Fully Engaged

No. Simmer down. I am not getting remarried (as if that would be news). By fully engaged, I mean it is fascinating, this side of beginning to get a clue, how unengaged I was in my own life. Sadly, that does not make me unique. It makes me very common.

American has become a land of those who want others to engage their life for them, fixing those challenges brought on by both personal choices and the personal choices of others. Statistics suggest we'd rather eat a greasy burger and cheer for someone else on Biggest Loser than get off the couch and create a motivational environment in our own life. Rather gripe about the health insurance system than discontinue the virtual non-stop ingestion of crap, absence of exercise and franctic materialism that is literally killing us.

In companies, HR departments say employees' personal lives are none of their employers business. Really? Then why is it employees literally ask employers everyday for raises because the employees have gotten themselves into a jam via poor money management, relationship skills, and plain emotional immaturity?

Don't want your employer in your personal life - then manage it (so you aren't asking your employer to bail your behind out when you act childishly)!

Gotta run. MY life is calling.