“Radical Prosperity” is the art and science of taking care of yourself when you can’t rely upon “the system” to do it for you.

The global financial system has been forced to  transform itself as it reacts to an unprecidented loss of faith — banks not trusting the viability of other banks — causing a slowdown and in some cases a freeze in the credit markets.

This is having a ripple effect all the way down the “pyramid” to those of us on the bottom who have played the game —  have been prudent with our finances and trusted that “the powers that be” were looking out for our best interests.

Well, we now know that’s not the case…

Amazingly, they weren’t even looking out for their own best interests!  Which is really bizarre… How else can you explain so many financial institutions going bankrupt, needing a bailout or having to be merged into another company?

So what good can come out of this?

It might make more people pay closer attention to their own definition of prosperity.  In fact it may even radicalize your thinking — which would be a really good thing.

For instance, did you ask yourself —  at any time during the last few weeks —  any of the following questions:

1.  What if everything collapsed and even my cash money wouldn’t buy anything?

2.  Am I prepared to survive?

3.  What would I do if my job ceased to exist?

4.  What if my retirement and savings are wiped out?

5.  Do I still have “blind faith” in the system like I used to?

I thought about a lot of those things… I was just as stunned as everyone else to wake up one day and hear about the global financial collapse on one hand … and notice that on the other hand, nothing has really changed —  except that there seems to be a renewed feeling of dread in the air… And the price of gasoline has dropped.  We’ll begin to really see and feel the changes in the coming weeks and months — and it will start right after the election.

I think we’re facing an “epoch” changer — events are going to be referred to as “before the collapse” and “after the collapse”. Kind of like before 9/11 and after.  

When I reviewed the history about “The Great Depression”,  apparently the stock market crash didn’t usher in the depression right away… It actually took a couple of years for the ripple effects to move through the economy and throughout the economies of the world.

One thing is for sure: It forever altered the behavior of a lot of people and caused them to re-evaluate what was important.  In many cases survival became the primary motivation behind many of their decisions. 

We’d like to believe that we have many more layers to our current social “safety net” — which didn’t really exist back then.  One thing I’ve noticed which may be more prevalent now is that most people don’t possess an essential “skill” that was more a part of the “way of life” in the 1930′s:

How to make money.  That’s right!  How to make money.

It may sound incredible but our society has caused most of us to be much more removed from the process of making money.  Outside of putting something up for sale on ebay or putting on a garage sale — most people don’t know how to view a situation and recognize an opportunity to make money — and then take the action to make the money.

This is because most of the jobs in today’s world are compartmentalized.  Not many people have the skill that gives them the ability to go out on any given day and make money.  Not just sell something that they own to raise cash — I’m talking about creating wealth — making money from an idea or “connecting the dots”  in a given set of circumstances and acting upon that opportunity.

I call this skill RADICAL PROSPERITY

Imagine for a moment how you would feel knowing that regardless of the changing circumstances in your day-to-day world, you possessed a skill that would allow you to create money from virtually any situation?  

It would go a long way toward erasing any “dread” you might be feeling about the future. 

The funny thing is that I’ve been offering to teach people this skill all along as part of “The Intentional Prosperity™ System”.  I’ve described it as “being able to find your passion and follow your passion — creating a lifestyle doing what you love”  I’ve even got a web site named www.passion-unlocks-prosperity.com which is dedicated to living your life doing what you love…

But times have changed and it may be time to present the ability to make money and live life on your own terms from a much more radical point of view:  SURVIVAL!

So I’m putting together material on how to survive and prosper during uncertain times…

It’s still based upon a foundation of Intentional Prosperity™.  I’m just going to shift the application of the Intentional Prosperity™ process from “living the life of your dreams” to “surviving the coming changes”.

“Radical Prosperity” will be a book, video or a seminar — I’m not sure what the format will be. But it will quickly teach you the basics —  what you need to know in order to survive and prosper in any expected or unexpected change to your day-to-day life.  Think of it as a “life preserver” — an easy to understand primer on practical prosperity.

Just having this kind of financial “life preserver” will greatly reduce your anxiety about the future.

I’ll keep you posted on the progress. 

-Bob Baran