to have a “Come to
- [SUPERSTRUCTURE](https://ertiaunlimited.com/superstructure/) - If you’re going to reach the stratospheric heights of your own personal potential, you’re going to need a lot of SUPERSTRUCTURE. SUPERSTRUCTURES help navigating both life, in general, and careers, in particular.* Critical “superstructures” include: PARTNERSHIPS AFFILIATIONS ASSOCIATIONS ALLIANCES RELATIONSHIPS Such connections provide context and accountability. They provide validation. They provide “fenestration” (“fresh air”). And
- [CAPITALISM](https://ertiaunlimited.com/capitalism/) - Like it or not, if you live in the U.S., you live in a Capitalistic society. That means you EARN your living. And that means you COMPETE. Yes, it’s a “FREE” society, meaning you can be anything you want to be … if you are willing to invest everything you’ve got toward “becoming” … all
- [BEFORE](https://ertiaunlimited.com/before/) - “Be three before be four before be five!” Early Childhood Aspirational Chant It’s a universal law: Some things just have to happen BEFORE other things can happen. One can’t be ALL of FOUR until completing ALL of THREE. Before a bird can become a bird, is has to become an EGG, it has to HATCH
- [BECOMING](https://ertiaunlimited.com/becoming/) - Human development, left untended, is essentially a “crap shoot”, depending largely on the environment in which one finds (or loses) oneself. For starters, the Animal Kingdom Brain Core (AKBC) we’re born with is “hard wired” with loads of SURVIVAL instincts and inclinations, but also complete with a “Pleasure Center” (PC), generally complimented by a sense
- [DURABILITY](https://ertiaunlimited.com/durability/) - What drives me most persistently – as an ardent consumer of both goods and information … and philosophy – is a sense of PERMANENCE … a sense of DURABILITY … a sense of WHAT’S RIGHT … WHAT’S TRUE and enduring. I’m not into momentary, gratuitous, opportunistic, “transactional” holdings, tribal connections, conspiracy theories, or what’s “trending”.
- [BEYOND BOTTOMING OUT](https://ertiaunlimited.com/beyond-bottoming-out/) - In 2025 I had a life challenging experience – confined to a hospital for 70 days with Refractory Inflammatory Colitis, during which, I lost a total of 35 pounds. At one of my lowest points, I actually used the term “euthanasia” in a consultation with my Spiritual advisor. He listened but wasn’t enthusiastic about discussing
- [STRIVING ](https://ertiaunlimited.com/striving/) - It may not be the ONLY thing LIFE is about, but it’s a foundational element: STRIVING … fulfilling the need to BECOME … to learn, to know, to understand, to comprehend, to become “conversant” with the laws and nature of the universe, to become “productively engaged” on one’s own behalf, to become “productively engaged” on behalf of
- [Personal Manifesto - Quartermaster](https://ertiaunlimited.com/personal-manifesto-quartermaster-ertia-unlimited/) - Preface I am not into lost causes, losing propositions or meaningless pursuits, including “fandom”, Superhero Divination, fantasy games, conspiracy theories, cult “caving”, and tribal “exceptionalism”. The first and last person I don’t want to fool – or BE fooled – is me. I will not shy from the difficult or even imponderable as long as
- [PERSONAL MANIFESTO II](https://ertiaunlimited.com/personal-manifesto-ii/) - I am a proud “Bleeding Heart Progressive Liberal”. I CARE about other people. I hold in highest esteem those who exemplify the cardinal VIRTUES and I hold in very low esteem any inclination toward the cardinal VICES … except for righteous indignation against any abuse of people, privilege or power. I believe in FAIRNESS. I
- [RAINBOWS 1](https://ertiaunlimited.com/rainbows-1/) - October 31, 1999 Rick Shaw, Chairman Communications Task Force SHUMC Dear Rick: Following the “Visioning Retreat” yesterday, a long-latent thought occurred to me that I felt I should pass along to the Communications Task Force. The original concept arose from personal experiences in my own pilgrimage where I felt in awe and privileged to witness
- [CREATION REVISITED](https://ertiaunlimited.com/creation-revisited/) - Many hearty and sincere souls harbor a belief that the Bible holds a precise and inerrant account of how we got here – the earth was created in SIX DAYS some 4,000 years ago. Other hearty souls believe the Bible is the INSPIRED “Word of God”, to be taken in Spirit but not necessarily literally
- [TRACTION](https://ertiaunlimited.com/traction/) - One of the most limiting factors in “becoming all that we can be” is failing to get TRACTION … failing to be able to GRASP and DIG IN on whatever we’re going to become and wherever it is we’re going to go. Life just seems so nebulously “ungraspable” … Captain Ahab finds himself in this
- [THROWAWAYS](https://ertiaunlimited.com/throwaways/) - Confronted with so many untenably unresolvable circumstances, one has to ask: At what point is a life – or a whole cadre of lives – so lacking in value that it / they should no longer exist or be tolerated … or is that “somebody else’s problem”? Capital punishment – the taking of lives deemed
- [HOSTAGE II](https://ertiaunlimited.com/hostage-ii/) - As noted in “Hostage”/21, we may be being HELD HOSTAGE by all sorts of things hidden in the background thwarting our efforts and holding us back … … but it also helps to understand that we are likely being HELD BACK by some things that are actually “for our own good” … like by family,
- [PUSSYCAT PUSSYCAT](https://ertiaunlimited.com/pussycat-pussycat/) - "Pussycat, pussycat where have you been? I’ve been to London to visit the queen. Pussycat, pussycat What did you there? I frightened a little mouse under her chair.” Olde English Nursery Rhyme I’m sorry … you WHAT!?! What a trifling thing to do when visiting the QUEEN! OK, so you’re a “Pussycat” … and that’s
- [RAINBOWS](https://ertiaunlimited.com/rainbows/) - LIFE IS TOUGH! It is unfair, untidy, ignoble in many respects, competitive, full of disease and disaster and takes an extraordinary measure of coping and nobility simply to make a decent “GO” of it. Yet life has its high points. It is important to draw these high points out from the basic backdrop and undercurrent
- [SAFER KENTUCKY](https://ertiaunlimited.com/safer-kentucky/) - It needs to be acknowledged at some point that a SAFER KENTUCKY begins very early in childhood development and requires intensive human development oversight. Parenting is crucial, but is so lacking in availability and effectiveness that “surrogate parenting” in the COMMUNITY is needed. First of all, nobody ever receives certifiable parenting instruction. Parents are left
- [Operational Phenomenology](https://ertiaunlimited.com/operational-phenomenology/) - Sometimes technicalities get in the way of practicalities. Who cares about the biochemistry if you can cultivate a rose to bloom! We can infer a lot about the universe that we don’t totally understand, but we can also discover or suspect at least enough about it to be able to function meaningfully / operationally as we
- [ORDAINED](https://ertiaunlimited.com/ordained/) - “People are people. Kids are kids. Mosquitos are mosquitos. Squirrels are squirrels. The squirrels … did not mean any harm when they stole the birdseed you put out … the squirrels were simply doing what they do. They were doing what their nature demanded. Some people are thieves. Some people are exaggerators. Some people are
- [Can't Wait](https://ertiaunlimited.com/cant-wait/) - Doing whatever you do with passion and total intentionality will more than carry the day on stage. Whatever you do, do it like you mean it!
- [Barriers](https://ertiaunlimited.com/barriers/) - We have to be able to function amid restrictions of all kinds, become proficient in overcoming barriers, and, by all means, stop putting barriers in our own way.
- [Visioning Conundrum](https://ertiaunlimited.com/visioning-conundrum/) - Failure to “see the big picture” – worse, an unwillingness to acknowledge and/or act on what one DOES or CAN see – is a formula for failure overall.
- [Hustle](https://ertiaunlimited.com/hustle/) - Life is all about CHOICES. Hustling not only expands choices but yields much higher quality choices. The choice is yours.
- [Hiding in Plain Sight](https://ertiaunlimited.com/hiding-in-plain-sight/) - Let’s immerse ourselves in the very best we know and can possibly muster toward the greatest good we can fathom, as well armed as possible.
- [Slow Motion Visioning](https://ertiaunlimited.com/slow-motion-visioning/) - I’m fascinated by superstar players in sports – how they seem to see things in slow motion despite the frenetic pace of a game and can seemingly adjust in mid-air.
- [Life's Toughest Lesson](https://ertiaunlimited.com/lifes-toughest-lesson/) - Life’s Tough! And it’s particularly so if we insist on carrying forward our own unfounded assumptions and unrealistic expectations acquired early in the going.
- [Fired Up](https://ertiaunlimited.com/fired-up/) - The very BEST that's in us needs to be OUT. We need to create more HOPE for the future – more promise … more optimism. THAT’S worth getting Fired UP about!
