Boomers in Business:
This morning my Yogi Tea Ginseng Royal Vitality Daily Energy Tonic tea bag tag offered far better economic advice than Alan Greenspan ever did or Ben Bernanke is likely to: "Gratitude is the open door to abundance."
As the ungrateful bankers, traders and investment brokers of Wall Street line up to receive more giant year-end bonuses -- because they are much too valuable to endure the depredations faced by the rest of us -- we are left to wonder how we'll make it through the coming winter. Consumer confidence "unexpectedly" has slipped again, as Main Street gears up to cut back: on shopping, spending and gifting again this holiday season.
Where's that door?
We have been told that the economy has bottomed out and is recovering, but there's precious little evidence of that for freelancers, solopreneurs, alternative medicine practitioners and arts professionals: The Dow Jones goes up, the price of our gasoline follows.
Yet we can be grateful that things are not as bleak as they were a year ago, when people were being laid off right and left. And grateful that some sectors are again growing, at least in spurts, so that we occasionally get a trickle-down spurt of business as well.
Why is gratitude the door?
I'll answer that with more questions: Ever try to get a great business or marketing idea while you're in the midst of anxiety, worry and fear? When do the best ideas come -- in the shower, in your sleep, while you're thinking of something else entirely?
Yes to all that, right? All our "nightly news"-"instant news" -"morning news" mania does for us is show us what's going wrong. Only the long view turns out to be the accurate one. So relax a little, and plan for the upturn. Take stock of what you already have -- so much more than millions of people in this world -- and be thankful. Then open the door.
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