Robert Kiyosaki says unless something makes you money when you’re NOT doing it, it’s not an asset, it’s a liability.
Have you ever walked away from short-term money because you knew it would cause long-term problems?
When I was slaving away in my Dilbert cube, $ was tight. One of my friends in the business offered me a job…
It was a month and a day after September 11, 2001. The world was in a tail spin. Everyone was sleepwalking. Phones weren’t ringing. Orders were not coming in.
Still, I left my job and replaced my income in 19 days.
At this point I’d been to…
A few days ago I posted a warning that the state of Illinois is about to pass a law that adds sales tax to online commerce if an affiliate in the transaction lives in Illinois.
The resolution has passed both the House and the Senate in the Illinois legislature.
An insider has told me that emailing the governor will do no good. If you did so, nobody’s reading it. Here’s what I want you to do instead:
What if your company’s board of directors consisted of:
Dear Reader,
If you live in Illinois I strongly suggest you stop what you’re doing right now and write Governor Quinn. I got this disturbing email from Amazon today:
Martin Luther King delivered his “I Have A Dream” speech in Washington DC in 1963. 1700 pristine words transformed history – and 2 generations later America got its first black president.
If you get 10 minutes on the evening news or a front page story on the Huffington Post; if you wire up some ingenious viral campaign on Twitter or Facebook, that’s fabulous.
But one week later you might just as well have written “I love Suzy” in the sand and watched ocean waves erase it from memory. You’re dismayed at how perishable any form of publicity is.
But just yesterday…
Do you hire talent or hire yourself out to others?
A lot of folks are cynical about new years resolutions, but you should set them. Zero goals = zero personal accountability. Nobody ever drifts into a major accomplishment.
Long-time Renaissance Club member Tom Meloche mentioned this to me the other day. He’s absolutely spot-on. The Big Bad World Out There has a big giant buggy whip and it’s driving people into doing something for themselves.
Do you remember a time when a concept known as ‘job security’ actually existed? I’m not sure anyone even uses that term anymore.
Then there’s the reality that the vast majority of politicians seem to believe the public is a horde of mindless cattle whose only function is to be…
