The growing scale, profitability, and level of importance of the finance sector relative to the rest of the economy. In the United States, employment and total sales of the finance industry grew from 10% of GDP in 1970 to 20% by 2010. The emphasis has shifted from making things to making money from money. The effects of this change are felt by everyone in the following ways: 1. Increased level of importance of money and finance in our everyday lives. 2. Increased complexity and level of sophistication required to understand and manage finance. 3. Increased income inequality due to the widening gap become making money from labor, making and selling things, to highly leveraged financial products that make money with money. 4. Increasing debt and the risks associated with the asset and debt bubbles, which when they collapse, cause massive financial destruction to everyone.
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1. An often unreasonable idea that may or may not have been true at one time and has become fixed, immovable, and inaccurate despite evidence to the contrary or efforts to ignore it; an obsession. Usually, the person refuses to examine or dismantle these ideas. Some examples are: “I’m too old.” “I’m too young.” “Children should be seen and not heard.” “I cannot trust anyone.” “I’d better do it myself.” “I can’t do that.” 2. Something accepted without personal inspection or agreement.
1. To move or be moved freely from one place to another in large numbers or amounts in a steady unbroken stream. 2. To move through the veins and arteries of the body (refers especially to blood) 3. To be expressed uninhibitedly and eloquently. 4. To be readily available and consumed in large amounts. 5. To be experienced very intensely, often in a way that is visible to other people. 6. To derive from something as a result or series of results (literary.) 7. To fall or hang loosely and gracefully. 8. To move toward the land as the tide rises (refers to the sea or tidal water.) 9. To change shape gradually in response to pressure without the development of cracks or fissures. 10. The steady unbroken stream of people, goods, vehicles, money, or information from one place to another. 11. The continuous eloquent expression of thoughts or ideas in speech or writing. 12. Psychological and physical experience in which challenges presented is perfectly matched by the participants’ skills, often resulting in heightened states of awareness, confidence, and performance.
1. The center of interest or activity. 2. To direct toward a particular point or purpose. 3. A point of convergence of light or other electromagnetic radiation, particles, sound waves, etc, or a point from which they appear to diverge. 4. The place where a visual image is clearly formed, as in the minds-eye, or camera, that sets in motion what is imagined so that it can be manifested in physical reality.
1. The capacity to do work or cause physical change; energy, strength, or active power. 2. Power made operative against resistance; exertion. 3. The use of physical power or violence to compel or restrain. 4. Intellectual power or vigor, especially as conveyed in writing or speech. 5. Moral strength. 6. A capacity for affecting the mind or behavior; efficacy. 6. One that possesses such capacity: the forces of evil. 7. A body of persons or other resources organized or available for a certain purpose: a large labor force. 8. A person or group capable of influential action: a retired senator who is still a force in national politics. 9. Military strength. 10. A vector quantity that tends to produce an acceleration of a body in the direction of its application. Newton’s second law of motion states that a free body accelerates in the direction of the applied force and that its acceleration is directly proportional to the force and inversely proportional to its mass. 11. Power; exerted strength or impetus; intense effort. 12. Cause or produce by effort. 13. Attain by strength or effort. 14. Seek to demand quick results from; accelerate the process of. 15. Energy with some direction. 16. Guided by the paradigm, force is what impels the particles and energy into space and time which causes something to manifest. 17. The quality and quantity of force alone determine the velocity of manifestation of an idea, plan or vision.
1. To cease to project blame and release feelings of anger, resentment, grief, etc. towards a real or perceived offender or perpetrator. 2. The result of fully releasing the trapped emotional energy from a perpetration or violation. 3. To relent, give up, and stop wanting to punish or exact retribution. 4. To absolve a debt from payment. 5. To grant pardon for a mistake, absolve of penalty, free from obligation.
1. The act of forgiveness. 2. The state of being forgiven. 3. The disposition of being willing to forgive. 4. The intentional and voluntary process by which a victim undergoes a change in feelings. 4. A legal term for absolving or giving up all claims on account of debt, loan, obligation, or other claims. 5. Clemency offered by the victor to the vanquished in a struggle, fight or military engagement. 6. Often granted without any expectation of Restorative Justice, and without any response on the part of the offender. 7. If there is an ongoing relationship that both parties wish to continue and even strengthen, it may be necessary for the offender to offer some form of acknowledgment, an apology, make token amends, or even just ask for forgiveness, in order for the wronged person to forgive fully. 8. Most religions include teachings on the virtue of forgiveness of one another and the need to find some sort of divine forgiveness for their own shortcomings. 9. From a psychological viewpoint, letting go of resentment, bitterness, blame, retribution, vengeance, anger, and hostility towards people who are perceived to have harmed or perpetrated has a positive impact on all their relationships, their physical health, and overall wellbeing. it often takes a crisis or near death experience for people to let go, which can have a rejuvenating and anti-aging effect.
Freedom is the ability to make choices and to carry them out. For people to have complete freedom there must be no restrictions on how you think, speak or act. You must be aware of what your choices are and the power to decide among those choices. You must have the means and the opportunity to think, speak and act without being controlled by anyone else. 1. A state in which somebody is able to act and live as he or she chooses, without being subject to any undue restraints and restrictions. 2. Release or rescue from being physically bound, or from being confined, enslaved, captured, or imprisoned. 3. An individual’s right to rule himself or herself, without interference from or domination by another person or power. 4. The right to speak or act without restriction, interference, or fear. 5. The state of being unaffected by, or not subject to, something unpleasant or unwanted. 6. The ability to move easily without being limited by something such as tight clothing or lack of space. 7. The right to use or occupy a place and treat it as your own. 8. Citizenship of a town or city, together with special privileges, formally awarded to somebody as an honor. 9. Openness and friendliness in speech or behavior. 10.Overconfidence, over-familiarity, or a lack of proper restraint or decorum. 11. The ability to exercise free will and make choices independently of any external determining force.
1. A person whom one knows, likes, trusts, with whom there is a bond of mutual affection. 2. A person who acts as a supporter of a cause, organization, or country by giving financial or other help. 3. A person who is not an enemy or who is on the same side. 4. A contact associated with a social networking website. 5. A person whose Lifeforce is aligned with one’s own in a cause or mission.
1. The complete development and utilization of a person or things inherent qualities, abilities or capacities. Without development and utilization, a person’s full potential cannot be realized. This typically requires education, training, and practice. Coaching and mentoring can accelerate the realization of a person’s full capability as well as assist with the discovery of what’s possible. 2. A fully-realized, self-actualized person is considered to be operating at close to, or at their full potential, or optimum.