Look the Other Way?
We love to deny uncomfortable facts. Churchill confronted Chamberlain's weakness and warned of coming problems. Clinton allowed Bin Laden to escape. He has never been held accountable for the consequences. Jim Rohn said, "Discipline weighs ounces, but regret weighs tons." Churchill saw the future. He warned about communism, "The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time, but the soul of man thus held in trance, or frozen in a long night, can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where, and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life." He foresaw and forewarned.
But most people are not Churchill. They wait for the lawyer's letter, the bills, the illness, the divorce order, before taking action. They stick their heads in the sand. They look the other way. And when it's too late, they start blaming all and sundry for the predicament they themselves created through their neglect, lies, slothfulness, and bad choices. Their self pity when the chickens come home to roost is disgusting to behold. Churchill had the courage to deal with reality, the self-esteem to go to war, the vision to hold on until victory, and the intelligence to know that this was the only route to freedom.
Compromise, mediocrity, cowardice, and denial lead to the imprisonment of the mind and the quiet desperation and passive aggression so evident in today's western society which each day edges closer to socialism and collectivism. The tolerance, acceptance, and even encouragement of drug addicts, criminals, and army deserters has a consequence, as can be seen in the resulting society. What we sow, we will surely reap. It's just a matter of time. Countries can be overthrown by immigration when their leaders are rotten, gutless mercenaries; war is unnecessary. Every choice and action has a consequence. The fact that you don't immediately see it does not mean it isn't happening.
Look at your life. Are there a few Hitlers on the horizon? Do you have a few Bin Laden friends? Is your neighbor an army deserter? Do you have a Judas on your team? Are you so weak and politically correct that you have become a socialist without even knowing it? If you keep on the way you're going right now, what does your future look like? You can break the mirror, shoot the messenger, delete this ezine, close my Blog, curse me for making you face the oncoming train, or resolve to make some adjustments, change course, and confront a few issues. What will your life look like in five years if you do? What will it look like if you don't? Frankly, I don't care what choices you make. You have been warned, so my job is done.
Here's the good part: We vastly underestimate what we can accomplish when we face reality and make courageous choices. If people knew what a brilliant future they could create over time without massive changes, they would make better choices than a society addicted to comfort, instant gratification, laziness, compromise, and the mind numbing opiates of mysticism and political rhetoric. Your future does not have to be worse than your past. You can escape the downward spiral which you may realize you are on. You can be strong, free, successful, happy, healthier, and wealthy if you're prepared to pay the price now.
But you won't get the recipe for success from those who have a vested interest in your desperation, slavery, exhaustion, and dependency, like the banks, politicians, employers and witchdoctors; your recipe from freedom can only come from those who are genuinely free. Only a strong swimmer with a conscience can help a drowning person.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
But most people are not Churchill. They wait for the lawyer's letter, the bills, the illness, the divorce order, before taking action. They stick their heads in the sand. They look the other way. And when it's too late, they start blaming all and sundry for the predicament they themselves created through their neglect, lies, slothfulness, and bad choices. Their self pity when the chickens come home to roost is disgusting to behold. Churchill had the courage to deal with reality, the self-esteem to go to war, the vision to hold on until victory, and the intelligence to know that this was the only route to freedom.
Compromise, mediocrity, cowardice, and denial lead to the imprisonment of the mind and the quiet desperation and passive aggression so evident in today's western society which each day edges closer to socialism and collectivism. The tolerance, acceptance, and even encouragement of drug addicts, criminals, and army deserters has a consequence, as can be seen in the resulting society. What we sow, we will surely reap. It's just a matter of time. Countries can be overthrown by immigration when their leaders are rotten, gutless mercenaries; war is unnecessary. Every choice and action has a consequence. The fact that you don't immediately see it does not mean it isn't happening.
Look at your life. Are there a few Hitlers on the horizon? Do you have a few Bin Laden friends? Is your neighbor an army deserter? Do you have a Judas on your team? Are you so weak and politically correct that you have become a socialist without even knowing it? If you keep on the way you're going right now, what does your future look like? You can break the mirror, shoot the messenger, delete this ezine, close my Blog, curse me for making you face the oncoming train, or resolve to make some adjustments, change course, and confront a few issues. What will your life look like in five years if you do? What will it look like if you don't? Frankly, I don't care what choices you make. You have been warned, so my job is done.
Here's the good part: We vastly underestimate what we can accomplish when we face reality and make courageous choices. If people knew what a brilliant future they could create over time without massive changes, they would make better choices than a society addicted to comfort, instant gratification, laziness, compromise, and the mind numbing opiates of mysticism and political rhetoric. Your future does not have to be worse than your past. You can escape the downward spiral which you may realize you are on. You can be strong, free, successful, happy, healthier, and wealthy if you're prepared to pay the price now.
But you won't get the recipe for success from those who have a vested interest in your desperation, slavery, exhaustion, and dependency, like the banks, politicians, employers and witchdoctors; your recipe from freedom can only come from those who are genuinely free. Only a strong swimmer with a conscience can help a drowning person.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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