| The economy is going to the toilet and people are | | | | organize a garage. I even located a group of |
| becoming desperate, fearful and losing their ability | | | | professionals on a social networking site that |
| to think rationally. Can you blame them? America, | | | | were bartering services with one another to save |
| modern day America has never seen the likes of | | | | money, time and energy. |
| this sort of degradation. It will get worse before it | | | | Do you think you can't make this unemployment |
| gets better, so hang on and hold tight. This is not | | | | thing work? Have you resolved yourself to the |
| to frighten or appear pessimistic, it took a long | | | | fact that you may not make the kind of money |
| time to dig ourselves into this mess and it will | | | | you did two years ago? Stop that stinking thinking |
| take us quite a while to dig our way out. | | | | and look at your gifts. What can you do with no |
| In the meantime what are we to do? Change the | | | | effort? Are you a good mover? Are you strong, |
| way you think about your life and how to sustain | | | | attractive; a people person? Start moving |
| it. If my father were alive today, he would say, | | | | company or a cleaning company, learn Moodle and |
| simplify. It is now time to get back to the basics. | | | | teach your own online courses? |
| Don't worry about the Jones's their drowning in | | | | You don't know where to start? Go to your city |
| debt. What all Americans should, but probably | | | | or county office or Google it and find out what |
| won't do is learn to live with less. | | | | you have to do to start a small business. There |
| If you have a gift or talent, hone in on it and | | | | are literally thousands of social networking groups |
| perfect it. Do you sing, write, or dance? Are you | | | | with folks just like you. Ask if anyone started a |
| good in math, do you speak a second language, | | | | moving company? Is there anyone out there that |
| hone in on it. Learn to use your God given talents | | | | has painted murals on walls and could turn that |
| and all of us have them. There are those who are | | | | skill into decorating wedding cakes? Is there any |
| lazy and don't want to do anything, but for most | | | | one out there willing to take on Duff of Charm |
| of us, rolling up their sleeves, doing some good old | | | | City Cakes? And tell me again why you can't take |
| fashioned hard work will keep our mind off | | | | free classes at Lowe's? |
| defeat. | | | | It is a fact that American's are resilient and hard |
| There are people starting businesses for the first | | | | working but it was Admiral Crowe, Ambassador |
| time in their lives. Women operating home-based | | | | to Britain who said it best, "the United States will |
| bakeries, learning to sew, making jewelry for | | | | always do the right thing-after having exhausted |
| full-figured women and tutoring children in math | | | | all other possibilities." Unfortunately, this time |
| and science; look everyone needs someone. Can | | | | America cannot wait, so it's time to take matters |
| you service a car, help with spring cleaning and | | | | into your own hands. |