Today, we received a news link that details the number of jobs that have been reported as lost in each state. We don’t have a way to prove or disprove the numbers given. However, we do know how people are reacting.
There was a time when great news people like Paul Harvey made sure they counterbalanced the bad news with even a small bit of good news. It seems to me that globally, we’re all looking for good news.
We know that even in times like these, new businesses are being formed and started. New products emerge and new fortunes are being made every day. Just because it didn’t happen to you or me or anyone we know, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
Everyday someone’s life is changed for the good. They become more aware, more thankful, more understanding and more humbled by what they see that others ARE accomplishing.
Many of my friends and I subscribe to Tut. Thoughts become things . . . choose the good ones!® Here’s one of the more recent daily email:
What if, DR, you first got to decide how you’d like to feel – happy or sad, hurt or mad, approving or jealous – and then I had to go out and rearrange all the people and circumstances of your life to make it so?
You’d like that, huh?
You’d choose happy, eh?
more . . .
DR, your feelings are your choice, what manifests thereafter may not be – if you know what I mean.
Each day I receive something like this. They’re titled “TUT . . . A Note from the Universe. I subscribe because it simply makes me stop and think about each day. What do you think about as you start each day?
Of course this definition presupposes that you’re making progress and that you have goals. Back in the 60’s when I was entering business; Harvard did a study and found that fewer than 3% of Americans ever set a goal. I wonder how many of them set their alarms or leave the house in the morning and say, “What’s next?”
We all set goals. It’s not difficult. Many people don’t do goals because they don’t want to disappoint. Who? You, your parents, girlfriend, wife, children or who? I remember that I was unwilling to commit to my children that they could or couldn’t do something in the future. We’ll see? I used to say that all the time. It wasn’t until I was in my 40’s when I began to realize what I was teaching them.
Goals are necessary. It’s a milestone, a destination the next point in your progress. Let’s see first I’ll get up around 6am and then . . . Go on, then . . . This is where it all begins to fall apart.
If you think I’m right, take baby steps first. A goal to get up earlier. Write in your journal. Tell someone twice a day that you love them. Tell your child that they can do something.
Goals are our friends. Use them.
Do you have another point of view that you want to share from this forum? Use the contact page and let me know. I’m always glad to share another person’s point of view. DR
Every year at this time we’re all asked to do something about the fight against Cancer. Few of us know of any family that has not had or witnessed this fight on a daily basis.
At this very moment, my wife and I have no less than 5 friends that are battling this disease. One has beat stage four cancer twice. In another case, her cancer was only discovered a month ago and we’ll probably lose her within the next week or two. It has simply ravaged her whole body.
Last year we lost several friends and my sister at the age of 59 to this disease. She fought it most of her entire adult life. We lost our Mom when she was only 44 years old to cancer.
With all that we’ve managed to accomplish as a society, why can’t we beat this? It is money, knowledge, time, effort or focus? The answer is that it’s all of those things and more. Like some of the strains of flu such as N1Hi or swine, its mutated so that when we get close, we find something else. The research has led us a battle that the medical community feels can be won. Do we have proof of this? Yes.
We all have proof as we look at the men and women that have successfully beat cancer. They live with its affects and they can beat it into submission but one day we’ll eliminate it once it’s found or simply cure it like we have many other diseases. Please give generously to the fight. As non-scientists we can’t do much on a daily basis but we can give financially. Look for products that you need that will contribute a portion of their profits to research. Walk, run, give or just help someone who’s dealing with the effects on their family. Here are some links that can help:
* Give daily
* The Cancer Society
* Milestone moments in the battle against Cancer
When I was in my late teens (and married) I hatched this brilliant idea. What if we could just pay more than the normal rent until we had an amount of money placed with our landlord so that we could buy a home directly from the owner. Fantastic, I thought. Well, in theory, then it was brilliant but guess what . . . no older person that owned a home thought it was such a good idea. No one that I found.
Comments were, “Are you nuts? Why would that be in our best interest?” There were many comments at the time about age, stupidity, something for nothing and lots of expletives about me as a person. Still, I thought it was a fantastic idea.
Sometimes people and ideas are just ahead of their time. Turns out that today that idea has lots of merit and is just one of the many ways in which we, as a nation in recovery are trying to help Americans get into a home.
All that can be said is, ” . . . for everything there is a season . . . turn, turn, turn.”
Husband, Father, Grandfather, Son, Brother, Uncle, 32 Degree, K.C.C.H. Mason, Serial Entrepreneur, Possibilist, Chairman & CEO, Leader, Speaker, Philanthropist, Veteran, and Friend.
A successful entrepreneur with 23 companies to his credit, Mr. Rawson is focused on solutions that provide sustainable answers to domestic and global issues. 
