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Speaker 2: Hey, Carrie, this is Robert Ian with conquer Change dot com.
Sometimes we forget about ourselves against this backdrop of negativity
that exists and persists in mainstream and social media, and
that's really a bad thing. Sometimes people become fearful of
moving forward in their lives and with their happiness because
in the back of their mind they say to themselves,
what's the point keeping track of the ongoing, continuous and
often negative changes in things like geopolitics, the economy at large,
who's arguing with whom? And what seems to be a
never ending revolving door of issues In crises that need
to be understood, analyzed, managed, and acted upon can be
overwhelming at best and paralyzing at worst. Right now, we
seem to have an unprecedented epidemic of federal judges acting
as if they were somehow elected to either the executive
or legislative branches of our government. Censorship issues haven't really
gone away, especially in many foreign locations where ideas, points
of view, and oftentimes basic everyday discussions and disagreements are criminalized,
pressuring and intimidating people to self censor their own thought process.
Inflation remains out of control and is getting worse, despite
what the current administration is saying. Yes, some energy costs
are coming down and that's terrific, but healthcare remains obscenely expensive.
Housing prices are in the stratosphere, interest rates are high,
very high relative to home prices, and the eight hundred
pound gorilla in the room. People's wages wages have never
kept up with any of the masked and hidden inflation
that we've endured for or at least the last thirty
years and longer since the famous or rather infamous Boskin
Commission report in nineteen ninety six, which formalized the gutting
of the American dream and any kind of meaningful and
consistent standard of living measurement, which sadly was praised and
supported by supposed thought leaders at that time, including Newt
Gingrich and good old Sir Alan Greenspan. The backs of
countless small businesses were broken during the pandemic response, as
social habits and buying patterns that took decades to establish
were shattered and scattered in a very short period of time,
never to be reclaimed or reassemble. The list goes on
with example after example. Sorting it all out and keeping
track of it all can often turn into a second,
full time and unpaid job. If one isn't careful, it
can be easy to get caught up in multiple feedback
loops of negative information that don't seem to have any
resolution other than, oh, let's wait for the next election,
let's get to this person or that person in office
and then things will be better, or any other such nonsense,
excuse or delay tactic other than actually getting on with
one's likes and being both real and living in the moment.
But unfortunately, something keeps getting in the way. That something
is fear. Don't ever forget that fear is nothing more
than false evidence appearing real. Fear is a psychological bluff
that steers us toward inaction and confusion. The danger is
that a confused mind does nothing, So how do we
overcome that?
Speaker 1: Feel?
Speaker 2: The fear and do it anyway. Get on with your life,
make the call, take the action, try new things, have
the difficult conversation. Stop getting ready to get ready, because
fear kills more dreams then failure ever will. If you
believe you can do something, you're already halfway there, because
a year from now you're going to wish you had
started today. By the time takes no prisoners, we're all
going to pass. It's just a question of when. We've
all had challenges, we've all had setbacks, we've all made mistakes.
The real question today and every day is what are
you going to do about it? Now? As in right
now and until next time. This is Robert Ian with
conquer Change dot com.
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