Years ago, I thought my dad was kind of a dork for playing Minecraft. As time went on, that softened a bit - we'd talk about stuff while he'd chop down trees or dig up a hill or something - there was something more soothing about it, I suppose. In the last week or two, I got into it myself at the prodding of a friend, and it's strangely addicting. You can pretty much make whatever you want, and there's a lot of complexities. Over the weekend, me and a buddy took a whole dilapidated village and refurbished it, though we haven't got villagers yet (apparently a large scale pain in the ass).

Ultimately though, the power you have in Minecraft is to use the tools and resources at your disposal to transform the world around you, in a way that's more suited to your liking. You have your limitations, but your creativity can really soar, and you can come up with some really cool things. And the coolest part is when you finish a project and just look at it and marvel at your work.

It's microcosmic, but real life works the same way, though much slower, and with a much larger assortment of possibilities. All too often it's easy to get caught up in the day-to-day and people lose sight of what they've accomplished, the impact they've had on the world around them. With the current energy driving transformations all around us, remember you can watch things transform around you, or you can be part of the process. Use that power within, and see what you might create today. Best of luck.

Bud

Getting to work will seem easy enough for the current period. Particularly for today (into the next couple of weeks), you're going to have to be smarter about the way you work. There can be occasional arrogance based on your past successes where you feel you can figure things out on the fly. The truth is going into situations blind, without a good plan of attack, won't work out too well for you. Look into what you want to do and make sure you know all of the tricks of the trade before actually going and doing something - it will save you a lot of time and frustration in the long run.

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