This story changed how I see everything and I want to share it to you.

Once there was a gathering of foxes talking among themselves what their lunch would be for the day. All of a sudden, they spotted a rabbit in the greener side of the valley.

One fox proudly said, "That rabbit's mine for lunch. Want to bet?"

A second fox dared him, "Then bring that rabbit in the dining table!"

In no time, Fox #1 pursued the rabbit and the rabbit kept running as quick as it can to evade its predator. Fox #1 tried its best to get close to its objective yet couldn't get even with the rabbit's pace.

A few hours passed and the fox still pursues its prey until the point when it got tired and, in the end, quit the pursuit. The rabbit, sure that no one's pursuing him any longer, went into the bearing of the woods and vanished.

What do you think was the motivation behind why the fox did not catch its prey? Clearly, the fox and the rabbit have an irreconcilable situation. Both pursue something yet for an alternate point of view: The fox was pursuing just its lunch while the rabbit keeps running for its life.

What about you, fellow steemian, would you say you are workingjust for your lunch or for your life?

According to this latest survey from SWS Third Quarter 2017 Social Weather Survey:

Families Self-Rated as Poor rises to 47%; Food-Poor families steady at 32%; Half of the Non-Poor Transitioned Out of Poverty

Source

These families breathe poverty everyday. At that point, by what means can we, as a country, set up a solid republic if the economic welfare of our citizen is impaired? How might we survive this reality? I'm not only saying this to our fellow Filipinos but to all as well.

It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes.
John Maxwell

Poverty is one of the major problems we are facing today. I believe that our own poverty can find its ground from a person's core values. To uplift the economic condition of our country, we must be able to accept new ideas on how we view the world in its entirety and have discipline. Hence, paradigm shift.

We need to empower one another and focus not only to live but to LIVE A BETTER LIFE. Through an entrepreneurial mindset, attitude, paradigm, esteemed empowerment and self-discipline, we can improve the quality of our living and settle for a strong republic.

And that change should start from us.

Our future generation will reap what we will sow today.

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
Albert Einstein