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Posted by: | CommentsThis is my first week back after a crazy vacation in Thailand and the avoidance of the death trap at the Taj in India. So with charitable spirit and gratefulness for life and family I will offer email support for free all week. Feel free to contact me via the contact page on here and I will get back to you quickly with some great totally free coaching and consulting support all week long.
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Shellee Hale
I want a refund!
Posted by: | CommentsWhen can I as a tax payer demand a refund? Never say never. This is absolutely the worst decision making I have ever seen in my life by policital figures it is one sham after another up there on Capital Hill. Give me a break $4million dollar bonuses for AIG executives – what the heck did they do to deserve a bonus? Then this bank using the “bail out money” to buy a bank in China.
Ok so here I go I think we should ask for a refund and block any more of our money being given out to anyone. I want my money back. I will deposit it in my bank and make purchases in American products and maybe even buy a new American made car with it. This will do a lot more to keep jobs and increase revenue flow into our economy.
This new proposal to hold taxes for two months will do very little for the people who have already been victims of irresponsible corporations and that SEC thats the biggest pyramid scheme program I have ever seen. Look the hundreds of thousands of people who just lost their jobs many who needed to modify mortgages now can’t qualify because they don’t have an income so giving them some tax relief and more time to get a new job is better than paying off the negative balance sheets caused by corporate executive greed and irresponsible spending.
We paid taxes and trusted you all in Washington to do the right thing with our funds and you all have failed us miserably. This is no longer a Republican/Democratic blame game and we have to stop going over and over the problems and come up with a real viable solution that does more than line all your pockets. I am done with your bad decisions anyone else think that we should get a refund?
I say go back to those loser CEO’s and other executives you all over paid and get your money from them not us tax payers.
What to do when chaos is all around you?
Posted by: | CommentsA very wise person told me years ago that almost every where you go there is a bathroom and when you’re in the middle of something chaotic and uncomfortable the best thing you can do is remove yourself and use the excuse of the bathroom.
Disengaging from chaos is your only chance of survival. It is best not to try and figure everything out all the time some things are best not understood as knowledge brings responsibility and if you have been working with irresponsible people go with your gut and get out now before you get implicated.
I learned a long time ago that proving what you know is true is not that important, your only finding proof to satisfy others opinions which means your still validating your worth on their judgement. If you are centered and confident others opinions of your intuition is worthless anyways.
Trust yourself and make decisions that you can live with.
An example of this is a client who recently fell into depression over his gut telling him that there was inappropriate accounting practices with a public company he worked for. He felt that quitting his job was not an option because his family relied on the income for support. After discussions and some guidance he did quit and cashed out all his stock. He ended up ahead as had he stayed he would have lost nearly 75% of his worth as the economy downturn and the lack of the Peter’s to pay the Paul’s stopped for this organization and they were exposed. Now his intuition won’t be used against him if he is called into questions about what he knew and when because had he gone the way of his personality and waited until he figured it all out and had the proof he thought he needed the ending of this story would have been very different. He gets to live with a lot less regret having relied on his intuition.
The victims of corporate scandal will be large as many were unaware of the “Enron” type accounting practices that went on behind closed doors. You don’t have to open that door and see what’s going on if something does not feel right get quiet and make a decision you can live with.
Did we learn anything from the Orange County Bankruptcy?
Posted by: | CommentsIn 1994 Orange County’s mismanagement became the largest bankruptcy of a municipality. When the city treasurer bet the county’s money on highly risky investments and the county lost billions of dollars. Reading back through the information I believe we may soon face similar issues across many cities in America. When Government Fails: The Orange County Bankruptcy is a summary of what happened. Although the natural disasters i.e. Katrina, Ike etc. have added another factor besides the economic downturn and bad investments a new and ever growing list of failing American Cities and States are emerging . I really think that there are many who did not learn any lessons from this and are faced with exactly the same troubles with the current market crash.
With these entities collecting less taxes and the rapidly falling real estate price, limited credit available, growing unemployment and deficits like we have never seen before we are in a multifaceted deterioration of what we once knew and relied on from our public resources provided by our cities, states and government.
It will take miracles and hard work to turn this around. If anything can bring us together I believe this reversal of fortune is the time. We should start by coming together with our friends and neighbors and just start getting to know each other better. We should watch out for each other’s homes and families and neighborhoods. Don’t wait for a tragedy to happen before you get to know the names of the people that live around you take time today to reach out and exchange names and numbers.
Remember as cities cut employees the Police, Fire and Rescue services may be compromised, hospital waits may be extended and more families can reduce incidents by building a network of people that can help from within their area. Set up a coffee or just knock on a door make an effort to meet someone new on your block or at your kids school. That little neighborhood watch program is making a comeback so be part of the “in” group and do your part to make sure you and your neighbors are working together to successfully keep your community from random neighborhood crimes and tragedies.
