Living life on the edge.
When you’re on the edge just about anything can push you over.
Most of us wait until we get to the edge before we decide to do
anything about it.
The big problem with being on the edge is that you believe that
everything will be perfect when you get there. You have become numb to Murphy’s Law which demonstrates that anything that can happen.. will happen.. and it most likely will happen at the most “inappropriate” time.
You have not become accustomed to operating with excess capacity.
You have made it the norm to live on the edge. The majority of your existence is spent living on the edge and you wonder why after all your
effort it seems that you still are stuck at square one.
Sports is always a good illustrator of life so I will use an example
from basketball. Let’s say you are in a 7 game series and the best of
seven wins the series to advance. You’ve lost the first two games and
you’re now in the third game which is tight. Your team is ahead by two
points with 6 seconds left before the game ends. You have one foul
to give and you’re only 6 seconds away from only being down 2-1.
Your opponent in bounds the ball and someone from your team
intentionally fouls the guy with the ball to try and send him to the line to
shoot 2 free throws. However, the referee doesn’t see or call the
foul and the guy hits a 3 pointer and the other team wins the game.
Your team played too close to the edge. Am I saying a bad call should
potentially give the other team a win. Absolutely not. I am saying that
if you play with enough excess capacity the same scenario may occur but it doesn’t the same impact on the final score.
I could have just as easily used the current state of the
economy to illustrate the enormous challenges people are having concerning money. The problem is not just that people are losing their jobs. The real problem is that the people that are losing their jobs have never operated
or planned for excess capacity. They were always living on the edge.
Therefore any type of nudge pushes them to their financial death.
They work 5, 10, 15 or 25 years and have not saved a dime. They
operate on an “if” strategy and not a “when” strategy. This means that there is not a doubt an emergency will occur but the uncertainty is know exactly when it will happen.
Next, people look for a government bailout so they can do it all over again.
They are serials debtors. They blame it on the economy but fail to
take responsibility for their own actions. The economy is external
but how you live your life is a very internal thing.
The interesting thing is that many people still have no clue
as to how to come away from the edge. The time to start planning
is long before you get to the edge. Don’t expect things to go
perfectly once you get to the edge because they most likely won’t.
What’s also interesting is that if I put a pile of money in each of
the people’s hands that whine and complain about how bad the economy
is they would each immediately go out dig bigger holes for themselves to try and climb out.
In fact, they have no other choice. Once you control the minds of the masses you can predict the actions with pin point accuracy.
The mind control that exists today around money is staggering. I’m astounded of how much power this green paper has over people.
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