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Hope and vision

May 11, 2023Get on your feet, Homelessness, Jacob's Ladder, Job search/Job prospects, Motivations, Squalor, Thursday postsHope, Prayer, Transitional housing, Upward mobility, VisionWilliam Tell

As of March 7, I will have been homeless five years.

This morning I took first concrete steps to get myself into transitional housing.

This is essential if I’m to get job. For some time, I’ve been living off life insurance policy proceeds, but in the near future, that money will run out. It’s urgent that I get an income.

The shelter where I’ve been staying is extremely comfortable, perhaps too comfortable, but it has very rigid hours that make it nearly impossible to hold a job while one stays there. Currently, having to carry my two heavy bags and backpack with me wherever I go, severely limits my ability to commute. Transitional housing will spell having a place where I can stash my stuff, and freedom to come and go as I please. I will, for example, be able to take a night job.

Related: Obstacles to my prosperity

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5. Serotonin and society

May 25, 2022Justice, Poverty, The Way of PeaceCaste system, Fruit of the Spirit, Galatians 5:19-23, Harmony, Paul, Pecking order, Serotonin, Shalom, Social hierarchies, Social mobility, Upward mobility, Works of the fleshWilliam Tell

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New book, Get on your feet

April 9, 2022Get on your feetEmotional regulation, Upward mobilityWilliam Tell

Seeking ways to occupy myself, I chose to resurrect the composition of my second book, Get on your feet. Reading the portions that have already been written, I found that they’re so meritorious as to deserve publication right away, without waiting to write the rest of the book. So, I uploaded them.

They’re here:

Get on your feet.

“Upward”

March 20, 2021Get on your feet, Motivations, OUR BEST POSTS, The William Tell ShowAuras, Centeredness, Choosing feelings, Choosing thoughts, Courage, Fear, Peace of mind, Spiritual growth, Spiritual healing, Upward, Upward mobilityWilliam Tell

This may seem unrealistic, even delusional; and much of the time, it has felt that way to me. But I’ve been here before, and know it’s not unrealistic at all. One drawback: it will pull me even farther away from the societal mainstream. But if I feel a “call” toward anything at all, it’s this path that I feel called to.

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Status report: A snapshot of my life right now

August 20, 2020Get on your feet, Justice, Thursday postsAttribution, Here - Now - Can, Hope, Keep the focus on you, Presence, Race, The Homeless Blogger, Upward mobilityWilliam Tell

On Tuesday 12/02, my therapist asked for a thumbnail summary of my overall situation.

I said, “I have goals, I’m taking concrete steps toward those goals, and I have a ton of hope.”

I know no way to account for this but the exact scenario I set forth in “Chaos overwhelms the poor:” I pay attention only to the concrete here-and-how, and to what I myself can do. (Related: Here – Now – Can.) From the farthest reach of my right fingertip to my right, to the farthest reach of my left fingertip to my left: within that range lies all my responsibility, everything that I can control. Here, the world appears orderly. Here, I can order and manage my affairs. Here I have power. I can act effectively. I can easily find hope.

A ton of hope.
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