- [Bindings](https://ertiaunlimited.com/bindings/) - The “Greatest Good” maybe the act of binding oneself to a Dream or Destiny or Ideal or Mission or Purpose or Passion that is worth living and dying for.
- [Peak Conditioning](https://ertiaunlimited.com/peak-conditioning/) - "Conditioning” is important for Peak Performance and Peak Output when required on the battlefield, and for reduced STRESS in preparing for and delivering the goods.
- [Power UP](https://ertiaunlimited.com/power-up/) - Without the capacity to navigate or negotiate, we are vulnerable and impotent to effect our own wellbeing.
- [If I Only Had a Brain](https://ertiaunlimited.com/if-i-only-had-a-brain/) - Project yourself into a new and higher dimension of engagement and functionality, and then give your brain explicit instructions to get with the program!
- [Fighting Chance](https://ertiaunlimited.com/fighting-chance/) - Making it through with all that’s in you is a life and death matter. Live as if you really meant to. And, wherever Destiny beckons, die trying!
- [Operating Under The Influence](https://ertiaunlimited.com/operating-under-the-influence/) - A well-charted destination and well-executed journey maximizes the beneficial influences and minimizes the detrimental.
- [Mental Health](https://ertiaunlimited.com/mental-health/) - My personal suspicion is that sub-clinical mental insalubrity is equally or even more prevalent but better camouflaged.
- [What We Know 4 Sure](https://ertiaunlimited.com/what-we-know-4-sure/) - Each of us has an “Achilles Heel” – a “fatal flaw”, though it may be latent until too late to deal with or compensate for.
- [It's Really Not That Tough](https://ertiaunlimited.com/its-really-not-that-tough/) - It would be the ideal circumstance if the blanks started filling themselves. Just ignore all the “fluff” you’d rather be doing; just keep filling in the blanks.
- [Incentives](https://ertiaunlimited.com/incentives/) - Grow to understand what makes you “tick” and what best “turns you on” to make good things happen, and indulge it often.
- [Personal Best](https://ertiaunlimited.com/personal-best/) - We are not ONE-DIMENSIONAL! We’re sons, daughters, bread-winners, friends, socially conscious contributors to the community, parents, teachers …
- [Running Away](https://ertiaunlimited.com/running-away/) - We can’t always run away. More times than not, we’ve got to stand our ground and fight our way through thick and thin to a, hopefully, better end.
- [Manageability](https://ertiaunlimited.com/manageability/) - For maximum manageability, CONNECTION to a network of significant others who are mutually supportive can be extremely advantageous.
- [Manageability II](https://ertiaunlimited.com/manageability-ii/) - For maximum "manageability", start big and more challenging projects early. Big projects need a head start. They need incubation and “simmering”.
- [Affirmation](https://ertiaunlimited.com/affirmation/) - BE good and DO good – for GOODNESS SAKE (!), and you will never be impoverished of affirmations.
- [Beating The System](https://ertiaunlimited.com/beating-the-system/) - Be circumspect about which “System” you’re fighting, about who or what the real “demons” may be, and about your strategy for advancement.
- [Accountability](https://ertiaunlimited.com/accountability/) - Accountability is comprised of TRUST and DUE DILIGENCE. We are charged to execute faithfully, fruitfully and expeditiously ALL of that with which we have been entrusted.
- [Aboriginality](https://ertiaunlimited.com/aboriginality/) - The question becomes: How far can we travel beyond our individual biological “roots” to develop essential “civival” attributes?
- [Bite Sizing](https://ertiaunlimited.com/bite-sizing/) - “Life is a scramble. If you’re not scrambling, you’re not ‘Making It’. If you’re not ‘pressing on’ or ‘being pressed’, you’re not experiencing a full dose of reality.
- [Pressure Cooking](https://ertiaunlimited.com/pressure-cooking/) - When we stop resisting life at every turn, defying/challenging anything and everything that would add value to our lives, the “struggle” disappears.
- [Galvanize](https://ertiaunlimited.com/galvanize/) - Momentum requires constant reinforcement. Even well-oiled machines need a source of energy. We need to restore “order”. Let's get “GALVANIZED”!
- [Wind In Your Sails](https://ertiaunlimited.com/wind-in-your-sails/) - Keep bite-sizing, keep vectoring, “Double-Down” as you can, and watch your team colors start to catch some wind.
- [Acts of War](https://ertiaunlimited.com/acts-of-war/) - Once you pull the trigger of commitment, it’s almost like releasing a spring-loaded catapult or pulling the plug on a dam. SOMETHING is going to happen!
- [Acts of Conscientious Objection](https://ertiaunlimited.com/acts-of-conscientious-objection/) - When ignoring the provocation was no longer a viable option, and when the wheels had to start turning, some indication of commitment was needed.
- [One Minute Challenge](https://ertiaunlimited.com/one-minute-challenge/) - We’ve all made promises to do something every day for x amount of time. Then one day we didn't do it. The one day became two days and the habit was broken!
- [Poking Around](https://ertiaunlimited.com/poking-around/) - Don’t settle for being “stumped”; start “poking around” YOUR sandbox, watch life become more manageable, and look for great things to start happening!
- [Formula I](https://ertiaunlimited.com/formula-i/) - Start “supposing” toward the highest Destiny and brightest future you can Dream, and then get Formula I fully engaged to make it happen.
- [Disruptive Motorvation](https://ertiaunlimited.com/disruptive-motorvation/) - The process of purposely and proactively “breaking bonds” and “breaking rank” with convention and prevailing winds to create new realities of possibility.
- [Bettering](https://ertiaunlimited.com/bettering/) - The greatest tragedy is not to care. Care a little. CARE a LOT! Let’s get BETTER at caring and doing things that matter, and see what a bright world this can be!
- [Adjustments](https://ertiaunlimited.com/adjustments/) - Be agile, take constant stock, adjust, perfect the art of “transitioning”, and be brutally intolerant of downtime/deadtime; if something’s not moving, move YOU!
- [Ownership](https://ertiaunlimited.com/ownership/) - Assertive OWNERSHIP of who we are and where we are is one of the most critical links between current circumstances and who or where we COULD be / WANT to be.
- [Character](https://ertiaunlimited.com/character/) - Do the most “right” thing you can do, keep being creatively better than you were yesterday, and make it a habit.
- [Colonization of Space](https://ertiaunlimited.com/colonization-of-space/) - There is an increasing concern about the fact that earth has limited dimensions resources while its population is threatening to exhaust both in the near future.
- [Odd Fellows](https://ertiaunlimited.com/odd-fellows/) - Why is doing “sensible” things – never mind anything that would be perceived as personal advancement or social beneficence – “ODD”?
- [To Be Human](https://ertiaunlimited.com/to-be-human/) - The sooner and higher we can rise above our debauched animal-instincts and vested self-interests the sooner and more accomplished our “humanity” will become.
- ["Riffs" and "Reps"](https://ertiaunlimited.com/riffs-and-reps/) - Doing more “reps” with more definitive intervals between “riffs” helps eliminate dead space within and between projects, with greater focus and more energy.
- [Random Walk Ponderings](https://ertiaunlimited.com/random-walk-ponderings/) - The random walk is a mathematical [representation] of a path that consists of a succession of random steps.
- [Immersion](https://ertiaunlimited.com/immersion/) - I have enough experience to suggest that the superimposition of some kinds of background activity may facilitate and enhance “immersion” in the work being done.
- [Pre-Clinical Conditions](https://ertiaunlimited.com/pre-clinical-conditions/) - Buried to a point near oblivion, is our overall “maturation” – which often falls far short of its potential in both substance and actualization.
- [Be A Warrior](https://ertiaunlimited.com/be-a-warrior/) - In the unperturbed moment, it’s easy to lose focus. Nothing focuses our attention like confronting an overt threat to our wellbeing!
- [Battle Cry](https://ertiaunlimited.com/battle-cry/) - Things need to be done so we can move on without tripping over ourselves, stressing out over all that’s undone, and always playing from behind the eight ball.
- [Light Up Your life](https://ertiaunlimited.com/light-up-your-life/) - We are like bicycles with the potential to light up the world. We need to be equipped with the proper “rigging” – not just “spinning our wheels” in the dark.
- [Personal Growth](https://ertiaunlimited.com/personal-growth/) - Personal Growth is the nuts and bolts business of life. It’s the process of “Becoming” ... fulfilling our true potential ... and it’s an ongoing enterprise.
- [If I Fail](https://ertiaunlimited.com/if-i-fail/) - If I fail, let it not be for FEAR OF FAILURE or of FALLING SHORT OF PERFECTION.
- [Dream BIG](https://ertiaunlimited.com/dream-big/) - Some folks have tiny dreams: They just want an “allowance," not even a “job”. They need just enough to get them through the next week and maybe the weekend.
- [Compromised](https://ertiaunlimited.com/compromised/) - It’s the number of non-diagnosable compromised individuals that gives one harrowing pause … a number that is not only “countless”, but undoubtedly huge.
