Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan have both lived the dream life of many young people.  They are good-looking, talented young women and they have achieved fame and fortune.  Wow!  Those are the dreams and goals of many, not only young people. But both of them apparently went over the boundary of normal young people out exploring and enjoying life.   Both violated laws and deeply worried many of the most important people in their lives, the people who love them the most and want only the best things in life for them.  I know, they are young and most of us make mistakes when we are young.  But what possibilities can we develop from the problems they had?   If you are a parent, you want very much for your children to be successful in everything in their lives.  You want them to be proud of themselves and to be a source of pride for their children and for you.   The bottom line is that you want them to find what it takes to make them truly happy and that will make you happy. If you are a young person you want to be attractive and have great friends and great experiences and find a great love in your life.  You want to experience the best things in life.  You want to have a career you love and live a life that you love.  You too are searching for things that will make you truly happy. But in our society we have so much information and so many goods and services and so many options that we don’t know how to relate it all together well.  The most important things get lost; the best things in life are buried in a pile of other things and we don’t know how to sort them out.  We are like a compass in an area surrounded by magnetic fields.  Where is north?  Which way is true north? 

What kind of direction could these young women and others like them find?   They can find that they have many new and exciting potentials in their lives, much higher possibilities than they have seen so far.   

Look at the example shown by Oprah Winfrey.  Obviously she doesn’t need to work to make money but she continues so that she can help others.  Look at the platform she has because of her fame that allows her to highlight important issues in this world and get others to follow her lead to make them better.    Those are possibilities for each of us.  We can use our situation to right some wrongs, to make a positive difference in this world.  And they are possibilities for the rich and famous like Britney and Lindsay.  They can use their platform of fame and wealth to make the world a better place, to find the things that need improvement and need to be fixed.  And they may find, like Oprah, that being in service to others will give them much more satisfaction and meaning in their lives than they have already experienced.   

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Love,

Jerry W. Willis

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“Blair: Drug-addicted women were easy prey”

Blair had killed at least 6 prostitutes and had called them a “disgrace” and “scum”. The judge noted that the definition of scum: “low, vile, worthless people” more aptly applied to Blair. But aren’t people who murder and destroy property and people’s dreams really much worse than ‘worthless’? Worthless would be someone who doesn’t contribute or add value. These people are destructive of our civilization and our peaceful society. They stand for the destruction of progress by mankind and happiness for individuals.

The son of one of the victims “said he was a teenager when his mother died. She never got to see him graduate. After she died, ‘I never knew who to go to,’ he said. ‘I’m hurting.’”

“A defense attorney once referred to Blair’s family as ‘a family of murderers.’ His mother shot her boyfriend to death when Blair was a 16-year-old high school dropout. A brother, Walter Blair, was executed in 1993 for the murder-for-hire of a 21-year-old female college student. A sister pleaded guilty for her role in a murder and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.”

I would like to address how a teen like the one whose mother was killed could handle the situation if he had these understandings. Of course he would grieve and he should until the grief is turned as much as possible into bittersweet memories. But then he should go back to the basics, back to the Virtuous Possibility for the meaning his life and his Purpose in Life.

First, how does this impact his ability to fulfill that one Virtuous Possibility for the meaning of his life? In fact this tragedy is an opportunity to better fulfill that one big virtuous possibility to make his life even more meaningful. The meaning of his life can be to handle adversity well and to turn his problems into an action plan for helping others. Then he can devote himself to solving the cause of this tragedy. His story will make his case even more compelling and give him more credibility for bringing about changes to make the world a better place because he was here.

If the meaning of his life is to be an example to his loved ones and others about how to handle adversity and make a good life in spite of it then he can focus on raising his kids in a better way, in being a better person and using this history to give them meaning and purpose in their lives.

Second, what does this have to do with his Purpose in Life? Nothing. It is still his purpose to find his talents and bring forth his best potential in service to his loved ones and others. Now his talents include the experiences and understandings that he has gained having gone through this tragedy.

The lessons to be learned from this story:

1. The lifestyle and example of parents powerfully impacts their kids even if it doesn’t show up immediately.

2. Nothing that happens to you in your life changes your Purpose in Life or your central driving force to fulfill a positive Virtuous Possibility for the meaning of your life.

But now let’s think about what this teen can do, who he can go to? He can go to his Mom just as if she were with him and can hear him. He can talk with her and remember how she would have responded and then make up ‘the rest of the story’ – how she would have responded later, once she got over her problems.

Tell her about his accomplishments like graduation and plans for the future. Tell her how he was handling things positively to help others. Tell her about the legacy that he is going to leave as a result of his love for her. And know that she will feel that pride in him that will make that one big positive Virtuous Possibility for the meaning of her life come true. Go to:  http://jerrywwillis.com/_mgxroot/page_10744.html and submit your information to receive a free E-Workbook to start the journey to the Life of Your Dreams.  While you are there review the www.jerrywwillis.com website to learn how to order the book explaining “A PIL for Happier Kids (and Parents) - A Purpose in Life that makes sense to people like me”.

Love,

Jerry W. Willis

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We should all do our best to make this world a better place. 

I’m disappointed that none of our presidential candidates are addressing the really big issue of our dependence on oil in a meaningful way.  Because of that dependence other countries and the terrorist-producing areas of the world are getting richer while we are getting poorer.  Our U.S. dollar falls year after year and we go further and further in debt.  That is not the America that we are all so proud of and have such high hopes for, the one we want our children and grandchildren to inherit, the one that is to be a leader in making the world a better place for all.  Where are the plans from our leaders?

 This problem obviously must be addressed sooner or later.  If we don’t address it proactively the price of oil will continue to rise as it becomes clear that there is only a limited amount of oil.  At the same time there is a virtually unlimited growing demand for more energy around the world which will deplete the reserves of this valuable commodity even faster.

Yet there is a relatively easy way to solve this problem and that is through creating the right incentives.  Here is my proposal:

Establish a long-term strategic energy incentive plan that steadily raises the taxes on gasoline consumption in a predictable way and give that money as incentives for the most energy efficient methods of transportation and heating. 

For example we could pass a law that automatically raises the gasoline tax in the first year by 10 cents per gallon and the next year by 20 cents and the next by 30 cents per gallon, etc.  After the first 10 years, a reasonable period for people and the economy to adjust, it could automatically go up by an inflation adjusted 20 cents per gallon (or more) per year until we have certified complete energy independence.  At that rate in 20 years the additional tax on gasoline would be $3 per gallon, in 30 years the tax would be $5 per gallon, 40 years it would be $7 per gallon.  The incentives to buy the most energy efficient vehicles would be large immediately and would continue to grow until they stabilized as the gasoline usage slowed.  It is highly likely that with these predictable incentives this country would be energy independent within 20 to 30 years without major disruptions.

If the most efficient vehicles turned out to be electric there would be strong incentives to build safe and clean nuclear power plants within the U.S.   We would be providing the necessary demand and money to convert our economy off of oil one way or the other.  We would be creating major incentives for research and U.S. based construction and manufacturing. 

We should make exceptions for our big truckers and airlines that are essential to our transportation and distribution systems.  There would probably have to be special exceptions for small businesses but no more of this providing incentives that are used by the auto makers and the consumers to drive bigger more wasteful and pollution producing vehicles under the rules designed for businesses.

Let’s take action.  Let’s be proactive.  Let’s have a plan that will guarantee our success!  Give me your feedback please.

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