Pipeline
There was a small island in the Pacific Ocean where the natives were dependent upon a well in the center of their village. One day the well suddenly ran dry. The village leaders called an emergency meeting to discuss what to do about it. After a long debate, they accepted two offers on solving this problem with the agreement that they would earn 25 cents per gallon delivered.
The first person promised to deliver water immediately. He began hauling two buckets of water back and forth from a nearby lake to the well. He made money immediately, and he kept very busy, 12-14 hours a day.
The other person was a woman. She also promised to deliver water, but explained that it would take a year. She hired a contractor to construct a pump and a pipeline from the lake to the well. After a year of building the pipeline, which included a meter to measure the number of gallons coming through the pipeline, she had the pump turned on. Now she could rest and relax, and collect her residual income the rest of her life.
The point of this story is that the ideal business is one that will create for you and your family a FINANCIAL pipeline of passive income that could last for the rest of your life. We call this residual income. This is where you have real freedom, the freedom to do what you really want with your life.
Would you agree that most people are carrying buckets, trading time for money, and are NOT very free? We teach people how to build a financial pipeline so that they can be free to do what they really want with their life. Does that make sense to you?
How important is it to you to have this kind of freedom?
Inconveniences could save your life.
After Sept. 11th, one company invited remaining members of other companies who had been decimated by the attack on the Twin Towers to share their available office space.
At a morning meeting, the head of security told stories of why these people were alive...... and they all were about the simple things of that morning...
As you might know, the head of the company got in late that day because his son started kindergarten.
Another fellow was alive because it was his turn to bring donuts.
One woman was late because her alarm clock didn't go off in time.
One was late because of being stuck on the NJ Turnpike because of an auto accident.
One of them missed his bus.
One spilled food on her clothes and had to take time to change.
One's car wouldn't start.
One went back to answer the telephone.
One had a child that dawdled and didn't get ready as soon as he should have.
One couldn't get a taxi.
The one that struck me was the man who put on a new pair of shoes that morning, took the various means to get to work but before he got there, he developed a blister on his foot. He stopped at a drugstore to buy a Band-Aid. That is why he is alive today.
Now when I am stuck in traffic, miss an elevator, turn back to answer a ringing telephone ... all the little things that annoy me. I think to myself, this is exactly where God wants me to be at this very moment.
Next time your morning seems to be going wrong, the children are slow getting dressed, you can't seem to find the car keys, you hit every traffic light, don't get mad or frustrated; God is at work watching over you.
May God continue to bless you with all those annoying little things and may you remember their possible purpose.
By Diane, Department of Veterans Affairs
The meaning behind "The Pledge of Allegiance".
The following words were spoken by the late Red Skelton on his television program as he related the story of his teacher, Mr. Laswell, who felt his students had come to think of "The Pledge of Allegiance" as merely something to recite in class each day.
Mr. Laswell said ---
I've been listening to you boys and girls recite "The Pledge of Allegiance" all semester and it seems as though it is becoming monotonous to you. If I may, may I recite it and try to explain to you the meaning of each word?
I
me, an individual, a committee of one.
Pledge
dedicate all of my worldly goods to give without self pity.
Allegiance
my love and my devotion.
To the flag of the
our standard, Old Glory, a symbol of freedom. Wherever she waves, there's respect because your loyalty has given her a dignity that shouts freedom is everybody's job!
United
that means that we have all come together.
States of America
individual communities that have united into 48 great states. Forty-eight individual communities with pride and dignity and purpose; all divided with imaginary boundaries; yet united to a common purpose, and that's love for country.
And to the republic
a state in which sovereign power is invested in representatives chosen by the people to govern. And government is the people and it's from the people to the leaders, not from the leaders to the people.
For which it stands, one nation
one nation, meaning "so blessed by God".
Indivisible
incapable of being divided.
With liberty
which is freedom --- the right of power to live one's own life without threats, fear or some sort of retaliation.
And Justice
the principle or quality of dealing fairly with others.
For all
which means, boys and girls, it's as much your country as it is mine.
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Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our country and two words have been added to
"The Pledge of Allegiance".....
Under God
Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that it would be eliminated from schools too?
God Bless America!
