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Who Has The Problem In The End?

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Have you ever wondered who really has the problem when you react to a something?

If you dig down inside of yourself, you will find that you only react to things that ring a bell in you.  That's why plenty of things leave you neutral.  You either have worked through them or have not yet and are unaware of them.  When you react to something it means that there is something in you that reacts to it.  Whether its opposite or not, you react to it.  So, who has the problem?  It's really the one who reacts.

So next time you react to someone else's problem, ask yourself.  Why am I reacting to this?  Why am I losing control and reacting to something external?  Then look at the person or situation, and see what you are feeling.  Chances are you will trace them back to something inside of you that hasn't been resolved yet. 

When people get mad in their cars because they get cut off by an inconsiderate driver, ask why you are so sensitive to this.  Maybe are you are doing your best to be a courteous driver and the fact that someone doesn't put out the same amount of care as you do, make you mad.  Then drill down further and try to get to the source of why you feel everyone else should be as respectful as you.  Ask yourself if others don't also have the right to make mistakes, as you, surely have done.  Can this not turn into a learning process? 

At some point, you will feel better about yourself, knowing who you are and that you too, after all are like most others, doing the best you can to better yourself.  I know I have.  You might also come to exercise another great quality we humans have, forgiveness.  Once you start to learn and forgive, you feel so much better about yourself and life becomes a smoother, fruitful ride.  That's why I called my company Tap The Source.  If you don't go to the source and tap it, you are battling a long uphill race.

California Education Going Down, Down, Down…

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Darn!  Another typepad snafu!  It lost my post again.  This is frustrating.  A while back we were upgraded to this new editor unfortunately slow as molasse and the system randomly loses posts.

The gist of the post was that 61% of high school students graduate in California.  For the 6th or 7th largest economic power in the world, it is pitiful.  Considering the problem, the plump boys in Sacremento find nothing better than deal with the chronic budget deficit by cutting down on education.  Education is, after all, what we need for a better workforce on the market tomorrow in order to have California stay strong.

Maybe this is another chronic problem California has, it attracts intellectual property from around the world since its own education system is one the worse.

My next door neighbor who is a school teacher in the LA District tells me that the cuts will be passed down to the school, not the plump eduction district that find it worthwhile to pay two "party planners" over $100,000 each.  This is especially sad considering a fully vested veteran teacher cannot top $79,000.  As a serious warning, most Chinese cities invest up to 51% of their revenues into education.  Of course, in countries like these, there is still a thirst of knowledge and life is just hard enough to make students strive for learning.  Maybe we have become lazy?

Unfortunately this is symptomatic of our current state.  We don't have the right leaders to get to the source of the problems and address them.  We have great, eloquent talkers who do little in action.  When the general fund is low, California taps into the transportation fund that taxes our gas at the pump.  talk about upside down!  Unfortunately, working on the problem are the ones who cause the problem in the first place, those same old rhetoric filled politicians.  Ultimately, we do vote.