Just as I was thinking:
I’m tired of not acting until I have a template for action, a plan that’ll see me through, and I’m proceeding even if it implies missteps and inefficiency. Trust the universe? Trust Tom Mullaly.
I read:
“Nothing bothers me more than sloth. The objective is to fix mistakes of ambition and not make mistakes of sloth. I work my ass off.”
from Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Work Week
What came first: futility or acceptance?
‘Dealing with scarcity through acquisition’ would be a subset of ‘changing your environment’ aka ‘fixing things’…
I see an opposite human impulse exhibited in some, not all, of my beach buddies in Bali (come from faraway places like Sumatra to find opportunity that’s rarely here), namely: acceptance of the way things are, as they are. I think of them without judgement as the contentment junkies. There is a lot to be said for acceptance, especially in certain situations, even if you are accused of ‘giving up’.
There is a case to be made too for keeping alive an ability in yourself to try to change things, when things can be improved in environments conducive to to it. A case for being honest with yourself as to the place and time you are lucky enough to inhabit, a place of less futility than your laziness might prefer….
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
 – Thomas Jefferson