If we’re only playing for survival, money to pay rent, keep the lights on, and put food on the table, the Big D!ck Contest sucks. And in today’s tight job market, a lot of people are playing for survival. It’s hard to Fly Under the Radar (a BDC play) when you’re worried if you don’t win every contest, you might be jobless. And if that happens you’ll lose a whole lot of other contests. Circumstances has forced virtually everyone to have BDC claws of survival out. If we’re forced to play for survival, then playing the Big D!ck Contest is an unhappy experience and can lead to so much stress that it literally kills you. Beware.

But what about all those other contests we play. Is there happiness when we get that promotion over our nemesis at work? Usually. Is there happiness when we have our significant other admit we’re right? Usually. Is there just a little bit of pride when our front yard landscaping is the talk of the neighborhood. Usually.

So, yes, there are times we want to be the best. We want win. When we do, it’s a lot of fun. It makes us happy. We grin from ear to ear.

And obviously, if we lose the contests we want to win, it sucks and we’re unhappy. But when they are contest we chose to play, we can quit playing them and our happiness can return quite quickly.

So in honor of Happiness Happens Month, may you only have to play and win the contests that will make you happiest.

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I’m not sure, all I know is that I still haven’t scored an invitation, yet again, to the Big D!ck Vanity Fair Party. Why they wouldn’t want the author of the Big D!ck Contest: Exposed at the Hollywood Big D!ck party of the year is beyond me. Are you listening Vanity Fair?

I want to see, for myself, that golden statue that’s so coveted. It just doesn’t look that big. Maybe all the stars want one because it’s that big d!ck that they just can’t outright buy. You have to earn it~sort of. Although it’s a vote with all the politics of voting, it’s still a vote by a lot of big d!cks so there’s always different ideas about what deserve means. A teenie weenie will probably never win an Oscar. But if an an average d!ck wins one because the Academy feels they deserved it, they instantly become a Hollywood Big D!ck~at least for a few months and in today’s rapidly changing world that’s like forever.

To make the overpaid losers feel better that they got close but not close enough, they give them a gift bag worth more than the average American family of four makes in a year. And they Academy wonders why viewership has fallen in recent years.

Maybe I want one of those gift bags instead of the Vanity Fair Party invitation.

Tea Baggers, rail against everything, but are for nothing. It seems they just want their balls either soaked or blown in something hot. And while in the short-run it may feel good, in the long-run it destroys progress.

The Republicans really have adopted Nancy Reagan’s “just say no” anti-drug campaign. I think Obama could propose a tax-free year for everyone and they’d just say no because it’s the only word their lobbyist funded brainwashed minds know.

The Democrats, who’s d!ck’s should be big enough to pass something other than an insurance company blow job healthcare bill, don’t have dick’s big enough to pass a proclamation for people to have a nice day. After all, someone somewhere doesn’t want to have a nice day and we can’t offend them, so let’s do nothing.

No matter the party, the leaders are controlled by the minority, making them Little Pricks of lobbyist and party extremist that do not care one iota about the average American. The majority of elected officials are more concerned about their next election instead of being problem solving statesmen, like our founding fathers.

Investors have literally frozen their assets after their last Wall Street shenanigans that we, their Big D!ck Jock Straps (a.k.a. taxpayers), had to bail them out of. Now they are just waiting to see which industry that the government will bail them out of next if they make a bad investment. Investors lost their risk-taking balls. And while in theory that’s not necessarily bad, it’s like a professional football player being afraid to be tackled. The desire doesn’t match the job description.

And big business, looking for economic certainty in some mythical crystal ball have just decided to do nothing innovative to change the business cycle. Instead companies are expecting their worker bees to produce more, increasing profits by raising prices and fees for consumers, giving big titled management big bonuses and stockholders dividends. Big D!ck entrepreneurs like Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, or Fredrick Miller have to be thinking those Little Prick’s are giving entrepreneurs a bad name. Entrepreneurship is about creating, risk-taking and being the best product or service.

Every country has charlatans like the Bernie Madoff types. But until recent history the get rich quick guys have not defined American success. But in our impotent do nothing mindset we’ve become a country who’s companies are proud of selling lots of cheap stuff at the expense of quality or safety, and of making a buck at the expense of the common good. We’re a country that people would rather get 15 minutes of fame on a reality show than bother to read a book and get educated so we can contribute something.

When did America lose its heart and soul? The soul of risk-taking. The soul of entrepreneurship. The soul of sacrificing a little to make the world a better place. The soul of trying to be the best or most innovative, not just the cheapest or most profitable.

And will there be a Big D!ck that rises above the reigning impotence to inspire Americans to find their American spirit again?

After shopping, everyone quickly moves to Overstressed Drive because of the decorating, wrapping and mailing packages, sending greeting cards or emails, attending or hosting holiday parties and family gatherings, cooking,  volunteering, and trying to work (or job hunt) in the middle of all the hoopla.  Holiday Hoopla fuels the economy, keeps families and friends speaking, and hangovers happening.

Of course, like all BDC’s, the savvy player knows that this one is really about the connections with our loves ones.  That’s what makes memories…not the gifts, the decorations, or greeting cards.  It’s the time that spend with those we love.

And the only thing sadder than not participating in the Big D!ck Contest of Holiday Hoopla is participating in the Big D!ck Contest of Scrooge.

Give the gift that surprises and inspires – The Big D!ck Contest:  Exposed (scroll to the bottom) or Amazon.

