With all of the pressures the world is putting on baby boomers these days, if you're feeling like you're trapped in a many sided maze, a classic boomer band suggested some good advice several decades ago in a hit song.
"So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains And we never even know we have the key...
" The band was the Eagles, the song was Already Gone, and even though the tune was about abandoned love, the words provide sage advice regardless of the original intent.
Whether you're worried about your personal finances, the global economy, your long-awaited retirement, your house, your job, or anything else, never forget the fact that you - and you alone - already have the key to what's worrying you.
You already have the solution.
All you need to do is to recognize it, and take action.
Unfortunately, between the constant bantering of the talking heads on TV, and the onslaught of information bombarding you from the Internet, it's no wonder that we all start to stress out over this morass of problems.
It's easy to get dragged down into the mire, into the dire predictions of doom and gloom, and to start to believe that everything is crumbling, and what's worse, there's nothing you can do about.
It's time to take heed of the facts, baby boomers, and to realize that everything is not collapsing and there is plenty you can do about it.
Don't suffer by living your live in chains that you and you alone perceive, because you really do have the key.
But again, you won't know this if you are planted on your couch or in your office chair, trying to fathom everything that's going on, and worrying about all of it.
In other words, give it a rest.
No matter how much you worry about the world economy, nothing you can do is going to change it.
Focus instead on the things that you can change, and then exert some initiative, and start changing them.
Inertia is the great and silent killer.
The longer you sit idle, waiting on the sidelines, the longer it takes - and the harder it is - to get moving.
Conversely, once you start moving, once you take the initiative and get some momentum behind you, the momentum builds and keeps building.
Underway and with a full head of steam, you become an unstoppable force that can achieve whatever it is you want to achieve.
But you have to get that engine moving, slowly and deliberately at first, and then keep stoking the fires of action that will enable you to create the changes that you seek.
You really do have the key to whatever chains you perceive are holding you back.
But it's often a lot easier to accept those chains, even though they are negatively affecting your quality of life, than it is to envision taking action, opening the locks that are holding you back, and to start moving forward again.
Don't fall prey to that.
If you know that change is needed in your life, you have the power to change it.
Find the key, and get the process started today.