2009, The year My "Rose Colored Glasses" Were
Removed Forever....Barbara Mitchell
December 14, 2009


For me 2009 was a year of WOW!  So that is how the world really works!!!....    It is the year that, not only,
was my "Rose Colored Glasses" knocked off, but they are broken, never to be replaced… It was a year of
few words from me, just WOWS!!! And daily bites out of my personal elephant….

I asked myself, how can "One" eat an elephant? The answer: one bite at a time….  The attached “Obama
Factor “was part of my 2008 journey; at that time, from where I stood, I saw this plan, "The Obama Factor"
as the elephant; it was far too big and its skin far too tuff for any  one person, or business to, even,
attempt to take a bite from. I thought that it would take a Government. Based upon that fear I sent the plan
to President Obama, as part of his campaign strategy request. Which, I doubt anyone read. Yet, the work
was not a waste of time for me. It inspired me to ask myself what I would do to improve the American
economy? It inspired me, in my rambling manner, from a middle class common sense, and years of
entrepreneur challenging work experience point of view to write my thought ….

Now Using the “Obama Factor” as the floor plan, and other ideas developed as a result of the progress
that was made, I am  excited to see what bites, and how many additional bites I can take in 2010.

Manufacturing and Exports are currently on the rise, which is helping the country economically; reading
those reports gave me, even more confident that my 2008 rambling to President Obama’s staff had been
accurate. The US economy will never “concretely” rise until we regain our footage in Exporting, and
manufacturing of the majority of goods used by Americans in America……That is how the old America was
built….

Upon the  removal of my "Rose Colored Glasses", for the first time I see the world and many people as
they are, not how I had believed them to be, or how I want them to be, but using the evidence of their
action as proof of who they are. That was a painful awakening!

In all honesty... Oh!  How I miss my world of make-believe. It gave me so much comfort over the years. I
guess one might say it was the adult virgin of Santa Clause; I was so much happier there.......

However using what I have learned, I made the first steps toward what seem like millions of miles; now I
see enough progress to say that my over all circumstances are much better than they were December
2008.

Each morning as I start my day, I remind myself the only way to eat an elephant is: one bite at a time, and
when one can not  find a door one must create one. Additionally more importantly, “Faith is the substances
of things hoped for, the evident of things not seen”; which is the base of how America became America, as
well as how I achieved what I achieved. No one can take away what one has achieved. For it is written in
time.....

Articles of interest:
Manufacturing Areas Lead Surprise Job Comeback

U.S. Trade Deficit Narrows In October Amid Jump in Exports

An American Catastrophe

The Obama Factor