The old saying goes that history repeats itself and this is unerringly often the case, even if you might prefer for it not to be so. For instance, there are certainly parallels between a historical (as it died) currency such as the German mark in the 1920s and the current gradual destruction of both the British pound and US dollar. Speaking of Germany, just a few years after the infamous inflation, then hyperinflation of Weimar Germany, the Nazis succeeded in doing pretty much the same thing with its replacement, the reichsmark. Starting in 1933, they embarked on massive public spending programmes including the huge autobahn construction project. In addition to the propaganda value, this provided employment to over 100,000 labourers. You might well wonder just exactly how the Nazis funded such an undertaking. It is telling that in the four years since taking office, they depleted the total value of Germany’s gold reserves from 937 to 72 million reichsmarks. Which brings us neatly to the subject of the gold standard, whereby a country’s currency is effectively “backed” by a physical quantity of the precious metal, held in reserve. This has the effect of restricting the ability of central banks to increase the amount of money in circulation. When currency is not backed, known as fiat money, there is no such

 Oh no!  Your company announced it will be laying-off in two (2) months.  Are you feeling trapped like a mouse?   Downsizing, not upsizing, happens frequently, in the private sector of America, due to massive regulations and rising taxes which hinder new creativity’s birth.  Chances are there aren’t many new jobs opening up!  If you haven’t prepared you might have to look to the government for breathing room and groceries.  On the other hand, you might be one of the fortunate few who know about Jobs of The Mind and can figure out how to help yourself and the Company. You are too smart to believe you can make it in the trap of unemployment funds.  Downsized pay can’t work, but, intensity always makes you look deeper at details to increase outcomes. You know you can think quickly, and act fast, to be The Last Mohican!  Times of crisis force one to look deep.  In this case, it’s your job to look at “Where the Money Is” from your own checkbook to the Company structure.   Where does it stem from?   Using the Self-Leader System also known as the Visions Climax you can discover the responsibilities that lead to “Where the Money Is” and steer your ship the right direction to potentially avoid the Government Trap full of morsels for the mice. 

.. Later that afternoon Jake set up the checker board.  He sat Nicky down in front of it and showed the boy the rules of the game. “I know you’re a little young for this kid, but I taught all my children to play this game.  They got pretty good at it, especially my little girl.” “Where is your little girl?” Jake sighed.  “I don’t really know, she left home a long time ago and I haven’t heard from her since.  Her brothers live over in California and I don’t get to see them very much either.  So now I have you until they find your mother and I need a checkers opponent.  King me!” They played for a while and Jake ordered pizza for dinner.  As they ate, Nicky told Jake about being with his daddy and Crystal.  His father had taken Nicky for one of his regular visits and when the time was up he loaded everyone into the RV and hit the open road. Jake’s heart went out to Nicky’s mother.  He knew what it was like to lose a child and never know what happened.  ** *** ** The next morning Jake took Nicky into town for breakfast.  As they entered the diner, Margaret looked up from her breakfast and waived for them to join her

I was watching a TV show and the interviewer asked a dog handler why the dogs seem to go way off course at first. What the dog handler said made perfet sense for the dog and for us.  He said “Once the dog gets the sent, it makes a wide arc. Unfortunately, the farther away from the source the dog is the more it smells other sents. So, the dog is smelling how far it can go before it looses the sent. Once it looses the sent it moves back to the direction it could smell it. The dog then continues in a zig zag pattern based on strength of the sent. That is why you see dogs sniff from side to side. The closer they are to the target the easier it is for them to determine a strong or weak sent”  As people, we have to do the same thing. We all want to be successful in life so we start looking for success in a broad sweeping manner. The reason dogs are very successful is they stay focused on the one sent they are searching for. Most people unfortunately continually change their goal depending on what sent seems strongest. The big problem for people who do that is the target is rarely stationary. Before long the second