7 Things To DO For “Less Talk, More Action!” – An Open Letter To Ambitious Men!
That phrase, 'less talk more action' might have been in a Van Halen song; but its roots go way beyond music and start with the home-spun wisdom of a grandfather.
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”
― G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain
First, my Ingratiating PREFACE:
There’s a darkness in me that stirs and wiggles, within the deepest depths of my psyche, as I sleep at night.
This has been going on for about 5 months…
It’s the knowingness, now, that my own manly-brethren, my own gender (some of them as confused as lumbersexuals in Portlandia)… are trapped inside a content-hurricane; a glut of information (this post included) that makes them seem more like The Walking Dead… than any kick-ass character from the T.V. series Yellowstone.
It’s as if, collectively, we Men have forgotten… well… how to be f*ckin MEN.
It would be very easy for me to sit here (on my white-male privileged ass) and shame those doing what I so often, also, do:
Spend way too much effort in digging-up the “problems” out there — from political quackery, out-of-whack social norms, governmental-sociopathy, etc. (hell, those rants and briefings are all over my blog) — and passing them along like a drunk sailor passing along his next “conquest story” at the bar.
No, I won’t shame my fellow man today. I am grateful that I have the resources and freedom to DO what I do. But, still, I’m beginning to feel sick that something is missing from Yours truly.
So, today, I will ask my fellow hombre (an open public request of sorts) to consider something, while looking in the mirror:
Am I allowing what I share online, or pass along to a friend, to take the place of my innate instinct to SOLVE problems? To act?
Is me festering inside a shitload of info online making me metaphorically soft?
Way before Van Halen put this in a song, my grandfather, H.P. Goss, used to walk around his property (oddly as I’m in the middle of cutting wood) muttering to the air:
Yes, dear Grandpa (rest your soul), indeed, “less talk, more action!”
It must of had something to do with all the fairies around him, in town, quibbling about the radical left who were “overtaking our freedoms.” Yes, as far back as the early 80’s, men were still griping and whining about so and so on the news, or asking for a hush-hush huddle session about the latest plot to overtake the world.
Well, hell, I thought then…
I, at 15 years old, wanted to hear the latest theory or fact-finding mission my grandpa’s pestering peeps had to share with him in the most presumptuously unsolicited way.
If they were that passionate about the next piece of info, or secret doctrine nobody is really paying attention to, well.. for shits sake…. I wanted in on the secrets too. And, damn, this was way before The X-Files made that quest cool.
Upon reading, recently, a longtime business acquaintances’ piece about defending personal freedoms… it occurred to me that more reading, more scans of YouTube vids, more conjecture about the evils that control society…
More, more, more — at least for we Men who, again, have a built-in desire to fix and solve issues — can turn into less, less, less… very easily if we don’t STOP and assess our time and priorities.
Please, Dear brother (pass this on to a Man in your life if you’re a gal reading this), understand what I’m writing here:
Sitting around talking, sharing shit online, playing video games, and sucking-up your precious talents online…
It doesn’t mean you’re doing what you DO best. It simply just creates more opportunity for your inner-fairy to turn you into a big pile of mush whose estrogen levels equal or exceed your testosterone levels.
If there’s anything I claim to be better-than-average at, it’s knowing WHO to go to… in order to learn HOW to do something.
Yes, we first have to sit around and determine and assess the problem we’re trying to SOLVE. Then, once we know with 100% conviction, we get off our asses and DO.
So what can you do?
Over to Mike for the ‘7 Things…’ and the rest of this ranting, but important, topic:
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