Choose a future and it happens right away

The future you choose will be the present you live!

The future doesn’t happen down the road; it starts immediately when I make up my mind about what’s going to happen. I start to live in that future right away.

An example is the way I hold my future vis a vis the economy. Option A is I feel I’ve got to hold on tight to the big institutions and government, that Obama has to save me / us. Immediately I’m in a losing game, afraid of going down.

But if I choose Option B, an unknown future with that’s filled with creative possibilities I co-create with others, that I have to realize myself, right away I’m in an exciting field of adventure, having fun. Right now, in this moment, things are good.

Things literally couldn’t be better in fact, because this is the moment that is.

When I choose either future it starts to happen right away.  I love that!

A good man, not a saviour

We’d like a saviour to keep us from a perilous future but there is none. The mono-chant positivity about the change, the hope, the possibility surrounding is like the only-good-news hype surrounding fundamentalist religion. It’s like the hype around “The Secret.”

Obama is a good man and a thoughtful and and honest man but he’s under the sway of the popular need for a messiah. His sense of dedication and mission leads him to self-select for the job. I love the courage. He’s a man who sees and opportunity and thinks that he can do it. This is a great thing and he’s caused many millions to say similar words and to believe that they can do it too.

The words are right. We can do it and there’s no one else who will do it but us. But he hasn’t explained the cost. There is a cost to self-awareness and Obama hasn’t explained that cost to “the American people.” They don’t realize it will cost them plenty if they want plenty of change.

So I’m predicting despair in the heart and despair in the heartland. And it’s just the way it is that it takes humility to realize it’s only ourselves who can do the saving. Or to accept the cost which is much the same thing.

What I’d like to see Obama do is get information from ordinary Americans. A citizen panel of advisors who can have a no-holds-barred examination of what’s wrong and what’s right with America, without being held and coddled by experts, but coming up with their own truths which could serve as a starting point for a national discussion. This would be conversation we need, I think.

Obama needs some good non-expert opinion. This is mine!