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When I was a high school English teacher, and had five or eight minutes of unstructured time in a forty-five minute class period to fill, I’d find myself sharing some of my own nuggets of accumulated wisdom with students. One of my best lines was: “If you can choose between marrying a man who can dance or marrying a man who can cook, marry the man who does both. If you can’t find that, marry the man who does one really well.” |
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Don’t Leave The Dorm Without ‘Em Your dad has ‘em. All of his business associates have ‘em too. Not to mention your mom, most of her friends, and everyone in the grown-up world of adults that are gainfully employed. What is this thing that they almost never leave the house without? Business cards. It’s a simple marketing strategy that you are never too young to start using yourself. Go with the concept of less is more |
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I can’t claim to be the inventor of the phrase “raving fan” – However, I am an expert on understanding the immense power behind this phrase and how to use it to literally change lives. Many years ago, when I deliberately stepped out into my community to become the master connector, I made this phrase an integral part of my vocabulary. My resolve was to become a raving fan. |
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Practice The Rule of Ten Percent This one will be short and sweet. It goes like this: every time you get a paycheck, take ten percent off the top and deposit it into a bank account that you can’t touch for the next fifty years. Ah, if only! If only my parents had told me about this golden rule of how to save back in my baby-sitting days, I’d be sitting on bags of money today. Well, perhaps not physically sitting on money bags, but I’d be sitting pretty – “financially pretty”. It’s entirely possible, given the rules of compound interest, that I’d have saved close to half a million dollars. Consider the fact that I started earning money when I was fourteen years old. In those days, I was the Mary Poppins of babysitters. Two years ago, when my son started working, I sat him down and introduced him to the rule of ten percent. He’d just opened a savings account. I showed him how to open a second account that we refer to as the “do not touch under any circumstances account”. He was nineteen then. Just imagine how much he will have accumulated by the time he’s fifty-five. |
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