It's an interesting dynamic to watch masses jump for joy for the Barak Obama and pin hope on him changing everything that is currently wrong in our world today in the US and locations around the world where the US has vested interests. I am cheering the new administration on and hope they succeed, but hope is not a strategy.
I am sorry to say that the economic down turn, unemployment, the mortgage crisis, war in Iraq and potential war in the Gaza strip are far bigger than just one man and his appointed political cronies to fix. I don't care who was elected, what side the political fence you sit on, these challenges are going to take the collective whole to turn around.
So who is the collective whole? I am talking to you, everyone in our nation. The challenges we face are great but we cant sit back and expect congress and this new administration to fix every thing for us. Passing tax cuts and economic stimulus packages are nothing but band aids on a chasm large enough to swallow an oil tanker. What is needed now is for the collective whole of our nation to do think more, do more and be more. Quoting a friend of mine, fitness guru and best selling author Shawn Phllips, ( www.fullstrength.com ) "now is the time for strength. Strength is defined in having more, being more and doing more".
Wow, sounds real good and motivating but truth be told, if everyone gives just ten percent more effort in all we do, change the way we look at thing, get creative, together, as a nation and an integrated world, we can collectively pull through.
Ok, I know your saying, nice pollyanna speak but here is how we do it. Start small, do plus one in everything you do. I don't care if you are making phone calls, assembling goods, teaching school, studying exams, what ever you are doing that occupies your time daily, do just one more. Make one more call, read one more page, ask one more person how can I help? The collective effort will catch on and soon people will be doing plus one in everything they do.
I am no one, just an average joe business consultant banging out a living but everyone I meet, I tell them "now is the time for your best, the nation, the world, your community and your family need you to do plus one".
Not many read my writings but now is the time. I am doing my plus one, not waiting for capital hill to solve my problems. Can you do just one more too?
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ReplyDeleteImpeach one more Democrat in the White House. Remove one more socialistic program. Stop one more Bailout. Vote out one more Congressman, and one more Senator. Get control of one more country (our own).
ReplyDeleteDude, I don't know how the people who get hundreds of readers on their blogs do it. It used to bother me that I wasn't one of them but when I start letting stuff like that eat me up I just have to stop and say, who the &#*! cares? I stopped and analyzed it a bit. One person who had hundreds of readers was a former newspaper columnist, so people knew her a little already. That made sense. The other was a nice enough gal. She tended to take a bit of a flirty attitude with the male blog readers, nothing sexual, but definitely way friendlier in a flirty way than I'd ever be with someone I wasn't involved with. It's just a difference of personalities. I tended to have that issue when I was working as a bartender. I was polite and friendly, but the gals that flirted got better tips. It used to get my goat, but c'est la vie. We can't be who we aren't.
ReplyDeleteYou know you've written something that makes people think when they go off on a tangent. Well, you know you've make ME think anyway. Also, there are those people who read but don't comment. I think we've probably got hundreds, nay THOUSANDS of people reading our stuff that do that! ;-)
Keep writing. You have a lot to say, not just about marketing but about human nature.
And I have to say that one thing I like about you is that even though we are complete polar opposites on the sociopolitical spectrum, you are just a basic, all-around decent person, and the world needs more of your kind. You might say stuff that I disagree with sometimes but you do it in a non-inflammatory way. That is a talent in itself.