- [It's About Choice](https://ertiaunlimited.com/its-about-choice/) - Our goal – particularly in America – is to maximize choices … and to maximize negotiability among multiple choices.
- [Matriculation Failure](https://ertiaunlimited.com/matriculation-failure/) - We don’t generally label such things as “failure,” maybe as “unlucky," sometimes “unfair”. But it certainly takes the stuffing out of dreams and possibilities.
- [Genes, Greens, Grit and Gummy Bears](https://ertiaunlimited.com/genes-greens-grit-and-gummy-bears/) - Behavioral scientists have long debated whether one’s genes or the “environment” have the greater influence on behavior-indexed human development outcomes.
- [Piling Up Dots](https://ertiaunlimited.com/piling-up-dots/) - Life is about piling up dots … piling up building blocks, including connectable anchoring and reference points.
- [Life Choices Simplified](https://ertiaunlimited.com/life-choices-simplified/) - The degree to which we’re not piling up both credits and actual earnings is the degree to which we’re putting ourselves at risk for “not making it”.
- [Trustworthiness](https://ertiaunlimited.com/trustworthiness/) - A person who has impeccable “character” is, above all things, “Trustworthy” – worthy of utmost TRUST.
- [Failure](https://ertiaunlimited.com/failure/) - How we view and respond to failure is important. Some quit, grow/become stronger, change direction/focus, others see overcoming failure as a great challenge.
- [Habits and Beings](https://ertiaunlimited.com/habits-and-beings/) - What we “habitually” do is who we are. Let’s get more intentional about DOING and BEING whatever it is we do and whoever it is we are and the rest will follow.
- [Goals Revisited](https://ertiaunlimited.com/goals-revisited/) - Goals are irrelevant if you’re in the wrong for the wrong reason. The game you belong in is the one that resonates with your innate talent and skills.
- [Gratification](https://ertiaunlimited.com/gratification/) - Gratification is the intimate and ultimate driving force of first and last resort: We want and NEED to be happy!
- [Wind Wonderings](https://ertiaunlimited.com/wind-wonderings/) - Motivational gurus talk about what makes us to do whatever we do – or don’t. Sometimes we do stuff without any discernible “driving forces” … just “being us”.
- [An Unusual Formula](https://ertiaunlimited.com/an-unusual-formula/) - Gilman High School in Maryland has an unusual and highly successful football team. The players base their everything on one question: What can I do for others?
- [Insulation](https://ertiaunlimited.com/insulation/) - Get bullish about insulating yourself against life’s biggest and most formidable challenges intentionally and selectively, with “Good Housekeeping Seal” methods.
- [Unscheduled Time II](https://ertiaunlimited.com/unscheduled-time-ii/) - “Becoming” whoever we are to become won’t work without resetting/reaffirming our Dream/Mission, structure, a stark make-over in priorities or strict discipline.
- [Brain Wiring](https://ertiaunlimited.com/brain-wiring/) - Life continues evolving and our horizons keep expanding … all the way to the end … and we have to do real-time rewiring edits along the way.
- [Roots](https://ertiaunlimited.com/roots/) - Our sustainable survival and ultimate wellbeing depend on mutually beneficial and maturationally benefactual associations.
- [Let's Get Personal](https://ertiaunlimited.com/lets-get-personal/) - We need to talk. Seriously. In case you were looking for / hoping for / counting on your “ship” to come in or your Prince or Princess to ride by on a white horse or the “Dream Job Offer” to come to your door, I feel compelled to break the sobering news that an idyllic
- [One in Twenty](https://ertiaunlimited.com/one-in-twenty/) - True leadership and innovation comes from a much smaller pool of “owner” initiators, and the estimate of 1 in 20 may, in fact, be conservative here.
- [Playing Time](https://ertiaunlimited.com/playing-time/) - How to be a team player among your staff, employees and management team, whether you're college student, business leader, entrepreneur, or political leader.
- [Life is about the Good you can Give](https://ertiaunlimited.com/life-is-about-the-good-you-can-give/) - Life is not about piling up GOOD material possessions but about the GOOD you can give to others: Family, Work, Staff, and Community.
- [Hard Ball Truths about Life](https://ertiaunlimited.com/hard-ball-truthes-about-life/) - Everything you deserve is going to take everything you’ve got And you’re not going to give it! How to overcome unrealistic expectations & personal failure.
- [What is your American Dream?](https://ertiaunlimited.com/what-is-your-american-dream/) - Here's an exercise concerning your American Dream, ask yourself: What do you WANT? What do you NEED? What do you EXPECT? What do you DESERVE?
- [Hard Truths #18:  Myths Abound](https://ertiaunlimited.com/hard-truths-18-myths-abound/) - Some of the best-intentioned people give out some of the poorest advice. But some of the most outspoken, “self-made successes” provide outright dangerous advice, particularly when taken out of context.
- [Unhappiness](https://ertiaunlimited.com/unhappiness/) - Unhappiness may be linked to unrealistic expectations or the lack of understand the value of delayed gratification. Happiness is found with accountability
- [Transforming Paleo YOU to a 21st Century STAR](https://ertiaunlimited.com/transforming-paleo-you-to-a-21st-century-star/) - “Natural Inclinations” may have provided a survival advantage in paleolithic times (at least they didn’t appear to interfere with survival of the species [or, come to think of it, maybe they DID!]), but they don’t serve us very well in the 21st Century.
- [Deceptions I](https://ertiaunlimited.com/deceptions-i/) - Deception can be either a fine strategic art for winning or a debilitating strategic guise for sabotage. Know the difference and act/respond accordingly.
- [Deceptions II](https://ertiaunlimited.com/deceptions-ii/) - Deceptions II From Classical Mythology: The Greeks, deceptively abandoning their siege of Troy, left a gigantic hollow wooden horse on the field of battle, along with Sinon, who persuaded the Trojans that the horse was an offering to Athena (goddess of war) that would make Troy impregnable. Despite the warnings of Laocoön and Cassandra, the horse was taken inside the city gates.
- [Be A Player](https://ertiaunlimited.com/be-a-player/) - Ed Romond loved mathematics. After high school, he got a BA in math, and started his career teaching high school math in Boston. While his wife was matriculating through a Psychiatric Nursing program, she planted a seed of alternative interest, suggesting that Ed consider a more challenging career possibility in medicine. He was intrigued: it
- [Driving Forces](https://ertiaunlimited.com/driving-forces/) - “Anything not underway tends never to get there unless or until imposed upon by a force of sufficient magnitude to get it moving.” Law of Inertia “The human being is one of the most inertially refractory bodies in the universe; When imposed upon by a force of sufficient magnitude to get it moving, the human
- [Breaking Better](https://ertiaunlimited.com/breaking-better/) - I reflexively wince when seeing or hearing reference to the Kentucky motto: “Unbridled Spirit”. Of course, there’s the superficial first inclination – at least in Kentucky – to conjure images of “unbridled” horses galloping idyllically through open meadows, running with the wind. How liberating! One also might picture the unbridled, unsaddled horses of
- [Benchmarking](https://ertiaunlimited.com/benchmarking/) - This week’s question is: How are you doing … and compared to who(m) or what? Everything is relative, right? No less than Einstein, his own self, said so! However, what’s dangerous about benchmarking is that we can always identify someone less “special”, less “good”, less worthy, less “balanced”, less intelligent – however nuanced
- [Making America Great](https://ertiaunlimited.com/making-america-great/) - … again! It’s the perpetual siren call of politicians … or would-be politicians … especially during election years! But I caught myself wondering: Back to WHEN, exactly? … to when all the roads were dirt roads? … to when there was no FDA and one had to rely on snake oil salesmen for pharmaceuticals
- [Attitude](https://ertiaunlimited.com/attitude/) - For some time, I’ve wanted to get a more concrete handle on just what “ATTITUDE” is and how it works. For example: What, exactly, does it mean when we hear someone say: “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the
- [Let It Go](https://ertiaunlimited.com/let-it-go/) - “You CAN have it all, just not all at once!” [… and then you do Weight Watchers … ] Oprah Winfrey A participant in a “Lifelong Philosophy” colloquium asked the question: “Where do you get your news?” He had been intrigued to find that Gen X-Y-Z individuals get most or all of their news
- [Virtual Reality YOU](https://ertiaunlimited.com/virtual-reality-you/) - Motivational speakers frequently promote the idea of imagining one's Dream Job or ideal circumstance as a means toward actually achieving it. A football coach, for example, may exhort his quarterback to envision himself throwing game-winning touchdown passes or a basketball coach may encourage his players to envision themselves tossing up buzzer-beating shots to win
- [Slingshot Accelerators](https://ertiaunlimited.com/slingshot-accelerators/) - We first encountered “Slingshot Accelerators” in the blog, Virtual Reality YOU. [https://ertiaunlimited.com/virtual-reality-you/] A “slingshot accelerator” is a paradoxical contrivance. In order for a slingshot to work, it has to be forcibly pulled back into a hyperextended, “cocked” disequilibrium before its full power can be unleashed. Gravitational slingshots are used in space travel: “One of the
- [Scripting](https://ertiaunlimited.com/scripting/) - Building a foundation for strongly positive and productive life mastery behavior through intentional mental "programming".
