The Best Years of Your Life… Now!

To the new President elect,

You are about to inherit a world in as much chaos as one embroiled in a world war.

So I don’t expect too much from you — as far as the government making drastic changes and starting new programs, etc., —  no matter what campaign promises you made.   It’s not going to happen for one simple reason:  

NO MONEY!

As soon as the election is over the “other shoe” is going to drop!

 Kind of like when you take your car in for collision repair — they always tell you that the “cost estimate” doesn’t include “hidden damage”.  I think there’s a lot of “hidden damage” that’s going to now be “discovered” as far as the global financial crisis and the expanding world economic recession is concerned.

Let’s not forget that there are forces beyond the control of any government now in play globally which will determine the “new rules” and the “new playing field” in the weeks and months to come.

Mr. President elect, your only real power may be to inspire us and the rest of the world to put our attention on “a better future”  and once and for all, break the hold of “dread” that seems to have cast a pall on all of us since “9/11″.

Please don’t promise us anything  — except that you will use your power to help us feel better about ourselves and our future.

We can do the rest.

Maybe that’s what a President really should be — the ultimate cheerleader! Someone who makes you proud to be who you are — focuses on what’s possible and points us in a direction that enables us to be confident in the future and willing to believe in our dreams.

We need you to inspires us with hope — not distract us with fear, uncertainty and doubt. 

Inspiration from you can change the world.

Mr. President elect,  good luck!

-Bob Baran

Something is going on in the world right now that no agency of government or all of the world’s governments combined has any real power to control…

What we citizens of the world know as our shared reality has always been based upon a thin thread of belief —  we agree to recognize and maintain as our day-to-day life. This thin foundation of shared belief  has allowed us to progress out of the caves —  inhabited by our primitive ancestors —  and inspired us to create great civilizations.  

We have learned to use our imaginations to create beauty and wonder… to make mistakes and try again until we succeed.

Everything we have come to know — outside of the natural world –  is the direct result of our combined belief in the power of our imagination and the unfailing determination to prove to ourselves –  that what ever we believe —  we can and will achieve.

But now the most  primitive of mankind’s  emotions is rapidly gaining power over reason and hope.

It’s a dark shadow that sucks the light of hope into a shapeless abyss. We have become possessed by a feeling of dread amplified by  panic — and this feeling is moving over us stealing our dreams and robbing us of hope.

And yet, everything we experience as life is only an extension of our imagination. 

It’s all a matter of what you believe is possible.  You have been given the infinite capability to choose to dream any outcome and then experience it as your life.  You can choose dread or choose hope. 

If you choose hope —  you take back your control over the outcome of your life — because hope is expansive. If you choose dread your energy will become implosive and self-destructive.

The key point here is that either decision takes the very same primal life energy and directs it to an outcome that you choose.

That’s right:  

Living your dreams or being frozen in fear — it’s all fed by the same life energy.

You’re the one who determines what part of your imagination your life energy is going to mirror and turn into your day-to-day reality…

It’s called “free will”

-Bob Baran