In my book, there are two kinds of settlers.  The first kind thought it would be a good idea to set out across the open prairie searching for a better life.  They were pioneers first, settlers second.  They explored the world while working to create better lives than they started with.  Let me say that again.  They explored the world while working to create better lives than they started with.

The second variety of settlers exists today…..and their lives aren’t so great.

You see, ‘settlers’ today….they’re just that.  They settle for whatever they can get.  Whatever happens to come to them.  Whatever debris floats down the river and lands at their feet.  They say thing like, “Well, these are just the cards I’ve been dealt in my life”. 

Sulky Settlers don’t realize that ambition and risk taking and action are absolutely essential to ever achieve anything.  They’ve self-programmed themselves to be losers.  For every 1,000 in the breadline, there's one out selling apples or newspapers or cultivating melons or any other worthy pursuit.  Action breeds results.  And if you look at the photo above and say to yourself something like "But, these people here lost their jobs/not their fault/etc",  than get the fuck off my web page and buy another 40oz with your unemployment check tomorrow.

Hustlers don't cry, they take their holey blankets and sell 2 million Snuggies.

Is society based upon a natural balance of permanent pioneers and sulky settlers?  Do kings stay kings and peasants stay peasants?  Well, yes……until a peasant realizes they can change their circumstances.

The modern pioneer is a boat rocker, a heretic.  An Un-Settler.

Only through ambition, risk taking, and action can lifestyle elevation occur.  The three key tenets of the Un-Settler.  Only by a little unsettling of the status quo can change occur, dynasties be built. 

The Un-Settlers of yore didn’t sit around waiting for a union job.  They grabbed an axe, and rode out into the unknown.  They found an untouched valley, spotted a fir and sunk their axe deep into it.  Twenty years of planning, sweat, and triumph built a thriving ranch.  Also known as ambition, risk taking, and action.

Get some.

You never see results until you put a little breeze in the trees.