Are you a Bird of a Different Feather?

I was driving down the road the other day and I noticed that there were several birds on the electrical wires over head. A whole row of them and they all looked exactly the same. I knew that if one took off they all would.

Well I don't know if it was my thought but something startled the birds and all of them took off like I thought......Except for one bird. It looked just like every other bird but it stood out in the fact that it was a bird that didn't follow suit of the other birds.

As long as I could see the bird and the wire, it remained where it was. I wondered why only one bird decided to stay when the others all "flew the coop"?

Already I liked this bird. I have never been one to follow the lead of some else. I have always preferred to take things at my own pace and ponder them on my own time. I guess you can say that I have never been a follower.

I figured that this bird had different plans for the day. Maybe it wasn't time to go find a worm or go for a "joy fly". At any rate it was apparent to me that this bird was making it's own decisions and it was living life the way it choose to live it.

How many people do you know that just follow along and take off when the "other birds" take off? Hoping to find that one thing that will work and not really showing very much ingenuity.

Sometimes you need to take a different course, one of your own choosing, maybe one that nobody else is taking.

Follow your instincts and go for it. you won't regret it.

You will be a Bird of a Different Feather

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Advertising Optimism?

What's with all the optimism in advertising?

Have they read the recent job-less report?

Seems the Giant Advertisers are on a path to convince all of us that we are in a full and total recovery.

The advertisers are using commercials to get it out to a broad audiance that our nation is out of hot water.

Huge dollars are being spent by the big companies to radiate well being in our country today. Trying to convice large numbers of people to go out and let loose of some of the cash they are hording.

The "campaign of optimism" was being worked on back as far as last spring. Advertisers are betting that people are tired of the bad economy and are ready to hear about some good news. By delivering that good news they are hoping to change the mood of the consumer.

What the big companies and advertisers don't seem to understand is that until banks start lending money, big companies start hiring employees and consumers start spending there is not going to be any fuel on the fire of the economic recovery.

A Majority of the people in this country are reliant on a job. They depend on someone needing them to work for the cash they earn.

A Minority of the people in this country are self reliant and depend on only their self for their survival. These are the people that are making the economy work for them. If you would like to be one of these people visit the rest of my blog and visit:

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