I can relate 1001% to that charity stuff. As the oldest of 12 kids, I had a Dad who was on LSD back in the 60’s due to a head injury and a crazy Mom delivering kids every few years. Imagine living with a 6′4″ ex-wrestler Dad with 20″ guns! Him on LSD!!! A real fun life none of us kids ever forgot. (Discipline time, now that’s a whole other story)

We were a just teeny bit poor growing up in Houston. A life of poorness where the roaches ate better than us. It was pretty humiliating even if I didn’t know it until I reached the big age of say, 10. Getting Gov assistance, free “Po folk food” at school and wearing clothes given to us from the rich cuz’ns and the Goodwill is the kind of personality beating every kid back then needed for well-rounded personality profile.

Tough, embarrassing, yes. But as I grew to the ripe old age of 16 I went out on my own. Before that Dad made me quit school at 13 to go to work and help feed the fam. Don’t pity me. That life of learning how to be Hustlin’ on the streets taught me to develop my own style and build my independent character.

The biggest advantage was being like ol’ Ty Cobb, not allowing people to tell me it can’t be done. Proving the naysayers wrong can be hard on your sleep patterns but gives you a reason to get up and fight for your right to suffer and do well at the same time.

In today’s free loading, I want it yesterday society, they want the feds to give them everything. Nobody wants to get off their asses and figure a way to solve the probs. They spend more time talking than doing. Give me what I deserve they say. No way mayo. I’m not falling for it. I want nothing for free. I gotta dig my own ditch with my old bent up shovel my way.

Hey, I could ask the Gov for help and I may get it after a bunch of ridiculous begging, racial profiling and telling them how many times I have sex and what my hemmorroids look like and all that jazz. I no gonna do. Right now Ihave 100% Diabetic Peripeheral Neoropathy in my feet. I can barely walk and for me to go and ask them for a SS check just gives me a headache. At the tender age of 52 when all my friends are running around looking for adolescent fun, I stumble around like a drunken sign painter looking for his brush. It just kills my attiude most of the time, but I still plug away at life and business.

You cannot shoot yourself over lifes threats. From what my Doc tells me someday soon I may be confined to a wheelchair from amputations. Well you know what? No problem. I’m already rocking the boat and making waves in preparation for that. I’ll keep pecking the keys and pushing the pen and wracking my lil’ brain helping my clients with their business ordeals and the potholes of life. As long as my brain doesn’t become a scientifc study for unusual insanity, I’m all goody

I am fully aware that if we want too live in this cruel world, we make my own damn rules and live life your own way even if that means being a darn good bum! And buddy, I’m the “King of Irresponsibilty”. Ain’t life a mess!? Keeps me six feet above ground that’s for sure!!

Mikey

This one goes in my file.

And now we have a government that hopes to stay in power by enabling fully one half of our population to be victims of some sort. Keep up the good work–telling the truth. You’ll honk some people off–but the truth usually does.

You always get me to think and I appreciate it.

I admire people like you who use their talent to be a force for good in our world.

Thanks again for all you do.

Keep the faith and keep being YOU!

~Ronald
TrueBeliever & HopeDealer

“Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.” - Michael Jordan, who was cut from his high school basketball team.

I’d wager that most of us learned to read and write in public schools. Does that make us all charity cases? If you threw it all away and didn’t learn anything, then that’s something else altogether. But would you rather go back to the days when there was no public education? I wouldn’t. It’s kind of tricky to write sales letters to people who can’t read.

They do it for the love of the game, like Cobb, or they do it out of a sense of duty.

The duty part often confuses people. They confuse a sense of duty with fear of loss like we’ve seen on the bumper sticker; “I owe, I owe, so off to work I go.” But that is just one sense of duty.

The more powerful sense of duty is that one you feel about leaving a legacy, about changing people’s lives, about somehow leaving the world a little better than you found it.

History is writ large by such men. And their work ethic is profound.

There is an attitude or mind set that accompanies failure, or the quiet life of desperation that most men lead.

They have the idea of doing “just enough”. They measure everything in terms “how little effort can I get by with.”

I learned one of the most powerful lessons of my life from a hand full of un-educated Indians and blue-collar roughnecks - when I worked as a logger in my youth.

They taught me, “Pull hard - it comes easy” and the reciprocal, “Pull easy - it comes hard”.

The great philosophical rules of life are not relegated it seems to the ivy covered halls of academia.

This all comes down to one thing alone: Do you eat to live or live to eat? There are some who are born with the proverbial silver spoon in their mouth and others who cannot somehow even have one good meal. Everyone knows the value of work, other than those who have inherited a fortune.

Let’s say you are the winner of the Lotto, but you are also a great copywriter wannabe. What will you do with your life? Will you still continue to go after copywriting riches?

You have to be so committed that you think that copywriting will earn you more than even the Lotto can.

On the internet, most people are gamblers. They gamble their money and time to get enormous riches. Gamblers are ready to risk their money. If they strike gold, well and good. And there are some who have done it on the internet. If their system has worked for them, why would they want to work their butts off. All businessman are like gamblers in that they are ready to take risks. Most of these wannabes on the internet have only the dream of immediate riches and that’s why they fall to scamsters like the one mentioned by Jenny Haeckel here yesterday.

In fact, it is claimed that 95 per cent of all small businesses fail within the first year of their launch. So what is required is some of Clayton’s insights into how one can succeed in whatever one does.

Bye now,

George