Story

I’ve been dreaming of Berlin but had no money. I spent a year saving for the trip. When I got there, I couldn’t stop thinking how cool I was feeling there, and how I’d be remembering every minute of this magnificent week. On the last day, I was walking along the streets on the outskirts, saw a hairdresser’s, and decided to have a haircut to remember. The stylist offered to cut my hair to his taste, to make it a surprise, and I agreed. For an hour, he turned my boring haircut into a stylish one I was afraid to do before because I considered myself not cool enough.

Then I saw a clothes store across the street and bought a super brutal tee for my new image. When I came home, I wore this tee for a week and decided to beef up to complete the cool guy image. Six months later I had an athletic body, and a girl fell in love with me for the first time. I lacked time because of my girlfriend, and I learned to manage it, so my efficiency at work increased.

Four months later, I was promoted to manager for my good work. My income increased, I bought a car, and I began saving for a wedding. And yesterday I received a letter telling me that my company accepted my application and transferred me to another office in Berlin.

Education

“How to be good at something. Firstly, learn on how it is done. Secondly, learn how others do it.Then do it your own way.”

Kyos Magupe

Financial Sustainability

“You can make EXCUSES and earn SYMPATHY,
OR
You can make MONEY and earn ADMIRATION.
The choice is always yours…”
Manoj Arora, From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom

Leadership

“We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. We should set them an example that we wish them to imitate.”

Brigham Young

Jokes

An elderly man was on the operating table, about to be operated on by his son, a famous surgeon. Just before they put him under, he asked to speak to his son:

“Don’t be nervous, boy, just do your best and just remember, if it doesn’t go well, if something happens to me… your mother is going to come and live with you and your family.”

Character

“If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Story

5 years ago I threw a bag of water from the balcony onto the head of an unfamiliar girl. And yesterday I learned that five years ago my wife (we met three years ago) was going on a date with a man who was going to propose to her, but some idiot threw a bag of water from a balcony right onto her head, and she couldn’t go in wet clothes. Her boyfriend considered this a very frivolous attitude toward him, and they broke up. Five years ago I ruined the wedding of my current wife! I’m proud of myself!

Financial Sustainability

“Thy shalt not worship thy investment advisor, for if she were so smart she would be retired by now.”

Steven J. Lee, The Money Plan: Creating Personal Wealth for a Secure Future

Gratitude

“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”

Seneca

Customer Service

“Being on par in terms of price and quality only gets you into the game. Service wins the game.”

~ Tony Allesandra