> [!abstract]- This is a tool used to think through applying our excesses. > Commonly in personal finance we approach issues from the ass end of the problem. As many other factors weighted primarily by inertia rather than sense precede them. Contemporarily chief amongst them is the concept of the future being discernible from the past. But reality is probabilistic. So inherent fault we have discovered with a most ancient comfort. In practice 303030 is a three way balance with an implicit remainder. Decision removed from a binary presumption, while still minimizing chaos, and allowing a margin of error. It is the difference between a two-armed pendulum, and a three. One may find stability, the other can never do so while being in motion. >[!question] Pronounced: thirty/thirty/thirty > thur·tee·thur·tee·thur·tee # Investing Wealth can only be stored in people. But our society is huge, and you and yours may indeed have no say. And no one, not even I, knows the way. There is no certainty. There are no figures which will last. There is only a perspective, and the work. **Of your excess:** 30% back into yourself 30% into your community 30% follows status quo Nothing can ever outcompete your best, for it is yours, and that alone is all you can own. But what are you, if not your community? And how are you to balance the two? Particularly when their is indeed three. Those others, who do not agree, yet with us all, decide the way of our world. Put 30% of your excess back into yourself, and let no one judge you for it. Put 30% into your community, and let yourself not judge them. Put 30% into the status quo, and pray that judgement be done. Spend the ten to excuse yourself of obsession and to reward yourself for having developed excess. # Time >- Feelings are how the unimaginable genius of our machinery communicates to our pseudo-present selves what we remember of the past. > >- Thoughts are how we reach into the future and grasp possibilities with hands we can lose. > >- Within the present the voice with which we think disappears. When faced with excess time, apply 30% of it to your feelings, 30% of it to your thoughts, and 30% to being present. With 10% lost to the friction of transitions or wherever it does land with whatever time was not in deed excess at all. Spend your time communing with the past, engaging with the future, and existing in the present. > [!example]- Example? > Sure, why not, but this is impossible. Have you noticed yet this is all still a [[Work in Progress]]?^[Is it? This footnote is from late July 2024.] > > Let's call the past your commitments that brought you to where you are. > Let's call the future that which must be sacrificed for presently. > And we can leave the present as what it is. That place where words seem to shape it larger and wider than it is but bliss or pain can shatter it beyond words or warding. > > In complexity 30-30-30 falls short regarding time because preference and responsibility fight for our time as assuredly as happenstance and fate do. So listen not to the clattering of thunder or the shaking of soil. Rather, look inward to here what has been placed there by the symphony of your beating hearts journey. Listen. And step forward. Ears wide open. # Strategy Avoid the binary default of mankind. Option A and Option B may seem a spectrum, but adding Option C builds a field of truer possibility. While the remainder haunts the hinterlands. Reminding of us of the necessity to be humbled by what we know we cannot see. # Tactics Commit to three actions as much as possible. Less, only if you can die by dutifully being singularly who you are or duality is all you can manage. More, only if you are young, exceptional, or foolish. Movement is medicine as much as differing action is restful.