I get the nothing to do anything with. My daydreams use to be what I'd do with $10,000,000 that I'd win from the Publisher's Clearing House Sweepstakes. I was so busy working on my philanthropic organizations and nonprofits with my imaginary money that I did not even realize that Publisher's Clearing House no longer sells magazines! They sell cheap drugstore/discount/dollar store you've-seen-it-on-TV crap now, not a magazine to be found and they still have the same name?

Anyway, I realized that even Bill Gates has to figure out exactly what organizations to give to, he can't give to them all or all the money he'd like, etc. There's no reason that I can't think of an idea and how to scale it to my size?

Unfortunately, even when I scaled things to my size or had an idea that was worth wanting to pursue when I had an extra $1,000,000 lying around, I still was guilty of not trying to do what I could or finding out others had done what I had imagined.

If I were you, I'd see if I could get a job or volunteer with a political nonprofit you like or scale down something you see and see if you can find a piece of something to try and back with your time and energy. I worked with a tri-state Government nonprofit teaching nonprofits how to run more efficiently and learned some of the problems of nonprofits in my area. I'm next to West Virginia and they have a heck of a time with transportation; they can't get workers to central places to work (even if they could get a manufacturing company into the "hills" they then wouldn't have enough workers?) how do you inexpensively get your lower level workers to and from their jobs when they are all spread out? It is puzzles like that that I enjoy.

But I'm getting older and I was last working on the puzzle of how do you keep older people who are living in their homes engaged and able to go grocery shopping for themselves, or go to visit friends, shop, do things out of their homes? Once one loses a car/ability to drive, then what?

I invented an inexpensive car ride system with student social workers, gerontology and psychology students, etc. (I'm near many large, good universities) and others who "care" who would have specific clients, it would be a subscription service, where you'd pay, kind of like you have to for owning a car and buying gas, insurance, maintenance, etc., I'd get grants too so I could pay the student drivers but I'd make it work so they'd be doing work that was sort of germane to their studies in getting to know their clients and listening to them, being a sort of companion if necessary, etc.

Of course, while I was daydreaming, I recently found my county has started a crude version of what I had in mind (it's not quite close enough to me to participate in, the communities it serves are on the other side of the county): Getting There Ride Share | Transportation service for seniors in Harford County

But something like that is how I get more specific with my goals; put what you have in mind on paper and then scale it down to its elements; what keeps the FARC and Colombia Government at odds and what role does cocaine play, etc. How would you work on the international and US heroine, cocaine, etc. problem, starting with the farmers that grow the initial plant because they can't support their families growing anything else and ending with the prostitutes that get picked up over and over who are drug addicted (I watch "Cops" and "Jail" and get so mad at the "Jail" show picking up the prostitutes and they are pregnant and drug addicted and they don't keep them in jail, at least until after the baby is born! They get out and then "disappear" and don't appear for their court date, which is why they get picked up in the first place over and over).

Specific goals is finding something in front of you that you like/don't like and figuring out how to insert yourself where it matters, "do" something.