I'm in love with my Dad's list of thirteen things. I wanted to share it with all of you... enjoy this guest post.
1 - I believe ones values in priority order must be God, family, reasonable financial security, and then everything else.
2 - I agree with Albert Einstein that compound interest is the most powerful math concept known to man. I hate paying compound interest. I like being paid compound interest.
3 - I believe one should save 10% of their gross income, pay their fair share of taxes, contribute regularly to a church or charitable organization, and then learn to live on the rest.
4 - I'm a geek through and through. I'm doubly geeky so I've been told, because I like math. (I think I read some place that geeks make 37% more money then average people per capita.)
5 - I'm a ham. No, not the lousy actor kind, the radio kind. Therefore, I love breakfast at the coffee shop with my geeky ham friends. We talk about radio, politics, radio, the economy, radio, life in general, and yes radio. (You do know that good communications is the solution to all the world's problems don't you?)
6 - I prefer my own organically grown veggies, fruit, chicken and beef to store bought, but I'm best at "growing" compost.
7 - I have no intention of growing old gracefully. I'm going to fight and kick all the way. My doctors hate me because I go to them for a diagnosis not a cure. I won't take their toxic pills unless they can convince me that without them I'll die or at least be permanently maimed. (Don't you love it when your doc quotes statistics to you and he never even took college algebra let alone a measurement and statistics course.)
8 - I believe one has nothing more valuable then a good attitude. In this world your attitude is the only thing you truly have control over. You may choose to give up control of you attitude, but it cannot be taken away. Best of all you can reclaim it's control any time you want.
9 - I believe reading a good book is more fulfilling then watching television, even HDTV with surround sound. I cannot tell you the theme of last night's TV program, but I can remember books I've read years ago. No it's not my age. I've always been that way.
10 - I believe we were born to learn. I also believe we were given the free will to do with that learning what we choose. Be it for good or evil.
11 - I believe greed (the love of money if you like) is the root of all evil and it's first cousin is scarcity thinking.
12 - I believe that first we must all accept that every living being has the inalienable right to adequate food and shelter, as well as, physical and emotional security if there is ever to be real world peace.
13 - I believe that we all serve God whether we believe in Him or not. Some of us serve as bad examples, but we all serve and then we die.
Bips, a.k.a. Dad
