We’ve made mistakes along the way of the series, but at least we got that part right.

Corey and I knew the subject matter of this blog for a couple of weeks after we discovered the “Mindset” book in our library/bedroom and realized how important that book’s message could be. (It was one our son bought so that we could read it.) It was only a coincidence that Obama happened to say things that resonated with our theme.

Both candidates in the American Presidential Election pledged “Change” in their campaigns. It’s clear to many people that things can not continue they way they have been in the past.

This website is devoted to encouraging everyone to embrace change in their lives and try to change the world. It’s not about politics – it’s about having strong personal beliefs about the way the world should be and making them real.

The message is clear no matter who said it, “It is time for a change.”

To Anon> if Politics aren’t you’re thing (I know they make my head spin), I’m sure you don’t HAVE to put up with it, Heroics can be applied to any aspect of life, and the school has addressed a good number already. Just don’t begrudge us if we choose to discus it on this site, for it is one of the big scary monsters of our time.

To Calvert and Matthias> Amen!

I like a lot of the things Obama says about working together, unfortunate that I can’t trust him as a contempory, first-world politican; what I hear behind his words is the obedient unity of the “new world order”. My fear is that people are waiting to be saved from the follies of the last president(s); all this being engineered to climax with the transfer from Bush to Obama (or McCain, had he won). The problem with being saved is that we develop dependency issues, told the best way to live and all to happy for everyone to be bossed around the same. This being the aged, well practiced, fixed mindset.

My hope is that people will take his prompt literally to do what they can with their own lives to fix their own petty evils, their own relationships and their own county/tribe, creating governments who’s actions are accountable, scrutinized and replaceable. The growth mindset.

“I shouted out who killed the Kennedys, when after all it was you and me!” -Rolling Stones

We benefit most when there’s strong and ethical leadership on both sides. Obama will bring back fairness, human rights, the long-squandered goodwill of our allies, and give us genuine change. But who’s going to support individualism, property rights, the intimidation of our enemies, and our heritage? The Right needs heroes, too.

Renewable Energy IS Homeland Security, and Distributed Generation IS More Secure!

Don

We need to teach our kids (and ourselves) that failure is an option, (they don’t need a participation trophy for getting seventh out of eight) and that failure is not a bad thing if it inspires us to do better next time. Giving up is when we have truly failed

I want to live in an America where people don’t sue others for the tiniest mistakes (or spilled coffee) where people take responsibility for their silly and sometimes stupid mistakes and work to make things better. In an America where we don’t expect our government to save us from our own bad decisions and instead people realize that if we want our situation improved we have to change our mindset, then go out there work hard and improve it!

No, you do not have to be a political liberal to be a Hero.

The article starts off with Obama because we listened to his acceptance speech and found that it echoed many of the concepts of Mindset. Since I had already decided this week’s blog would be a review of Mindset, and Obama’s election is topical, it made sense to use that as a jump-off point. Last week, Halloween was the big event, so we used Halloween as our starting point; this week, it was the Presidential election… and I still would have built the article around the election if John McCain had won.

In fact, I do not consider myself a Liberal… but I am also offended by people who consider “Liberal” to be a swear word. I am a political Libertarian – fiscally conservative and socially liberal… but I don’t expect all Heroes to be Libertarian; we come in all flavors.

That said, I do like what Barack Obama has to say. Only time will tell whether he is able to follow through on his rhetoric, but for the time being, I considered him a clear choice. Obama/Biden campaigned with a message of specific policies; McCain/Palin campaigned on emotion. Unless I hate the policies, the former will win me over every time. Had Hillary Clinton won the Democratic nomination, I would have had a much more difficult decision because she also campaigned on emotional appeal rather than reasoned decision.

Anyway, the American people have decided. Mr. Obama will be our next President. I hope we’ll all give him a chance and see if we can work together to make this a better country. It will take a lot of small individual efforts to do that, regardless of who sits in the Oval Office of the White House.