Seize your power
My Dad called the other day. He was just calling to check in with me, but he had no idea the impact of our conversation. He knows of my work with NeighborWealth. In fact I called him about a year ago and we talked about my ideas on how to help as many people as possible eliminate their debt.
Originally I had developed a pay it forward type of a system using PayPal. I thought that if I had enough people agree, we could generate enough money working together to help on another pay off debt. Dad agreed to sign up for a PayPal account so that I could test my system. It really didn’t work out for various reasons, and that was OK though because it was only a test.
Like I said, my Dad called today. He called and was excited because he started a new job that would bring in extra money allowing him to pay off his credit cards. He said he was going to call each credit card and tell them that he would no longer pay their existing interest rate and they had the choice of lowering the interest rate or losing him as a customer. He also jokingly said, “I probably have a bunch of money in my PayPal account from that thing you were working on last year!”
This conversation opened a huge realization for me. My Dad had no idea that I was continuing to work on NeighborWealth. The whole thing was to synchronistic for me to be written off as a coincidence.
I was pretty excited about my conversation with my Dad and what had happened. I told my wife about the experience at lunch and it occurred to me that my Dad was making a statement regarding his credit cards. He wanted to stand in his own power regarding his finances! He wanted to take his power back from the credit industry!
This is very representative of where many people are at this point in history. We are experiencing a contraction in our economy driven by the credit industry failure. Our government is bailing out financial institutions who routinely apply unethical practices to the consumer, a.k.a the tax payer! People are sick of paying high interest rates and getting hit with late payments and sneaky fees. My Dad helped me realize that we are ready to stand in our own power. We are ready to take our power back from the credit card industry and the mortgage industry!