Green Shoots in Our Economy

Bernanke needs a new pair of glasses! Unfortunately I am afraid that the green shoots that he is seeing are weeds, and yes at least something is growing…  we would not want to see another great American dust bowl!  Yes, it is great that our economy did not totally collapsed, and that our ground is being held together by something, and yes we should be celebrating that!  But we also need to be planting our own seeds!  Seeds that will help us, our families, our communities, and our world become a better place!

 

When we think things are going well we tend to go along our merry way, functioning without much thought, along with the rest of the status quo.  I am here to remind everyone that this is our opportunity for change!  To start again with thought, and a new awareness!

 

No matter where you are in life.  Do things differently… think of the greater good!  Deep down you know what the right choices are… you may think that they are harder, but in the end the crop you reap will be so much better than you can imagine!  But do something!  Don’t just sit there!  Bernanke needs our help!  So get up, get out, and start working that soil, start sowing the seeds for the life that you want! 

 

…and then next spring when Bernanke puts on his new glasses, he will again see green shoots, but this time instead of weeds the shoots will be those of flowers, or of volunteerism, or of a new business that you always wanted to start!

 

Just a thought!

 

Love,

 

Goldi

 

Goldilocks Blog

Mothers Day!

This Sunday is the day that we take time out from our very busy lives and honor our Mothers…  My Mom happens to be one of the best!  I am one of those rare people who had a happy childhood and I have my Mother to thank for that. 

 

My mother has always had a positive outlook despite her unconventional (being nice here) upbringing.  She always had a calm outward appearance and I do not remember her ever raising her voice. Oh! Laughing… except once, I do remember her chasing my brother and I around the house with a rolled up newspaper, we had been fighting and she could not stand it any longer.  She ended up catching us as we ran around the dining room table seeing who could get at who first.  As she cornered us both she ended up swatting my brother and I with the newspaper, and we started screaming loudly. It sounded like a real beating, and we kept on screaming until we realized that it did not hurt at all.  I do not know who started laughing first but I think we all just ended up thinking how absurd the whole situation was at the same time, and then none of could stop.

 

Another memory of my mother, and my childhood, was when I was about eight or nine years old.  Being a little girl and one who was always playing princess or Cinderella I had been thinking of how I could make my hair look beautiful and different.  So I came up with this ingenious idea of parting my hair in back like I would do if I was making pig tails, and then tying them under my chin with a single tie.  I loved my new hair do that I had created, and my mother could sense that and she let me go proudly off to school.  At school with the teachers, it did not go so well as you could imagine, but I was then and I am now still proud of her not making me conform to what others felt were acceptable, and of letting me be me!

 

I love my Mom!

 

Just a thought…

 

 

Love,

 

Goldi

 

Goldilocks Blog

Trust yourself! Believe yourself! Love yourself!

We live in a world plaguing us with doubts and naysayer’s.  If we listen to them, and believe them, then they are right.  If we do not take the chance, or believe in ourselves, we will never have the life that we want to live. 

 

Remember if you want something different you need to do something different!

 

Just a Thought!

 

Love,

 

Goldi

 

Goldilocks Blog