What are you focusing on???

I thought the video below was priceless. You have to watch the 60 second video before scrolling down, then I'll give you my thoughts on the video.

Here are my thoughts. I think WAY TOO MANY PEOPLE are doing exactly this with their lives right now. They are so focused on what we are TOLD to focus on by the media, like the stock market or politics, that we end up focusing on the things that are actually important to us on a day to day basis, like our families and friends. My best friends last night had their first child, a little boy and I don't think he was too concerned about the stock market and what happened in another state that he has no control over. I'm not saying that what's going on in our country isn't important, because it is and what we do in the next 12 months will ultimately determine the next 10 years for all of us. Somehow we forgot that we live in America, the MOST PROSPEROUS NATION IN HISTORY! Where 3 BILLION people around the world would love to come here and have the "declining house value" problems that we have.

I suggested to a friend this morning that we all play the "pass your problem game". How it works is you take the biggest problem you're facing in life today, write it down and put it into a hat with 20 to 30 of your closest friends. Then you pass the hat around and each pick out a piece of paper and now you have the problem that you pick out of the hat. I'd bet that everyone who agreed to that game would want their own problem back. How does the old saying go, "the man with no shoes stopped complaining when he met the man who had no feet". I think our country needs to have a collective gut check, remember who we are and be proud of it! We live in the freest, most prosperous country in the world where a "nobody" can start a business (just like I did) and have great success with hard work, determination and help from God.