Wherever you are located at the moment, you see the same thing when you switch on the TV, listen to the radio or read the newspaper. It’s all about the recession – and how we all will go down sooner or later.
Even fairly successful people, stable in their career or business, are starting to doubt life, reality and safety. You see people crumbling under the weight of the dark and gloomy messages, even when these people personally are not affected by the recession yet – or may never be.
But the media is relentless. Every bad news item needs to be sent out immediately, giving out more pain, fear and suffering to the world. You may be playing with the thought of “everything is too hard, soon I might be losing everything anyway” although this thought might be far from the truth.
Your life may never be much affected other than the higher cost of living and the fact you have to be more careful with your spending. But this itself is not a tragedy, it could actually have a positive spin off and teach you a thing or two about budgeting and saving.
If you are starting to doubt your ability to “make it” or “make it through this recession” you need to consider what message you are sending out to others. People are watching you; your family, your friends, your colleagues, your neighbors, the shop owners, your business network, the teachers at your kids’ school, your partner’s family and friends… Your field of influence is enormous.
If you give up and let it all go you will affect a lot of people. These people also include your son or your daughter. What do you teach them about resilience in life? What do you teach them about staying positive for the future? What do you teach them about making dreams come true?
You giving up doesn’t serve anybody, the opposite is the case. You giving up will pull many other people down. When you cease to have hope and give up being innovative, creative, happy and forward moving, chances are many around you stop as well. And the circles around these people will do the same.
If you fail others will fail with you because they lose their hope and their optimism. They lose their ability to pull through and make things work. They lose their courage. They see you giving up and think they should give up, too. There’s no way to win.
But if you decide today you will make it and you will pull through all of this and swear you will be staying positive and being on top of the bad news, your circle of networks will see what you are doing. And the circles around these networks will hear about it as well. They will be starting to pull their weight again. They will stay positive, learn more, apply more, budget wisely, encourage their kids to chase their dreams and work on making their dreams happen.
And they will pull through the recession.
Whatever happens to your circle of family and friends and your networks starts with one person: you.
How we all get through this depends on you.
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