The New Economy: Balancing Happiness and Politics
Debt, unemployment, poverty, insurance, inflation, health care - there is no arguing that our nation continues to face an economic recession that has resulted in people working longer, earning less, paying higher prices, owing more, commuting and thus polluting more and just ultimately becoming overused, overrun and unhappy. So what should be done? While economy and individual happiness are not typically considered together, it seems a return to some founding principles of our nation needs to be revisited. The pursuit of happiness and quality of life has progressively lost importance amidst policies, growth, and statistics. Perhaps a more idealistic society would turn our nation upward; a society focused more on the community, family, citizen involvement and voice, unity, person to person social interaction, provident spending and work-life balance.
I think trying to balance this with this type of economy is so hard. So many people are definitely dealing with this so much. You just have to prepare yourself with this. plumbing blog
Here's a thought to consider: could your goal be achieved by properly channeling-developing-encouraging the effects of economic stress? Perhapse, for example, if we can't distract ourselves with serial purchases of new things, we may be more open to concentration on less costly and more enduring choices for fulfillment.
I like the proposal of redirecting negative stress and energy to a positive outlet.... what types of "choices for fulfillment" are you referring to. It is important still to remember the variable of time. Because of economic hardship, people are working more, thus having less time to even pursue choices for fulfillment. Additionally, the overbooked schedules lead to fatigue and exhaustion making it difficult to harness the motivation to do anything when given time to do things. That is why I think changes are necessary rather than just attempting to just redirect stress. I have learned that while attitude is most important for any change, most likely the attitude must be concomitant with an actually change.
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