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As I sit here reading and all the while listing to Britt Nicole’s CD, I’m struck by the thought that most of us need a break through. A break through in our thinking about fear. Fear hinders our endeavors, drains our dreams, clouds our imagination, keeps us from fulfilling our destiny. Fear is a distractor which with the right information can be overcome. We need to be educated that fear can be defeated. For example, professional athletes put fear in its proper place, thus defeating it by their disciplined work ethic which increases their self-confidence that is developed by perfect practice.

So how can we overcome this monster of fear? We’re not professional athletes. How about by being re-educated? Education is the key to our success. Learning that the majority of what we hear, see, and read through our media is negative and causes much worrying is a start. Then, we need to realize that we associate with people who have been hearing, seeing and reading the same negative mess we’ve been absorbing too.

But what if we began to re-educate ourselves. Let’s say we started by disciplining ourselves to stop watching the news, reading negative articles in magazines and papers and quit hanging around negative people. Then we would replace these areas with positive fillers,  like good self-help books, personal development cd’s and association with people who are wanting to overcome this monster of fear. If we put to perfect practice what we are learning and absorbing our self confidence will soar and the monster of fear will diminish.

Barry Futch…. Husband, Father, Grandfather, Business Owner and Life Member

The defenition of Investment defined in Dictionary.com is “the investing of money and capital in order to gain profitable returns, as interest income or appreciation in value. The same word is defined in Investopedia as an asset or item that is purchased with the hope that it will generate income or appreciate in the future. As much as I love these definitions most people do not have the extra income, assests or items that will make them the kind of profit needed to live the life they truly want.

The majority of people live “lives of quite desperation”,  just barely making enough money to meet their monthly obligations. So, would investing be an option? Most would follow that question with a comment like: “How can I invest?, I just barely have enough money to survive.” Well maybe they should look at investing from another angle, investing in ones self.

Investing in ones self is seen everyday in one of two ways, either as an expense or an assest. It’s easy to tell which defines you just by looking at what you do each day. If your trying to better yourself by schooling, reading  good books, listening to self-help and personal development cd’s etc. then you consider yourself valuable and thus treat yourself as an asset. If on the other hand you live day to day doing nothing to enhance yourself then your just an expense and every dollar you spend on yourself is like throwing money into a bottomless pit.

Start seeing and treating yourself as an asset and not living as an expense. When you do this your entire life will change. You will have a chance to live the life you always wanted.

Barry Futch, Life Member