Can You Handle the Truth? Most people are not enthusiastic about hearing the truth, especially when it challenges their self-imposed inadequacies. These people concoct fantasies in their mind to substantiate their defects.
Of course, the stories are not true, but it is a story they can believe which shifts the blame from themselves of under performing. 
Henry Ford once said, “The man that believes he can and the man who believes he can’t are both right.” Most people have had money problems and most people do not give up on life, they continue to march on until they can either find a solution or make up another story.
These concocted stories become the reasons or excuses for the lack of passion, which is in my opinion, sheer fear. There is no easier lie to believe then the one that places the blame on God. This propaganda is one of the most believable because it can easily disguise a person’s lack of self-confidence. If God gave you the ability for intellect, strength and a will, did He not also give you the ability to use it as you deem necessary?
In just three months, you can free up some of your cash that can go towards other bills, if you can believe. The basic element for debt reduction is “Start.” I have heard people say, “But I don’t know where to begin.” My answer is simple. How did you start getting into debt? You started collecting credit cards and systematically using them. Reverse the process, start collecting your bills and pay them systematically. Do not be afraid to examine how you got into your financial mess. Retrace your steps and you will end up where you started: debt free.
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That is so simple, do what you did to get in this mess but in reverse. I am excited to have someone in my life who will tell me the truth. I beleive that teling me the truth gives me an opportunity to live a better life. When people placate me they leave me in bondage to my own fears.
Thank you Dr. Brown for telling me the truth!
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Oh how I know the truth is important, I always
skirted around the fear of telling someone the truth and realized I compromised their life and mine.
I lost my mom 1/10, I never in a million years would I ever think I could feel so alone, its funny but I could remember thinking in my mind how could people ever feel lonely, well the truth will prevail because I have experienced it first hand and it seriously hurts.
The wounds it exposes can either be for our betterment or we can allow that truth to turn
into a spirit of grief. The truth will set us free if we listen and let what the truth has exposed become a part of our past and not a part of our future.
Its so simple to get into a whole mess of debt, but coming out we see the tunnel so dark and so long before we can see the light to our freedom. I thank God for putting someone that can speak the truth and not be afraid to say it in ways that has open my eyes to see the reality. I can see much clearly how God want me to manage my money and not let money manage me.
yes, I can handle the truth. that is why I am taking this course. I will have to be brutally honest in order to be successful not only in my finances but also my entire living.
Dr. Brown,
I know that I am not perfect and still changing bad habits to good habits in many areas. Learning that it doesn’t happen over night. If I just grab a hold of what Paul declared is simply this:
(Philippians 3:12-14 I don’t mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me. I have not achieved it,but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead,I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us. )
Not that I should for get the dept I owe but to press on to being dept free that is what lies ahead. In order for me to press on I must pay that which I owe. The more truth that is spoken to me about myself the more I can apply to reach the perfection God has placed in me then I know I have reached the end of the race.
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