It was obvious that she had stamina to keep on going when things were against her, like her mother before her.  I learned that you keep on going no matter what.  My mother showed me what persistence and perseverance can accomplish.

Another role model was my mother’s cousin.  She became an internist when women didn’t become doctors.  She was the breadwinner of her family.  When I was a child I was going to do the same.  Life took me in another direction, but I did get my masters degree and I dared to be different from what was expected of me.

My mother died some years ago at ripe age of 86 and her cousin died last year from cancer.  It is strange to not have my role models with me today, but I am thankful for the inspiration they gave me through the years and are still giving.  Helping me on my path to a Life of Abundance.

Love and peace,

ElinAnna

The House rejected the rescue plan!

A new plan has arrived and the Senate approved it.

There is a plan in the process and maybe the House will approve it.  Maybe it is a good one, or maybe not.

What can an underearner learn from this?  A plan is easy to make and to reject.  We often make plans and then just as quickly we change them.  What do we want to do and how?  What it comes down to, there is no plan at all.  We keep on doing the same old thing, because it is difficult to make a decision on what to do differently and stick to it.  We don’t want to have to do things differently.  All we want is things to turn out different. 

The reality is that nothing will change until we start to change.  We have to start to make a different choice and follow through with it.  Making the decision is easy compared to what follows.  First we have to come up with a plan. That plan has to spells out how we are going to do things differently.  What is going to be different now with this plan? The same old, same old, doesn’t work any more if we want different results.  The plan has to allow us to face the truth about our finances.  And it also has to allow us to take a different route.  This route has a final destination.

This sounds so easy, how come we haven’t done this.  The answer is; we humans are creatures of habit.  We do not like to do things different or do what we are used to do differently.  We like to do the same old thing and we want to get different results.

Is that maybe the reason that the House rejected the plan?  Was it too much the same old thing or was it too different?

To get different result we must do things differently.

The funny thing is that when we are down and have nowhere to go, then the situation becomes desperate enough for us to change.  There is no choice and therefore we get the new result.  That is what is happening with our economy today.

This is a big, big mess.

Love and peace,

ElinAnna