- [The GAP](https://ertiaunlimited.com/the-gap/) - One of the hardest things to decipher in life is what it’s going to take to get from where we are NOW to where we want/deserve/need to go and be – eventually … i.e., how to fill that GAP. It’s a HUGE GAP of many proportions, and the “End Game” seems so indeterminately far away.
- [Life's TOUGH](https://ertiaunlimited.com/lifes-tough/) - There’s no getting around it: LIFE’S TOUGH … perhaps excepting for a lucky few who have had the good fortune to benefit from the grit and grind of others – but, even then, it’s often only temporary. The bliss and ecstasy of marrying someone, who, we fully expect, will selflessly look after our personal welfare
- [Prosperity](https://ertiaunlimited.com/prosperity/) - It only recently became clear to me that the riddle I’ve been chasing for 40+ years is this: Why … … in a country with as much wealth as the United States of America -- the envy of the world in its offerings of opportunity and prosperity -- are so many so far from realizing
- [Purpose](https://ertiaunlimited.com/purpose/) - ["Ask Marilyn", Parade Magazine, May 29, 2016, p. 10] Question: “I’m in Mensa, where I’ve been discussing this question with other members for years: What is the reason we are here?” Marilyn’s Response: “I think it depends on your spiritual beliefs. If you have a religion, it provides the answer. But if you don’t believe
- [Buck Stops Here](https://ertiaunlimited.com/buck-stops-here/) - The wife was cleaning out the refrigerator shelves but couldn’t figure out how to remove a retaining rack, so she called Super-Hurango for help! [OK, it was probably a ploy to make retired SH feel useful!] A 22-second assessment, including two “trial” but failed approaches, finally ended in a successful rack removal venture. [She then
- [Triplets](https://ertiaunlimited.com/triplets/) - “Triplets” are things I trip over in the course of trying to get IMPORTANT stuff done … mostly in the morning … trying to get my day off the launch pad. They include: Making the bed Feeding the cat Retrieving the paper Making breakfast Eating breakfast Emptying the dish washer Taking out the trash Taking
- [Force the Issue](https://ertiaunlimited.com/force-the-issue/) - In describing the ERTIA UNLIMITED “Lifecourse Diagram”, one of the major points to be made is how important it is to make ourselves “helpable” … i.e., by showing some degree of initiative … by being a “Player” , with an inclination to advance and with some reasonable prospects and positive possibilities of making life happen.
- [Mind Minding](https://ertiaunlimited.com/mind-minding/) - “ … findings … published in the International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion [by Anthony Fabio, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh] indicate that among people predisposed to hostility, watching more TV than their peers poses a greater risk for injuries requiring hospitalization – potentially because they are more susceptible to television’s
- [Paper Clip Parable](https://ertiaunlimited.com/paper-clip-parable/) - [Thanks to Bill Moore for planting this seed in his weekly sermon!] In 1958, Lloyd’s Bank of London undertook a study to find out what happens to a typical batch of paper clips as they are released throughout the workforce. Out of their original batch of 100,000 paper clips, they found that: 3,916 were used
- [Absolutes](https://ertiaunlimited.com/absolutes/) - The tough part about life is the ABSOLUTES: Two plus two is four, and no more! Half of two twice is half of four once. And how about this … “Everything you deserve is going to take everything you’ve got!” For starters, our genes are our genes. That’s it! We’re absolutely and unequivocally stuck with
- [Immersion](https://ertiaunlimited.com/immersion-2/) - One of the biggest challenges for teenagers and young adults (which is not recognized as a challenge “in the trenches”, of course) is how to productively utilize UNSCHEDULED TIME. Point of Reference The foundational premise here that there is no such thing as “FREE TIME”. What kind of time are we talking about? If you
- [Hopelessness and Helplessness](https://ertiaunlimited.com/hopelessness-and-helplessness/) - Lamenting the “State of the Workforce in 2016”, I shared with our Business Owners’ Advisory Board (BOAB) my feedback from the state Workforce Development (WFD) Office, which indicated that the main problem in WFD is finding prospects with ANY INCLINATION AT ALL to BE “Developed”. An astute member of the group said she is not
- [Potpourri 1710A](https://ertiaunlimited.com/potpourri-1710a/) - BELIEVE IN YOURSELF What does it take for you to believe in yourself? Something as simple as looking in the mirror? Or something more? How about accomplishments? There’s nothing like “proving yourself” to make believing a positive reality. Pick a reachable objective or goal and go make it happen. Then pick an impossible one and
- [Competitive Advantage](https://ertiaunlimited.com/competitive-advantage/) - In a capitalistic system of civilization, competition is the currency of passage. You’ve gotta be BETTER than the competitors in your chosen field of endeavor! Unfortunately, some can’t compete, and many do not have a chosen field of endeavor. Some have no way to access opportunity to become competitive. Some simply won’t compete. And more
- [Future Schmoocher!](https://ertiaunlimited.com/future-schmoocher/) - One of the toughest elements in dealing with life is coming to terms with the very real and ever present “Cost of Living” … more particularly, with the investment required to prepare adequately… never mind MORE than adequately … for the future. It’s also one of the toughest concepts to convey to unsuspecting neophytes. Here’s
- [Winning Characteristics](https://ertiaunlimited.com/winning-characteristics/) - [Reference: TIME Magazine, May 2/May 9, 2016 “100 Most Influential People of 2016”] This issue made me wonder: What makes winners “Winners”? It was a compelling challenge to compile a list of characteristics that best described the subjects chosen by TIME for this “Most Influential” honor – all of them clearly “Winners” in their own
- [Fundamentals](https://ertiaunlimited.com/fundamentals/) - “Making it” in America – or almost anywhere in the universe – is both deceptively easy and deceptively hard. As I’ve sought to break the code on why some people “make it” but many don’t, several recurring themes have surfaced as fundamental to successful passage. A beginning list follows … in no particular order of
- [Things That Work and Don't](https://ertiaunlimited.com/things-that-work-and-dont/) - Some things in life are guaranteed to work and some are guaranteed NOT to work. However, due to inexperience, ineptitude, “natural tendencies” and a whole host of other factors, we tend to gravitate toward things that don’t work. Things that don’t work generally offer some level of immediate gratification and/or perceived delayed ramification with minimal
- [Potpourri 1710B](https://ertiaunlimited.com/potpourri-1710b/) - Over the course of days, weeks, months and years, snipets of inspiration have slipped through the fog that seemed to warrant representation at least as footnotes. Here are a few footnote snipets from 2010 … which seemed to be a particularly “footnotable” year (the year before I retired): CATCHING A DREAM Problems in maximizing
- [Undeterrable Invincibility](https://ertiaunlimited.com/undeterrable-invincibility/) - “I can’t function without my second cup of coffee; but, once I’ve had that second cup, look out world – I can do ANYTHING!” Herbie Halfmaster What gets you going and keeps you going through THICK and through THIN? What pushes you “over the top” to be able to tackle anything that comes your way
- [Struggle](https://ertiaunlimited.com/struggle/) - Ever since Adam and Eve – and perhaps even eons before Adam and Eve – life has been a struggle for most folks much of the time … getting enough food to eat, protecting against life-threatening incursions, dealing with in-laws and outlaws, competing against folks who have nothing better to do than outsmart, undermine and
- [Touches](https://ertiaunlimited.com/touches/) - Success in basketball depends on how many “touches” you get. You can’t shoot the ball or get points or get assists if you can’t get any “touches”. If you’re a dependable ball handler or shooter, you’ll get lots of “touches”. Your coach and team mates will seek you out. However, “touches” don’t come easy. You
- [Resignation](https://ertiaunlimited.com/resignation/) - “Our society has resigned itself to suffering.” Jamie Studts, Behavioral Scientist [Describing the fatalistic acceptance of a cancer diagnosis as a death sentence] ************** I’ve had a growing suspicion that, as with a cancer diagnosis, much of our outlook on life and living and career and citizenship – and all the rest – is colored
- [Winning II](https://ertiaunlimited.com/winning-ii/) - FLASH NEWS! Your success is guaranteed! In fact, you may already have WON! Wherever you spend the most time and energy is where you will realize the most success. You may become an EXPERT: Eating junk food Playing video games Watching sports Manipulating the SMART PHONE Surfing the WEB / Doing Social Media Or …
- [Like You Mean It](https://ertiaunlimited.com/like-you-mean-it/) - [Reference: “Like You Mean It” Louisville Magazine 12.16, pp. 38-45] This article took up the challenge of charting a profitable and productive path for personal development in the year 2017. Outlined suggestions and admonitions follow. (NOTE: I’ve used the LM categorical listings but re-engineered the summations for more global applications.) SAVE MONEY The nature
- [Cost of Living](https://ertiaunlimited.com/cost-of-living/) - At some point – and earlier is better – we have to “Get Real” about the unalterable “Cost of Living” ... about all the stuff “below the water line” that “floats our boat”. Life’s Tough! The CHALLENGES are formidable, the RESPONSIBILITIES are awesome, the EXPECTATIONS are out-of-sight, and TIME is always too short for what
- [Reality Gap](https://ertiaunlimited.com/reality-gap/) - Here’s a near-absolute Truth to consider: Everything you deserve is going to take everything you’ve got! This sobering observation compels one to ask four indelicate questions: If you are not giving life “everything you’ve got, WHY NOT? * Special Note 1: Subsidies of early life eventually run out. (See https://ertiaunlimited.com/lifes-toughest-lesson/) Special Note 2: “Entitlements” don’t
- [Brain Sum I](https://ertiaunlimited.com/brain-sum-i/) - At this dawning of the 21st century, we don’t know everything we’d like to know or need to know about the Brain. But we know enough to set a more profitable course in life than we generally carry out, observe or experience. [If you want to know more about what IS known about the anatomy
- [Hindsight Mindsight](https://ertiaunlimited.com/hindsight-mindsight/) - I’ve struggled to articulate – in “digestible” terms – what I mean by “VISIONING” … i.e., being able to “picture” how the future might unfold – including discernment of hurdles and barriers to be overcome … and HOW they might be overcome – toward getting us most directly, efficiently and effectively where we want and
