Diane Neill Jensen

Archive for November, 2009

The choices you make each and every day, affect you more than you can see each day, whether it be making money ideas to make sure you have one of the best home businesses and do the best retirement financial planning, or whether you stay healthy, or even if you have an abundant support system of friends and family.

Each and every day, there are tiny choices to make, or not make, that over time, determine your wealth in all these areas.

Three stories, one about a flower, one about a couple of frogs, and one about two sons and their inheritance, demonstrate what the author says is how he can help us learn habits of thought and action to double the power of our actions each day.

Jeff Olson, author of “The Slight Edge”, is a book that I am reading right now.

Using the lessons in each chapter, I will attempt to translate them into more ideas to help us visualize how to put his lessons into action.

I encourage you to read it, too, and follow along with my five weekly posts, one for each chapter, and comment on how you might translate actions to take, too.

I hope to hear from you soon.

Three

Jeff Olson does a little story about Two Brothers. I have my own story about the moral of that story.

The gift of wisdom.

Were you born with it? Not I.

Some of my school friends seemed to have had the gift from the start of their lives.

Thinking about it though, they just worked their behinds off all their lives and didn’t sweat the small stuff.

The difference between them and those who worked hard that many years and are not successful is working smart.

Mom always said, get a government job. Well, that worked for one of my friends. She worked her way into a state job and moved up the ranks until she hit a wall, a supervisor that she clashed with.

Did she quit, or change jobs, no! She hung in there several more years, biding her time until she had enough years in for retirement when she hit about fifty years old.

She still has goals yet to achieve, though, and is seeking employment in the private sector in her career field. She was a prison guard, cool, huh?

She can now choose who she works with and if she doesn’t like the environment, she has her retirement income for back up and can move to another employer if she chooses. She has good options.

Another school mate and his younger brother are multi-millionaires, although, of course, their money is their business and I would never ask how much they are worth.

Their Dad put them to work, mans work, at the ripe age of probably around nine or ten. Their Dad taught them by example how to run a business and work hard to succeed.

I have no doubt they gained much business wisdom from listening to him talk to clients and other contractors on the job. They all work construction, and a lot of what in other industries might be done in an office, took place on the job.

The difference between my school mates and I, is that I was never able to see things through. Even though my career Mom worked thirty years, even with that great example, I just couldn’t see it. Somehow that wisdom just didn’t “take” for me.

So, I’m a late bloomer and making up for lost time now. I have a group of entrepreneurs that are showing me the way, and I am paying attention and trusting them to lead me to my goals.

It’s up to me to do the hard work, the day to day tasks that they say will lead to my success, as it has led them to success, and I’m sticking to it.

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