Passing the torch? Maybe?

Someone convinced my dad to start preparing to pass on his business and I seem to be the most likely candidate at this point. My brother is out of town now and neither my mom or my sister seem interested. Though up till now, I haven't heard him say it even though everyone says that responsibility for that place is going to start transferring over to me. I guess it's kind of nice to have the experience, even if it's going to be brief. I don't really want to get tied down here.
I wonder if my family sees me as actually looking to stay like this for a long time and unloading stuff onto me. It sucks, and well, I don't like the way things are, but most of everything just leads back to repeating this situation later. Oh well, my brother seems to like the business and he says he's probably coming back after his one year contract.
Anyway, feeling lost and that's never good.

No goals this week

Strange, I thought I was getting better sleep, then I realized that I'm waking up every two hours or so. That can't be good, though now I actually have a sense of how bad it is. Work is cutting back on overtime, which doesn't directly affect me since I'm not doing any overtime at present. Though it does raise a bit of concern over whether or not this is a bad sign for the business. I manufacture cosmetic building supplies, moulding. The kind of stuff that's pretty much only found in residential properties, which is also the kind with the speculators and bubbles. Then again, I'd say that it was incompetently managed to start with. Before, people would just walk in and walk out for overtime all the time. There were people going at it upwards of 70 hours a week, several of them. Some people were even there more often than they weren't. My area probably wouldn't have functioned without overtime workers. Management got yelled at for having higher labour costs.
Anyway, today I wonder if my life feels enriched by sleeping through most of the day. I think I should find a few games to play to fill the time or something. Maybe read something.
Oh and in other news, I just found out that my dad doesn't have any insurance. He got my mom to opt out of his pension benefits and has no life insurance, which I find kind of silly. My mom is ten years younger and is in much better health than he is. Well, all I can say is, way to be a team player. I suppose it's just a sign of how things are in this family. Oh well, I really don't want anything to do with this family. It's just too much of a mess.

week in review

This week went ok for me. I still feel pretty good about things. I also came to a rather necessary realization, so many of my weekly goals seem to fall through, I may as well stop setting weekly goals and push for a longer time scale. So, by the end of next month, I hope read through all the material I picked up on my vacation, start recording all my transactions again, and try to make my Thursdays more enjoyable. I feel an incredible disconnect when I can't find people and exchange a few words before disappearing for work. That sounds like a pretty reasonable step.
On a side note, I think I've been getting better sleep lately. Though keyword there being think.

Steps to Wealth

So, what should be the first step towards wealth? Personally, I feel that understanding and defining your objective should be the first step. It's a good first step towards anything. Though that brings to mind the question of what is so much of a mystery about money? Haven't most people got a good idea of things by the time that they have their first job and first stable income stream? Only having had once chance to live life, and haven't not stopped to make observations on this topic along the way, I can't really say.
I'm not sure what the key point that so many people miss is. Though I'm sure people are missing something. That's why there's so many people struggling with debts. Understanding what you're doing and defining what you want seems to be an increasingly vague first step. I guess most people understand the basics, but they just don't realize how quickly all the little bits add up. Small payments make things easier, though they're often spread out so far that a sizable amount of the total is interest, something else catches your eye in the mean time and the small amounts add up, or they're spread so far that there seems to be no end to it.
We all largely understand that borrowing costs money, likewise, there's an understanding that having money can bring money. There does however seem to be a disconnect somewhere. Well, my thoughts are scattered so best to move on.
Just as large amounts can be broken down into smaller payments that result in more money leaving your pocket, the reverse is also possible. Taking a large amount and using it to obtain smaller payments works as well, however you don't get anything cool for doing it and it takes a much larger amount. It does indeed take some very large amounts before you start getting big pay offs.
I suppose step two should be bringing spending under control, in general the more that a person earns the more that gets spent, though sometimes there'll be a delay between increased income and increased spending and sometimes spending will increase in anticipation of income increases. Also, I suspect I spend more when I'm not recording every transaction, though since nobody is filling in for me, I really can't say. Most of the time, we don't really think about where all the money goes and try to decide on making major changes.
This brings me to what I suppose step three should be, deciding on sacrifices to make. Someone once asked me when I was going to get a car. The first thing that came to mind was the life cycle cost of having a car. If I got a car now, I think I'd be working about one month a year for it. Not really something that I want at this point in my life.
Then I suppose we can start thinking about increasing income. Now if I could organize my thoughts, maybe I could write something sensible.

Goals for the Week

Feeling much better this Monday than most of the Mondays I go through. So, goals for the week, 5S my bedroom. Sort, stabilize, standardize, shine, sustain, going to have the things I use regularly out and put the things I use occasionally on the shelf, things that are rarely used can go in my closet. Everything will hopefully be laid out neatly. This will more likely be an ongoing project. I suppose I'll keep hunting for blogs I like and try to get some links setup. Other than that, things are up in the air again. I thought things have kind of blown over, but I guess I have to be prepared to take on even more tasks.

First step towards wealth?

It was a nice day, so I stepped out during one of my breaks and spent a little time outside. There was a conversation going on about schooling, second jobs and so on. Someone said that supplementing your income was the first step. He didn't say towards what though. Naturally though, I assume he means wealth.
Supplementing income though probably isn't the first step. There's always the amusing story about the big lottery winner who goes bankrupt. As much as we like to imagine that a bit more money will fix everything, there's no shortage of people who make more and struggle to make ends meet. This can't possibly be the first step, can it?

Week in Review?

Do I need a week in review? I don't know. I was on vacation, no goals were set, there are no objectives to comment on. The major things worth mentioning are that my stuff is a mess. Only it's now a mess that isn't very mapped out and concentrated in a few places. I've got to go through everything and sort it. Life seems to be going on as somewhat normal. There's going to be more demands on me now, which I'm not particularly looking forward to.
I'm somewhat more relaxed now. I can play the wait, see and in the mean time augment my income with investments. Also, kind of wondering if there's some kind of cheap project I can take up for a bit of fun, not sure what yet. For the most part, depression has been keeping me from doing much.