Reasons to be Optimistic About the Present and the Future RPF0112
Radical Personal Finance
Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP
4.2 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2014
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In today's world, it's easy to find reasons for pessimism. And yet, we truly live in a time of greater abundance and quality of life than ever before.
Join me today as I share some reasons for being thankful and grateful to be alive today. It's a good time to be alive.
Joshua
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| 0:31.2 | Today on the show we're going to talk about some reasons to be thankful that you are alive today. |
| 0:37.0 | It's the best time to be alive in the history of mankind and today I'll try to prove it to you. Welcome to the Radical Personal Finance Podcast. My name is Joshua Sheets and today is Thursday, December 4, 2014. |
| 1:08.0 | Today we talk about why this really is truly. |
| 1:15.0 | One of the greatest times to be alive in the history of the world. |
| 1:18.0 | I'm going to try to give you a lot of examples that help you to see it. |
| 1:23.0 | One of the things that you really have to learn to deal with when you get into the world of financial planning and personal finance, |
| 1:39.0 | you have to figure out what is your perspective on the future? |
| 1:43.4 | And this is tough because I could give you lists and lists of websites. |
| 1:48.2 | And if you go to one website, you're going to become completely, utterly depressed at what's in store and if you go to other |
| 1:59.2 | sites and read other essays you're going to be incredibly positive about what's in store. |
| 2:07.0 | In my mind I think the answer is not to be an optimist or a pessimist as such. The answer is not to say, well this, you know, to this can't |
| 2:16.7 | happen or this is guaranteed to happen, but rather to try to look accurately |
| 2:20.7 | out how things actually are at what actually is happening. So today we're |
| 2:30.0 | going to talk about what actually is happening the world world that we actually do live in, and I hope |
| 2:34.0 | it gives you a little bit of perspective. |
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