New Phrases Enhance Work Without Walls Premises

Against his better judgment and Co-Conspirator advice, Mike attended a local "Get Rich Quick Through Smart Real Estate Investing" seminar, held in a local hotel ballroom. Led by a German-sounding, Norse-like in stature, white South African in a crisp custom-tailored power suit, this event lured a group of some fifty people. Each was hungry to make some dough, be pulled from their going-nowhere current situations, pay off their debts and retire early -- all of which "Lars" said would be achievable for a nominal fee paid to obtain a slick How To guide and training video and by signing up for an additional 3-day course price-tagged at $995. (Old marketing gimmick -- price something just under $1,000 to fool people into thinking that the cost is really not that much -- in their heads $995 is doable; $1,025 is not as it's a number with 4 digits instead of the more affordable 3 digits, despite only a $30 difference in price).

Anyhow, Lauterborn, his Co-Conspirator CC and CC's liege O, sat in and listened along politely, hoping to gain at the very least one usable tidbit of information that they could constructively apply to their entrepreneurial endeavors. They ended up walking with no less than six nuggets, truly a bargain with admission to the event being free.

The First Nugget that tumbled from the Sham Tram was a cute meaning for the word "job": Journey Of The Broke. Agreed there. If you're at a job, it's work, and most likely you're a worker bee making money for someone else, with no control over your personal destiny.

The Next Nugget: "Retire Sooner Than Later". I'm sure we all want to do this but only a small percentage of us will be able to... most of us won't retire at all probably, what with Social Security funds being rapidly depleted, savings rates at all-time lows and debt ledgers crammed to the hilt. But, supposedly "Robert" (the founder of this program who, whether he actually does any real estate investing himself, is getting fat taking $995 here and $995 there from poor suckers for his supposed mind-blowing wisdom) has this figured out. And if he can do it, so can all of us apparently.

Nugget Three: By age 65, a person is going have to have saved $1.25 million to be able to live comfortably in retirement. With community organizer-come-president "The Obaminator" steering the ship that is America into tempest after tempest and onto rocky shores fraught with man-eating giant clams, we'll be lucky to have saved $125 by age 65. Stock up on cat food ladies and germs 'cause that's what we're all going to be dining on in our blue-hair days -- when U.S.A. no longer stands for United States of America but United Saudi Alliance, as most likely we'll have been taken over by a bunch of Middle Eastern sheiks in a government-brokered deal to offset by-then grossly overwhelming debt! You elected this Irresponsible Nut Job people! Tired of him yet?!

Nugget Four: "I was not put on this planet to survive, but to thrive." Now, that one we can get behind. Tracks with our mantra "Stimulate Your Own Economy". Be self-reliant. Captain of your own ship. Head of your own cheese. Master of your personal universe. Top Peel in the Banana Bunch. You get it.

Nugget Five: A nice little trio of words... Opportunity, Knowledge, Action. Again, tracks with the Writer's Workshop way of doing things: Create or identify an opportunity. Learn all you can about it -- the competition, the upsides, downsides, potential, financial gain. Take action -- don't let the idea sit just scratched out on a piece of paper. Make sure to pursue. You've already invested your valuable time in hatching and researching it. Now go after it. Don't worry about the money, it will follow if you take the bull by the horns. In the Work Without Walls world, Co-Conspirator CC is Lauterborn's "Dream Catcher", fielding his constant flow of mental ooze for them to expand upon, revisit and develop into a functioning plan of action.

Final Nugget: Go from "Cannot" to "I Can". Really important. Don't sell yourself short or let anyone tell you you can't do something. If you truly have an interest in a particular area and set your mind to learn it/accomplish it/do it/pursue it/win it/know it/buy it, etc., YOU ARE GOING TO BE SUCCESSFUL. Don't doubt yourself. A Loser is someone who hasn't even tried to tackle something for fear that they cannot do it.

That's all for now sports fans.