When our team is delivering a seminar, we hear a lot about where people really are. We create a safe and inviting place for people to talk about what lurks in their hearts and minds.
I want to talk about one of the more common themes we encounter, one that has been growing in both frequency and urgency. We call it "Living Two Lives".
When we first wrote about it two years ago, we described it like this:
If you are like millions of other people (and how I used to be), you find yourself living two lives; the one you inhabit each day and the one you feel that you ought to be living.
Even if you ascribe to the recovery meme and ingest the current narrative that the economy is about to take off and that stocks and houses will once again make us all rich, you know deep down that the story of perpetual exponential growth has an ending.
Maybe not immediately, but someday, certainly, the doctrine of endless growth will have to end. And you know that in all likelihood it won't end on human terms, in a manner of our careful choosing, but on some other terms set by exhausted ecosystems and depleted resources interacting with our highly complex economic and financial systems.
How exactly does one fashion a new lifestyle that is in alignment with this view? Is it even possible?
Or perhaps you don't even buy the recovery meme, but you know that endless money printing is not the path to prosperity and that the current appearance of recovery is just an illusion, all but certain to end in tears as it always has in the past.
by lesphelps 
