The Rat Race - What is it?

It can consume you, taxing your best abilities, taking you to the limit. Or, it can motivate you, build you, improve your overall character. The Rat Race — constantly running the maze of life, business and professional, to accomplish goals and earn more — is there ... every day.

 
By Don Gammill, Know It Editor | Modified: November 14, 2008 at 11:30 am | Published: November 14, 2008    Comment on this article Leave a comment

It can consume you, taxing your best abilities, taking you to the limit.

Or, it can motivate you, build you, improve your overall character.

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The Rat Race — constantly running the maze of life, business and professional, to accomplish goals and earn more — is there ... every day.

Whether you’re just making ends meet, or living a successful life, you’re in it. You may not even realize it.

It has been said that the dominant economic theory in America for the past 40 years or so has been consumerism. Some experts have noted that we are programmed to consume, because the theory holds that a progressively greater consumption of goods is beneficial.

We all have things we want — financial stability, more possessions, more free time, less stress. But everything has a price.

We have to earn those things, and that means sacrifice. That means we have to push ourselves to attain them.

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