The clients on a mission with you, doesn't mean you both have the same mission.  Only that each of your missions independently crossover each other.  They build upon each others strengths.  You will sometimes need the client for a specialty, and other times it will be vice verse.  These clients actually care about you achieve your dreams.  They will also require the very best from you and refuse to allow mediocre.

The other clients are absorbed into their mission, and it alone. They don't care what the person in the next building down does, or even if it relates to them at all.  They want to build a mini-island with just their chosen few members.  Once on the island, they don't allow you to communicate with the rest of the world.  You are only suppose to be loyal to them and their mission.  

We all come across both types of clients.   I choose to not to be allowed to be asborbed into someone else's world.  This is my life, and I will live my mission.

I just work hard and believe I can do it. Most of all, though, I try to have fun.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable, challenges and trying to rise above them.  My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself.' ... 'If you don't take risks you won't achieve anything..'

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I see life almost like one long University education I have always lived my life by thriving on opportunity and adventure. Some of the best ideas come out of the blue, and you have to keep an open mind to see their virtue.

Three months of running a business or trying to set up a business and you will learn, I suspect, as much as you can learn in three years at a business school.

The companies that look after their people are the companies that do really well. I'm sure we'd like a few other attributes, but that would be the most important one.

I have always believed that marketing starts with the product, not what you say about it. If you develop an excellent product with value that is right for your customers, then marketing it should not be difficult.

 Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance.

Above all, you want to create something you are proud of. . . . That has always been my philosophy of business. I can honestly say that I have never gone into any business purely to make money. If that is the sole motive, then I believe you are better off doing nothing.

All you have in life is your reputation. You may be very rich, but if you lose your good name, then you'll never be happy. The thought will always lurk at the back of your mind that people don't trust you. I had never really focused on what a good name meant before, but that night in prison made me understand.

We're going where no one has gone before. There's no model to follow, nothing to copy. That is what makes this so exciting.

We look for opportunities where we can offer something better, fresher, and more valuable, and we seize them.

We often move into areas where the customer has traditionally received a poor deal, and where the competition is complacent.

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A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. To be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running, and if you have a good team around you and more than a fair share of luck, you might make something happen.

Some 80% of your life is spent working. You want to have fun at home; why shouldn't you have fun at work?  Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

I've had to create companies that I believe in one hundred percent. These are companies I feel will make a genuine difference. Then I have to be willing to find the time myself to talk about them, promote them and market them. I don't want to spend my life doing something that I'm not proud of.

As much as you need a strong personality to build a business from scratch, you also must understand the art of delegation. I have to be good at helping people run the individual businesses, and I have to be willing to step back. The company must be set up so it can continue without me.

 We are pro-active and quick to act, often leaving bigger and more cumbersome organizations in our wake.

When we start a new venture, we base it on hard research and analysis. Typically, we review the industry and put ourselves in the customer's shoes to see what could make it better. And with our growing e-commerce activities, we also look to deliver ‘old' products in new ways.  

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Vater Unser im Himmel!
Geheiligt werde Dein Name.
Dein Reich komme.
Dein Wille geschehe
wie im Himmel, so auf Erden.
Unser tägliches G.E.L.D. gib uns heute.
Und vergib uns unsere Schuld,
wie auch wir vergeben unseren Schuldigern.
Und führe uns nicht in Versuchung,
sondern erlöse uns von dem Bösen.
Denn dein ist das G.E.L.D.
und das G.E.L.D.
und die Herrlichkeit des G.E.L.D.E.S in Ewigkeit.
G.E.L.D.

Our Father who art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us today our daily M.O.N.E.Y.
And forgive us our trespasses.
As we forgive those who trespass against as.
And lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from evil.
For Thine is the M.O.N.E.Y.,
The power and the M.O.N.E.Y.,
Forever,
M.O.N.E.Y.

