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Speaker 2: Hey, Carrie, this is Robert Ian with conquer Change dot com.

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Sometimes we forget about ourselves against this backdrop of negativity

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that exists and persists in mainstream and social media, and

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that's really a bad thing. Sometimes people become fearful of

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moving forward in their lives and with their happiness because

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in the back of their mind they say to themselves,

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what's the point keeping track of the ongoing, continuous and

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often negative changes in things like geopolitics, the economy at large,

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who's arguing with whom? And what seems to be a

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never ending revolving door of issues In crises that need

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to be understood, analyzed, managed, and acted upon can be

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overwhelming at best and paralyzing at worst. Right now, we

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seem to have an unprecedented epidemic of federal judges acting

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as if they were somehow elected to either the executive

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or legislative branches of our government. Censorship issues haven't really

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gone away, especially in many foreign locations where ideas, points

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of view, and oftentimes basic everyday discussions and disagreements are criminalized,

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pressuring and intimidating people to self censor their own thought process.

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Inflation remains out of control and is getting worse, despite

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what the current administration is saying. Yes, some energy costs

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are coming down and that's terrific, but healthcare remains obscenely expensive.

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Housing prices are in the stratosphere, interest rates are high,

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very high relative to home prices, and the eight hundred

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pound gorilla in the room. People's wages wages have never

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kept up with any of the masked and hidden inflation

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that we've endured for or at least the last thirty

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years and longer since the famous or rather infamous Boskin

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Commission report in nineteen ninety six, which formalized the gutting

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of the American dream and any kind of meaningful and

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consistent standard of living measurement, which sadly was praised and

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supported by supposed thought leaders at that time, including Newt

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Gingrich and good old Sir Alan Greenspan. The backs of

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countless small businesses were broken during the pandemic response, as

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social habits and buying patterns that took decades to establish

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were shattered and scattered in a very short period of time,

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never to be reclaimed or reassemble. The list goes on

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with example after example. Sorting it all out and keeping

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track of it all can often turn into a second,

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full time and unpaid job. If one isn't careful, it

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can be easy to get caught up in multiple feedback

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loops of negative information that don't seem to have any

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resolution other than, oh, let's wait for the next election,

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let's get to this person or that person in office

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and then things will be better, or any other such nonsense,

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excuse or delay tactic other than actually getting on with

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one's likes and being both real and living in the moment.

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But unfortunately, something keeps getting in the way. That something

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is fear. Don't ever forget that fear is nothing more

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than false evidence appearing real. Fear is a psychological bluff

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that steers us toward inaction and confusion. The danger is

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that a confused mind does nothing, So how do we

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overcome that?

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Speaker 1: Feel?

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Speaker 2: The fear and do it anyway. Get on with your life,

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make the call, take the action, try new things, have

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the difficult conversation. Stop getting ready to get ready, because

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fear kills more dreams then failure ever will. If you

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believe you can do something, you're already halfway there, because

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a year from now you're going to wish you had

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started today. By the time takes no prisoners, we're all

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going to pass. It's just a question of when. We've

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all had challenges, we've all had setbacks, we've all made mistakes.

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The real question today and every day is what are

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you going to do about it? Now? As in right

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now and until next time. This is Robert Ian with

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conquer Change dot com.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Carrie, thanks for listening to carry Letz's Financial Survival Network,

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