Limitations

Day 22... yeah, titles seem to matter. BOOBS got triple views , so I'm trying some clickbait...

Following up on yesterday's discussion on limitations... from Illusions: Argue your limitations and sure enough, they're yours.

Recent events in DC regarding the Secret Service's failures to properly protect the First Family have resulted in the resignation of the female head of the SS. A resignation which wasn't asked for earlier in the day, when the Administration supported her fully, but was readily accepted during the same business day.

I've read a few reports that she was "unfairly" harangued and was forced to walk off the "glass cliff." I suspect it's a reference to Hillary Clinton's famous "glass ceiling" comment from a few years ago. You know, how women still have to struggle to achieve anything. The glass cliff was referenced to describe how women are hired to fix things they had no blame in ruining, and then are forced out when things don't get better soon enough. An example was Carly Fiorina at HP.

She wasn't quite a failure, if I recall correctly. And she was quite successful before and after HP. Plus they are a corporation, that makes things. Not quite the same as providing security protection for the leader of the free world (damn, that hurts to say even after six years.) Whoever was in the position failed, it just happened to be her.

I truly don't think women are the oppressed beings some would have us think. There's lots of successful women, ones that work hard and make their own way. Not existing on government support or handouts, which The Life of Julia ads from 2012 would have us think are the way women should lead their lives. On the dole, without a spouse, taxpayer-funded education and housing. Sure sounds like a recipe for success, right?

I believe anyone can do anything. They just have to want it bad enough. Half-assed efforts don't get you anywhere. You want a better job, you probably need more education and then some experience. You want a bigger house, newer car? You have to find that better job instead of working at Mickey D's for minimum wage for eight years. Who does that and thinks they'll ever realize their dreams?

Argue your limitations. Convince yourself that as a woman you can never be a CEO. You can never run your own small business. You will never have that new car you want. Sure enough, you'll never have any of them.

Same goes for men, minorities, etc. Think you're stuck in a dead end job or marriage? There you'll be. Think you have marks against you because of your skin color or sexual preference? You do if you allow it.

Lesson Twenty Two: Do you accept the idea that we can never rise above certain levels because of barriers placed on us because of our sex, ethnicity, etc? Have you ever just went along with things because you thought you couldn't change things? Think about your own goals, and how much easier they'll be to reach if you don't give them up so easily. ALL IN.

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