For my child,
First and foremost this is an attempt to be understood, secondly if possible; speed my ability to increase the rate we transition away from fossil fuels.
Background
Many of us including myself believe that God has a plan for us all, and as I prepared for University I created a plan in my mind of how I would try to influence the direction of humanity’s evolution, which as I look back on it. I can only think “what arrogance!” Quickly followed by; “actually at the time the thought was appropriate; in no way did I connect God’s plan and the one I constructed. I was merely creating a path of smaller goals within the context of a central one.
- Go to University get a degree (no particular one)
- Learn all I could while I worked in the financial industry
- Become federally politically active
- Win a federal seat
- Rise through the ranks to become Prime Minister
- Sometime during the journey, get married and have kids
In University I found that I loved history and economics. I love history because of the cycles and the realization that, in many ways nothing is new learning from our mistakes should be an inherent goal. I love economics (specifically macro) because of its ability to explain why some things are the way they are. I ended up taking all the macroeconomics courses offered at the time and many European history courses with Dr. Bowler (who ended up being my favourite prof).
- Get University Degree – History Major and Economics Minor; it is a double major but they wanted me to come back and take a bunch more unrelated electives.
- I obtained an in depth understanding of the banking side of the financial industry and the investment side of the financial industry (in Canada they are considered separate entities) becoming assistant branch manager of a private Canadian brokerage house.
- While in University I joined the Canadian Alliance[1] party which I anticipated would supplant the Conservative Party of Canada; upon the realization that splitting the right vote would ruin both parties they eventually merged and I became a federal candidate for the merged Conservative party in the riding of Winnipeg Centre.
X and then the pillars of my plan came crashing down. One after another
By this time I had lived in Winnipeg Centre for 6 years and had visited nearly every church, was familiar with almost every private business person in the community, and am very well known within the Philippine community (one of the largest) there. I was serious about winning and did what I thought was necessary to win. Shortly after becoming candidate and attending all the pre-election conferences I was visited twice by the President of the party. Each time he looked me straight in the eye and said, “Don’t try”; at the time I was an A-type personality and this did not make sense to me. So once it was apparent I was not listening they replaced me.
I joined because they claimed to have morals, integrity and believe in rewarding hard workers. Their deeds confirmed they were no different than any of the other political party.
X In 2007 and 2008 my business partner and I recognized the approaching financial disaster and called a top in the equity markets almost to the day. In the fallout of the Great Financial Crisis it became obvious the system rewarded corruption not ingenuity.
- In 2010 I got married, we had a child
X In 2014 we were divorced
3 things to note before reading the new plan:
- Within the original plan, my goal was to influence the direction of humanity, given my lack of experience at the time this is not surprising; the new goal is to speed the process of transition from fossil fuels to other forms of energy production while trying to coordinate people in opposition to fossil fuel proliferation.
- The making of the 1st edition of my book 319% originated from my attempts to automate my commodity strategies. The day after it got published I realized that there was an error and had it removed from circulation. After considerable badgering from my publisher I rewrote the book as a best practices trading guide free of any errors. Finally the 3rd edition contains all my best practices and a roadmap for people who would like to enhance their investing tools learning more about the game. When time allows I will find a way to automate the system.
- My first plan was based on the idea that the financial industry was designed to reward hard work and ingenuity; as noted above only my naivety was rewarded and my illusion destroyed in grandiose fashion. The new plan is based on these experiences and its success predicated on my ability to generate enough funds.
So the new plan is as follows:
- Finish Electrical school, getting certified I will have the ability to work almost anywhere in the world while garnering a high income.
- When funds allow begin trading commodities based on the principles, guidelines , and best practices laid out in my book 319%
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Alliance