2009 and What Have You Done For Me Lately?
Well, it has been awhile since I have had time to write anything. So, lets recap the last half of 2008:
- My new business was busy as hell towards the end of 2008. Being an insurance restoration contractor business had slowed down during the summer months and it was a bit nerve racking. The business was very much a happy ending to my year!
- I became un-engaged to the Soccer Stud. I knew it was going to happen. Lets move on….
- An ex-boyfriend and possibly the love-of-my-life called me from a mental institution! Yes, you read right….MENTAL INSTITUTION. The funny part (if there can be a funny part to being in a mental institution) he is the only person I know who would make it a party!
No, my life has not changed much. There is always soccer, men and business situations flying at me like a meteor shower and I am now in the midst of creating the first ever meteor rock umbrella…and it comes in 10 nifty colors for the more fashion forward. I’m always looking for a new money making venture!!
We were snowed in for Christmas and my sister came for a surprise visit for New Years. All in all, 2008 was a pretty good year and 2009 is starting out to be better than ever.
So why do I ask….”What have you done for me lately??”
Well, it seems that is the question of the year and I am constantly asked this question, in one form or another. From my kids, my business partner, my customers….everyone one wants you to do for them! Come on people….yes, there is an economic crisis. Yes, we have a new President with big solutions to everything including world peace. Yes, its a new year, out with the old and in with the new. So, lets trying doing for ourselves instead of asking someone else to bail us out of our problems. We got ourselves into it….lets get ourselves out!
My friend called me today and told me this story…
Once upon a time, my friend used her credit cards to much and was $7K in debt. Later, my friend took her son to the orthodontist and got him braces without checking to see if she had coverage. Now she is stuck with a nice $10,000 debt. My friend only works 3 days a week and is in a quandry as to how she will ever pay this off. My friend decides to ask her Father to lend her the money to pay off the debt with the plan to repay the loan over the next 3 years with monthly installment payments. My friends Father says “NO, you figure it out!” My friend is so upset she tells her Father that he has never cared for her, or her boys and does not respect the fact that she is a single mother and has done it all on her own for all these years. Clearly upset, my friend calls me to tell me about the awful way her Father has treated her regarding the money she would like to borrow from him and just can’t understand why her Father can not do the right thing and lend her the money.
Completely enthralled with this story, I give her this answer…..ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?
Most people would love to be only $7,000 in credit card debt and what were you thinking taking your son to get braces without calling to find out if you have coverage! Sounds like a personal problem and I agree with your Dad…FIGURE IT OUT FOR YOURSELF! You got yourself into this mess, get yourself out. Personally, I would never ask my Father to bail me out of any problem, unless the lives of my children depended on it. If that was the case, I would never have to ask…my Father would be there.
Still, why do we ask so much from others and are not willing to do for ourselves? What have we become, did we grow up or did we grow incompetent to take full responsibility for our own actions? Have we been prepared for the road or has the road been prepared for us? It is never too late! We can still learn from our mistakes and be better for them.
I leave this question for you…..“What have you done for YOU lately?”
