Scintillating

I just tuned in to a news station, whose name I won’t mention but rhymes with ‘see the end’ and they put the exclamation point on the whole job loss environment:
Gloom, doom, and worse times loom. The reporters consistently used the pronoun “You” to describe what was happening, as in “You will not be able to get credit” and “You won’t be able to get a job” and “You will not be able to sell or buy a home”. They speak loads with moans and groans (literally), tons of exclamation marks, and in an agitated manner worthy of a zombie movie where the journalists warn us of our impending doom (there’s that word again). The presentation of the news is no better on the ‘see the end’ channel’s nemesis, whose name I also won't mention. Let’s just say it rhymes with pox, as in "a pox on your house". It's scintillating and it sells and that's the name of that game.

What does that do for the average American? Does this sort of news presented in the manner that it’s offered motivate a person? Does it make you feel like you can conquer the world or do you feel like recoiling and withdrawing from society? I would venture the answer would be to recoil, yet many of these reporters are saying we have to accept this as our new reality. Really?

I disagree.

Attitude trumps experience every time, I guarantee it, and this reality they would have us adopt does not offer any of us the attitude we need. So what can you do? Shake it, move away from it, ignore it, and rise above it. If it doesn’t move you towards your purpose, your agenda, then don’t allow it to be part of your day. Hiring is happening, as are loans, and the rest; we just need to move towards that, rather than towards the image of drought the media prefers to promote.

Nourish your soul and your mind with what is possible, not what isn’t, and the possibilities will become your realities.

Namaste,
Rita