{"id":28,"date":"2011-04-24T11:59:52","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T15:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eventronics.com\/blog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2011-04-28T12:00:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T16:00:47","slug":"recession_despair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eventronics.com\/blog\/recession_despair\/","title":{"rendered":"Recession Despair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recession<\/p>\n<p>OMG! Did you hear about the couple in California facing complete despair? In 2009,&nbsp; both got let go from their jobs and lost their house.&nbsp; Their anguish was so high they took their children\u2019s lives and then killed themselves. No matter how bad things might appear today, there is always tomorrow. Then the day after that. As long as you breath, there is the prospect for recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Yes things can be bleak. Let me be the lone still voice that encourages you. I have been there. What I learned is you are not your job or your possessions. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/eventronics.com\/blog\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" mce_src=\"http:\/\/eventronics.com\/blog\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"mceWPmore mceItemNoResize\" title=\"More...\">You are that being that lives inside your body. That being is still there when your job is gone, or even tragically when your body stops functioning.<\/p>\n<p>This month I taught a 5 year old girl to ski for the first time. She was laughing, falling, picking herself back up and trying again. I teach lots of people but she was by far the happiest kid I have ever seen. Whenever I think about her, I hear that laugh and begin to smile myself.<\/p>\n<p>If you lose your job, your inner being is screaming for you to remember that happy 5 year old inside of you. OK, so maybe for you 5 was not a happy time, try to find a moment in your life where you were completely happy. In your bliss. Choose to celebrate the person you were then.<\/p>\n<p>We are in a recession and the question on everyone\u2019s mind how long will it take to get out of it? Well, we have been in one for the last 8 years, at least in one mentally. We have been pursuing a lack mindset now since 9\/11. We saw the price of oil skyrocket so high, so many people are loosing their homes, and we are facing a terrible credit crisis. Despair, Despair, Despair everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>In times like these we must find solutions rather than point the finger and blame. Experiment with ways to increase gas mileage. Let\u2019s play around and find a better method to transport ourselves. Let\u2019s uncover new ways to tap electricity.<\/p>\n<p>Only a few years ago it cost 89 cents per gallon for gasoline at a total cost to fill up the tank of $14 to go 400 miles. Let\u2019s put on our thinking caps and focus on a method that allows us to go 800 miles for $14.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s do without oil. Here is a company who is quickly on its way toward that goal.<br \/>\nYou can find out more about it at <a href=\"http:\/\/betterplace.com\" mce_href=\"http:\/\/betterplace.com\">http:\/\/betterplace.com<\/a> Or, there is an initiative that has been spending the last 5 years working towards gasoline technology that gets 100 miles per gallon. You can find out more at <a href=\"http:\/\/autoxprize.com\" mce_href=\"http:\/\/autoxprize.com\">http:\/\/autoxprize.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What always powers an economy out of downturns is innovation. It is time we redevelop and rethink how we move ourselves around. Take charge. Find ways to bring concepts that either the X-prize or Better Planet\u2019s electric ideas to market viability this year.<\/p>\n<p>That not only will make any 5-year-old laugh or 65-year-old. I for one would love it if by the time a 5-year-old turns 65 that we finally have vehicles that float in the air rather than use roads that deforest the planet. But, that\u2019s another article all together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recession OMG! Did you hear about the couple in California facing complete despair? In 2009,&nbsp; both got let go from their jobs and lost their house.&nbsp; Their anguish was so high they took their children\u2019s lives and then killed themselves. No matter how bad things might appear today, there is always tomorrow. 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