If it's true that we become who we believe we are, these are not propitious times.
At every level, we are bombarded by messages and images that inform us how bad things are, how inadequately prepared we are, and what we must do to warrant our existence.
Most of this is based on somebody else's agenda.
Maybe they want to sell you the key to the gate that only they can provide.
Maybe they want you to go back to work in the office to support an economy they have created that depends on it.
If what you are being exhorted to do, or believe, is based on helping you to their advantage recognise it for what it is. Salesmanship.
Fortunes are always made during crises by salesmen who use the situation to their advantage. They will try to convince they have a key to a gate which is already unlocked.
We find ourselves in chalenging times as the economic model we have been using for the last couple of hundred years runs out of steam. There is little left to privatise, and the economic machines that have …
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