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We are experiencing some pretty historic financial circumstances lately. but you know what? A desperation mentality is not attractive and the more you feel and act like a desperate teen looking for a prom date, the more likely you will create circumstances in your life to truly be desperate about.
I was watching CNN Money over the weekend when they aired some "Emergency" financial program. The kind of program filling the airways lately where a handful of experts in suits attempt to make sense of the insane state of the current financial markets. While there is some very good advice in there, much of it is hype and fear-mongering if you ask me. I just about blew a blood vessel when one conservative looking stressed out expert with a high pitched voice doled out a piece of advice that flies in the face of everything I know to be true. He essentially said: don't take any risks right now, don't think of changing your job/career, just sit tight and hold on. That's when I lost all sense of reason for a moment and started to attempt to coach the television. All joking aside...all I could picture were thousands of people watching this telecast who suddenly had their fears amplified and would choose to curl up into a ball and attempt to be "safe". What a shame.
As I see it the current conditions are calling us all to have a reality check - financially and in every area of our lives. That reality check includes more than just prudent spending and asset allocation. It boils down to the very questions that came to the forefront after 9/11.
Am I spending my life in a meaningful way that honors the things that matter most to me?
What changes do I need to make in my life so I know deep in my heart that I am living it fully without regrets?
Right now is all we truly have to live. I know I personally am not about to put the business of living and building a business on the backburner while the people at the top try to come up with some faulty plan to fix the economic mess that has taken years for the collective "us" to create. I'm not living in a dream world - sure I need to look at cold hard facts and make decisions based on that, but I'm not throwing in the towel on doing what's right for ME because some snarky expert in a suit rambled like Chicken Little telling us all that the sky is falling and its best we run inside and hide.
Geeky Mom shares my passion in her recent post "Free Agent":
I've been thinking about how to write this post for a while now. As of Friday, I will no longer be employed, by my choice. I won't go into reasons here because they are complicated and personal and it's not fair to present just one side of things. Over the next couple of days, I'll be trying to articulate my reasons to various people and that will be difficult enough. I don't know yet what the future will bring, but I'm looking forward to new possibilities and new opportunities. There are many possibilities on the horizon, but I'm going to take my time to decide which ones are right for me and the kind of life I want to have right now.
You might read something like the next passage from BG Blogging and think these thoughts are just dreaming. How could anyone make such a transition in THESE times? I like this post "From Outside the Walls: In Search of Form and Meaning in Extreme Times" because it exemplifies the way we need to give ourselves permission to explore and learn about ourselves and the world in new ways. True success and building real wealth just can't happen at warp speed between our double lattees while rushing to the bus listening to an iPod.
I have been fortunate to know summer as deep, slow quiet feathered between spring’s cacophony and fall’s exuberant re-embrace of the classroom. Wending my way through the weeks taking pictures, writing, gardening, playing, dreaming, traveling, cooking seems as natural and necessary as engaging in intense creative collaborations during the "school year." The very bounded nature of that time invites its expansiveness, its dreaminess-it is luxurious precisely because it has limits, tensions, oppositions. The
