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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    8:43 am
    @@@@@ But of all the steps, this step is probably
    @@@@@ But of all the steps, this step is probably the most difficult to master if it is not already a part of your makeupI would venture to say that it is the lack of personal self-discipline that is the No1 delineating factor between the rich, the poor and the middle class
    Simply put, people who have low self-esteem and low tolerance for financial pressure can never, and I mean never, be richAs I have said, a lesson learned from my rich dad was that "the world will push you around The world pushes people around not because other people are bullies, but because the individual lacks internal control and disciplinePeople who lack internal fortitude often become victims of those who have self-discipline
    In the entrepreneur classes I teach, I constantly remind people to not focus on their product, service or widget, but to focus on developing management skillsThe three most important management skills necessary to start your own business are:

    1Management of cash flowManagement of personal time

    I would say, the skills to manage these three apply to anything, not just entrepreneursThe three matter in the way you live your life as an individual, or as part of a family, a business, a charitable organization, a city or a nation
    Each of these skills is enhanced by the mastery of self disciplineI do not take the saying "pay yourself first" lightly
    The Richest Man in Babylon, by George Classen, is where the statement "pay yourself first" comes fromMillions of copies have been sold But while millions of people freely repeat that powerful statement, few follow the adviceAs I said, financial literacy allows one to read numbers, and numbers tell the story By looking at a person's income statement and balance sheet, I can readily see if people who spout the words "pay yourself first" actually practice what they preach
    A picture is worth a thousand words So let's again compare the financial statements of people who pay themselves first against someone who doesn't

    People who pay themselves first

    +------------------------+
    Job--------------->|Income |----
    ^ |------------------------- |
    | | Expense | |
    \ +------------------------+ |
    \ +--------------------------------------<
    ----\-----|------------------------+
    | Assets | Liabilities |
    | | |
    |_________|____________|

    Someone who pays everyone else first- Often there is nothing left

    +------------------------+
    Job--------------->|Income |
    |-------------------------
    | Expense | ----> Nothing left!
    +------------------------+
    -----------------------------------+
    | Assets | Liabilities |
    | | |
    |_________|____________|

