The Bullshit that is Average Joe Six Pack
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
All right! I’m about to get a little political here and also a little sappy.
I try to avoid political blogs because I get my panties in a wad really fast and I have a lot of trouble engaging my brain to mouth (well finger) filters.
Yesterday was Independence Day here in the U.S.A.
I love my country.
I love what it stands for.
I love that our forefathers had this amazing, creative vision that is the United States of America.
I think, if George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams – you know the guys! – could see what is going on right now….
….they’d be rolling in their damn graves!!!
I am sickened and disturbed at the bi-partisanship on Capitol Hill.
I would like the politicians of today to wake up and realize that it is not about a power struggle between the Democrats and Republicans with a sprinkling of other guys on the side.
Stonewalling is nothing but ego.
Regardless of their political stance, our forefathers worked together to create a strong nation.
They fought for each other. They died for each other.
Because the most important thing to them, was our freedom.
To be free from tyranny and oppression.
Our forefathers had a vision and a dream!
What I want is a leader who asks us, as American citizens, to take responsibility for our own actions and then leads by example!
I will celebrate the day that there is no one among the candidates willing to throw his own Granny under the bus before acknowledging his own mistakes….Newt, I’m throwin’ the stink eye in your direction buddy.
And I want American citizens who WANT to take responsibility for their own actions.
If you are down, it is not The MAN keeping you down.
YOU are keeping YOU down!
Remember Joe Six Pack (no, not the columnist Joe Sixpack)?
But, Joe Six Pack aka John Q. Public and Sarah Palin’s pet name (gag and double gag!) for all of the hardworking, blue collar folks of America. Middle class, Average Joe Six Pack.
It was disgusting as hell but people ate it up and they didn’t even realize that they were being oppressed.
People. PLEASE. I BEG YOU! Don’t get sucked into the Average Joe Six Pack bullshit!!!!
Rise above that crap!!!
Our forefathers were certainly not quailing under their blue collars.
They were out there screaming from the rooftops:
“EQUALITY FOR ALL!!!”
“WE ALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE GREAT AND WE ALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE HAPPY AND WE ALL HAVE IT WITHIN OURSELVES TO MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!!
And for the record, our forefathers weren’t just the guys who signed the Declaration of Independence. Our forefathers are all of the men, women and children that knew how important it was to be free and went after it!!! They took it and they made it their own they passed it on to us and too many of us have forgotten what it’s all about.
It’s about everyone! Equality, helping everyone to succeed. There is more than enough for everybody if only those who do not have will realize that they deserve and can have, and those who will not give, to realize that it is our duty to share what we know.
“Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free!”
One day we will be the forefathers.
What legacy will we leave?
The legacy of Joe Six Pack held down by his own fear and the belief that wealth and abundance are somehow only for somebody else?
What is the qualifier for one person to somehow be better than another?
Whatever it is you want in life…go get it!!!
Do you want to work from home?
Then do it!
Lay the foundation and do it!
It’s not for “some day”. “Some day”, may never come.
It’s for right now!!!
Want to be your own boss?
Again, lay the foundation….and do it!
It isn’t going to fall in your lap.
GO GET IT!
You have the right to be happy. You have the right to be free. But nobody owes that to you.
If you don’t reach out for it, it will pass you by again and again until you reach into your heart, find your courage and grab it!
You have to go get it! And when you have it, be grateful every moment for what you have accomplished.
I chose to be a stay at home mom. I own two businesses.
I was scared.
I was broke.
I was Joe.
Scared to death to leave a career and stay home with my kids. But my husband and I knew in our hearts it was the right thing for our family.
Now….
We choose to go to the zoo or the Dinosaur museum with my kids.
We choose amusement parks and camping trips and vacations.
We choose to buy brie instead of cheddar if it strikes us to do so.
We’re not rolling in the dough, but we are truly blessed.
I’m grateful to have discovered the Empower Network Team, a broad and diverse group of people who have gone after their dream and who hold each other up in support of our dreams!
And we get there dammit!!
We play and we live because our “work” doesn’t feel like “work” because we love what we do!
Some of us are affiliate marketers, some of us are direct marketers. Some of us own boutiques or are inspirational speakers or artists using the Empower Network blogging platform to get our names and our businesses out there.
To be known.
We don’t accept the Average Joe Six Pack mentality and believe me when I tell you, we are many many, converts from self-oppression, strong!
There are no wussies here!
This is just one method for grabbing happiness. Maybe it’s not yours, but maybe it is.
There is no rhetoric, no double talk, nothing is hidden.
We want to see each other succeed!
My wish for you is all of the happiness, freedom and success that you deserve and the tenacity to go get it.
Everything I’ve said here I mean with all of my being.
If you are happy, I am so happy for you.
If you are searching……I feel your pain. I know what it’s like, and I KNOW how liberating it is when you finally bust out of that oppressed way of thinking.
This is how so many of us have done it.
You will be amazed if you link in and listen to some of these stories.
The link below will take you to a screen where you can type in your email and be linked in to learn more about Empower Network. I use this link, because I LOVE the pic of Dave & Dave, the founders of Empower Network.
They look like the rest of us because they ARE like the rest of us. They were Joe’s too! But they broke out and they’ve created something amazing!
Have a look. If it’s for you, that’s awesome. If it isn’t, it’s okay! You have my love and support always. Never, ever give up the search for what you love.
When you find it, be grateful every day for what you have and what you can share with the world.
XOXO,
Leslie