Wow … what a summer! I’ve been convinced by my local and national news broadcasters that I’ll lose my home and rental property to “foreclosure” that my ability to re-finance is non-existent because interest rates are going higher, that a barrel of Oil is going to cost $150 and my gasoline is going to cost $5.00 per gallon, my dollar is falling off the face of the financial world, unemployment is going to skyrocket and I’m going to have a heart attack and die just like Tim Russert! [and the National League lost yet another All Star Baseball game in a nail biting 4 hour display of every pitcher from both leagues before the lights were turned off!]
My youngest daughter didn’t get the message last November and she got pregnant! How can she bring a baby into this turmoil? Doesn’t she know any better? Didn’t I teach her? Another of my daughters just graduated from the University of Utah … moved out into an apartment, bought a car during the year, got a job, took a vacation to San Diego to have FUN of all things – didn’t she get the message … didn’t her learned Professors warn her?
My grass keeps on growing [in spite of the drought my newscasters tell me about!] AND the recession … the recession these broadcasters keep talking about – it didn’t show up? How dare it not show up! Well my understanding of economics is simple … if you take ALL the economists in the world and lay them down head to toe – they’ll NEVER REACH A CONCLUSION! So I must go lightly on our broadcasters, they don’t know any better. I respect the economists and their work is very useful … in that vain, I respect the broadcasters as well. My psychologist friends seem to have it figured out, they tell me that people are basically a “product of their past” and let’s look into that past.
Many agree that our personality is 95% set between the ages of 1 to 5! Can you remember that far back? What were the 1st three words you spoke? In no particular order … Dad, Mom and NO! In fact I’m told that 85% of our input in our early years was negative. No, no, No … don’t touch that, don’t talk to strangers, don’t speak unless spoken to, etc! My mom and Dad did the best they could do to keep me alive therefore NO was a very frequent word I heard [I’m told I was h _ _ _ on wheels] Bless them … I survived, as many of us did, but we still had an enormous negative bias during our youth. It’s no surprise to me [or the psychologists] that I’m almost spring loaded to “No” when presented to a new approach in an office setting, for example. Change is very difficult in that environment … the “NO” environment!
So, when things start to go wrong, it’s natural that the tone turns negative, steam rolling along until it gets out of control and everything we hear is negative … like a snow ball rolling down hill … it rolls faster … it gets bigger and before you know it the World is in a Recession, headed to Depression, Global warming is going to destroy life as we know it but not really because we’ll all be dead long before that from starvation, bankruptcy, hyper-inflation, etc, etc!
GET OUT OF TOWN!! NOW … IMMEDIATELY … I promise you if you hit the roads like I did on my Kawasaki 1600 cc Nomad “Vulcan” motorcycle for a long week-end and don’t listen to any news broadcasts, don’t read any newspapers, don’t watch any TV you’ll find what I did … my wife and I drove from Salt Lake City, UT to Craig CO and it was beautiful … there was sun and rain, wind and calm … gas stations had plenty of gas, restaurants had plenty of food, the places were full with other “vacationers” … the scenery was breathtaking … we drove on to Ft Collins, CO and then to Cheyenne WY to see the Frontier Rodeo with thousands of others … we went to a Sugarland Concert at the rodeo … next to Rocky Mountain National Park with thousands of others, tons of “critters” lots of birds, green meadows, Elk herds, deer, fish, ski resorts, highways full of travelers, clear vast evening skies with millions of stars – all this and we had FUN! Everyone else had FUN too. Trust me the World will take care of itself … money will come back, oil wells will be drilled, gas will cost less, and our economist friends will continue to predict with conviction 9 of the last 5 recessions! Lighten up … live like you love it and drop me a line when you’ve returned from your VACATION!!
“Awakening Solutions” is my genius … it also happens to be what I do for my clients, friends and family. Success comes to those who recognize systems in their lives … I assist people and organizations to find those systems … employ them … and succeed – if they don’t have systems we build them together!
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