I’m utterly exhausted from all this single-minded focus, driven by emotions rather than intellect! Honestly, don’t just nod along like a bobblehead or shake your head like a maraca merely because someone has a philosophy you deem the bee’s knees. On the flip side, don’t spiral into utter outrage every time someone you usually disagree with actually says something sensible. Remember, even the most genius and foolish individuals hit the mark on occasion, and, well, can be completely out of touch at other times!

Just this past week, I edited and finalized three chapters of this blog, tackled the tangled web of tax prep, chauffeured my wife to her doctor’s appointment like a retired Uber driver with style, and celebrated with a happy dance when we found out she’s still cancer-free after her epic battle with stage 4 ovarian cancer. As if that wasn’t enough, I was patching and painting the basement, and then turned into a barn-cleaning whirlwind after my horses decided to have a slumber party there during Kentucky’s freakishly recent cold snap.

With that said, and being a reasonably still coherent 72-year-old retiree, I can’t wrap my head around why it’s like pulling teeth for DOGE to get folks, whose salaries are paid with our tax dollars, to spend five measly minutes doing what I made senior execs do every week at staff meetings—simply list the five fabulous feats they accomplished last week, and the five things they plan on accomplishing this week!

Yep, that’s the kind of thing business operators ask business Vice Presidents, with literally millions of dollars of stock options, to do. Frankly, it’s just Business 101 in any “grown-up” office setting, and the out roar around DOGE asking government workers to do this simple thing spells out all we independent political free spirits need to know about how the governmental agencies and departments really operate.

You see, by publicly stating both short term goals and accomplishments people become accountable, not only to their bosses but their peers. They also can be measured comparably because weak goals, and even weaker accomplishments, don’t stack up in the rough and tumble business world.

The mere fact that people refuse to state their goals and accomplishments reveals the massive inefficiency associated with departments and agencies that operate at a 50% pace versus those that are proud of their typical 100% pace. Nothing more needs to be said!