I just got put on a rah-rah committee that’s supposed to motivate my team to do the impossible for the forth quarter.  You might not believe it, but I’m really an optimist and an idealist.  However, I’m also a realist.  Casper was my favorite cartoon character since he could fly and walk through walls.  I really wanted to do that.  But that  doesn’t mean that I think I can no matter how positive I think about it or how much I want to fly.  I’d just get lots of bruises or broken bones if I tried.

But in Corporate Cults, if you’re told to fly, then you’re just supposed to ask how high and when do you want me to do it.

If you’re an idealist you think eventually the cult you’re in will get some common sense.  But that’s not going to happen anytime soon.  A Corporate Cult is beholden to the Big Dick Contest of Money.  And in today’s economy, everyone is scared that there isn’t enough.  When you mix fear with greed the Big D!ck Contest is just going to get worse.  Even if your BDC (Big D!ck Contest) survival strategy is to Fly Under the Radar in this new economy that’s just not going to work.  Maybe you’ll decide to be more competitive and move up the ladder.  And frankly, the Corporate Cult works for millions of people.

But, if being part of a Corporate Cult isn’t your passion, eventually the Kool-Aid poisons you and starts killing your soul.

What do you do?  Well, you proceed with caution.  Most of us need our jobs.  And even if we work in a Corporate Cult, most of the time we like the people, our customers, our job, or what we sell.  It’s not all bad.

But you can start to prepare for the new economy.  The one around the corner that’s going to reward entrepreneurship again.  The one that lets you live your passion.

I just read, Crush It by Gary Vaynerchuk, and if you’re being poisoned by the Corporate Cult Kool-Aid, check it out.  It’s about living your soul.

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Health is something we only think about when we’ve lost it.  It’s not fun.  It’s not sexy.  And unfortunately, sometimes you have to lose your health to value your health.

Healthcare is a complicated problem.  No one in either political party, the healthcare or insurance industries really knows exactly what to do to create more affordable healthcare for more people.  There isn’t a sound bite solution.  It’s scary if we do nothing.  It’s scary if we make a change.

Option One:  Do Nothing

If you like what you have and you’re scared you’ll get less with a change, newsflash:  Unless you’re part of the BD Billionaire Club, you know, a Warren Buffet type, you will get less healthcare for your money in the very near future.  Companies can’t afford the projected insurance rate increases.  Erin Burnett, from MSNBC, has said on-air several times, that 30% of large companies are planning to employ fewer people because of rising healthcare costs.  You might not even have your job much less your health insurance.

Even if you think this is the calling card to give President Obama a Big D!ck Political Loss, do you want to do it at the expense of your loved ones healthcare needs?

Option Two:  Change

But to what?  I’ve pondered this for years (I worked in healthcare at one time) and in my humble opinion it’s multi-pronged.

For every dollar that insurance companies pay in dividends and for bonuses it’s a dollar that doesn’t go towards helping someone get well.  If you think that someone at your health insurance company isn’t evaluating who gets treatment and who doesn’t, you’re naive.

Why do you think the major insurance companies are so against one of the consumer choices being a public plan or non-profit insurance option?  Just think, they believe it’s more cost-effective for them to spend billions of dollars to lobby against choices that don’t include dividends, perks and bonuses at the expense of someone’s health than to lose this Big D!ck Contest and have to compete.  That’s not capitalism.  That’s legislative corporate protectionism.

We have to look at cost savings.  If you’ve ever had a procedure done, you know that you get bills for months from people and labs that you’ve never heard of or seen.  You know the costs of the same procedures are like the prices of a seat on an airplane.  Some people pay below costs and others are overcharged.

Doctors need to decide if they only want to be in a profession to make people healthy or to make Big D!ck Dollars.  If they only want the dollars, they need to consider jobs on Wall Street.

Can we reduce the costs of medical school?  This would encourage more people to become doctors who are interested in healing people and less interested in their BD Status.

You can’t ignore tort reform.  If a mistake is made and your loved dies, well, a million or twenty million dollars doesn’t bring them back.  And retail therapy at the expense of everyone is only so valuable.  But you can’t cap awards for legitimate mistakes to the point that if a mistake is made that someone must live with, they aren’t compensated for the extra life-long expenses or loss of income they will incur.  Doctors and hospitals need to have consequences for negligence to encourage competence.

And yes, everyone should have some type of health insurance just like they have to have car insurance.  Those who are uninsured cost everyone.  But you have to make it possible for everyone to be insured at an affordable cost.

We need to reward healthy behaviors.  There are stories of the 20 year old runner with a healthy lifestyle having a heart attach.  But there are more stories of people choosing unhealthy lifestyles:  obesity, tobacco use, or not managing stress having health problems.  We need to focus on healthy lifestyles.

Yes, our healthcare system is going to change.  We’re not going to like all of the changes.  We’re going to spend more personal and public dollars on it.  Those are facts that we can’t change.  But what we can change is the how the money is spent.  Will we spend it on dividends, perks and bonuses?  Or will we spend dollars on improving healthcare delivery and outcomes?

The Big D!ck Contest of Health, and therefore healthcare, is personal to everyone.  It shouldn’t be partisan.  It shouldn’t be about profit.  It should be about quality care and actual health.  And everyone needs to care and participate in this debate.  It may be your health that’s being impacted.

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These CEO’s are winners of the Big D!ck Contest of Who You Know.  Meaning, they put their BD Pals on their boards, which usually comes with lovely six digit payment for attending board meetings, at very nice places, to approve the BD comp plans of the CEO’s and increase their own BD Rolodex with a little BD bonding on someone else’s dime.  Seriously, how do I apply for one of these jobs?

My day job is in business development for a Fortune 150 company.  If my quota and GP underperform I’m lucky to keep my job and get my base.   But then again, I’m just a teenie weenie in a Big D!ck Corporate Cult…

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