Notre Père qui es aux cieux!
Que ton nom soit sanctifié;
que ton règne vienne;
que ta volonté soit faite
sur la terre comme au ciel.
Donne-nous aujourd’hui notre A.R.G.E.N.T de ce jour;
pardonne-nous nos offenses,
comme nous nous pardonnons aussi
à ceux qui nous ont offensés;
et ne nous soumets pas à la tentation,
mais délivre-nous du mal.
Car c’est à toi A.R.G.E.N.T,
le règne, la puissance et la A.R.G.E.N.T
pour les A.R.G.E.N.T, des A.R.G.E.N.T
A.R.G.E.N.T.!

mAs_pAiNt_'08

What's absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit top management people get for laying off people. There is no excuse for it. No justification. This is morally and socially unforgivable, and we will pay a heavy price for it.

 An employer has no business with a man's personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance... Any attempt to go beyond that is usurpation. It is immoral as well as an illegal intrusion of privacy. It is abuse of power. An employee owes no 'loyalty,'He owes no 'love' and no 'attitudes' -- he owes performance and nothing else. You have to accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.

Few top executives can even imagine the hatred, contempt and fury that has been created -- not primarily among blue-collar workers who never had an exalted opinion of the 'bosses' -- but among their middle management and professional people.

That people even in well paid jobs choose ever earlier retirement is a severe indictment of our organizations -- not just business, but government service, the universities. These people don't find their jobs interesting.

 We suffer from over-choice: 67 varieties of toothpaste, 487 styles of shoes, 186 brands of cell phones with 137 telephone companies. We demand more variety than we could possibly need or want; and as a result, we get lost in options, opportunities, and choices. There are 87 varieties of lawyers, and 75 specialties inside medicine. The world of work can be a confusing landscape.

When you are the chief executive, you're the prisoner of your organisation. The moment you're in the office, everybody comes to you and wants something, and it is useless to lock the door. They'll break in. So, you have to get outside the office. But still, that isn't travelling. That's being at home or having a secret office elsewhere. When you're alone, in your secret office, ask the question, 'What needs to be done?'

Effective leaders check their performance. They write down, ?What do I hope to achieve if I take on this assignment?' They put away their goals for six months and then come back and check their performance against goals. This way, they find out what they do well and what they do poorly.

I tell all my clients that it is absolutely imperative that they spend a few weeks each year outside their own business - actively working in the marketplace, or in a university or lab in the case of technical people. The best way is for the chief executive officer to take the place of a salesman twice a year for two weeks.

I've seen a great many people who are exceedingly good at execution, but exceedingly poor at picking the important things. ...........  Meetings are a symptom of bad organisation. ............ The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said ........................ Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

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Dear A-Letter Reader,

Not far from America's financial epicenter, universally known as "Wall Street," is a huge, empty crater where the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center once stood.

Within weeks of the disaster that annihilated those once-glorious free market icons, fear served as the justification for a panicked U.S. Congress to enact the so-called PATRIOT Act.

Without even seeing the text of the bill, the congressional herd mentality to "do something!" produced one of the greatest assaults on the American Constitution ever passed into law. Its odious impact on our liberties still remains today. And barring the miracle of a new Congress emerging with both courage and common sense, it will continue on for years to come.

And now we find ourselves 7 Septembers after 9-11, in a different yet all too familiar national media "panic."

"The experts" a re telling us that the Congress must act immediately to bailout Wall Street, adding nearly a trillion dollars to the national debt. (The existing public debt alone figures out to be US$31,600 for every man, women and child in America , and this new demand will add another estimated US$2,300 for every American).

But wouldn't hindsight prompt us to think before acting this time around?

Welfare on Wall Street

I am not going to re view he re the immediate and past history that TV talking heads recite adnauseum that leads to a media-induced national migraine. Instead, let's go back to the beginning.

Wall St re et's name is a direct reference to a defensive wall that Dutch settlers erected on the southern tip of Manhattan Island in the 17th century. The are a didn't become famous as America 's financial center until the end of the 18th century, when 24 of America 's most prominent brokers signed an agreement that created the New York Stock Exchange.

But now, in my humble opinion, it is time to resurrect that wall, at least figuratively, and certainly politically and legislatively - in order to defend America against Wall St re et.

