The Virtue of Productive Work (Help Yourself)

Every person helps themselves, is employed by themselves and ultimately works for themselves no matter what is said to the contrary at a regular job. When this is consciously realized, better work is always done because you know what and why you are working for. When you help yourself in the purest of rational self interest, that is the most valuable work of life in life that you can do anytime, anywhere and anyhow. For you sow the seeds, tend them and then reap the fruits for yourself in the most rational of manners. Reality as a whole benefitting you, indeed depends on your efforts for yourself and on your own behalf. I do not state anything new, I state obvious, honest and logical facts of reality that genuinely and really work when you do work them.
Sure, I could make the title less plain than "The Virtue of Productive Work" or "Help Yourself", but I am just stating what the body of this article is going to be about. Sure, I could have titled it "The Virtue of Enjoying Your Life And Work", but that would not have been as straightforward like I wanted it to be, it would have sounded too much like "take it easy and enjoy it all". Sure, this article is about enjoying your life and work, but it is also about making your work both your work and something you enjoy doing as well as doing it well. Helping yourself ultimately is enjoying yourself and enjoying the living you make. For example: Personally, I feel that way when I write and when I am at the senior center helping people both. Also, I feel that way when I enrich myself in honestly positive ways after work without doing anything destructive or unproductive. My point is, no matter what all actions I take are enjoyable and contribute instead of detract from my productiveness, right down to the time I spend with others. If it is not productive, I just let it go fully and unabashedly. If it is productive, I fully and unabashedly keep it around to benefit myself. No qualms, no games, just honesty.
Some would say that my reality to me is just one giant business transaction. But, in a sense, most people and their realities are an unhealthy gambling game that they "party" irrationally at and work begrudgingly with. Indeed, a business transaction where you do everything enjoyably, yet rationally seriously is more healthy than a consistent political race, popularity contest or gambling game where you "party" irrationally. But, when the party is over there is always the hangover after the "crescendo" where you "dance with the lampshade on your head" and do anything to "enjoy yourself" irrationally even if you do make a fool of yourself in a self sacrificial way. So, genuinely productive work is not done begrudgingly, it is done with full and honest self-benefit in mind in every way. It cannot be done in any other way.
So, without qualms, I put the simple title on this article, "The Virtue of Productive Work" with the subtitle "Help Yourself" because that is the whole idea behind a rational life, and that idea fully and honestly and in reality permeates it fully in every genuine way when a life is rational, honest, noble and genuinely good. I am not even saying "looks good" either, dear reader. I am meaning a life that is genuinely good in every way. "Looking good" and "keeping up with the others" is for genuine losers and real idiots who are not self contained and genuinely honest within themselves. Reality and living by it is for winners. The complete winner understands themselves, creates peace within and for themselves, and lives rationally and honestly. Through first benefitting themselves, they can benefit all others because all genuine love and benefit starts with self love and benefit. That is the key, that is the mission of all honest people who are honest with themselves.
So, "as you sow, so shall you reap" is not just a ridiculous silliness that is outdated, it is a universal and fully honest principle that integrates into reality and the consciousness of reality. That, in essence, is the ultimate law of helping yourself and productive work, no matter what. That never changes, as a principle, a law, a reality.
My name is Joshua Clayton, I am a freelance writer based in Inglewood, California. I also write under a few pen-names and aliases, but Joshua Clayton is my real name, and I write by that for the most part now. I am a philosophical writer and objective thinker and honest action taker.
I also work at a senior center in Gardena, California as my day job, among other things, but primarily I am a writer. As a kid I did construction work with my Dad which taught me many things like plumbing, hard labor and electrical systems, and I took notes for my Dad's home poker games at my Uncle Johnnie Gilmore's house, so I have a lot of life experience, sure. But I went to Cal State Dominguez Hills College, UCLA, and El Camino Junior College and learned a lot, but never got around to getting a degree, just lots of money spent, good grades and some credits. So, here I am currently freelance writing and working at a senior center for a living.
But enough details of my life, what I do is not what I am. So here is what I enjoy, I enjoy reading, listening to music (everything from Beethoven, Strauss and Bach to The Meters, ELO and The Band and Dylan/Garcia and The Grateful Dead also, when they were the Grateful Dead. Well, as you can tell by SOME of the music I listen to, I am a very eclectic person. I am also a deep science fiction fan and as said before, a lover of books. If I were to go into everything it would take thousands of words and I only have about three hundred words here, of which I have used 290 of already. Well, I end here. Thanks. Joshua Clayton.