Upon reflecting on President Obama's speech and what it meant has pre-occupied me these past few days in a very positive sense. As a person who is promoting the values of working from home through various home business opportunity offerings, my ears pricked up when the President told the story of the 106 year lady and the changes she had seen in her lifetime and how it was the people who brought about those changes not a specific individual hence the mantra Yes We Can.



The speech also acknowledged that the Yes We Can implied that it is not up to one individual to bring about change and it is certainly not up to the media as they along with governments seek to create fear and panic as that sells. The message was that each of us had to be one voice and unite thereby releasing the enormous potential to change the world then and only then do we secure our true freedom and security. In recent times we have been brain washed by the press and governments around the world to conform to cry out for more government control to make our existence on the planet more secure and safe etc. When you here that statement that says The Government Has To Do Something that sends a shiver down my spine as it is just another nail in our collective coffin, whether that is to guarantee bank deposits, selectively bail out companies who by their own poor decision making or greed have gone bankrupt, save a manufacturer who was too blind to realize that the market for their product had changed and on and on.

People appear to be waiting for someone anyone to come along and fix all of our woes and I see that expectation already of President Obama as the press after two days started to express concerns on how he was going to do it thereby completely misinterpreting his message, which is what they do to create doubt and fear, and he is not even in office yet. The message was we all had to make sacrifices and that we are all in this together and that by the American people to their credit having the courage to change history was just an example of you the people can change the world not that President Obama can change the world but what President Obama stands for can allow us to change the world.

As the majority of people go about their daily routine which has become almost robotic and using only a portion of the amazing brain power we have available not to mention our creative side to dream and create we will never reach our true potential and that in a sense is so sad but it need not be.

Abundance is a state the majority of the people on the planet want to be in but unfortunately they inevitably associate that with money which is limiting because you might have the money but do you have the time, are you realizing your true potential and purpose are you happy abundance is best described by this affirmation "I give thanks for my abundance which gives me the ability to do what I choose and do it when I choose to do it”. There is no mention of money or type of house or car or holiday or whatever. The key to this is having the ability to choose what You want to do and actually do it not just hope to do it but do it and just as importantly when you want to do it.

How can you possibly achieve this if you are working for someone or even if you own certain types of businesses which require you to be at a certain place at a certain time. The truth is you can't, we are living in a time where there are tremendous problems in the world or so we are told by the press and governments around the globe but the reality is we are living in the most exciting times in the history of our planet. The reason why it is the most exciting time in our history is due to creation of the internet and the way that allows you to connect to the world, you now have a customer base that is worldwide and is eager to achieve the abundance described above through an array of home business opportunity offers worked from home at times that suit you and at income levels that suit you.

The Yes We Can speech by the President said that it will require some sacrifice from everyone but one that is worth the effort and that means you have to have rock solid reason for doing not some vague wish you have to feel the pain you will incur if the end goal is not achieved and that goal is abundance as in the meaning above. Do you think President Obama just woke up one morning and said I am going to become the President of the United States and then just went on with his day not doing anything further to bring that thought to reality on that day or any other day that followed?

Had he done nothing each and every day the outcome would be that he would not be delivering the acceptance speech for being elected President of the United States of America he would still doing the same thing as what he was doing when he had the thought that is the sacrifice we talk about with regard to your home Business Opportunity you have to dedicate time every day to build your business.

There are many success stories of people living their life of abundance from all sorts of backgrounds, age groups, education and financial positions because of their home business opportunity and they all say the same thing you have to be prepared to learn to stay focused don't settle for a life of drudgery of just getting by or of being told what to do and when to do it as against doing what you choose to do and do it when you choose to do it.

To achieve abundance which is our Birthright we all need to embrace change just as the the Americans have done with the election of President Obama which has been embraced by people all over the world giving them hope as it is not intended for us to arrive on this planet to be ordinary but to realize our own particular uniqueness and to do that you have to pull your own strings.

Yes You Can

Trevor Willoughby

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