The garrulous Senator from Delawa re , Joe (The Mouth) Biden made the news last week in saying that paying g re ater taxes was wealthy Americans' "patriotic duty." But even he could not fo re see the dimensions of what would come next...

Yes, the "panic" came quickly. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection. The government took control of AIG. Liquidity froze up. They' re saying this could be the most di re market malfunction since the crashes of 1987 - or even 1929.

But the crash was not a surprise to everyone. Here at The Sovereign Society we have long been warning you individually and collectively for quite some time. We told you that the House of Cards was going to collapse - it was just a matter of when. And we have been offering sound investment alternatives to avoid the disaster.

What Lies Beyond the "End of an Empire " Closeout Sale ?

"The financial market crisis of 2007 may be re membe re d as the beginning of the nationalization of a large part of the financial system." So wrote Floyd Norris in The New York Times. (Dec. 14: A Worrisome New Wrinkle in Bailouts).

Norris also noted that it was foreign governments' billion dollar "sovereign wealth funds" that came to the re scue last year: "It took a [ Singapore ] government bailout to shore up UBS...it was Citigroup that got [ Abu Dhabi ] government aid to help re cover from its bad investments."

Now we a re told that the United States government, headed by a Republican p re sident, must c re ate its own US$700 billion sovereign wealth fund (or sovereign debt fund) to re scue us once again. This fund must buy up an untold amount of investment vehicles gone bad - home and other re al estate mortgages, sub-prime derivatives, exotic instruments few understand and no one seems able to evaluate - except by calling it "junk."

And all this, only weeks after Congress adopted a US$300 billion housing bill that was supposed to solve the crisis!

If It Looks Like a Duck and It Quacks Like a Duck...

Bank bailouts may or may not be necessary to avoid a major economic recession, but government owning private businesses and banks smacks of fascism.

Yes, dear re aders, if you enjoy re ality TV shows, you'll love the re ality of the same kind economic fascism once promoted by Mussolini, Hitler and Juan Peron, among other economic crackpots. Hugo Chavez, anyone?

America, welcome to "backdoor fascism."

Added to all their other horrors, these fascist leaders put their national economies under government control without outright confiscating the means of production.

Fascist governments nationalized key industries - especially banks - managed currencies and made massive state investments. True, fascist economies we re based on private property and private initiative. But these we re contingent upon agre ement with and service to the state.

The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often put the government leaders into power. In doing so, they created a mutually beneficial business/government re lationship and power elite.

Have you checked how much Wall Street has donated to both Democrats and Republicans in Congress who are now writing the new emergency bailout laws?

Fascist regimes we re governed by groups of friends and associates who appointed each other to government positions. They then used power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. Fascist governments instituted state- regulated allocation of resources, especially in the financial sectors.

"Oh, but that can't happen here ," you protest.

Hey, folks, just look around. Isn't any of this beginning to appear sickeningly familiar? What is past is prologue!

At Least Someone Out The re is Making Sense

Newt Gingrich is one of the few urging Congress to step on the brakes in this US$700 billion bailout plan,

In National Review online, former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Gingrich writes: "Congress was designed by the Founding Fathers to move slowly, precisely to avoid the sudden panic of a one-week solution that becomes a 20-year mess."

In an NPR radio interview, Gingrich said he thinks the bailout plan is "just wrong," and that "it's likely to fail, and it's likely to make the situation worse over time."

Will America ever Wake Up and Smell the Totalitarianism?

Wouldn't it be unusual - even heroic - if the two current candidates for the U.S. presidency stopped their irrelevant hollering at each other? If they dropped their absurd daily nostrums that even they know will never become law?

Isn't it about time that they cancel their campaign whistle stops and return to the U.S. Senate Chamber, (where, after all, they are both still members), and participated in a real debate? Perhaps about where America and the national economy truly should be headed - and what they would do about it?

If ever there has been a point in modern times when true leadership was needed, that time is now.

BOB BAUMAN, Legal Counsel

It is not uncommon to hear on the National news about the shortages of gasoline across the country. Well, today, that news hit home for this local town. As a resident of Springfield, Tennessee we today were faced with a complete outage of gas across the city. With over seven stations throughout this city, none of them held a single gallon of gas as of 7:30pm this evening.

