Are You Facing The Truth?

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them

and cover them up, at least a little bit.

Edward R Murrow.

There is an ancient Roman fable that Truth and Falsehood went for a swim. When emerging out of the water, Falsehood had taken and dressed itself in Truth's clothes. Truth refused to wear Falsehood's clothes and instead preferred to go naked. Truth would rather be naked than be a dressed up as a lie.

In today's economy, are we facing the truth or the reality of our conditions? Or are we simply dressing up lies to look like truth? Maybe we are too busy feeling so sorry about the naked truth we are covering it up?

At My Perfect Economy we want to help individuals and companies achieve success through the concept of creative capital. But before this can happen, one must be willing to accept the naked truth of where we are all at.

Unfortunately there are still people who are trying to avoid the truth, or cover it up and pretend there is nothing wrong. Last week we heard stories of people going deeper into credit debt to try and maintain their lifestyles. Others continue to crash because they are afraid to ask for help. In some cases, we have observed individuals turn down stable jobs opting for unemployment because they felt it was out of their training or comfort zone. Other truths we have to face is that there is still great injustice in the world and a great many people are suffering more than we could imagine.

Another real important truth we to accept is that there are no silver bullets to fix our problems or instant microwave solutions to success. Our CEO here is constantly reminding us to be slow and steady and that we are still here. Despite how bad things may seem, if you are still here, slow and steady will ultimately prevail.

Big ideas in today's economy first require a healthy dose of reality. This doesn't mean we abandon hope or optimism. It just means we have to get comfortable with the naked truth and stop feeling sorry for ourselves. It is then our big ideas can change our lives and the world.
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