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by Blair Warren

If you listen to the news, it’s easy to get discouraged.  Seems the only things they’re reporting lately are doom and gloom economic reports and predictions.

I’m not an economist, so I have no idea how accurate any of these reports are.  But I do know something about them; I know they’re leaving out a very important fact.

When I speak with friends, colleagues and clients, I’m beginning to hear something new; I’m beginning to hear a resolve I haven’t heard in years.  A resolve not only to survive, but to thrive.  Their focus is intensifying.  Their personal productivity increasing.  And the results of these efforts have yet to be measured or predicted by anyone.

Perhaps we’ve all become complacent in recent years, but this is changing.  To see this, we must ignore the media and listen to those around us who refuse to lie down and die.  They’re out there.  We must not let anyone tell us different.

We must also listen to the voice inside each of us that tells us to do the same.  Do not give up.  Refuse to give in. That voice is within each of us.  If it wasn’t, we wouldn’t have survived as long as we have.  It is time to for us to give that voice center stage.  It is time for us to listen to it, and not the media.

And people are beginning to listen.  And people are beginning to talk.  A ferocious resolve is beginning to spread.

When this resolve reaches a certain point, all bets are off.  The economic predictions will have to change.  And thereafter, the economic reports as well.

It will not happen overnight.  And things will likely get worse before they get better.  Till then, we must not fully buy the story the media is feeding us.

No matter who wins on November 4, no matter what bailout plans are or are not passed, and no matter what predictions the experts make, the answer to our problems is already here.  The answer is within each of us.  And the answer is beginning to spread among us.

I wonder when the media will report this.

Posted on Saturday, November 01, 2008 at 12:24 PM

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