No longer is the gas shortage a “situational” event, yet now it is a reality. As I myself was looking for that station with its lights still on, I found nothing except empty stations and people pushing their vehicles in hope to find a scrap of hope at a near-by station. As an American citizen, this was heart wrenching. Of course there are rumors of when we will be able to get gas, but those are just rumors.

This situation would not be such a blow to the gut if it were not for the lack of accountability when dealing with the stations themselves and the government. Everyone knows of the devastation in which was produced after hurricane Ike, yet does the government not wish to protect its citizens? I cannot help but wonder on this subject. I know this country is sitting on a large reserve and I believe now is the time to help everyone out. This is just another example of why our country needs to be Energy Independent from foreign countries.

Maybe then we would not have this problem if we could produce our own supply. Not only would drilling solve that problem but think of how many jobs in which it would produce. It would be unthinkable. But this is a fairytale for my generation because of certain politicians who are in the pockets of foreign oil tycoons who are looking out for themselves. I am not naming any names, but think about how this is hurting our country yet flourishing others.

TOM WAITS:Train Song

Well I broke down in E. St. Louis
On the Kansas City line
and I drunk up all my money
that I borrowed every time
and I fell down at the derby
and now the night's black as a crow
It was a train that took me away from here
but a train can't bring me home
What made my dreams so hollow
was standing at the depot
with a steeple full of swallows
that could never ring the bell
and I come ten thousand miles away
with not one thing to show
well it was a train that took me away from here
but a train can't bring me home
I remember when I left
without bothering to pack
you know I up and left with
just the clothes I had on my back
now I'm sorry for what I've done
and I'm out here on my own
well it was a train that took me away from
here but a train can't bring me home

I've done a couple of things to move towards goal completion/accomplishment. First, I've updated my list. I found some goals to be unimportant in my bigger picture, and found better goals to replace them with. Second, I’ve been taking the goals that are a little more nebulous and trying to set goals and outlines to keep me on the right track. So in that regard I've been working on some of the goals even if it doesn't feel like it. You wouldn't believe the lists I have for the list! One of the things I’ve started working towards is starting my own business. I’ve started taking a class about starting your own business. In 10 weeks I should have a complete business plan, and that's a big first step in that direction.

I need some more book recommendations - one each from Critter and Mo. Also tell me, since I made those pages showing you girls how to use the blog, does that count as teaching someone something new? Not for JB I should think, but be honest you other two, did I teach you something at all, or did you more figure it out on your own? Let me know.... it affects the list!

I have to agree with JB and Mo the list does help to focus things. I look forward to seeing where we are all at by the end of the year.

mAs_pAiNt_'08

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dG Nordhorn. Die Waren- und Modeakserxoirkette New Yorker ("Dress for the moment") will in Nordhorn eine neue Filale eröffnen tun.
Wat eigentlich gut is für de Grafschafter Wirtschaft von wird anbei von einige Grafschafters mit Widerstand kittiert. Und dabei sind keine Kommunisten! Der Grund für die spannende Storie: Die neue Filalie von dat Kaufhaus soll an 11. September, also an Donnerstag aufmachen tun.
Hans Harm Jansen von der Intitiefe "Grafschafter USA Freunde" (Gusaf) findet dat schlimm: "Geschmacklos is dat, dat vertell ich dir mal! An 11. September is in New York doch wat passiert, da kannste nicht ausgerechnet nen New Yorker, wo dat Wort New York drinstecken tut, aufmachen!"
Dat sieht auch Markus Anderink von den "Freunden von Amerikaners inne Grafschaft" (FAG) so: "Protestieren, dat mok wie, da kommste nicht von weg!"
Hinnerk McCloud vonne Filalleitung kann dat alle nicht verstoon: "Dat mit die Donnerstag ist n zufall, aber da komsmte jetzt auch nicht von wech, dat wären Verluste in DM-Preisen, dat glaub du man!"

De Grafschafter findet: Der 12. tuts doch auch!

Heinz Leferink