10% Failure Rate

I am sure this banner at Jordan Creek Town Center is meant as a brag but a 10% failure rate is appalling to me.

It must be appalling to the 10% that spent about $80,000 each just to graduate into unemployment.

Mind Blown

Wow! Is it ever! 

Who are these people who borrow money for toys and vacations? Do they not pay attention to a little thing called interest? 

Interest on a loan is a great thing - when you're the one collecting it.

2017 Goals

Bob's Goals:

• More time with grandkids in Kearney, NE.
• More contact and time with sibs.
• Finish the “Full Grassley”, i.e, visit all 99 counties in Iowa.
• Be more reflective and appreciative.
• Pass the general test to upgrade my amateur radio license.
• Continue to improve the agency and the Plan and make both independent of time and location.
• Gracefully exit groups and committees where I no longer have a great passion for their mission or I am doing too much of the work.
• Improve my work/life balance.

Debbie's Goals:

• Work less
• Look for a vacation home
• Travel more with my hubby

Conroyisms – Part 7

• Always lead with love.

• Self-actualized people can spot each other in a crowded room.

• Do you want my assessment of your unsolicited advice or shall I spare your feelings?

• If the other party in a discussion leads with their feelings leave the discussion with good-mannered expediency.

• Productivity equals self-esteem while a lack of productivity equals death of the human spirit.

• No government sponsored social program has ever created self-esteem.

• You are unique, just like everyone else.

• Expectations are critical: too low and your abilities are squandered; too high and your happiness is impossible.

• Apparently, every society has to try progressivism/socialism/communism at least once to see if it might work this time.

Until Debt Do Us Part

Our immediate gratification, consumption-driven culture never ceases to amaze me.

Apparently, somebody has statistics to show that a good marriage is built on a solid foundation of debt. Oh, and they are in the loan business.

"Big hat, no cattle" is a scenario for a doomed marriage.