Promise #7 For The New Year: To Get Richer This Year

By Mark Morgan Ford | 01/9/2001 |

SAVING/INVESTMENT HABIT THAT WILL MAKE YOU WEALTHY IN 10-20 YEARS Boy, are you good! It’’s Tuesday and you have been with the ETR New Year’’s resolution program for seven days, including today. You are now in the top 20%! (And I bet I don’’t even have to remind you to reread your list every morning…

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Promise #6 For The New Year: To Start Your Own Business

By Mark Morgan Ford | 01/8/2001 |

Welcome to the second Monday of the New Year! Did you read through your New Year’s resolutions this morning? If not, do it now. You’ve been practicing your new, better life for a full week. You’ve been eating better, exercising more, getting to work earlier, and doing everything a little smarter than you did last…

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Promise #5 For The New Year: To Get Off Your Ass!

By Mark Morgan Ford | 01/5/2001 |

If you didn’t reread your list of New Year’s resolutions last night and this morning, do it now. Yesterday, you promised yourself that you would develop a skill that had the potential to make you big money. Today, you are going to promise yourself to make it happen. Here’s what I mean by “make it…

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Developing A Financially Valuable Skill

By Mark Morgan Ford | 01/4/2001 |

Well, here you are, still plugging away –and it’s already day four. You are now in the top 30%. Good work! Did you reread your list of New Year’s resolutions last night and this morning? If not, do it now. Today, you are going to promise yourself that this year you will learn (or perfect)…

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Be Younger Than You Are Right Now

By Mark Morgan Ford | 01/2/2001 |

If you did not read through your New Year’’s resolutions this morning, do so now. If you did, do it again. And congratulate yourself, because you are one step ahead of half of the rest of the people in this world who made promises yesterday. It’’s unbelievable, but true. More than 50% of yearly objectives…

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A Story To Make You Smile

By Mark Morgan Ford | 12/27/2000 |

““Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.”” – Plutarch This inspirational story was sent to us by  EN. His name was Fleming and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog.…

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Spend An Hour By Yourself Today

By Mark Morgan Ford | 12/26/2000 |

 ““A child shows gratitude the way a woman / Shows she likes a pretty dress – / Puts it on and takes it off again.”” – Archibald MacLeish  This is a good week to reflect upon the things that really matter in your life. So find an hour today to be alone. And think about…

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Paul Harvey Writes…

By Mark Morgan Ford | 12/22/2000 |

““The only gift is a portion of thyself.”” – Ralph Waldo Emerson“We tried so hard to make things better for our kids that we made them worse. For my grandchildren, I’d like better. I’d really like for them to know about hand-me-down clothes and homemade ice cream and leftover meat-loaf sandwiches. I really would. “I…

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International Business For Fun and Profit

By Mark Morgan Ford | 12/18/2000 |

““If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.””  Henry David Thoreau You develop your business in the good old USA. Everything is going well. You are profitable and the business is growing. But you aren’’t satisfied. You…

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Why, When, And How To Pursue Excellence

By Mark Morgan Ford | 12/15/2000 |

““Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.”” – Louise Brooks Long before In Pursuit of Excellence became a best seller, prominent businessmen touted excellence as the ultimate corporate objective. And maybe it is – for Fortune 500 companies. But most of the successful small-business…

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