Finance Roll

Citizens of our great and prosperous nation are proud to be living the "American Lifestyle" right? Well let's take a closer look and examine the truth about this desired lifestyle.

Lifestyle defined: A person's pattern of living as expressed by their interests, motivations, activities, desired experiences, and beliefs.

Americans have a commonly known divorce rate that is reaching nearly 60%, yet there is no class in our school system that prepares us for marriage. Family dysfunction is expected, yet again, not prepared for.

Our citizens work harder on their jobs then they do on their family, sacrificing necessary time and attention in order to be the model employee (in order to keep their job). The media exposes our youth to adult content as early as possible in order to condition their minds, control their judgment and thinking patterns and thus control their spending dollars at earlier ages. The American youth is finding it more and more difficult to emulate role models in the family and look outside the family for direction.

The roll of the Father figure is increasingly diminished and the traditional role of the Mother is laughed at by the media. TV has become a hypodermic needle for the media to inject its family destroying messages, as a huge number of Americans, by the tens of millions, are addicted to TV like a drug. The media has become the catalyst for exercising our emotions (happiness, sadness, anger, joy, etc) as we place more importance and value on the make-believe situations of TV programs then the reality of our personal lives. With the help of the media, we are losing control of our time, our agenda, our priorities, out morals, and losing the will to TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR LIVES!

Americans are constantly encouraged to consume food that is killing them! Especially children, when you consider the garbage offered to them through marketing and media. HEALTH CONSCIOUSNESS has become a pestering reminder that we are indeed supposed to take responsibility for our health, what we eat, and frequency of exercise. Convenience and cost has become the priority in determining what we eat to satisfy the hunger of our one and only vessel, the human body, which keeps us fit to survive in our environment, however, convenience and cost is also the clever way to keep the truth hidden from us.

There is an alarming increasing rate of overweight, under nourished, unhealthy, uneducated (on the subject of nutrition) citizens in our country. Most American citizens are completely blind to the correlation between what you put in your mouth and what impact it has on you physically and mentally. There is an increasing rate of health related diseases as we are dying younger and turn to pharmaceuticals, not nutrition, to keep us alive. WE ARE DYING FROM WHAT WE PUT IN OUR MOUTHS!

Our citizens are scarcely taught financial fundamentals and therefore poorly plan for a secure financial future. By the age of 65 most of us will be flat broke! With the many superficial distractions that take our attention away from the significance of focusing on our personal prosperity, it's no wonder that from the time we enter the work force until the time we leave it, we have not found out how to become financially secure in the most prosperous nation there ever was! Americans are stressed out, maxed out, and pimped out.

We are encouraged to spend our money on doodads and lifestyle, rather than save our money for retirement. Most of the types of plans commonly used for savings are insufficient to sustain a quality of life in retirement. Americans earn and have more today then they did in the previous generations, but also have more debt and stress then the previous generations. With the never ending necessity to commit most of our waking hours to working in order to pay bills, credit cards, and maintain this American Lifestyle, is it any wonder why we are losing our families, our health, and or peace of mind.

This downward spiral of self destruction that many American prescribe to is perpetually ingrained in to the psyche of our citizens. Though the solutions to changing this paradigm are complicated we must first raise the awareness of these patterns of existence in hopes that Americans will wake up to see the TRUTH of their behavior, actions and philosophies.

We must get our priorities in order so we can make better decisions and use better judgment with regard to what is really important in life. Family, health, and finances are some of the major areas in life that we have to apply a laser focus, for if we loose site of these areas then a miserable life will surely be achieved. Once we raise this awareness, we can then start on the journey of changing from the life we settle for to the life of unlimited possibilities.