“Our message is simple. You can do anything you set your mind to do.”

–Team Hoyt

“I tell you this, family is more important than work. I have my priorities straight because my employer will know that they are not the most important thing in my life. So in 30 years, I will tell my children “Money will make me happy” is a lie and “Happiness comes from within.”

This video was created for the AARP U@50 video contest and placed second. It is based on the Argentinian Political Advertisement “The Truth” by RECREAR.

The brick walls that are in our way are there for a reason. They are not there to keep us out. They are there to give us a way to show how much we want [something].

~~ Professor Randy Pausch, who died of pancreatic cancer in 2008.

This quote was part of his “Last Lecture” at the Carnegie Mellon University, a traditional lecture series where professors are given the chance to say what they would to their students if they were to die soon. For Dr. Pausch, the theoretical exercise literally became true, when he was diagnosed with the debilitating disease. Watch the full lecture on Oprah.

Get Rich Slowly gave me food for thought again today. In his most recent post, he said:

“True wealth has nothing to do with money.”

That made me stop and think. I know that’s true. I know that in the end, we won’t bring any of our mutual funds, savings, time deposits, stocks and bonds to the next world. That’s silly, right? I know that what really matters is family, faith, friends, service to others—and these are things that don’t have a peso or dollar sign before them.
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“We make a living by what we get, but we build a life by what we give.”

– Anonymous

“The myth of wonderful capitalism is dead but not capitalism, just the nice warm fuzziness.”

– former International Monetary Fund chief economist Simon Johnson

Our individual worth is already divinely established as “great”; it does not fluctuate like the stock market.

– Neal A. Maxwell

“Want is the path to the Dark Side. Want leads to spending. Spending leads to debt. Debt leads to suffering.”

– Get Rich Slowly

“It’s not want that’s the problem, but the habit of constantly satisfying one’s wants.”

– Get Rich Slowly’s cousin’s rebuttal

“Everything’s going to be OK.”
– Nick Vujicic

Such simple words have never been uttered with so much impact as when they came from Nick. Watch the video and see why.

Nick graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Financial Planning and Accounting, and is a stock market and real estate investor, and a philanthropist.But his greatest asset is his sense of humor.

Photo courtesy of Red Monkey

(To the tune of “My Way” karaoke-style)

And now, the end is near,
And so I face my final buying.
My friend, I’ll say it clear,
The bounce will come, oh who am I fooling.

I’ve lived a life in greed.
And now it’s time to live in fear.
And more, much more than this,
I did it my way.

Regrets, I’ve had a few;
Just like when I did not sell Petron
I sold, all that I owned
And bet it all, all on Omico.

I read technical charts;
And listened to my fund adviser
But more, much more than this,
I did it my way.

Yes, there were times, I’m sure you knew
When I borrowed money from you
But through it all, when I would lose,
I ate lugaw or Lucky Me.
I faced it all, and I stood tall,
And did it my way.

I’ve loved, I’ve laughed, I’ve cried.
I’ve had too big a share of losing.
And now, as tears subside,
I will commit my suicide.

To think, I did all that;
And may I say – not in a bright way,
No, oh no not me,
I did it my way.

For what is a man, what has he got?
If prices dive, then he has naught.
To say the things he truly feel;
And yes, the words of one who kneels.
The record shows I took the blows
And did it my way.

–original verses, written in the spirit of fun, by a financial planner friend who asks not to be identified.

Dyandyararandandan! Score: 100 shares in Omico