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Secret To Wealth & Long Term Security

Secret To Wealth & Long Term Security

Life is a Business - Chapter 43 A series of essays on the past, the present, and the futureThis article could be condensed to only one sentence: Long-term wealth and financial security is not about how much you make, but how much you spend. That’s simply all it is. ...

Beware of “Shortcuts To Success”

Beware of “Shortcuts To Success”

Life is a Business - Chapter 42 A series of essays on the past, the present, and the futureAt this point in time, the vast majority of you have seen the Lord of the Rings trilogy and poor Frodo’s struggle to get that cursed ring back in the volcano. We could discuss a...

Natural Law Is Painful But Effective

Natural Law Is Painful But Effective

Life is a Business - Chapter 41 A series of essays on the past, the present, and the futureThis will be a somewhat controversial essay, but this discussion is vital if you are to understand how and why species survive by adapting to changing conditions…this includes...

Half A Loaf Is Better Than No Loaf At All

Life is a Business - Chapter 40 A series of essays on the past, the present, and the futureFrom age 15, when digging ditches for the water and gas company in the summer, I heard grown men utter complaints that revealed what losers in life they would always be. We were...

Building A Cathedral Vs. Digging a Ditch

Building A Cathedral Vs. Digging a Ditch

Life is a Business - Chapter 39 A series of essays on the past, the present, and the futureWhen I left college in the middle of my freshman year to come home to be closer to my girlfriend Jan (married a year later and 43 more years on June 11th of 2014), I worked for...

Big Hat – No Cattle

Big Hat – No Cattle

Life is a Business - Chapter 38 A series of essays on the past, the present, and the futureThis essay is dedicated to all the women, both young and old, who have been disappointed once they bought the pretty package, only to find out that the gift inside was not as...

Always Give A Baker’s Dozen

Life is a Business - Chapter 37 A series of essays on the past, the present, and the futureBack in the early 20th Century, bakeries, butcher shops and barbershops were on every block in the cities. Even small towns had them on “Front Street”, in the main business...

If You Are Scared Buy A Bulldog

Life is a Business - Chapter 36 A series of essays on the past, the present, and the futureOne day, some years ago, I was standing on a tee box, staring at a long golf shot across a body of water. My brother John gave me a few seconds to ponder all the negatives, then...

Would You Rather Be A Hammer Or A Nail?

Life is a Business - Chapter 35 A series of essays on the past, the present, and the future When I started out in manufacturing as a young man in his mid-twenties, an older engineer that mentored me spoke a profound truth for the ages: “95% of all the workers tighten...

Hiding The Liver Under The Mashed Potatoes

Life is a Business - Chapter 34 A series of essays on the past, the present, and the future Growing up out in the country at the foot of the famous Monteagle Mountain in Tennessee, our Depression/WWII era parents believed that all aspects of a young person’s body,...