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UPDATED: 12-31-2010 (Update 12-17-2011 Below)
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the state of affairs in this country and around the world and I’ve come to a conclusion: It is time to become proactive rather than reactive.
I have been posting at this site for over a year now, dispensing my take on things from my little corner of the world. In so doing, I have accumulated well over 400 postings to effectively do two things: establish a personal journal of sorts and cause a domain to mature. Other than that, all I have accomplished is to “spread the word” about the current administration’s desire to “spread the wealth”. To that end, I don’t think I have contributed to the well-being of the greater good.
I started this blog after retiring to keep abreast of current events in the hopes of trumpeting a clarion call to beware. However, in the process I have not done anything of real value except to feed the fear that it is going to get really bad for this country in the years to come (which, by the way is true; but I digress…).
I have been writing articles for my wife to post on her web sites and I have also written several eBooks covering everything from finances titled “Eliminating Debt Forever” to one tentatively titled “Good Eating Habits Gone Bad” addressing over-consumption and the weight gain that comes with it.
As our government continues to advocate “spending our way out of debt” the latest information reveals that it ain’t gonna get any better before it gets a whole lot worse. The same can be said for Medicare and Medicaid (and don’t even get me started on Social Security!). Therefore, I am going to start changing my approach at Fullcirclethinker to begin helping others get out of debt and get healthy, even as the government goes further into debt and bankrupts the health care system under the banner of Obamacare.
Because this is the last day of 2010, and as we enter a New Year (2011), I hope to upscale this web site to prepare the family first and foremost to weather the coming storm by getting out of debt and dropping those unnecessary pounds.
It is my opinion that whichever direction a nation goes, it first begins in the home. It is also my opinion that, being a product of the sixties myself (and just turning 61!), my generation is fully in power and continues to cast off what worked for this country for over 200 years in favor of multiculturalism, diversity and inclusion, and a general elimination of the Judeo-Christian principles that guided our founding fathers and young nation so well for so long.
As a result, we are in for some hard times because we refuse to believe what history has proven to be true: that every time a nation casts off its moral and spiritual underpinnings and rises up to play, it is officially in decline. That and the fact that the style of government we currently have, beginning with the sixties, has given rise to this mentality. We have effectively forgotten how we got here and don’t want to hear the truth anymore.
It is just too hateful, you see.
All of that to say:
For me, it is time to take care of my family and continue to raise them up in the Biblical / Constitutional manner that will empower them to survive the coming storm. I also want to share this next phase of my journey with anyone interested in coming along.
I am not a survivalist in the purist sense of the word. However, I am a survivor, and am willing to bet that both myself and my family will survive the coming storm intact, better-positioned to be a help to others.
So, here I go. Come along as I change not only the theme of this site but the direction as well. Let’s get ready for the coming storm together, regardless of what the government tries to say to the contrary. I believe God has given us a “window of opportunity” to prepare; most likely a two to four year window (at best).
We can win the war, even if we lose a few battles along the way.
So, what do you say? Want to be the head and not the tail? Ready to make debt your slave and not your master? To prepare your body for health care so-called by being in the best physical shape of your life? To have your children rise up and call you blessed?
This and so much more awaits those who will hear what the Spirit is saying:
“But those who wait on the LORD
Shall renew their strength;
They shall mount up with wings like eagles,
They shall run and not be weary,
They shall walk and not faint.”
-Isaiah 40:31
Update: 12-17-2011
Has another year come and gone already?
Well, I haven’t succeeded in shedding much in the way of pounds (still working on that one), but we have been successful in shedding some debt (thank you Jesus!). My wife’s Internet business has been a rousing success, even as it has lessened in its month over month earnings amount, which has enabled us to pay down a considerable amount of debt.
We have already put in place a game plan for 2012 that will see one vehicle paid in full and quite possibly the other vehicle as well by year’s end. We have also taken advantage of artificially low interest rates (why not?) and refinanced our home, lowering the rate by two percentage points (from 6% to 4%) , and cutting our length of loan in half without seeing the monthly payments increase by more than thirty dollars a month.
In essence, with God’s Guiding Hand, we have made great strides at accomplishing a ‘practice-what-you-preach’ goal.
May we see this further accomplished when I revisit this one year from now. I truly believe that “with God, all things are possible”. I pray that is what you believe as well.