    Study the diagrams and notice if you can pick up some distinctions Again, it has to do with understanding cash flow, which tells the storyMost people look at the numbers and miss the sto
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    8:43 am
    @@@@@"You sonofabitch, Brown Brown shambled
    @@@@@"You sonofabitch, Brown Brown shambled forward, almost reeling, his fingers slowly separating on the litter handleWhen he would feel the stretcher about to rip out of his hand, he would shout, "Drop him," and kneel beside Wilson trying to regain his breath, massaging one hand with the numb fingers of the other"Take it easy, Wilson, we're doin' what we can," he would gasp
    "You sonofabitch, Brown, you been shakin' me on purpose
    Brown wanted to cry or to strike him across the faceThe jungle sores on his feet had come open and were bleeding inside his shoes, smarting unbearably whenever he halted and became conscious of themHe did not want to go on, but he could see the other litter-bearers staring at him"Come on, men," he muttered
    They advanced like this for several hours, toiling under the brow of the midday sunSlowly, inevitably, their will and their resolution were dissolvedThey struggled forward through a glare of heat, bound to each other in an unwilling union of exhaustion and rageEach time one of them stumbled the others hated him, for the load was suddenly increased on their arms, and Wilson's growls of pain bored through their apathy, startled them like a whiplashThey plumbed one level of misery after anotherFor minutes at a time their vision would blank out almost completely in a flood of nauseaThe ground before them would darken, and they would taste their heartbeat in the acrid bile that filled their mouthsThey toiled forward numbly, unquestioningly, suffering more than WilsonAny one of them would have been pleased to have shifted positions with him
    At one o'clock Brown halted themHis feet had been numb for minutes at a time, and he was close to collapseThey left Wilson lying in the sun while they sprawled beside him, their faces close to the earth, drawing great gasping bursts of airAll about them the hills shimmered in the early afternoon heat, refracting their glare from one slope to another without reliefThere seemed no breeze at allWilson would mumble and rant from time to time but they paid no attention to himThe rest period gave them no relief; all the submerged effects of their exhaustion were being exhumed now, bothered them dire
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    8:46 am
    @@@@@ She'll be here on October first, that's
    @@@@@
    She'll be here on October first, that's Thursday nextI've offered
    her the use of my house
    "Oh, have you? I thought she was supposed to housekeep meWhy
    doesn't she stay here?"
    "Because, Scarlett darling, your house is the only building in
    Ballyhara that hasn't been repaired Scarlett looked around her
    kitchen-workroom in surpriseShe had never paid any attention
    before
    to how it looked; it was only temporary, a convenient spot for
    watching
    the work on the town"It is disgusting, isn't it?" she said"We'd
    best get the house done fast so I can move She smiled, but with
    difficulty"The truth is, Colum, I'm nearly worn outI'll be glad
    to be done with the work so I can rest some What Scarlett didn't say
    was that the work had become just that-work-after the cousins said
    they
    wouldn't moveIt had taken the joy out of rebuilding the O'Hara lands
    when the O'Haras wouldn't be enjoying themShe'd tried and tried to
    figure out why they'd turned her downThe only answer that made
    sense
    to her was that they didn't want to be too close to her, that they
    didn't really love her, despite all their kindnesses and warmthShe
    felt alone now, even when she was with them, even when she was
    with
    ColumShe'd believed he was her friend, but he'd told her they'd
    never comeHe knew them, was one of themHer back hurt all the
    time
    nowHer legs, too, and her feet and ankles were so swollen that
    walking was agonyShe wished she wasn't having the babyIt was
    making her ill, and it had given her the idea of buying Ballyhara in
    the first placeAnd she had six-no, six and a half-more weeks of
    thisIf I had the energy, I'd bawl, she thought despondentlyBut
    she found another weak smile for Col
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
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    “I don't understandWhere does it lead?How does a mountain lead us?” My pulse beat faster as
    I thought of it: Jared was closeJamie, within my reach
    She showed me the answer
    “They're just linesAnd Uncle Jeb is just an old lunaticA nut job, like the rest of my dad's
    family I try to tug the book out of Jared's hands, but he barely seems to notice my effort
    “A nut job, like Sharon's mom?” kelly hermes he counters, still studying the dark pencil marks that deface
    the back cover of the old photo albumIt's the one thing I haven't lost in all the runningEven
    the graffiti loony Uncle Jeb left on it during his last visit has sentimental value now If Sharon is still alive, it will be because her mother, loony Aunt Maggie, could
    give loony Uncle Jeb a run for the title of Craziest of the cartier watches women Crazy Stryder SiblingsMy father had
    been only slightly touched by the Stryder madness–he didn't have a secret bunker in the
    backyard or anythingThe rest of them, his sister and brothers, Aunt Maggie, Uncle Jeb, and
    Uncle Guy, were the most devoted of conspiracy theoristsUncle Guy had died before the
    others disappeared during the invasion, in a car accident so commonplace that even handbag dolce gabbana Maggie and
    Jeb had struggled to make an intrigue out of it
    My father always affectionately referred to them asthe Crazies“I think it's time we visited the
    Crazies,” Dad would announce, and then Mom would groan–which is why such announcements
    had happened so seldom
    On one of those rare visits to Chicago, Sharon had snuck me into her mother's hidey-holeWe
    got caught–the woman had booby Chloe Purse traps every-whereSharon was scolded soundly, and though I
    was sworn to secrecy, I'd had a sense Aunt Maggie might build a new sanctuary
    But I remember where the first isI picture Sharon there now, living the life of Anne Frank in
    the middle of an enemy cityWe have to find her and bring her home
    Jared interrupts my reminiscing“Nut jobs are exactly the kind of people who will fendi b have
    survive
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    8:43 am
    @@@@@I had met her, after all, and I knew what
    @@@@@I had
    met her, after all, and I knew what she thought of
    my work
    "Pam, something very bad is happening on this
    islandI-"
    "Do you think I care about that, Edgar? Or about
    why that woman did it? You got our daughter killed
