Dear Friends and Family, Our year has been pretty boring by comparison…no new kids, no new house. This is the first Christmas letter that did not contain news of one or the other. Gran and Golfball sold my old house, does that count?!?!? For some reason they found it time for a change, they had …
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Christmas Letter (2001)
Dear Friends and Family, I took a lot of flack over last year’s letter, in case you don’t remember it was four pages of some of the most heartfelt emotion ever laid down on a page. Comments went in all directions; here are the most common ones along with my response to each: “Thanks for …
Christmas Letter (2000)
Dear All, I finally understand why people write letters, or at least why I must. My lovely wife loves children more than anything. I share her love of the little monsters except for when I start thinking about financing each one’s college experience. My friend Charles Schwab tells me it is going to run me …
Tenet: Hard Work – It is frankly easy to outwork most folks…but do it anyway.
“No one cares…work harder!” I’ve heard this quote numerous times. It is great. It rolls up two important concepts that I’ve lived by most of my life. 1) Work hard at moving your life in the direction you want it to go. 2) There are very few people who give two craps about you. Conversely …
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50K Views Comments Review! Haters Gonna Hate!!!
I’ve been posting videos for about a year and recently crossed 50,000 views. It is the perfect time to review some of the funniest comments I’ve received from YouTube commenters so far. Some Haters in here! Deano don’t care!
BHAGs!
Have Goals! Live your life with goals. Cross things off your list, add new things, repeat! I’m an old man with ADHD who is always in chase of his next BHAG (Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal). I might move quickly from topic to topic, but they all interweave together into this thing called life. I only …
Topic: Importance Of Family
They say you can choose your friends but not your family. This means that for better or worse it looks like you are stuck with me for the remainder of our duration on this earth together. I love each one of you and wouldn’t have it any other way. I asked us all to dinner …
Tenet: Don’t Do Things That You Know Ain’t Right – Just act right! So many people get this simple concept wrong.
James 4:17 So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin. Just act right! So many people get this simple concept wrong! I have found myself wondering why people can’t just act right so many times in my life. It is mind-boggling things that you hear …
Topic: Why College?
Earlier this year I talked with you guys about the importance of intelligence/education in determining your success in life and in creating wealth for you and your family. We talked about how smart people wind up earning more than people who are not as smart. We talked about how educated people wind up earning more …
Tenet: Have a BHAG! – Set Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals.
Big Hairy Audacious Goal(s)! I heard this term for the first time in a book about how to build great companies. The book was called Built To Last and it was and still is one of the better books on business around. One of the concepts in the book was those truly great companies…ones that …
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