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It's been a while since I've updated my blog, obviously. I want first to catch up on the books that I've read since the two Kiyosaki books. A partial list (the ones I really enjoyed) is here: How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie Creating Wealth by Robert Allen Multiple Streams of Internet Income by Robert Allen Twelve Pillars by Jim Rohn & Chris Widener The 5 Lessons A Millionaire Taught Me by Richard Paul Evans Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason How to Stop Worrying & Start Living - Dale Carnegie The Art of Influence by Chris Widener Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz Multiple Streams of Income by Robert Allen The Automatic Millionaire by David Bach The Bible by GOD These are not in order, just the way I read them. I've been reading in the Bible for a few months now and I'm about to finish it. It's been, ...

I've recently started a series of training sessions based on the Rich Dad Poor Dad series by Robert Kiyosaki. After receiving this book and the second one in the series, Cashflow Quadrant, from a friend, Chris Kearns , I decided to sign up for the coaching through Rich Dad Coaching . I expect this coaching to help me focus my goals and work out a plan to achieve them. It is a year long plan of study, beginning with 16 weekly sessions and assignments. Of course my goals are not "get rich" for only personal gain, but to become free to do the things that I enjoy doing, like spending more time with my family, church work (missions & benevolence), more blogging and other internet interests, running my businesses, building houses, developing land, etc. I've also decided that the first thing that is going is standing up in front of the Planning Commission and City Council and "fighting" for a project. It's just not fun or exciting anymore. That's beca...

I'm over half-way through a great book by Larry Burkett " Business By The Book : The Complete Guide of Biblical Principles for the Workplace ." This book "offers radical principles of business management that go beyond the Ten Commandments and other biblical maxims. Business by the Book is a step-by-step presentation of how busineess should be run according to the Creator of all management rules: God." The book has gotten me excited about trying some of the principles mentioned in the Book in our business. While I've tried to do that over the years, there are some good points about debt, lifestyle goals, vows, seeking counsel, hiring decisions, firing decisions, employee pay, and including your spouse as counselor and in making business decisions. Quotes: It is not who is right, but what is right, that is important. -- Thomas Huxley (1825-1895), Biologist and educator When the white man discovered this country Indians were running it. No taxes no debt,...

Well, in trying to think about what's happening with me this month, I wanted to point out a couple of things. First, we started a Leadership Training process at work. This involved an evaluation of each manager by every other manager and the rest of the employees at Maxwell Engineering. Tim Broadwall , of Broadwell Consulting , is doing the evaluation and training. We had our first session last week and it went very well. I'm looking forward to learning all that Tim can teach us. I just hope that we can put it into action. I don't know if it was during this process or before, but I was looking at some websites of organizations who sold fractional ownership of vacation getaways. This got me to thinking that, first, I needed a vacation and, second, that I'd like to own something like this. Well, by the time I looked at the prices, I figured that I could just spend the amount they wanted for annual dues and we could go on a vacation to whatever place we wanted each year. T...

I started reading an online book sent to me by www.trustetc.com today. It is "Think & Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill. It was written shortly after the Great Depression, but so far (I'm up to Chapter 4) it has a lot of great ideas. I don't necessarily agree that you should "desire" money at the cost of everything else, but you can apply the principles of goal setting and focus on a lot of things. The direct link to the PDF file is http://www.iraetc.com/tgr2/tgr.pdf if you want to download it. The Trust ETC Site ( www.trustetc.com ) will be my link for the day. There is a lot of good investment information on their site. This site also tells about the Real Estate IRA , which is a great find. The quotes today are all similar so I'll give you three: It is not the same to talk of bulls as to be in the bullring. -- Spanish Proverb It is easy to be brave from a distance. -- Native American Proverb I want to see you shoot the way you shout. -- Theodore R...