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So this week I will be celebrating a birthday. I’ve experienced so much in my 53 years on this planet and consider myself both blessed and lucky. My primary motivation being on this platform is to respectfully share ideas, points of views, and maybe a few laughs. In that spirit, I have compiled a short list of truths that I have found to be of the utmost importance in life and in business and keys to happiness as I define it:
1. Your spouse is the most important decision you will ever make.
I am blessed to have a wife that is 100% the key to my success. She is more than just a wife. She is a best friend, a partner, a sounding board, and an ethical and moral compass. She is always a part of the solution and even at her worst she is never part of the problem. I trust her implicitly with everything and I would gladly die for her if needed. Our marriage transcends love and I give her a lot of the credit in shaping the man I have become. She is invaluable and the most important person in my life. (My daughter is too, but for different reasons)
2. Treat everyone exactly the same:
I have learned that I am no better than anyone else. I treat everyone I meet the exact same way. I have met and know some very important people in the world and I treat the guy behind the counter at a drug store the exact same way I treat them. I operate on the pre qualification that people are generally good and seek that in my interactions with them. Once in a while I will meet someone not worthy of my respect and I simply walk away and engage no further.
You want to know who someone is…listen to how they talk to a waiter. I’ve used this in business for decades and it’s never failed.
3. Money is not everything:
If you seek to be incredible at whatever you chose to do personally and professionally, you will be satisfied and often end up with plenty of money. Money will find passionate and effective people. So don’t be so concerned with the amount you are able to make today, concern yourself with being surrounded by other people who can enhance your knowledge and goal of being awesome. You can’t do it alone, and money should not be the only qualifier in any business decision.
4. Integrity is critical:
Integrity is what you do when no one is looking. Integrity is a critical possession in that it can be lost with one bad decision. It is not easy, but nothing worth having ever is. Integrity is a cornerstone of trust and genuineness. Genuine people have integrity and cannot be genuine without it. Trustworthy people have integrity and cannot be trustworthy without it.
5. Loyalty matters:
Loyalty is an outward expression of integrity. Loyalty is important in every aspect of your personal and business life. Be careful who you are loyal to, because if you intend to be a loyal person, make certain that person is deserving of it.
6. You are who you are close with:
The people who you are loyal to and close with are in many ways a mirror. You will, and should be judged by the company you keep. Friends and close associates are very important much like who you choose as a spouse.
7. Pay attention during the tough moments:
I’ve learned that almost anyone can be of good intention and spirit in the best of times. Pay close attention to everyone around you during times of chaos or trouble. These are the moments that they will reveal exactly who they are.
I hope you read this post and maybe took away something that will make a difference to you. God bless.
#integrity #loyalty #wifesecret
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DIVORCE AGREEMENT
THIS IS INCREDIBLY WELL-PUT, AND I CAN HARDLY BELIEVE IT'S WRITTEN BY A STUDENT!!! WHATEVER HE RUNS FOR, I'LL VOTE FOR HIM.
Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists, and Obama supporters, et al:
We have stuck together since the late 1950s for the sake of the kids, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has clearly run its course.
Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right for us all, so let's just end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way.
Here is our separation agreement:
Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by land mass, each taking a similar portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy! Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets, since both sides have such distinct and disparate tastes.
—We don't like redistributive taxes, so you can keep them.
--You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU.
--Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA, and the military.
--We'll take the nasty, smelly oil industry and the coal mines, and you can go with wind, solar, and bio-diesel.
--You can keep Oprah, Whoopi, Bill Maher, Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell. You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all five of them.
--We'll keep capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart, and Wall Street.
--You can have your beloved lifelong welfare dwellers, food stamps, homeless, homeboys, hippies, druggies, and illegal aliens.
--We'll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEOs, and rednecks.
--We'll keep Bill O’Reilly and Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood.
--You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we'll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us.
--You can have the peaceniks and war protesters.
--When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we'll help provide them security.
--We'll keep our Judeo-Christian values.