- [Rule of Consequences](https://ertiaunlimited.com/rule-of-consequences/) - Why do we have persisting “Achievement Gaps” both in public schools and on the job … why do so many business owners complain that they can’t get “decent help” … and why do so many fail, personally, to achieve what they “reasonably” ought to achieve – never mind reaching their full “potential”? I submit that
- [WILL Power](https://ertiaunlimited.com/will-power/) - “ … (have you ever been running, and decided you need to run a little faster … and then you WILLED it and it happened; have you ever tried to open a jar of pickles and decided you need to squeeze or turn a little harder, but not until you WILLED it did it happen; etc.) Our WILL
- [C Plan](https://ertiaunlimited.com/c-plan/) - I was impressed to hear that Alabama’s basketball coach, Avery Johnson, has developed a “C-Plan” for his basketball team: “Compete on the Court Compete in the Classroom” This was a terrific concept, emblematic of a highly enlightened coach! However, I thought we might flesh it out a little for a really COMPREHENSIVE C-Plan. So I’m
- [Punch List](https://ertiaunlimited.com/punch-list/) - Every construction project remains unfinished until the completion of a final sign-off “Punch List”: a list of final “finishing” details, as well as a list of mistakes and imperfections (things which fail to conform to the architect’s original specifications) that must be corrected. (Importantly, nobody gets paid until the Punch List is completed!) Historically (before
- [Cache On Hand](https://ertiaunlimited.com/cache-on-hand/) - “Cache or caching [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache ] refers to: … a food storing behavior of animals … a collection of artifacts [… a nest of duck’s eggs!] Computing Cache (computing), a collection of data duplicating original values stored elsewhere on a computer, usually for easier access Cache memory, a small area of fast memory used by the central
- [Burn Baby Burn](https://ertiaunlimited.com/burn-baby-burn/) - We adopted a kitty about 12 years ago that is now in marked decline … with issues of hyperthyroidism, high blood pressure, a detached retina, arthritis, hypokalemia and kidney problems. She is on six different medications, four of which are on an alternate delivery schedule twice a day. The hyperthyroidism, a “prime contributor” to the
- [Bringing It](https://ertiaunlimited.com/bringing-it/) - We occasionally need to take inventory of what we “bring to the table” to advance our personal stake and holdings in the world … to advance the enterprise(s) in which we are engaged … to advance the profession or industry with which we are associated … to advance our community and the world at large.
- [Nature Versus Nurture](https://ertiaunlimited.com/nature-versus-nurture/) - https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/10/first-children-are-smarter-but-why/280725/ In the study noted in the article above, investigators confirmed the postulation that first-children generally excel beyond the levels achieved by their younger siblings, and they asked “Why?” A genetic basis for the difference (i.e., where some advantage would be conferred on first-borns by “Nature” … like the first-born gets the best genes) was
- [Pixelate Your Life](https://ertiaunlimited.com/pixelate-your-life/) - I’ve come to believe that piling up as many DOTS as possible is the essence of a productive, prosperous and fulfilling life. By “DOTS”, I mean any or all of the following: Knowledge, skills, experience, data, wisdom, understanding, connections, associations / affiliations, core values, principles and benchmark accomplishments. * Some “DOTS” carry more weight than
- [Visioning for Beginners](https://ertiaunlimited.com/visioning-for-beginners/) - Motivational speakers, personal coaches and self-help proponents all underscore the importance of having a VISION, a DREAM, a LIFE PURPOSE, a PASSION … an overarching GRAND GOAL as an essential driving force for a successful life. Unfortunately, not everybody has one! So, how does one go about “capturing” a Dream or a GRAND GOAL? Or
- [Psychic Energy](https://ertiaunlimited.com/psychic-energy/) - First of all, this is not about crystal ball gazing and clairvoyant phrenology! It’s about the “electrifying” energy that comes from the “Psyche” … variably referred to as the “pneuma, the anima, the inner being, or essence … “. In simpler terms, it’s “mental energy” or “brain energy”. But, in this context, it is distinguished
- [Legitimacy](https://ertiaunlimited.com/legitimacy/) - Legitimacy, combined with Agency and Integrity afford the best navigability in the universe. How and why matter.
- [Tool Box Musings](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tool-box-musings/) - “Every new DIY project justifies the acquisition of a new tool!” Herbie Halfmaster [After all, the savings on labor and on avoiding subsidization of someone ELSE’S tools more than makes up for the cost of whatever you need to do the job yourself … … at least up until one has to be bailed out
- [Onion Skinning](https://ertiaunlimited.com/onion-skinning/) - In our barbershop chorus, The Kentuckians, our Director keeps challenging us to keep our pitch up and stay on key by imagining the addition of “onion skin” layers of higher frequency sound, particularly when holding notes of long duration. Without acute consciousness of this kind, the pitch will invariably drop in unaccompanied vocalization – no
- [Ambition](https://ertiaunlimited.com/ambition/) - Dateline: July 10, 2017 DEAR ABBY: My son, Allen, is 27 and a pretty good writer, mostly fantasy stuff. I don't like that genre myself, but I have enjoyed reading some of his work. He writes not only short stories but also entire books. I have tried to convince him to submit his work to
- [A Rising Tide](https://ertiaunlimited.com/a-rising-tide/) - PREFACE: This is one of an increasing number of entries related to the challenge of living without a GOAL, MISSION, PURPOSE or PASSION in life – a privation with which I’m finding so many are unfortunately saddled. Most entries on this topic are about practicalities, though elements of philosophy creep in. The most important first
- [Who ARE You?](https://ertiaunlimited.com/who-are-you/) - Looking in the mirror and having it talk back to you is an unnerving experience: “What have you got to say for yourself?” “ Are you of any salvageable earthly account or not?” “ And by whose measure or reckoning?” [While there may be higher “Callings”, the very least we can do is become members
- [Hand In A Vice](https://ertiaunlimited.com/hand-in-a-vice/) - A fundamental conundrum in 21st Century life is finding something of intrinsic, compelling ultimate value into which we can unreservedly pour our time, energy and “unbridled spirit” for the duration. Life is changing so fast, and there are so many superficial diversions/distractions to navigate through and around, that we remain largely adrift and unanchored in
- [Demon Busting](https://ertiaunlimited.com/demon-busting/) - “I fight my demons every day, so I’ve got to continue to work at it.” Jared Lorenzen [en route to a goal of losing 100+ lbs.] “Demons” seem to permeate our lives. They show up nearly everywhere we turn. But they’re not just “out there” – many of them are embedded in our own constitution,
- [Epivolution](https://ertiaunlimited.com/epivolution/) - The story of human development – both individually and en masse – is one of both glorious and inglorious progression … driven by a combination of internal and external compelling forces, ideally toward bigger, stronger, smarter, more knowledgeable, more skilled, and more competitive attributes. We don’t always get it right – and few of us
- [Life is Like Parachuting](https://ertiaunlimited.com/life-is-like-parachuting/) - The annually updated book “What Color Is Your Parachute” by the late Richard Bolles has been a helpful life and career guide for multiple generations. The basic thrust of the book is one of personally defining and designing … formulating and reformulating … a life path into which we can direct our main focus and
- [Agreements](https://ertiaunlimited.com/agreements/) - The book The Four Agreements by Miguel Ruiz contains the following advice: Be impeccable with your word. Don’t take anything personally. Don’t make assumptions. Always do your best. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom Some of us could add our own personal “Agreements” that work best for us. But what works best
- [Ships At Sea](https://ertiaunlimited.com/ships-at-sea/) - The wistful lament of the under-invested and overly-wrought is often: “Just wait ‘til my ship comes in!” However, we need to face up to the fact, here and now, that BIG SHIPS do not sail into small ponds with small docks … never mind wading pools! And the great ships of life are not loaded
- [Adversity](https://ertiaunlimited.com/adversity/) - “Coping with adversity is an inextricable part of life and living.” Life Lesson #1 If you happen to be a biological organism on planet earth, you’re going to face adversity. However, the paradoxical thing about adversity is this: “That [adversity] which does not kill us, makes us stronger.” Friedrich Nietzsche … not that we need to go
- [Spring Cleaning](https://ertiaunlimited.com/spring-cleaning/) - It’s that time of year again! … time to get rid of all the encrustations and encroachments … time take stock of all the things we’ve hoarded whose purpose may have lost luster, and whose presence may have become more of a hindrance than a help … Some of it we’ve probably cleaned out many
- [Truth Be Told](https://ertiaunlimited.com/truth-be-told/) - Disclaimer This is NOT about Presidential politics! In a March 14, 2018 posting, John Rosemond – a provocative and not universally acclaimed “family psychologist” – highlighted a New York Times article by Alex Stone (Jan. 5) entitled “Is Your Child Lying to You? That’s Good.” This article by Stone offers supportive commentary on a 1980s
- [Success A Liability](https://ertiaunlimited.com/success-a-liability/) - We tend to migrate toward and embellish those behaviors that make us happy and bring us the most success … however we choose to define “success”. Success-driven behavior patterns start forming early, notwithstanding the fact that our success early in life depends a lot on OTHER people’s success! We may become successful in negotiating an
- [A Hill of Beans](https://ertiaunlimited.com/a-hill-of-beans/) - It’s a dismissive / derogatory term of disparagement: “Not worth a hill of beans!” “You don’t know beans!” … as if – everybody knows – beans are not worth very much, even piled in a “hill”, and NOT to know as much as something NOT EVEN worth as much as beans takes you completely out
- [Surfeit Stupor](https://ertiaunlimited.com/surfeit-stupor/) - It occurred to me following the Thanksgiving engorgement last year that we spend a lot of our time and energy overindulging in things that make us “groggy”. In fact, it sometimes seems that numbing ourselves is a full time pursuit with its own end game for its own purpose: If we’re not numb, we’re
- [Wrong Side of History](https://ertiaunlimited.com/wrong-side-of-history/) - In the throes of partisan politics, one often hears the comment made that this or that person or position is “on the wrong side of history.” Most frequently, such assertions come from “liberal” or “progressive” quarters, railing against those who insist on holding the line against change, who long for the “good ol’ days” when