    I don't ever want to talk to you again, I don't
    want to see you again, and I'd rather poke out my
    eyes than ever have to look at another picture of
    yoursYou should have died when that crane hit
    you There was an awful thoughtfulness in her
    voice"That would have been a happy ending
    There was a moment of silence, then once more the
    hum of an open lineI considered throwing the
    whole works across the room and against the wall,
    but the Edgar floating over my head said noThe
    910
    Edgar floating over my head said that would
    perhaps give Perse too much pleasureSo I hung it
    up gently instead, and then for a minute I just
    stood there swaying on my feet, alive while my
    nineteen-year-old daughter was dead, not shot
    after all but drowned in her own bathtub by a mad
    art critic
    Then, slowly, I walked back out through the doorThere seemed no reason to lock it
    nowThere was a broom meant for sweeping sand off
    the walk leaning against the side of the houseI
    looked at it and my right arm began to itchI
    lifted my right hand and held it in front of my
    eyesIt wasn't there, but when I opened it and
    closed it, I could feel it flexI could also feel
    a couple of long nails biting into my palmThe
    others felt short and raggedThey must have
    broken offSomewhere - perhaps on the carpet
    upstairs in Little Pink - were a couple of ghost
    fingernails
    "Go away," I told it"I don't want you anymore,
    go away and be deadLike the arm to which it
    had once been attached, the hand itched and
    throbbed and ached and refused to leave me
    "Then go find my daughter," I said, and the tears
    began to fl
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    8:43 am
    @@@@@I think too well of Miss Bertram to suppose
    @@@@@I think too well of Miss
    Bertram to suppose she would ever give her hand without her heart
    “Mary, how shall we manage him?”
    “We must leave him to himself, I believe
    He will be taken in at last
    “But I would not have him taken in; I would not have him duped;
    I would have it all fair and honourable
    40
    Mansfield Park
    “Oh dear! let him stand his chance and be taken inIt will do just
    as wellEverybody is taken in at some period or other
    “Not always in marriage, dear Mary
    “In marriage especiallyWith all due respect to such of the present
    company as chance to be married, my dear MrsGrant, there is not
    one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry
    Look where I will, I see that it is so; and I feel that it must be so,
    when I consider that it is, of all transactions, the one in which people
    expect most from others, and are least honest themselves
    “Ah! You have been in a bad school for matrimony, in Hill Street
    “My poor aunt had certainly little cause to love the state; but,
    however, speaking from my own observation, it is a manoeuvring
    businessI know so many who have married in the full expectation
    and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connexion,
    or accomplishment, or good quality in the person, who have found
    themselves entirely deceived, and been obliged to put up with exactly
    the reverseWhat is this but a take in?”
    “My dear child, there must be a little imagination hereI beg your
    pardon, but I cannot quite believe youDepend upon it, you see
    but halfYou see the evil, but you do not see the consolationThere
    will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all
    apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails,
    human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we
    make a second better: we find comfort somewhere—and those evilminded
    observers, dearest Mary, who make much of a little, are
    more taken in and deceived than the parties themselves
    “Well done, sister! I honour your esprit du corpsWhen I am a
    wife, I mean to be just as staunch myself; and I wish my friends in
    general would be so tooIt would save me many a heartache
    “You are as bad as your brother, Mary; but we will cure you both
    Mansfield shall cure you both, and without any taking
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    8:44 am
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    "Men, Ah'll give ya anythin' Wilson's voice had changed, become almost shrillHe would talk in long spates, droning on and on, his voice singsonging almost unrecognizably"Jus' name it, men, Ah'll give it ya, any ol' thing, y' want some goddam money Ah'll give ya rolex submariner replica hundid poun' you jus' set me down, gimme drinkJus' gimme it, men, tha's all Ah ask
    They stopped for a longer halt, and Goldstein lunged away and fell forward on his face, lying motionless for several minutesRidges stared dully at him, then at Wilson"What you want, some water?"
    "Yeah, gimme that, gimme some waterHis short powerful body seemed to have classic chanel bag condensed in the last two daysHis big slack mouth hung openHis back had shortened and his arms become longer, his head bent over at a smaller angle to his chestHis thin sandy hair drooped sadly over his sloping forehead and his clothing sagged wetlyHe looked like a giant phlegmatic egg set on a stout tree stump"Shoot, Ah don't know why y' can't have chanel jewelry water
    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    8:54 am
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    "I'm glad you liked it," said the housekeeper
    "You've got five more to doEvery man, woman, and child in
    Ballyhara
    has to get a little piece for good luckThey're waiting outsideThe
    maids will take the pieces down on trays after you finish
    "My grief," said Scarlett"I should have taken littler bites After
    breakfast Colum gucci for women accompanied her through the town for her next ritual
    It was good luck for the whole year if a dark-haired person visited a
    house on New Year's DayBut the tradition required that the person
    enter, then be escorted out, then be escorted back in agaIn"And
    don't you dare laugh," Colum ordered"Any dark-haired person is
    good
    luckThe head of a clan is ten times over balenciaga replica good luck Scarlett was
    staggering when it was over"Thank goodness there are still so many
    empty buildings," she gasped"I'm awash with tea and foundering
    from
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    every single place?" Scarlett darling, how can you call it a visit if
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    would have been whiskey and not tea"Cat might
    have loved that February I was considered the beginning of the farm
    year in IrelandAccompanied by everyone who worked and lived in
    Ballyhara, Scarlett stood in the center of a big field and, after
    saying a prayer for the success of the crops, sank a spade into the
    earth, lifted and turned the first sodNow the omega seamaster gold year could begin
