GET REAL
I’m in a good mood today. A dear old friend of mine sent me a video recording off Blogger featuring the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in Salt Lake City with Andrea Bocelli singing The Lords Prayer. It will make your day.
There’s lots to worry about . . . if you’re a worryer or out of a job. I’m not either, but I’ve been on the beach a couple of times in my life. It always happens at the worst times. When you’ve a large family to feed or children about to enter or wishing to stay in college.
A client and friend of mine thinks we need to have more recessions and less severe ones. That way we can get used to it and avoid being paralyzed with fear. I don’t know more than one person who thinks the government is going about helping create jobs in the right way. We don’t seem to learn anything from history. One other friend even thinks it’s all on purpose what the Congress and White House are doing. He says they want it to drag out so they can move the country into a more subsidizing mode. He goes back to Chief of Staff Emanuel’s comment early on that you can’t afford to waste a good crisis (i.e., when people are more likely to go along with extreme measures). And it would appear they’re trying their best not to waste this one.
I watched the Wall Streeters lose their money and their jobs when I was back in the Navy and later in law school. I watched it happen again when I was a bonafide big shit lawyer in Manhattan. Those guys made a lot more money when times were good, but many were on the beach when the economy turned down. It made me realize it’s primarily you and I who are in charge – not the market and definitely not the government.
My client friend and I imagined what each of us might do today if we were on the beach. We both said the same thing . . . go do what we know people need and do it well enough to make it into a business. I said I can still mow lawns, and he’d clean houses and stores. We’d get through, and who knows what might come out of it.
As it is he and I are making it swimming upstream and accomplishing little things that according to the popular notion are not available any more. Showing is always better than telling – so anyone who wants to see what he and I are doing drop me a note or go on my Facebook page and I’ll give you a first hand look.
