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I call myself Bad Mom because at the time I came up with it, I was learning about the assumptions we put behind our words. I was following the pattern of not believing that my kids are okay, and speaking to them from that basis. I changed that, and it made a big difference. I am from Utah and my people are still living there. My husband was in the Air Force and we rattled around until we saw Colorado, and we stuck.

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Review: 'How to Get Rich' by Felix Dennis
Contributed by: Lisa Arata   on 8/20/2008

I just read How to Get Rich by Felix Dennis. It's the kind of book I enjoy reading--the author talking to me with authority on a subject he knows well.

I'll give you the dirt on it:

Everyone would like to be rich. To get rich it's got to mean more than that--you have to need to, have a compulsion to, get rich.

You don't need to have a great idea and turn it into a reality. People have failed to get rich because they wanted to perfect what they were doing. Instead they got to be really great at it. But if you want to get rich, you would do something and build up your enterprise, then when the roller coaster car was still going uphill, you'd sell to someone who wanted to get in and let them take the rest of the ride.

Get in on something new, or else take an old idea and give it a new twist. Mr. Dennis was a Bruce Lee fan, and he made a magazine that opened up to be a Bruce Lee poster. And then when Bruce Lee died, he had connections and material for aBruce Lee biography right when his fans all wanted more.

After that more magazines followed, and a lot of other wealth accumulation went on.

What I liked about this book was that in no way was Felix Dennis going to tell you that you could have it all.

To get rich, you have to be an obsessed workaholic, willing to be annoying, and those traits don't bode well for other good things in life. So, if you want to be F.U. rich, that's what you'll have to do in order to be it. If you want to have other areas in your life work out wonderfully, go there instead.

I looked at my family's salary on Dennis's chart. We fall under the heading "comfortable poor." That makes me laugh. It's so true. We don't have any great debt, but nothing we've invested in pays enough interest to speak of.

Anyway I came up with what I'd consider "rich."

I'd like a big creative project to put all my love into, like restoring a farmhouse, landscape and all.

I'd like asmall business to run.

I'd like to make a difference to some people, like those who are in depression or illiterate or in need of. Or I'd likea church that doesn't require faith in the supernatural.

I'd like to grow through my internal weaknesses and failings and understand them.

I'd like to break the biggest binding of all, of which I haven't spoken yet.

And that's about it.


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Submitted By: Sara Crowe
posted on 8/22/2008 @ 1:25:21 PM
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Cheers to the comfortably poor!
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Submitted By: Lisa Arata
posted on 8/21/2008 @ 6:51:05 PM
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Just take a can of gasoline and write a naughty word in that guy's grass. What's his address? I'll do it. ;^)
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Submitted By: Michael Rule
posted on 8/20/2008 @ 7:19:17 PM
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Just don't become a neurotic malcontent, and if you do, don't ask me to mow your lawn. Because I suck at it :)
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Greeley , CO

Lisa Arata has posted 182 blog entries and 282 comments since joining on 4/18/2007. Lisa Arata 's average blog rating is 4.74.
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