Ever Figure College Costs?

Take a calculator and go to work on costs of college. Not Harvard or Yale or Duke, but a state university. Before you are through, you will have a sore hand and a tired mind. And maybe feel a little panicky. Those warnings about how quick they grow up and how expensive college is going to be when they graduate from high school come home to roost. There are any number of ways to think about the challenge of funding college, if you are like most people who live from pay check to pay check and have only thought of saving for college as a great idea, but unrealistic.

Funding college is only one of thousands of challenges we face in a lifetime. Each day brings routine problems or heavy duty difficulties and dilemmas. Nothing has changed. Life has always been this way. The challenge on the front end involves making decisions that lead away from disaster. Like the request of the Lord's Prayer,"Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil", we can make intelligent choices that work in our favor, preventing many avoidable trials. Critical thinking is invaluable at this point. Getting competent counsel is also
important.

How we think about life that swirls around us and in us is the most critical issue. The two attitude mountains of positive and negative ultimately determine the outcome of many problems. We cannot control life, but we have absolute and final control over our thinking about life. In fact, our brain perceives and defines every event of our lives. Our thinking is the key that unlocks positive possibilities or, in fear, shuts the door and hides. The problem is not funding college, unless your thinking tells you it is. Funding college is not impossible
unless your thoughts take you down that negative street. "Everything is possible to him who believes" (Jesus), and Believing is a way of thinking.

The Budda said,What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha

When we grasp the significance of what Jesus and Budda said, when we believe what they said, our entire approach to life can change and we can know empowerment that comes from within our
psyche.

Thrilling really.