We tend to get caught up in the news of the day and treat it like it was happening to us. How many times do you find yourself in your car listening to the news on the radio and then trying to fix someone else’s problems? Life today is not more complicated than in years past, and certainly less stressful. Yet we let ourselves be sucked in by the news that we have no control over, and add it to our lives.
People are still the same as they have always been, and most people want to grow, intellectually and as Maslow believed achieve “self actualization”. Hard times in America are where we shine for the world to see. The solution is to look inside and decide what you really want out of life. Then look at your actions and ask yourself if those actions are moving you closer to…or further from that goal. More than we can possibly imagine the challenge is not your circumstance but YOU. The answers lay in one good word…WORK. Real plow the fields kind of work. The kind of work that wakes you up at 5:00 AM and gets you in the field until noon, you go home for lunch and eat an entire chicken and a half gallon of milk, and get back out there and work the land till the sun goes down. Then go home smoke a pipe, go to sleep and start all over again in the morning. As a very successful business owner and friend of mine say’s…”We need to learn hungry”. Some of us have forgotten what real hard, sweaty, grimy, long lasting satisfying work is. Some individuals have not. They are the ones that are not affected by the economy. They are used to finding a way out, through work and the faith that “hard work always pays off”, and that the same old basic rules still apply. We need to learn hungry!