America needs to get off the pacifier. We have been pampered and babied for so long, we don't realize what we have here in opportunities and possibilities. We have created a generation that believes every one deserves a medal. Everybody is a winner. And the government, credit repair specialists, Betty Ford, your parents and everyone else for that matter are here to fix your problems when you mess up.
We have a bail out generation that wants handouts, welfare, tax cuts, universal health care and help paying their over-priced mortgages, but no one wants to pay for it. As sad as it may seem, everybody can't own a home and everybody is not a winner. It sucks sometimes, but it is true. And while everyone screams about universal health care, I don't hear to many volunteering to be the first in line to help foot the bill so that the single mother doesn't have to uses the ER as her kid's general practitioner.
This economic meltdown may very well have been what the doctor ordered. Since 1982, we have experienced some of the greatest economic prosperity that the world has ever seen. We have a ME ME ME, NOW NOW NOW attitude that puts no value on the ability to delay gratification or a desire to conserve. While there is a pill for every problem; somewhere along the line we lost our way, our ability to deal with problems and put more value in things than we each other. We have leveraged our future by gambling with what we speculated we would have left over after we spent most of what we made today.
I don't have all the answers, but if someone yells at the top of their lungs, "your basement is flooded, your toilets are overflowing and their are rats in your living room," maybe someone will realize that we have problems and need take a serious look at ourselves.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Sell Your Dreams
Sell your dreams! Sell your dreams! Sell your dreams! And as odd as that may sound, I besiege you to sell you dreams.
We have all dreamed of doing something great or grandiose, even bigger than life; but usually somewhere along the way someone or something happened that made you think that dream was unattainable. When you were a child you never said, "I want to make $100,000 a year." You said, "I want to be the richest man in the world." Along the way you compromised and decided that you just needed to get to a respectable tax bracket. I beg you, even plead with you to recall those childhood dreams that for so long you thought were unrealistic.
After you remember that dream and take ownership of it, I then ask you to then sell it to whoever will listen, whoever will help facilitate it, whoever you come in contact with. And I realize at this point you may be perplexed and utterly confused about what the hell I'm asking you to do. What I have come to realie is "that all we have is us," and "no man is an island." In layman's terms, we all need each other and to make those aforementioned dreams a reality, you must sell them to others and turn them into full fledged believers, card carrying Kool Aid drinking members.
Everyone who has ever done anything great, or of any magnitude sold their dream to others. Without this act you are dead because a man who has nothing to look forward to has nothing to live for. What do Jesus, Ghandi, Martin Luther, Bill Gates, Oprah, Cornell Sanders and the list go on and on have in common? They all started with a dream, that may have seemed a bit overly ambitious to everyone else, and they all sold that dream to start a movement and turn their belief structure into a reality. It is time to become better salesman.
So your mission today is to:
1. Remember and take ownership of those dreams that you forgot about from childhood.
2. Figure out who can help in your pursuit to turn that dream into a reality and sell it to them.
We have all dreamed of doing something great or grandiose, even bigger than life; but usually somewhere along the way someone or something happened that made you think that dream was unattainable. When you were a child you never said, "I want to make $100,000 a year." You said, "I want to be the richest man in the world." Along the way you compromised and decided that you just needed to get to a respectable tax bracket. I beg you, even plead with you to recall those childhood dreams that for so long you thought were unrealistic.
After you remember that dream and take ownership of it, I then ask you to then sell it to whoever will listen, whoever will help facilitate it, whoever you come in contact with. And I realize at this point you may be perplexed and utterly confused about what the hell I'm asking you to do. What I have come to realie is "that all we have is us," and "no man is an island." In layman's terms, we all need each other and to make those aforementioned dreams a reality, you must sell them to others and turn them into full fledged believers, card carrying Kool Aid drinking members.
Everyone who has ever done anything great, or of any magnitude sold their dream to others. Without this act you are dead because a man who has nothing to look forward to has nothing to live for. What do Jesus, Ghandi, Martin Luther, Bill Gates, Oprah, Cornell Sanders and the list go on and on have in common? They all started with a dream, that may have seemed a bit overly ambitious to everyone else, and they all sold that dream to start a movement and turn their belief structure into a reality. It is time to become better salesman.
So your mission today is to:
1. Remember and take ownership of those dreams that you forgot about from childhood.
2. Figure out who can help in your pursuit to turn that dream into a reality and sell it to them.
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