This year’s budget crisis catapulted us into stock market turmoil and reaffirms the consequences of ignoring Sir Francis Bacon’s 400-year old words, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Those sage words were echoed during FDR’s inaugural speech and still ring true today. We clearly see how the fear of future failures and potential losses drives down expectations so we operate from a place of weakness instead of strength. It’s the proverbial bogeyman in the closet.  The more we focus on him, the bigger and more ferocious he gets!

So how can we as individuals move beyond … Read the rest