Positive Mental Attitude

But all of the poor kids on the Jackson State University football team are not any different than many poor kids on football teams all across this great country.  And American football is about the best game any young man could be in.  That and wrestling and any competitive sport is good for any young man who is able to compete at any level.  Chess is also good.  Physical and mental competition is good. 

And it doesn't matter how poor you are or if your idol coach just pulled up stakes and went to a better opportunity thousands of miles away, that don't matter.  You got to pay your bills and work on your business.  And that's where Dave Ramsey comes in.  I think a core component of any young person's athletic career should be education.  This is nothing new but it seems to me that financial Dave Ramsey type education is sorely lacking and needs to be kicked up to the Prime Time level.

If you can motivate those kids to win back to back championships and pull in the coaches to make it happen then you can motivate those kids to hit baby step seven completion by the time they graduate high school.  Could you imagine every kid on the college football team owned his own home free and clear and had a million dollars in the bank?  Now it removes the money parameter from the equation or at least opens the money door for many, many more kids beyond only those who can make it to the NFL.

In fact the Dave Ramsey curricullem opens the money door to just about everybody.  It flips the NFL money equation of less than one percent in the game to the Dave Ramsey money equation where less than one percent are out of the game.

That is where everything comes back around to 1776 and the American Revolution.  And it is the small businessman, the entrepreneur, the preachers, the community leaders, and maybe even some internet money making goo-roos that keep this country free from complete communism where only less than one ten tenth of one tenth of one percent own and control all the money in the world with no hope of escape for anybody else.

Yea the world could go one way or the other so I will just praise God and work every day to do what I can to leave it better to the next generation and help as many people as I can who are struggling today.

God bless America.