Human Capital What is Human Capital? You are Human Capital. You add value to life and to the lives of those that love you. You add value to employers, companies, co-workers and friends. What value you supply to others is completely up to you. And the value you give brings you meaning to your life. Meaning equals purpose and purpose equals happiness. Like any capital or currency, it’s best if the value continues to rise. If we as individuals don’t take the time to increase our value, others may want us less. An investment in time improve your level of Human Capital is never wasted if you begin at the right step and with the passion to make yourself better. Step 1. Identify Your Passion For Me, my passion is something I’ve been aware of since I was in my early teens. It’s to help others. But, being aware of something, as it floats in the back of your brain is a lot different than nurturing the concept, embracing it and living your life with the values of it. And for me, this has been something that is my life’s work, to truly identify and spell out how my passion to help will look. And If I take the time to define it, my life will have so much more meaning and purpose. If you know anything about the wild ride that Prepare To Act has been on since I began it back in 2012, it may seem that our mission has changed so many times. But, in reality, the mission has always been clear to me, it’s the path and direction that has changed. You see I am a police officer at heart with the mindset of wanting more from my life. I began a business blindly, learning as I went, picking myself up when I got knocked down and kept a determination to make it work. As this business of Prepare To Act, ebbed and flowed, those that wanted to help came in with ideas and their own passions. Then went out for one reason or another. I struggled mentally with, why, with my concepts, my motivation and my work ethic, after all this time is this business not doing better. And then it came to me, I was working against myself, and with the drive and motivation to bring in capital, in this sense, actual money and the double edged sword of being helpful to others, I allowed the direction and mission of the business to change. Those two factors, capital and those I brought in to help build the business, was making me fail. And the simple reason was, I was following their dreams, their passions and it quickly became work for me. I’m zeroing in on the core of what I want this business to become and the only way that has been happening is by my own conscious thoughts and my own self-awareness. In my 23rd year of law enforcement, when I’m able to move on, I want to be able to do that. After 23 years of nights, holidays, weekends, missing events and seeing the worst in people, I need that to change. I don’t want what I do next to feel like work and my in my soul, I don’t want to work for anyone else. But I simply can’t sit back and hope the universe puts me where I need to be to make that happen. Life simply doesn’t work that way. In September of 2019, my uncle killed himself. He’s someone that I loved very much, respected very much and quickly became angry with, initially after the incident. Not only did he have a lot to do with me having the drive to become a police officer, he motivated me with a fantastic work ethic. And I quickly realized I wanted to earn more, I wanted to work harder, I wanted to accomplish big things and the truth was, I had the balls to take the chances. In October of 2019, a mentor and coach of mine, gave me a book, “Man’s Search For Meaning,” by Viktor Frankl. Frankl was a Holocaust survivor and he writes in the book how with struggle our minds, if strong enough can adjust to and handle just about anything. If you were to read the book, or if you know any detailed information about the Holocaust, you had to have at one point or another asked yourself, How can anyone make it through that? It’s mindset and approach. In this book Frankl writes: “Life does not mean something vaque, but something very real and concrete, just as life’s tasks are also very real and concrete. They form man’s destiny, which is different and unique for each of us. No man and no destiny can be compared with any other man or any other destiny. No situation repeats itself, and each situation calls for a different response. Sometimes the situation in which a man finds himself may require him to shape his own fate by action. At other times it is more advantageous for him to make use of an opportunity for contemplation and to realize assets in this way. Sometimes man may be required simply to accept fate, to bear his cross. Every situation is distinguished by its uniqueness and the there is always only one right answer to the problem posed by the situation at hand.” I made this concept effective shortly after my promotion. In 2015, I took my first promotional exam, it was for the rank of Sergeant, I ...
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