Finances are a challenge to most marriages. Finding ways of cutting back is rarely enjoyable. Families gather around the kitchen table while going through the paper looking for Coupon Deals and trying to Find Great Deals that could result in some savings. Others stop spending money on dinning out, or going to the movies. For almost everyone, the process of reallocating funds results in the feeling of loss and hardship. Few people see this as an opportunity for reevaluating the fundamentals of their lives. Challenging times call for challenging thinking and creative solutions. These solutions are occasionally easy, occasionally difficult, but always a revelation. With the right attitude, a financial crisis, or a call to cut back can be an opening to a new and better life.
If someone is laid off and their source of income is suddenly uncertain, then the whole foundation of their life has been rocked. Working without a net is not the end of the world. It is just a thing. The money is uncertain, so what the income provided is no longer certain to be there. Decisions have to be made. For many people a crisis is an awakening. What is necessary is simplified to a razor sharp awareness. Houses are being lost, cars are being repossessed, jobs are disappearing and yet many people are grateful to be brought back to the experience of living. When the walls fall down people jump into action. Being forced into action is when the experience of living is heightened.
Risk is one of the most basic necessities of being fully alive. Without risk nothing happens. The first person to eat a mushroom took a risk. Entering the street is a risk. Asking out the dark eyed girl or rugged looking guy is a risk. Buying a car is a risk. Taking a stand for personal beliefs is a risk. The entire economic system is depends on risk. This has created a world where people want to mitigate the risks they are taking, making sure their money is safe, their investments secure and their family is provided for. A full life experience depends on risk, yet most people spend their energy avoiding it. While restraint and prudence is a wise fiscal choice, it dampens the experience of living if it governs every minute. A crisis knocks us off the couch and brings risk into our life. For many people there is an epiphany; if you can’t protect against risk, why not start doing the things deemed too risky to do before?
A crisis is a time to let go of old ways of thinking and start fresh. This could lead to actually letting go of property, houses, books or pictures. Maybe the career was supposed to provide stability. For those that got laid off maybe there is a path more satisfying that should be pursued. Is the McMansion what was wanted or what was expected? When the world changes on the outside, it is a great time to create personal change on the inside.
Life is meant to be lived with passion, not watched from the couch. When challenges arise they should be embraced with open arms for they bring with them the the wakening call for a conscious life. The challenge is how to embrace a crisis and let it inspire positive change.
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