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Media is Hypnotizing America to Do Nothing!
By Grant Cardone, Author of Sell To Survive

Americans are being made to believe by the media that financial survival is based solely on saving.  This is ridiculously incorrect and exactly opposite of what you should be doing.  I don't know if the media is just committed to disseminating stupidity or if there is some grand conspiracy of the rich power media moguls to strip the last bits of wealth away from the common man. It is impossible to improve your financial condition by retreating.

Whatever the media's motivation is their relentless, unprecedented and careless commitment to doom and gloom scenarios 24 hour a day to retreat is working!  Case in point-the first two months of 2009 the savings rate in this country went from under 1% to almost 6%. If you come out from the hypnotizing you will also observe that even with saving rates up over 5 fold the financial position of the average American decreased.

Why?  Because you cannot advance by retreating, you can only disappear. The great tragedy of this time is how many individuals and companies are going to go backwards not because of the economy but because of their response to this economy.  Millions of Americans sit around the kitchen table and water cooler everyday acting like victims and trying to handle contraction with contraction. When you have big problems you don't handle it by retreating, or by discussing it around coffee tables or water coolers.  When there is a fire in your kitchen you don't retreat you use your energy to put the fire out or the house burns down in retreat.

Now is the time for action not inaction, expansion not contraction. Periods of economic contractions are incredible opportunities for those that take the right steps. The first thing to do is to decide that you are going to survive and prosper.  Second, know that it is up to you and no one else! Third, attack, conquer and seize market share whether you are an individual or a company. This is discussed in full in Sell to Survive a book about what it takes to survive any economy.

If you have lost your job, get over the shock and don’t waste your time with resumes as no one is looking at them. Get in the job market, knock on doors, meet face to face with owners and upper management and sell yourself to them on how you can help their company.  Taking extended unemployment checks will only make you less valuable in the job market 32 weeks from now. 

If you have lost money in the stock market, reassess your portfolio - sell the losers and take this opportunity to buy those companies that you know are going to profits

If you run or own a company, pour on the marketing and promotion and aggressively hire the best people in the market to work with you. They want to work with someone that is expanding. Make sure you include in your advertising that you are hiring!  If you are going to go out of business do it swinging.

Decide to survive and prosper!  Decide to be part of the solution not part of the problem. Now is the time to expand, not contract, to have guts not fear and advance not retreat. Now is the time when you must do more not less!  Wake up from the hypnotic suggestions being hammered into you by the media suggesting you can't do anything about this because the problem is too massive. Embrace problems, use them and solve them and you will survive....

Remember YOU NEVER HANDLE PROBLEM BY RUNNING FROM IT.

Grant Cardone is an author, entrepreneur and CEO of three very successful companies. He speaks to companies and individuals about how to create and maximize opportunities.http://www.grantcardone.com/

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