Skin in the game

I'm a terrible poker player. When I play Texas Hold 'em, I think I have good cards and will struggle to not keep up with the bids in order to just get a glimpse at whether the next cards will do me any good. I get so excited about the prospect of having a good hand, I completely disregard whether anyone else at the table actually has a better hand. I'm not calculating, nor am I reading the other players; I am simply deciding if I have enough chips to lose in order to see if I can win.

I told my neighbor this one day, and he said "You're the kind of person we LOVE to have at our table."

I am not the kind of person who really likes to take risks, or decide I'm going to go do something spontaneous or outrageous (both words ending with a ridiculous amount of vowels), but I am the kind of person who will find myself in a situation where I just keep wandering down the rabbit hole.

Sometimes you wander into something good. Rarely, but sometimes. Most often, aimless wandering leads you nowhere.

Recently I came across an opportunity to generate an income from home, and I've been completely thrilled by it. The training is fantastic, and I was willing to put in $20 to learn how to do it. So worth it. So so worth it.

But I wanted to know how I could do better. The training for that was more money, and then there is more training and more training. I'm not a patient person. I'm not calculating. I want to know what I need to know, and then I want to apply it as the situations come to me. I learn by doing, but I also know that I can't learn everything right away. So ideally I see the training, file accordingly and as things come up, I know where I can access the necessary information.

This is a crazy tangent.

My bad poker / aimless wandering conclusion: when you have skin in the game, you're going to focus your energy at making things happen. I have skin in the game. We can't afford for me to go off on some wandering expedition to the middle of nowhere. However, what I am so excited about is that I've finally found a direction. I don't feel like I'm wandering anymore. I feel like I have a destination and this program is my vehicle to get there.

I feel really great today, and I'm very excited about our future.