Been thinking...

Yeah, yeah, I know, too much time to think leads to interesting things for me.

So, what have I been thinking about? Resiliency.

We as individuals, communities, nations and the world are in the middle of what is, for our generation, our version of what my mom called the Dirty Thirties. She lived through the stock market crash of 1929 and the aftermath. What we're going through now is the latest round of this cycle.

Here's the thing: I'm not worried about it. Even though I technically don't have a job, I have little in the way of savings or any type of back up, I am not worried about how things are going to turn out. "Reality" out there may look pretty bleak to a whole lot of people right now. In my 'reality' things are looking very well indeed.

Part of it is resilience and looking at history. The cliche is that those who don't know their history are bound to repeat it. How true that is. Right now, the only way to change how this country and the world looks at things is through an absolutely crushing crash that shows the current way were are doing things can not continue.

Think of it as a world wide wake up call. Personally we've all had times when we've been hit with the proverbial baseball bat, 2" x 4", semi truck, when we've been down so far that the only way out is up. On the way up we each have to re-build the foundations that we base our life on. Our values and beliefs get looked at with a fine tooth comb - what works, what doesn't, what's mine, what's not. Throw out what doesn't work, find or create something that does. Pick yourself up, dust yourself off and get back to work.

Here's the challenge: If you could start all over again, clean slate, no history or ties to hold you back, what would you be doing differently? Who would you be? What would you be doing? Where would you be and do?

So, what's stopping you NOW from making that your reality NOW? We get a clean slate every day we wake up. If I can get off my duff and exercise and have hope, what's holding you back from doing the same?

What causes you to buy into what the news is saying? It's all FEAR - False Evidence Appearing Real. This, too, shall pass, and we as individuals, as communities, as nations and as a world will come out the better for this. The Establishment running things won't like how things look, because they no longer have the power. They never did, we just gave it to them because we thought they knew best. Look at what their knowing best got us all into.

If I can do this, there isn't any reason why the rest of you can't as well.