Lifestyle attributes that really matter to Americans.

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”

- Robert F. Kennedy

The Lifestyle Attributes That Really Matter To Americans

The following are the five top attributes that matter now in these financial times to Americans in order of priority. This was a survey taken including various age, gender and ethnic participants.

  1. More Money - Financial success has always been the highest priority for men, now women have out it at the top of their agenda. The financial success is no longer the keeping up with the joneses; it’s just about keeping up.
  2. Fewer Hassles – Have you bought a pair of scissors lately? It comes in a shrink wrapped hard plastic shell that is impossible to open without a pair of scissors. Products that don’t perform as advertised, technology that breaks are exasperating your patience and the conclusion is having less of it is the number two day to day priority. Hassles may be unavoidable in many cases, but that causes consumers to be all the more choosey about hassle free products and life changing decisions they get involved in. Read the rest of this entry »

Entrepreneurship and The New American Dream

“Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision. “

“I know where I’m going and I know the truth and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.”

- Muhammad Ali

Entrepreneurship and The New American Dream

The single greatest change over the past 50 years in workplace attitudes is the slow shift of viewing your job as an opportunity to viewing it as security. Look at the stats over the past five years and see how many jobs were lost in this country. No wonder why 1 out of 6 employees are search for home businesses. We’re capitalists and entrepreneurs because we have the freedom of choice. We expect and demand a “Liaise Fair” attitude from our government when it comes to our business. The Kaufman Foundation concluded from a survey that there’s more respect for entrepreneurs then CEO’s of successful corporation. Distribution of attitudes looked like this:

The question was if you had to choose would you prefer to be?

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Don’t Despair as an American in America

“There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.”

- William J. Clinton

The average American family has lost 20 % of its net worth and some have lost up to 40% of their net worth. Unemployment numbers are double digit and are expected to stay like that for the next couple of years. House foreclosures are still rising since 2008, pretty pessimistic stuff.

Don’t despair most Americans have survived the first shock waves of this depression in the economy and gathered up their inner fortitude, revised their dreams and started moving forward in life toward the light at the end of the tunnel. Fortunes are being made in this destruction and Americans see opportunities not despair, such as, real estate businesses and home based businesses (replacing or supplementing peoples’ incomes) are on the rise. If you look around America with a positive view you will know and still see the limitless opportunities to be discovered. Ignore America and you will know difficulty, distress and or failure. You should thank your lucky star everyday you were born in America with its freedom to think, dream and accomplish what you want. I’ll be posting more about how to help you accomplish what you want so if you are interested in all the tips I’ll be writing in the future I recommend you to subscribe.