The most quoted part of President John F. Kennedy’s inaugural speech has been: "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country". Never has that question been more relevant to our country than it is right now. Our country is doing all it can do to protect us and help us feel safe. The concern is that the government may not find the terrorists fast enough to stop the insanity before we, or many more Americans, are killed, our way of life is forever changed and our economy is crippled. All the while we are striving to do something constructive ourselves. We have given blood, money, shown our support, put out our flags and said our prayers. And yet that has not been enough to keep us from feeling some helplessness, fear, panic and loose sleep. Let’s look then at what else we can do for our country and ourselves. Our subconscious mind is a marvelous and predictable mechanism. It springs into action much like pushing the Enter key on the computer. The action the computer takes depends on what it has been programmed to do. The action our subconscious takes depends on the programming we have repetitively given it by the decisions we continually make. The Enter key of our subconscious mind is the action of putting our thoughts in a new direction. If we have continually programmed it with feelings of helplessness, fear and panic, without a new direction of thought it will automatically return us to further reasons to experience those same feelings. All it knows to give you in return is the program you have given it. How much could you help your country and yourself if you put in a program of being in confident command? A famous person learned more about creating a new program when taking racing car driving lessons. His instructor created a condition for the car to skid toward the racetrack wall. The student became focused on the wall. The instructor commanded him to look at the track. While the student remained fixed on the wall, the instructor put one hand on each side of his head and forced him to look at the track. The instructor gave him a valuable lesson when he told him that you get what you focus on. If you would like to experience the wall, focus on the wall. If you would like to experience the track, focus on the track. The more all of us keep focused on the track, the more we are helping our country as well as ourselves. You may have read Ken Keyes’ book, “The Hundredth Monkey”. He wanted us to know that the principles revealed in research on monkeys and rats apply just as much to us. When enough of us accept a common focus, then all of us are so programmed. Individually, we have the potential to affect masses of our citizens. It’s there for us to do!