10 Ways to Help Us Get Through Hard Times

1. Cut back on spending, increase our savings and live below our means instead of beyond them.  This helps us and also demonstrates sensitivity to the millions of our fellow Americans who have lost their jobs, homes and insurance. 
   
2. Learn about the resources that are available to help needy families through hard times so that you can be proactive.  Have it ready when someone you meet or know is in need of connecting with these services.  [Be part of the healing of our country.]
   
3. Curb the temptation to indulge in conspicuous consumption and to flaunt an ostentatious lifestyle.  Donate that discretionary income to community organizations to help our fellow citizens.
   
4. Give more generously to all the charities of our choice and continue an American tradition of doing good to help others.
   
5. Remain positive, which is always an excellent way to ensure better results in every area of our lives and to help calm everyone around us.
   
6. Remember to maintain an attitude of gratitude.  This boosts our self esteem and raises our energy vibration, which lifts our spirits and those of everyone who comes in contact with us.
   
7. Take good care of our health.  It is vitally important during hard times to maintain a positive attitude and to manage stress.  
   
8. Support our inner peace by saying as often as possible:  I choose Good this day for me, my loved ones and all others. And So It Is!
   
9. Fight fear by repeating over and over:  All is well!  Something wonderful is happening in my life right now.  I sense it. I feel it. I know it.  And So It Is!
   
10. And then we anchor in our good by repeating the following:  In living the key values in life – honesty, integrity and loving and caring for others – I hasten our nation"s return to balance on all levels, peacefully, joyously and harmoniously with Good-God for all concerned. And So It Is!

"Inherent in our current economic situation my be the biggest blessing we could ever have imagined. If we take the time to look at the primary cause of the economic crisis in our country - which is an incredible turning away from basic ethics, values and morals - this opens an incredible opportunity to return to the principles that made our nation's rise to greatness possible in the first place."

Excerpted from the blog - "Hard Times Are the Signal to Get Back to Basics" posted at www.InsightsOut.blogspot.com.