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From the jacket cover of the book The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery by Ruiz & Ruiz available @ Amazon.com
BE IMPECCABLE WITH YOUR WORDS
Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
DON’T TAKE ANYTHING PERSONAL
Nothing others do is because of you. Continue reading “The Five Agreements”
2001 – Kurt Russell, Kevin Costner, Courtney Cox, Christian Slater, Kevin Pollack, David Arquette, Jon Lovitz, Howie Long, Thomas Haden Church, David Kaye
Link to 3000 Miles to Graceland on IMDB.com
Normally I do not watch anything this violent. Normally I avoid any movie with Kevin Costner in it. The first because I just do not care to see violence. I once got talked into going to the drive-in to see The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I spent the whole evening with the sun visor down on the passenger side of the car, trying the best I could to not listen. Continue reading “3000 Miles to Graceland”
I was listening to an NPR story about payday loan companies outside of Fort Pendleton in California.
There was a big push on to do something about them for various reason, not the least of which is that some of them were charging what was effectively 300% interest per year.
They were interviewing one of the operators of a payday loan operation, and one of his comments was, “Who are they to tell a boy about to go over to Bagdad that he cannot have $1800 wheels on his vehicle?” His comment just blew my mind for some reason.
Having never taken a payday loan, I don’t quite understand the concept. But if I were to do such a thing it would not be for $1800 chrome wheels.
And if I were charging 300% interest I sure as heck would not use a kid wanting $1800 chrome wheels as justification.
I’m still trying to get my mind around this. Mattel has had to recall a million or so toys because of lead paint. I heard on the radio that the plant manager from the Chinese factory responsible for putting the lead paint on the toys committed suicide.
A gentleman in the business segment of the morning NPR news show was commenting on the suicide story. He said it was fairly common in Japan and Korea for business executives to commit suicide, but not very common in China. He felt that this was possibly a good thing. It might mean the Chinese were caring more about the quality and the safety of their products, and possibly a little less about the bottom line at the expense of everything else.
This is about the time my head starting spinning, or maybe that was from getting out of bed too fast. Continue reading “Chinese factory suicide a good thing?”