The Spin On Bullshit!

The Four Hour Work Week was a book that promised the small business owner would have more freedom and be able to work from any where. Here's what the corporations did with it. They used it as the perfect excuse to save money and increase shareholders profits.

Congress spun it as a bill that would benefit developed and undeveloped countries by putting the workers on an equal playing field as far as pay. The reality is that it took developed countries and made the workers have to go backwards in pay. The workers have to work 2 and 3 jobs to make up for the pay that they lost as they watched their jobs walk or run out the door to overseas workers.

Most people in undeveloped countries are living on $20 to $30 a month. There is no worker in a developed country that can compete with that. These workers are graduates with bachelors or masters and some even have PhD's. These are highly educated people that have loans to pay back for the promise of a better life that these degrees were guarantees for.

In walks the greed of congress and the corporations that forget that it is these very workers that made those profits possible. Without people having a decent standard of living the taxes start to stop coming in. Without people making a decent living you have no consumers. It is very much like the parable of the person who killed the "Golden Goose" so they could supposedly have all the gold at once. They soon realized too late that without the goose there were no longer any golden eggs.

Penny J
Raven Hawke, Llc (MN, USA)
www.ravenhawke.net
info@ravenhawke.net

Sabotage

I always find it interesting that when we reflect on the things of the past; its like this giant light bulb moment. We realize the people that we trust sometimes need to earn that right. Just because they're your family doesn't mean that they get a free pass.

It's only after we review their behavior that we realize that they aren't people to be blindly trusted. That the moments that we worked so hard for are tainted by their actions. Sometimes these are moments in our life that we can't just shrug off and get back.

They might be moments that we traditionally memorialize with pictures. Once those picture moments are gone they can't be reclaimed. Just like we need to weed our life of friends and acquaintances; sometimes we need to weed them of family members that are destructive to our accomplishments.

Once we become rid of the sabotage to our lives, it's quite amazing what we can accomplish and that we start to believe more in ourselves with out others doubts crowding into our shining moments. We begin to fly and trust in our own successes; this is not ego but self-esteem and confidence.

When you become self-confident, you want to help others try to fly. You do not view others with suspicion. You cheer others victories! There is none of the petty jealousy to taint those precious moments of pride!

Penny J.
Raven Hawke, Llc (MN, USA)
www.ravenhawke.net
info@ravenhawke.net