As we all work to get the economy going again, a few thoughts inspired by Floyd"s philosophy . . . "Trying to make someone love you only pushes them further away."
What does love have to do with the economy?
Love is the strongest emotion, and our economy seems to rise and fall on a tide of emotion. How we "feel" about things, consumer confidence for instance, affects everything from saving to spending to investing.
If it's true that emotions control our economy, it seems to me we still have a very immature economic system. Maybe the more we try to fix the economy, the further away we push a real recovery.
Maybe the way we fix the economy is to begin by fixing ourselves individually, and stop looking to Mom and Dad (the government) to solve all our problems for us and bail us out of this jam.
Floyd also says, "You can't control THE economy, but you can control YOUR economy." Our company and his program has been proving that over and over since 1979.
Trying harder isn't the answer. That only pushes the real solution further away. Just for today, I'm going to try "pulling" my own weight, and not worry about someone else coming to the rescue.
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