- [Relevance](https://ertiaunlimited.com/relevance/) - Perhaps more fundamentally important than mission or purpose in a life well lived is RELEVANCE. We want and need affirmation. But, even more so, we need to know that who we are and what we do is relevant … legitimate … worth something … and that, somehow, we are OK … being who we are
- [Headwinds and Tailwinds](https://ertiaunlimited.com/headwinds-and-tailwinds/) - “The Head Winds / Tail Winds Asymmetry” Tom Gilovich and Shai Davidai https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27869473 J Pers Soc Psychol. 2016 Dec;111(6):835-851. http://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-is-my-life-so-hard/ “The idea should be familiar to anyone who cycles or runs for exercise. Sometimes you’re running or cycling into the wind, and it’s not pleasant. You’re aware of it the whole time. It’s retarding your progress
- [EDGES](https://ertiaunlimited.com/edges/) - Much of our sense of well-being, our security, and overall quality of life depends on how well we manage the “EDGES” of our existence: The boundaries, barriers and overall “framework” that define our world and keep us sane, secure, solvent, salubrious, sanguine, spirited and surging forward. When we lose the definition of “EDGES”, we lose
- [Choices](https://ertiaunlimited.com/choices/) - The thing that will take us the farthest distance TOWARD our Dreams – and the thing that can potentially take us the farthest distance AWAY from our Dreams – is simply the CHOICES we make. How we use every minute of the time we are given adds to one side of the ledger or the
- [Connect the Dots](https://ertiaunlimited.com/connect-the-dots/) - Ready or not, for better or worse, life keeps moving on! And moving on up to BETTER is much more enlifening than simply drifting with the flotsam and jetsam!! Unfortunately, the means of “getting us there” – and the sense of URGENCY required – is not so obvious, particularly in the unperturbed moment – usually
- [Consequences](https://ertiaunlimited.com/consequences/) - In the end analysis, life is all about CONSEQUENCES … things that actually happen as a result of other things that did or did not happen. Some consequences are predictable. Do good things / useful things and good things result. Do stupid things or blatantly “bad” or wrong things and results can be devastating. While
- [POWER OF WILL](https://ertiaunlimited.com/power-of-will/) - First Volley: The traditional concept of “Willpower” really doesn’t work! “Any human construct offering infinite choices will result in poor choices, with each and all of us Invariably choosing what PLEASES us rather than that which is GOOD for us.” Quartermaster The Nutrisystem “System” is exemplary, based solely on this premise. NS advertising posts show
- [RESETS](https://ertiaunlimited.com/resets/) - FACT: High intensity human behavior is unsustainable in “normal” circumstances ... never mind “abnormal” circumstances! Acknowledging this fact, baseball games have “innings”. Football games have “Downs”. Boxing matches have “Rounds”. Basketball games have “Time Outs”, etc., and – except for boxing – there are ample opportunities for substitutions. And then there’s “Half-Times” and the
- [Self Driving People](https://ertiaunlimited.com/self-driving-people/) - The development and production of Self-Driving cars became all the rage at the beginning of the 21st Century. Tesla was early out of the gate, and “autonomous trucks” soon followed: https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a30196644/self-driving-truck-cross-country/ The stakes are extremely high. [However, one has to wonder: Whatever became of railroads – where whole bunches of unmanned “cars” and “trucks” are
- [Free Will Debate](https://ertiaunlimited.com/free-will-debate/) - For this one, you may want to look up “Free Will” on the internet and pick a couple of TED talks for background. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/theres-no-such-thing-as-free-will/480750/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH_VG_aqwoc INTRODUCTION: A small but hard core mix of neuroscientists, philosophers and psychologists holds that hardly anything we do is an expression of “Free Will”. That is, we are, essentially, “Biological
- [Articulation](https://ertiaunlimited.com/articulation/) - ar·tic·u·la·tion noun LANGUAGE the formation of clear and distinct sounds in speech. "the articulation of vowels and consonants" MUSIC clarity in the production of successive notes. "beautifully polished articulation from the violins" https://www.google.com/search?q=articulation+definition&oq=articulation&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.3817j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 ARCHITECTURE distinctiveness of both structural/functional and cosmetic/ornamental features comprising a whole LIFE … Articulation implies some
- [Asymptotically Speaking](https://ertiaunlimited.com/asymptotically-speaking/) - "In analytic geometry, an asymptote (/ˈæsɪmptoʊt/) of a curve is a line such that the distance between the curve and the line approaches zero [but never actually GETS there] as they tend to infinity.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymptote In practical terms, one can approach certain unassailable goals (e.g., such as perfection) forever WITHOUT ACTUALLY GETTING THERE. However, such can still be increasingly and progressively
- [Embrace Better](https://ertiaunlimited.com/embrace-better/) - Life is an evolving progression. There is no stasis … no parking lot … no statutorial sanctum … To embrace life, we have to embrace CHANGE. We change or die! And the world around us changes, so we have to adapt. And the speed of change is ever-increasing. What got you to the age of
- [Beauty Personified](https://ertiaunlimited.com/beauty-personified/) - Except for a relatively small number of misanthropes, humans are social beings who seek affirmation, authentication and legitimization from others. We like being “Special” … we love being loved. We also seek out BEAUTY in each other and want to associate most with those who are most attractive … however we define it … as
- [Character](https://ertiaunlimited.com/character-2/) - Our “Character” is the main currency we carry for successful navigation in the universe … with underscored attributes of trustworthiness, accountability, and all the rest. Recent events lead one to wonder how much our “Character” is hard-wired and how much of it is malleable … and with how much effort? The recent flare-ups over past
- [Nobility of Small Things](https://ertiaunlimited.com/nobility-of-small-things/) - All of us would become much more broadly, deeply and enthusiastically engaged in life if only we had more NOBLE enterprises to pursue. Mundane things like “chores” and “homework” and everyday maintenance flotsam and jetsam don’t really “light our fire” … they’re not really benchmark engagements for which we’ll get any credit or reward or
- [Illusions](https://ertiaunlimited.com/illusions/) - We live every day with illusions. Some of these illusions are necessary – just to make enough sense in our own corner of the world to be able to function with minimal angst … until, at some point, the illusions no longer work. Then we either face the truth and consequences and “new realities” or
- [Dance With Life](https://ertiaunlimited.com/dance-with-life/) - In 1996, Susan Jeffers, Ph.D., released a book entitled “End the Struggle and Dance with Life” (St. Martin’s Press) This book had some great advice for people completely overrun by life’s circumstances. Jeffers, personally, had not only driven herself to obtain a Ph.D., but distinguished herself as a prolific writer, been divorced, and was enduring
- [Odd Fellows](https://ertiaunlimited.com/odd-fellows-2/) - Original artwork by Leah Palmer Preiss Odd Fellows Perhaps I was doomed to be an “Odd Fellow” from the start. My dad was a card-carrying member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. (Yes, it’s a real organization! http://www.ioof.org/) But, quite apart from this formal association, he did a lot of “odd” things informally …
- [GRIT](https://ertiaunlimited.com/884-2/) - http://wordpress.leahpalmerpreiss.com/ Angela Duckworth etched GRIT into our Life Mastery Lexicon in her book “GRIT: The Power of Passion and Perseverance” https://www.amazon.com/Grit-Passion-Perseverance-Angela-Duckworth/dp/1501111108 So I’ve been trying to figure out how to “etch” it into my daily routine. I’m RETIRED! But I’m not DEAD … yet!! At first glance, one might suggest that you’ve either got it
- [WINNING](https://ertiaunlimited.com/winning/) - “Winning” may not be “everything”, but it’s still pretty darned important! Americans have “CAPITALIZED” the precept … from stratified grades in education, to “tag” on the playgrounds, to organized sports, to business, to science, to healthcare, to just about everything. Unfortunately, that generally means somebody ELSE has to lose! “Who have you licked lately?” Business
- [Capacity Will and Insight](https://ertiaunlimited.com/capacity-will-and-insight/) - I had just finished breakfast and my FIRST INCLINATION was to move to the screened-in porch to finish my coffee, the sports section of the newspaper and the comics. A person who’s retired has the option to do that sort of thing! But I couldn’t help noticing the dry grass in the back yard. Then
- [Light Versus Dark](https://ertiaunlimited.com/light-versus-dark/) - There’s LIGHT and there’s DARK. In the beginning, there was only DARK. DARK is the default and DARK is passive but it is MASSIVE. LIGHT requires an active source and has to be constantly generated to PUSH THROUGH DARK. This requires tremendous amounts of energy input and expenditure. DARK only absorbs energy. In the extreme
- [Boxing Ourselves In](https://ertiaunlimited.com/boxing-ourselves-in/) - At this very moment, I am watching my water sprinkler soaking parts of my driveway, sidewalk and the front street, along with my parched lawn. However, I consider this wasteful practice a major STEP UP in my ability to navigate the vicissitudes of life! Here’s why: I have always fretted about WASTE. I don’t
- [Conditioning](https://ertiaunlimited.com/conditioning/) - I have been haunted by this intractable, plaintive cry of employers: “We can’t retain employees – some leaving after only a day on the job!” Landscaper After spending 3 hours a day on several very modest landscaping projects at our new, down-sized house, I think I finally GET IT! I would not, personally, last more
- [Who Knows You](https://ertiaunlimited.com/who-knows-you/) - The best “insider” advice for success that most people have traditionally given aspiring emerging generations generally isn’t “Work Hard” and “Become Irreplaceable/Indispensible”. It is: “It’s who you know!” However, I’ve found, personally, it’s been a lot more about WHO KNOWS YOU … and WHAT YOU CAN DO! It’s not about “schmoozing”. It’s about showing up,
- [Life is Like a Cave](https://ertiaunlimited.com/life-is-like-a-cave/) - Plato had it about right and was well ahead of his time, trying to explain why we all fall so far short of our potential – and short of our ability to enjoy the full fruits of life. Allegory of the cave - Wikipedia The allegory of the cave, or Plato's Cave, is an allegory presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his
