13th March 2025
Picture this: You’re on a boat in the middle of the ocean. Suddenly, a hole appears in the hull, Water pours in.
What happens next? How do people react?
The Freeloaders react — but they don’t act. “Someone fix this!” they yell. They point fingers, They debate who’s responsible, They theorize about why the ship is sinking.
One starts a petition. One writes a think piece, “The Big Sink: Who’s Really to Blame?”
Freeloaders never reach for the controls. They see things that need fixing, but that’s for someone else. The government, The boss, The committee, The next guy.
Freeloaders notice problems. They comment on problems, But they do not fix problems because fixing something would mean taking ownership, and ownership is heavy. It forces action.
Action invites failure, blame & worst of all, work.
So they wait, They discuss, They theorize. They make sure everyone knows they’re concerned — as long as they don’t actually have to do anything about it.
They live their whole lives nodding.
The Fixers, on the other hand, don’t have time for that. They grab whatever they can — buckets, cork, their own damn hands — and start plugging holes. No debates, no complaints.
The boat’s going down or it’s not, they’re damn sure it won’t be on their watch.
Fixers own the future.
The cool part is fixers don’t just save the ship, They end up running it.
Most people vastly underestimate the career & wealth-building power of being the person who just “handles it.”
Every industry, every business, every organization, every society is leaking somewhere.
Systems break, Machines fail, Customers churn, Cos underperform, Cash dries up.
The people who get ahead are often the ones whose natural instinct is to grab a wrench — the Fixers.
Fixers get hired, promoted, paid more & end up in charge. Fixers activate, Freeloaders spectate.
The defining trait of a ‘Fixer’ is simple: ownership.
If something is broken, you fix it. If something is missing, you build it.
The world defaults to the people who step up. Their success is a result of the problems they choose to solve & are willing to own.
The problem is most people never leave rung one of the scale of ownership.
The world doesn’t hand you a golden ticket. It doesn’t tap you on the shoulder & say, “You seem like a high-potential individual, Here’s your big break.”
No, the world looks around for those already solving problems & throws bigger problems & bigger rewards their way.
The more you own & solve, the more trust you build & over time that trust leads to great rewards.
The currency of trust buys opportunities & those opportunities are earned through ownership.
The hard truth is that the world will always be full of leaks. Your career, your business, your relationships — in every system around you, holes will appear, waiting to be plugged.
The question isn’t if this will happen, it’s what you do when it does.
Be a ‘Fixer’, take ownership, own the world & stay blessed forever.