The approval rating of the Congress has dropped to 9%!

The lowest in history. Due largely to lethargy of the electorate… I talked about this in an earlier blog: “$4 Gas And Nobody Cares”…

With a 9% approval rating you’d think every incumbent Senator and Congressman would be running scared …but they’re not. With gas moving toward $5 a gallon, GM’s stock at the lowest since the early 1950’s and announcements of jobs being eliminated in every sector of the economy, something doesn’t make sense.

Or is it just me?

The very same thing that keeps you from changing your life and doing something to make your dreams come true is being used to keep the population placated. The reality of how life really works is that you won’t change anything until you are forced to change …and when you finally reach that point, you’re not going to like it.

Look at history.

When you’re forced to change there is usually only one option left … your survival.

The current infrastructure of the world we live in is constructed in a manner which is designed to give you a sense of being safe and secure. On September 11, 2001, you could tune into “satellite” fed radio stations and not have a clue anything unusual was going on.

There are many psychological underpinnings to the infrastructure of your day-to-day inner and outer reality. No matter how dire things really are, you can simply shift your attention to one of your many “safe havens” and ignore what the truth happens to be …or that your options are running out as each day passes.

It’s status quo and you are conditioned to accept and maintain your comfort zone up and until there is no safe haven left… Then you’ll change just to survive.

You see, all of the little safe havens, escapes and comfort zones we take for granted, is what civilization is all about. We have the same internal safe haven, escapes and comfort zones. We’ll keep doing the same thing over and over again until something dramatic happens which forces us to change.

This means we’re all to blame.

We’ve left our sense of urgency at the door, choosing instead to lay on the couch watching a movie, instead of taking on personal responsibility to make choices.

You’d better face the truth. You’re running out of choices. The longer you wait to commit yourself to taking your life seriously the more the possibilities available to you erode in your day-to-day life. It means you’re going to have to work harder to uncover new pathways to the lifestyle you desire…

Maybe our Congress and Senate really isn’t to blame for doing nothing.

We voted them in and kept them in. We’ve maintained the status quo inside and outside of ourselves. Now it’s being threatened by a reality we refuse to confront. Where’s the difference between the way you handle your personal life and the way things are going in the shared reality of our day-to-day life?

For most people, there is no difference.

If you’ve been conditioned to be a victim, you’ll look for someone to blame for your problems. Wasting even more time as you refuse to take personal responsibility for the outcome of your life.

Think about that when you are forced to pay $100 for a tank of gas.

Take your time and watch another movie. You’ve still got a few weeks.

-Bob Baran