    After the feast of applecake-and milk, of course, because February I
    was also the feast day of Saint Brigid, Ireland's other patron saint,
    who was also patron saint of the dairyWhen everyone was eating
    and
    talking after the ceremony, Scarlett knelt by the opened earth and
    took
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    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    8:52 am
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    That's how we realized you were here, you know,she said, thinking of the sickening news
    headlines againhen the evening news was nothing but inspiring human-interest stories, when
    pedophiles and junkies were lining up at the hospitals to turn themselves in, when everything
    morphed into Mayberry, that's when you tipped your hand
    “What an awful alteration!” I said dryly, turning to the next cupboard
    I pulled the stiff door back and found the mother lode
    “Crackers!” I shouted, seizing the discolored, half-smashed box of SaltinesThere was another
    box behind it, one that looked like someone had stepped on it
    Look!Melanie urged, pointing a mental finger at three dusty bottles of bleach at the very back
    of the cupboard
    What do you want bleach for?I asked, already ripping into the cracker boxo throw in
    someone's eyes? Or to brain them with the bottle?
    To my delight, the crackers, though reduced to crumbs, were still inside their plastic sleevesI
    tore one open and started shaking the crumbs into my mouth, swallowing them half chewedI
    couldn't get them into my stomach fast enough
    Open a bottle and smell it,she instructed, ignoring my commentaryhat's how my dad used to
    store water in the garageThe bleach residue kept the water from growing anything finished one sleeve of crumbs and started on the nextThey were very stale, but
    compared to the taste in my mouth, they were ambrosiaWhen I finished the third, I became
    aware that the salt was burning the cracks in my lips and at the corners of my mouth
    I heaved out one of the bleach bottles, hoping Melanie was rightMy arms felt weak and
    noodley, barely able to lift itThis concerned us bothHow much had our condition deteriorated
    already? How much farther would we be able to go?
    The bottle's cap was so tight, I wondered if it had melted into placeFinally, though, I was able
    to twist it off with my teethI sniffed at the opening carefully, not especially wanting to pass out
    from bleach fumesThe chemical scent was very faintIt was water, definit
    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    8:43 am
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    Wireman's hand gripped mine
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    "Hey! How was that?"
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    "Sure," I said"Time and a ha-"
    "Ain't you gone draw nuthin?" Noveen asked,
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    Jack was now looking off to the side, into the
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    eyes distantHe looked neither conscious nor
    unconscious; he looked someplace between
    Wireman let go of me and reached into the food-bag,
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    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
    8:43 am
    @@@@@She appears to feel as she oughtBut as I
    @@@@@She appears to feel as she oughtBut as I conclude that she
    must wish to go, since all young people like to be together, I can see
    no reason why she should be denied the indulgence
    “But can I do without her, Sir Thomas?”
    “Indeed I think you may
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    Mansfield Park
    “She always makes tea, you know, when my sister is not here
    “Your sister, perhaps, may be prevailed on to spend the day with
    us, and I shall certainly be at home
    “Very well, then, Fanny may go, Edmund
    The good news soon followed herEdmund knocked at her door
    in his way to his own
    “Well, Fanny, it is all happily settled, and without the smallest hesitation
    on your uncle’s sideHe had but one opinion
    “Thank you, I am so glad,” was Fanny’s instinctive reply; though
    when she had turned from him and shut the door, she could not
    help feeling, “And yet why should I be glad? for am I not certain of
    seeing or hearing something there to pain me?”
    In spite of this conviction, however, she was gladSimple as such an
    engagement might appear in other eyes, it had novelty and importance
    in hers, for excepting the day at Sotherton, she had scarcely ever
    dined out before; and though now going only half a mile, and only to
    three people, still it was dining out, and all the little interests of preparation
    were enjoyments in themselvesShe had neither sympathy nor
    assistance from those who ought to have entered into her feelings and
    directed her taste; for Lady Bertram never thought of being useful to
    anybody, and MrsNorris, when she came on the morrow, in consequence
    of an early call and invitation from Sir Thomas, was in a very
    ill humour, and seemed intent only on lessening her niece’s pleasure,
    both present and future, as much as possible
    “Upon my word, Fanny, you are in high luck to meet with such
    attention and indulgence! You ought to be very much obliged to
    MrsGrant for thinking of you, and to your aunt for letting you go,
    and you ought to look upon it as something extraordinary; for I
    hope you are aware that there is no real occasion for your going into
    company in this sort of way, or ever dining out at all; and it is what
    you must not depend upon ever being repeatedNor must you be
    fancying that the invitation is meant as any particular compliment
    to you; the compliment is intended to your uncle and aunt and meGrant thinks it a civility due to us to take a little notice of you,
    or else it would never have come into her head, and you may be
    very certain that, if your cousin Julia had been at home, you would
    not have been asked at all
    191
    Jane Austen
    MrsNorris had now so ingeniously done away all MrsGrant’s
    part of the favour, that Fanny, who found herself expected to speak,
    could only say that she was very much obliged to her aunt Bertram
    for sparing her, and that she was endeavouring to put her aunt’s
    evening work in such a state as to prevent her being missed
    “Oh! depend upon it, your aunt can do very well without you, or
    you would not be allowed to goI shall be here, so you may be quite
    easy about your auntAnd I hope you will have a very agreeable day,
    and find it all mighty delightfulBut I must observe that five is the
    very awkwardest of all possible numbers to sit down to table; and I
    cannot but be surprised that such an elegant lady as
    Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
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