- [FIVE HANDED NAVIGATION](https://ertiaunlimited.com/five-handed-navigation/) - LIFE’S TOUGH! The CHALLENGES are FORMIDABLE The RESPONSIBILITIES are AWESOME The EXPECTATIONS are OUT OF SIGHT And TIME is always TOO SHORT for what we want and need to do Consequently, it’s increasingly clear that getting through life “on our own two feet with our own two hands” won’t get the job entirely done. We
- [A Higher Calling](https://ertiaunlimited.com/a-higher-calling/) - With so much dissonance, discord, dishegience and mental health challenges permeating the early days of a still nascent 21st Century, we seem to have lost sight of any meaning, purpose or zest for living. Some of this comes from a diminished need to fight for mere survival. And, of course, there’s no need or yearning
- [Just This Once](https://ertiaunlimited.com/just-this-once/) - It’s just become clear to me that I don’t have to do everything everywhere all at once – nor do you! But ANYTHING generative, regenerative or “debulking” done here and now can help smooth the way to FIRST NEXT and EVENTUALLY. What if … just this once … I got organized Made my bed Did
- [Filling in Blanks](https://ertiaunlimited.com/filling-in-blanks/) - Life is TOUGH! But it’s so much more straight forward and manageable when all you have to do is FILL IN THE BLANKS … providing, of course, you have the proper “goods” available to do the filling-in. I was chasing a “change of insurance” form across my desk for several days – because it wasn’t
- [CHURNING](https://ertiaunlimited.com/churning/) - Some days – OK, MOST days – things seem to be “out-of-whack” … off balance … it’s hard to “get a grip”: Weeds keep growing, potholes appear, concrete cracks, storms come and go, leadership and agendas keep changing, bankruptcies happen, deals fall through, demands keep soaring, time keeps getting away from us, etc. But, both
- [Not Your Fault](https://ertiaunlimited.com/not-your-fault/) - You’re 25 years old (maybe 30, maybe 40?), sailing through life in a fast-paced Gig-Economy, paying the rent and utilities, mostly eating out on the run, doing a fair amount of social media, streaming Netflix, playing video games, and, generally, looking forward to more of the same as you move UP in the world. Life
- [Wear The Hat](https://ertiaunlimited.com/wear-the-hat/) - It’s more than a bit disarming/disconcerting when spurious things insert themselves into our personal agenda and impose themselves on our personal radar – things we didn’t “ask for”, that don’t really “fit” the persona we have meticulously shaped for ourselves, that just don’t “feel” right and that we just don’t “feel” like doing – at
- [COMMUNITATION](https://ertiaunlimited.com/communitation/) - “Communitation” is the fine art of PARTICIPATORY COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. It is the art of intentionally, actively and proactively participating in a thriving, collaborative COMMUNITY. Lee Shulman Bierer [ www.collegeadmissionsstrategies.com ], provides an excellent example of “Communitation” applied to the process of seeking admission to college. Her recommendations include: Watch online videos and take virtual tours
- [Anchorings](https://ertiaunlimited.com/anchorings/) - Life-coach gurus talk about “Life Balance” … a very helpful reflective concept for different people at different points in their personal lives … especially for when they feel “out of sorts”, “at loose ends” or “disconnected”. But many of us – and most of those at the top – function OFF-BALANCE most of the time
- [PRESILIENCE](https://ertiaunlimited.com/presilience/) - A critical attribute of successful venturing is the ability to survive disappointment and recover from disaster – a property called RESILIENCE. But trying to extract a rejuvenating infusion from an empty reservoir is a tough proposition! The question posed here is: How does one build the CAPACITY for Resilience -- BEFORE it’s required? How
- [HELD HOSTAGE](https://ertiaunlimited.com/held-hostage/) - It’s already 78 degrees outside this morning at 7:45 am, with a forecast of 95. I’m feeling “trapped” in an air conditioned house … unable (or unwilling?) to anticipate engaging in a full list of outdoor activities … like taking my “constitutional walk” around the neighborhood, trimming undergrowth and overgrowth in the woods, mowing the
- [ANXIETY](https://ertiaunlimited.com/anxiety/) - “I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, / I stand and look at them long and long. / They do not sweat and whine about their condition, / They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, / They do not make me
- [WEIRDING](https://ertiaunlimited.com/weirding/) - Doormat encountered in Sugarcreek, OH. So, what in the world would a “Good Kind of Weird” look like? I have a few suspicions: Does his/her homework ... is basically a NERD! Has Boy Scout / Girl Scout tendencies. Isn’t really immersed in Social Media Watches/Listens to TED Talks rather than to cat videos on YouTube
- [Six Principles](https://ertiaunlimited.com/six-principles/) - I’ve been amazed and dumbfounded by the number of disparate sources that capsulize the essential elements for successful living in packets of SIX. This all started with my personal attempt to capsulize the elements essential for success in the workplace. It turned out to be SIX! (NOTE: Stephen Covey makes a case for “Seven Habits

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- [Natural Inclinations](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/natural-inclinations/)
- [Ultimate Wants](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/ultimate-wants/)
- [Discovery](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/discovery/)
- [Passion](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/passion/)
- [Hopeless](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/hopeless/)
- [Helpless](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/helpless/)
- [Self-Actualization](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/self-actualization/)
- [Engagement](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/engagement/)
- [Challenge](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/challenge/)
- [Inclination](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/inclination/)
- [Believe](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/believe/)
- [Equal Opportunity](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/equal-opportunity/)
- [Mentoring](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/mentoring/)
- [Connecting](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/connecting/)
- [Access](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/access/)
- [Skills-Building](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/skills-building/)
- [Procrastination](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/procrastination/)
- [Diligence](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/diligence/)
- [Cost of Living](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/cost-of-living/)
- [Goal Tending](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/goal-tending/)
- [Uncompromising Zeal](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/uncompromising-zeal/)
- [Top Dog Profiling](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/top-dog-profiling/)
- [Making It](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/making-it/)
- [Rules of the Game](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/rules-of-the-game/)
- [What Works](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/what-works/)
- [Success](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/success/)
- [Character](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/character/)
- [Mainstreaming](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/mainstreaming/)
- [Snipets](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/snipets/)
- [Ponderables](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/ponderables/)
- [Preparation](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/preparation/)
- [No Excuses](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/no-excuses/)
- [armorall](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/armorall/)
- [invincibility](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/invincibility/)
- [Suck it UP](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/suck-it-up/)
- [Dependability](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/dependability/)
- [Trustworthy](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/trustworthy/)
- [Exceptionality](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/exceptionality/)
- [Go-To Person](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/go-to-person/)
- [Resolutions](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/resolutions/)
- [Transformation](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/transformation/)
- [Resignation](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/resignation/)
- [Self-Mastery](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/self-mastery/)
- [Legitimacy](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/legitimacy/)
- [Respect](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/respect/)
- [Rewards](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/rewards/)
- [Taxes](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/taxes/)
- [Investment](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/investment/)
- [Reality Gaps](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/reality-gaps/)
- [Energy](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/energy/)
- [Measuring Up](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/measuring-up/)
- [Mental Development](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/mental-development/)
- [Executive Function](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/executive-function/)
- [Hindsight](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/hindsight/)
- [Foresight](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/foresight/)
- [Consequences](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/consequences/)
- [Achievement Gaps](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/achievement-gaps/)
- [Discipline](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/discipline/)
- [Will Power](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/will-power/)
- [Drive](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/drive/)
- [Perseverance](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/perseverance/)
- [Self-Talk](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/self-talk/)
- [Compete](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/compete/)
- [Capitalize](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/capitalize/)
- [Climb](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/climb/)
- [Commit](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/commit/)
- [Sobering Reality](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/sobering-reality/)
- [Responsibility](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/responsibility/)
