This site is dedicated to helping you implement easy incremental changes to improve all aspects of your life. Becoming more successful can be daunting because the changes you need to make in yourself to attract success can seem unachievable and cause great stress just thinking about it. I have great news!! If the changes you need to make are small and manageable, and the benefits to you are clear, then success is in your reach.
Having known people of all walks of life, young and old, one of the traits of those who are happy is one of attitude to continuously identify changes that can be easily made to reclaim time, energy, and contentment. I use the word “reclaim” for a reason. In childhood, we had all three. Then somewhere along the way, these freedoms faded as we aged and made more money. How is that possible?!
It is in fact not just possible, but probable, when you realize that with all of the years of schooling and being parented, there was no curriculum on finances, entrepreneurship, and handling tricky social circumstances. Most kids aren’t taught basic survival skills like time management and concepts like task completion.
Instead, students were groomed to be workers, tax payers, and consumers. The culture in America is to encourage broke people to feel they are entitled to own things they can’t afford to buy. Does “No Money Down” sound familiar? This leads to a life of debt that is usually resolved by an event called end-of-life. When a black swan (an unpredictable event that is beyond what is normally expected of a situation and has potentially severe consequences) occurs, then the student turned worker/consumer/tax payer has no idea what to do.
Money isn’t the only dysfunction affecting Americans. Dysfunction lies in politics, economics, diet, exercise or lack thereof, community, family and friends. Not to be a naysayer (because Sheri and I are optimists), but is it really necessary for there to be so much discord in one’s life?
We are here to help the fellow man, woman, and child by sharing ideas that could just make things in life easier. Maybe some of the bad programming ingrained into our minds since childhood can be replaced with some good kick-ass changes that are easy to implement.
We define the state of being Kozy as one of widespread peace. While we want that as the outcome, it is really about the journey – the trials and tribulation of getting there. Arthur Ashe, Jr. is quoted “Success is a journey not a destination.” It is about doing the work to get there. It is about celebrating the small accomplishments more than the success that eventually comes. Michael Jordan was fined almost $5,000 by the NBA at every home game in Chicago for wearing his Air Jordan shoes. The NBA banned the shoe for being controversial. Well $1B later…….
How can one feel Kozy or Zen like peace when the journey is filled with painful difficulties and endless failure? That’s a good one. What do you think? How do you think MJ dealt with it?
Zen – Second character meaning – Zen, as in Zen Buddhism