Albert Einstein said, “The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.” In other words, if money is the problem, throwing more money at it is not the solution. Another example is, we cannot get out of debt by taking on more loans. We’re just simply delaying the answer.
Before we can solve our personal financial problems, or our country’s economic crisis, we have to look at the mindset that caused these problems in the first place. For as long as I can remember, our American society has been dead set on proving we were better than – giving our kids better than we had it, being better than the Joneses, being better than our competitors, or being better than other countries in the world. Then, in recent years, we became so obsessed with trying to be better than that we would do anything to accomplish it, such as going into debt or doing it at the expense of others.
No matter how much money each of us has, or how much cash our government puts into the American economic system, the only way to really solve our financial problems is to change the way we think. If we would approach our financial problems with the philosophies of, “How can everybody win?” and “treating others as we would like to be treated,” our financial problems would probably just disappear.
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It seemed that everyone I talked to, even the Republicans (I hope you realize I live deep in John McCain country, in Phoenix, Arizona) was inspired on January 20th by the ceremony of our President Obama being sworn in.
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