My Dear Sirs;
In reply to your request to send a check, I wish to inform you that the present condition of my bank account makes it almost impossible. My shattered financial condition is due to federal laws, state laws, county laws, city laws, corporation laws, liquor laws, mother-in-laws, brother-in-laws, sister-in-laws, outlaws, and blue laws.
Through these laws I am compelled to pay a business tax, amusement tax, head tax, school tax, gas tax, light tax, sales tax, liquor tax, carpet tax, income tax, food tax, furniture tax, and excise tax, even my brains are taxed.
I am required to get a business license, car license, hunting and fishing license, truck license, not to mention a marriage license, and a dog license.
I am also required to contribute to every society and organization which the genius of man is capable to bringing to life. To the women’s relief, unemployed relief, and gold diggers relief; also to every hospital and charitable institution in the city including the black cross, the blue cross, the purple cross, and the double cross.
For my own safety I am required to carry a life insurance, property insurance, liability insurance, burglar insurance, accident insurance, business insurance, earthquake insurance, tornado insurance, unemployment insurance, old age and fire insurance.
My business is so governed that it is no easy matter for me to find out who owns it. I am inspected, suspected, disrespected, rejected, dejected, examined, informed, required, summoned, commanded, and compelled, until I’ve provided an in-exhaustible supply of money for every known need of the human race.
Simply because I refuse to donate to something-or other I am boycotted, talked about, lied about, held up, held down, and robbed until I am almost ruined. I can tell you honestly that except for the miracle that happened I could not enclose this check. The wolf that comes to many doors these days just had pups in my kitchen. I sold them and … here is your money!
Friday, March 25, 2011
Monday, March 21, 2011
Email of the Morning
7 Inspiring Success Lessons:
1. Work
You can listen to and read all of the self-development in the world, but if you don't put what you're learning into action, things won't change. There's a Swedish proverb that goes, "God gives every bird a worm, but he does not throw it into the nest." You have the potential to succeed, but you're going to have to work the principles that you know.
2. Change
In order for your life to change, you must change. To the degree that you change your thoughts, will be to the degree that your life changes. Don't expect anything to change if you're not changing. Don't expect your business to get any better, if you're not changing. Don't expect your health to get any better if you're not changing. If you want massive change, you must make massive change.
3. Stumble
It's okay to stumble. When you reach for great things you will stumble; just be sure to learn from the stumble. A stumble could be the best thing that ever happened to you. A stumble may prevent total chaos in your life, if you learn from it. Learn to value stumbles and to learn from the stumbles.
4. Become
Success does not come from what you attain, but from who you become. Success is not a big car; success is you being big on the inside. When you're big on the inside, you can attract a big car, but the car does not make you, you make the car. If you decide to grow up, you will succeed. Jim Rohn said, "We can have more than we've got because we can become more than we are."
5. Take Charge
The good news is you always have possession of the ball in the game of life. Unfortunately, most people don't realize that they have possession of the ball. They're waiting around for someone to pass them the ball, and they already have it. Take charge of your life, you got the ball, it's in your court, what are you going to do?
6. Push
The hard part is always the beginning, the push through the crowd. But if you make it through the crowd, you can make it to the top. I said, "If you can make it through the crowd, you can make it to the top." Commit today, to push through the crowd.
7. Vision
Vision is your ability to see down the road. Use your imagination to see all the way down the road. I like what Robert Collier said, he said, "The great successful men of the world have used their imagination, they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building."
Keep on building, and your vision will become your reality. Keep on building and success will be yours.
WORDS TO LIVE BY...
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Gagehot
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
- David Brinkley
Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
- Euripides
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.
- Stephen Covey
As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.
- Benjamin Disraeli
1. Work
You can listen to and read all of the self-development in the world, but if you don't put what you're learning into action, things won't change. There's a Swedish proverb that goes, "God gives every bird a worm, but he does not throw it into the nest." You have the potential to succeed, but you're going to have to work the principles that you know.
2. Change
In order for your life to change, you must change. To the degree that you change your thoughts, will be to the degree that your life changes. Don't expect anything to change if you're not changing. Don't expect your business to get any better, if you're not changing. Don't expect your health to get any better if you're not changing. If you want massive change, you must make massive change.
3. Stumble
It's okay to stumble. When you reach for great things you will stumble; just be sure to learn from the stumble. A stumble could be the best thing that ever happened to you. A stumble may prevent total chaos in your life, if you learn from it. Learn to value stumbles and to learn from the stumbles.
4. Become
Success does not come from what you attain, but from who you become. Success is not a big car; success is you being big on the inside. When you're big on the inside, you can attract a big car, but the car does not make you, you make the car. If you decide to grow up, you will succeed. Jim Rohn said, "We can have more than we've got because we can become more than we are."
5. Take Charge
The good news is you always have possession of the ball in the game of life. Unfortunately, most people don't realize that they have possession of the ball. They're waiting around for someone to pass them the ball, and they already have it. Take charge of your life, you got the ball, it's in your court, what are you going to do?
6. Push
The hard part is always the beginning, the push through the crowd. But if you make it through the crowd, you can make it to the top. I said, "If you can make it through the crowd, you can make it to the top." Commit today, to push through the crowd.
7. Vision
Vision is your ability to see down the road. Use your imagination to see all the way down the road. I like what Robert Collier said, he said, "The great successful men of the world have used their imagination, they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building."
Keep on building, and your vision will become your reality. Keep on building and success will be yours.
WORDS TO LIVE BY...
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Gagehot
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
- David Brinkley
Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
- Euripides
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.
- Stephen Covey
As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Monday, March 14, 2011
Unknown Email
There are moments in life when you miss someone
so much that you just want to pick them from
your dreams and hug them for real!
When the door of happiness closes, another opens;
but often times we look so long at the
closed door that we don't see the one,
which has been opened for us.
Don't go for looks; they can deceive.
Don't go for wealth; even that fades away.
Go for someone who makes you smile,
because it takes only a smile to
make a dark day seem bright.
Find the one that makes your heart smile.
Dream what you want to dream;
go where you want to go;
be what you want to be,
because you have only one life
and one chance to do all the things
you want to do.
May you have enough happiness to make you sweet,
enough trials to make you strong,
enough sorrow to keep you human and
enough hope to make you happy.
The happiest of people don't necessarily
have the best of everything;
they just make the most of
everything that comes along their way.
The brightest future will always
be based on a forgotten past;
you can't go forward in life until
you let go of your past failures and heartaches.
When you were born, you were crying
and everyone around you was smiling.
Live your life so at the end,
you're the one who is smiling and everyone
around you is crying.
Author Unknown
so much that you just want to pick them from
your dreams and hug them for real!
When the door of happiness closes, another opens;
but often times we look so long at the
closed door that we don't see the one,
which has been opened for us.
Don't go for looks; they can deceive.
Don't go for wealth; even that fades away.
Go for someone who makes you smile,
because it takes only a smile to
make a dark day seem bright.
Find the one that makes your heart smile.
Dream what you want to dream;
go where you want to go;
be what you want to be,
because you have only one life
and one chance to do all the things
you want to do.
May you have enough happiness to make you sweet,
enough trials to make you strong,
enough sorrow to keep you human and
enough hope to make you happy.
The happiest of people don't necessarily
have the best of everything;
they just make the most of
everything that comes along their way.
The brightest future will always
be based on a forgotten past;
you can't go forward in life until
you let go of your past failures and heartaches.
When you were born, you were crying
and everyone around you was smiling.
Live your life so at the end,
you're the one who is smiling and everyone
around you is crying.
Author Unknown
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