--You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism, political correctness, and Shirley McLaine. You can also have the UN., but we will no longer be paying the bill.
--We'll keep the SUVs, pickup trucks, and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Volt and Leaf you can find.
--You can give everyone health care if you can find any practicing doctors.
--We'll keep "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "The National Anthem."
--I'm sure you'll be happy to substitute "Imagine," "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing," "Kum Baya," or "We Are the World."
--We'll practice trickle-down economics and you can continue to give trickle-up poverty your best shot.
--Since it often so offends you, we'll keep our history, our name, and our flag.
Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along to other like-minded liberal and conservative patriots and if you do not agree, just hit delete. In the spirit of friendly parting, I'll bet you might think about which one of us will need whose help in 15 years.
Sincerely,
John J. Wall
Law Student and an American
P.S. Also, please take George Clooney, Ted Turner, Sean Penn, Martin Short, Charlie Sheen, Barbra Streisand, and (Hanoi) Jane Fonda with you.
P.P.S. And you won't have to press 1 for English when you call our country.
Forward This Every Time You Get It !
Let's Keep This Going, Maybe Some Of It Will Start Sink in.
Let me give you some historical context for your “deep feelings”.
A long time ago in Russia some people like you got a hold of a book written by a couch surfing malcontent named Marx. They truly believed his bullshit. They went to the local pubs in the towns and convinced the other losers that the farmers were the rich evil bastards keeping them down.
These people, like you, could not fathom how any evil farmer could be better off than them working odd jobs and drowning their sorrows in a pint. They were self righteous dolts who could not for a moment concede that every decision they had made in their life led them to their self imposed despair.
So they needed someone to blame. Farmers because that someone to blame.
So they grabbed their pitchforks and torches and went into the countryside and killed all of the farmers. They celebrated their great victory by ridding themselves of their oppressors. They were smug and happy.
And then…Like some kind of magic…6 MILLION people died the following year from famine. All because a bunch of lazy, angry idiots could not accept their own failed decisions.
Source: The Gulag Archipelago
The people with the money would move to a safe haven. Read Atlas Shrugged. Or look at any foolish place who implemented a wealth tax (like the EU)
Thank you, this has been my Ted Talk for today.
So you think that politicians who aren’t qualified to run a lemonade stand should step in and intervene on behalf of nurses?
How do you think that ends?
Comrade.
Well let me help you out:
Without wealth and money, all of the poor souls that need to be helped could not get help. You see, there is a thing called tax. I know you think the wealthy pay no tax, but the truth is the top 10% pay 70% of the taxes. Those taxes are meant to help the people in need. But those taxes are often pissed away by politicians who are stupidly or corrupt.
And that is why the stock market matters specific to your question.
Hope that helps.
Clean water doesn’t leave residual compounds that destroy the computers. The fresh clean water evaporates during the cooling process. That evaporation travels up and forms clouds. Those clouds then produce rain. That rain falls as clean water.
Rinse, repeat.
Their pollution is evaporated water.
Where does that go? Where does it end up?
Our schools have failed an entire generation.
They simply do not understand the man who wanted to be left alone. They should do so,e research because there are quite a few of them. Do not activate them or you will be absoltuely shocked and demolished.
This is absolutely ridiculous. Brand is going to do time for exactly what? 20 years after the fact? If this is the legal precedence being set, you can forget about any future.
But yet, how are immigrants that actually violently assault women are treated?
I believe that the UK is finally over…finished. The EU will follow. Terribly sad for the good people of Europe.
It’s worse than that.
Giving an 18 yr old 200k of non collaterilized debt is a criminal act when those same kids can’t charge that debt off in a bankruptcy. Thank your politicians for that little benefit.
No access to the means of production?
You can’t start your own company?
You can’t create your own value?
When did this become a thing?
They would never be able to stay in business. And if they do want to do that, than you would have to have “white only” spaces as well.
I’ve seen this movie before.
Karl Marx was a lazy malcontent whose only accomplishment was writing a manifesto for other lazy malcontents.