There are no quick fix solutions.

While I know this goes against the common grain of the marketplace, each generation’s insistence of addressing problems with a short term approach only digs the hole a bit deeper. With each year the problem burrows deeper and wider and soon the escape route is merely a politician’s pep rally speech that will be unmet in office after garnering the votes.

What is needed is what the mainstream does not want to hear or cast their vote for as to solve present-day economic, societal and environmental woes will require a long-term plan that includes some very challenging changes to lifestyle of the present.

The days of borrowing from the future for the present are gone but as the asset bubble continues to deflate over the balance of the decade many opportunities will be presented. Yet to harvest these profits you must be prepared with a long term vision.

For well more than thirty-years much of the world has forgotten the simple notion of nurturing and later reaping a rich harvest in the future. Economic success and the overall improvement in the quality of life does not occur via quick fix solutions but rather through investment in infrastructure, education and prudently showing patience during the growing season.

This is the ultimate twist of perception of present day woes, while many will use the term “recovery”, desperate to claw away from the extended economic slide, it is time of astute investment. Think not of “recovery” but of prosperity in the future that as time will prove out, will come to those who planted the seeds of success today.

John Davies is available on his personal page on Facebook and Twitter.