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What do You Want to Accomplish in Your Life?
Website DIVISIONS (Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs – Email this article to a friend The meltdown of the economy and the vanishing American Dream has put a new perspective on what an accomplished life means. An Accomplished Life is More than Money and Things. It has also brought with it a new way of looking at things. Instead of looking ahead and trying to figure out what the next big opportunity is going to be and focusing attention on an unreachable American Dream, the focus now is getting back to the basics of life, deciding what the…
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Is the American Dream Now the Impossible Dream?
Website DIVISIONS (Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs Email this article to a friend It was James Adams who coined the term “The American Dream” back in 1931. Remember, that was just a couple of years after the bottom fell out of the economy, resulting in the worst depression this country had seen or has seen since. So I would say Mr. Adams was really being optimistic. I wonder if he would still be that optimistic today if he were still living? I for one doubt it and I’ll tell you the reason why. By 1931 the industrial…