Obama nor McCain Can Save You

Neither Obama nor McCain can save you, your family, or your business during these current economic times and neither have plans sufficient enough to ensure your future. Only you and Your Team can get you to the "success" side of the existing economic conditions. The recent pullback in the market and any pain you may be experiencing is only an indication that you underestimated what was required to create success for yourself, your company and your finances. If you think the outcome of the 2008 election is going to resolve your situation you will be sadly disappointed regardless of which party wins. While I have my preferences, I know that regardless of which party wins, it will ultimately be up to me, my plan and my actions.

I have been telling business owners for years, do not rest on your laurels just because things are good. Any problems you are experiencing today is because you didn't properly prepare yourself yesterday. It is more important to apply the right action when times are good to ensure you are still successful when times are not so good. The reality is any problems you are experiencing today existed years ago, but because the economic wind was at your back you didn't know it, until now. America spent too much time celebrating over the last few years and not enough time continuing to train and focus. We quit investing in development and in training and wake up with a hang over from too much celebrating.

Now, it is back to basics; hard work, increase in responsibility, a daily focus on the solution, training/education, everyone on your team pulling together and a relentless persistence to get the job done. You have to knock off all foolishness, playtime, hope, irresponsible actions, negative talk/think and pull together like your economic life depends on it! It will be years before either party could possibly do enough to fix your personal financial situation.

Steps you should take now regardless of who wins:
1) Clarify where it is you are trying to get to.
2) Determine exactly what actions will get you there.
3) Know how to do what it takes to get there.
4) Inspect daily that you are doing what it takes each day.
5) Quit making excuses and act like you life depends on what you do each day!

Neither a Democrat, a Republican, God or anyone else can help you more than your daily efforts to know more and do more. Now is the time to take complete responsibility for your situation and assume that it is up to you completely. Learn everything you can in order to increase your competence. The more competent you are the more you can do and the more you can do, the more you will do!

More doing on your part is critical during times where there appears to be less.

Comments

[demockracy]

An interesting post to read on a liberal blog. It essentially repeats the Republican's mantra: "Personal responsibility is the only key to a successful life!"

Yet when you think about it, a solitary, responsible human being makes about as much sense as an ant away from its colony. We typically do not even make our own food or fiber, transportation, or even entertainment. We're very dependent on a web of relationships, and ignore that at our peril.

Most public policy shenanigans (NAFTA that made Mexican real wages decline by 34% -- roughly equivalent to the Great Depression in the U.S.) slip by a public too busy managing their own affairs to really attend to public policy repercussions. (And why do we have so many illegal aliens?! Let's persecute *them* because we're such innocents...!)

Anyway, while personal responsibility is admirable, its limits are great, too. It may be more profitable in the short run to manage one's own affairs and ignore the public realm, but that is not true in the long run.

What good does it do to increase one's own wealth or security if the planet becomes uninhabitable because of global warming? (for just one of several scary examples)

So I'll endorse this blogger's sentiments with a caveat. If one cheek is personal responsibility then the other is public policy. It's half-assed to focus on one to the exclusion of the other. Neither alone can save us.