- [Lifework](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/lifework/)
- [Construction](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/construction/)
- [Certification](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/certification/)
- [Networking](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/networking/)
- [Mining the Universe](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/mining-the-universe/)
- [Knowledge](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/knowledge/)
- [Education](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/education/)
- [Experience](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/experience/)
- [Burn](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/burn/)
- [Personal Attributes](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/personal-attributes/)
- [Assets](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/assets/)
- [Competitive Edge](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/competitive-edge/)
- [Brain Building](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/brain-building/)
- [Environment](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/environment/)
- [High Intensity Training](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/high-intensity-training/)
- [Journeying](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/journeying/)
- [Dreams](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/dreams/)
- [Grand Goals](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/grand-goals/)
- [Life Lines](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/life-lines/)
- [Fire in the Gut](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/fire-in-the-gut/)
- [Motivation](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/motivation/)
- [Get Animated](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/get-animated/)
- [Get "Psyched"](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/get-psyched/)
- [Agency](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/agency/)
- [Integrity](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/integrity/)
- [Truth](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/truth/)
- [Authenticity](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/authenticity/)
- [Tool Kit Musings](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/tool-kit-musings/)
- [Champion Accessories](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/champion-accessories/)
- [Life Mastery](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/life-mastery/)
- [Coachability](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/coachability/)
- [CQI](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/cqi/)
- [Commitment](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/commitment/)
- [Ambition](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/ambition/)
- [urgency](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/urgency/)
- [Identity](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/identity/)
- [Consistency](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/consistency/)
- [Goals](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/goals/)
- [Vision](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/vision/)
- [Demons](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/demons/)
- [Faustian Bargain](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/faustian-bargain/)
- [Agenda](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/agenda/)
- [Values](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/values/)
- [Mind Bending](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/mind-bending/)
- [Habits](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/habits/)
- [Epigenetics](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/epigenetics/)
- [Evolution](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/evolution/)
- [Lifting](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/lifting/)
- [Lofting](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/lofting/)
- [Powering Up](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/powering-up/)
- [Outfitting](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/outfitting/)
- [Free Will](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/free-will/)
- [Consciousness](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/consciousness/)
- [Intentionality](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/intentionality/)
- [Habit](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/habit/)
- [The Unfinished Agenda](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/the-unfinished-agenda/)
- [Success Tracking](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/success-tracking/)
- [Negotiability](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/negotiability/)
- [Currency](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/currency/)
- [Belonging](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/belonging/)
- [Accountability](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/accountability/)
- [Trust](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/trust/)
- [Navigation](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/navigation/)
- [Safety](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/safety/)
- [Security](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/security/)
- [Navigability](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/navigability/)
- [Insulation](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/insulation/)
- [Organize](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/organize/)
- [Strategic Sacrifice](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/strategic-sacrifice/)
- [Prioritize](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/prioritize/)
- [Streamline](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/streamline/)
- [New Reality Fabrication](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/new-reality-fabrication/)
- [Fraud](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/fraud/)
- [Satisfaction](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/satisfaction/)
- [Diversion](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/diversion/)
- [Beating the System](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/beating-the-system/)
- [Intrinsic Value](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/intrinsic-value/)
- [Intrinsic Worth](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/intrinsic-worth/)
- [Enough](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/enough/)
- [Restraint](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/restraint/)
- [Austere Prosperity](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/austere-prosperity/)
- [Normalizing Better](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/normalizing-better/)
- [Aspire Higher](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/aspire-higher/)
- [Relevance](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/relevance/)
- [Translatable Skills](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/translatable-skills/)
- [Enfranchisement](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/enfranchisement/)
- [Empowerment](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/empowerment/)
- [Ownership](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/ownership/)
- [Illusions](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/illusions/)
- [Delusions](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/delusions/)
- [De-stressing](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/de-stressing/)
- [Powering-Through](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/powering-through/)
- [Lightening-Up](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/lightening-up/)
- [Odd Greatness](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/odd-greatness/)
- [Defiance](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/defiance/)
- [Crazies](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/crazies/)
- [Creatively Different](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/creatively-different/)
- [Adversity](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/adversity/)
- [Eventual Surmountability](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/eventual-surmountability/)
- [Growth](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/growth/)
- [Capacity](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/capacity/)
- [Will](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/will/)
- [Insight](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/insight/)
- [Choice](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/choice/)
- [Risk](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/risk/)
- [Light](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/light/)
- [Dark](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/dark/)
- [Affirmation](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/affirmation/)
- [Liberation](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/liberation/)
- [Vicissitudes](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/vicissitudes/)
- [Sublimation](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/sublimation/)
- [Stamina](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/stamina/)
- [Conditioning](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/conditioning/)
- [Long Haul Navigation](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/long-haul-navigation/)
- [Hustle](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/hustle/)
- [Liberty](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/liberty/)
- [Delivering the Goods](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/delivering-the-goods/)
- [Finishing](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/finishing/)
- [Illusion](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/illusion/)
- [Tribalism](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/tribalism/)
- [Teamwork](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/teamwork/)
- [Collaboration](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/collaboration/)
- [Transcendence](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/transcendence/)
- [Be In the Moment](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/be-in-the-moment/)
- [Immersion](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/immersion/)
- [Balance](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/balance/)
- [Resilience](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/resilience/)
- [Reserve](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/reserve/)
- [Constraints](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/constraints/)
- [Anxiety](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/anxiety/)
- [Toughness](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/toughness/)
- [Nerd](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/nerd/)
- [Unscripted](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/unscripted/)
- [Difference Maker](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/difference-maker/)
- [Triggering](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/triggering/)
- [Get Going](https://ertiaunlimited.com/tag/get-going/)

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