Newsletter September 2009
Thoughts from a year on...A year ago I was in Atlanta and the news was full of prophesies that the world was in financial meltdown. A year later and I have just returned from Chicago. The prophesied financial meltdown didn’t happen but America has seen major changes, including the election of Barack Obama. Mr Obama was elected because he had a clear vision of the future that voters wanted to believe in, but last week I saw signs of disenchantment. America is an entrepreneurial nation, a survey earlier this year found that 76% of Americans believe the country’s strength is ‘’mostly based on the success of American business’’, yet Mr Obama is seen as using the financial collapse as an opportunity to increase the role of government. The vision that people voted for is not reflected in the reality that followed. What does this mean to us? We all have concerns about our futures, to feel confident, we must have a vision that we want and a strategy to achieve that vision, ours not someone else’s. American voters got somebody else’s vision and strategy and are now disenchanted. What is your vision and your strategy to achieve it? If you don’t know, ask yourself this; If we were to meet in three years from today, and you were looking back over those three years, what has to have happened in your life for you to feel happy with your progress? Try it for yourself, the results are powerful. |
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