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Earned vs Legally Stolen

 It's actually a pretty simple concept, yet, took so many discussions and arguments to fine-tune it. The premise is exactly as it's written; if you've earned it, it is a fully disclosed amount "paid" no questions, no grey. The Legally Stolen is in the minutia, in the back door deals, the distributor's kickbacks, the "all expenses paid" vacations ... I mean ... Trainings ... It's everywhere in every industry. Therefore it's legal and in so many aspects accepted and expected. That is until it isn't. In come the cowboy legal teams that are uncovering these legal crimes. And putting together compelling cases against the Legally Stolen money heist. All that has to happen is the legally stolen money outweighs the legal liability and boom industry innovation to figure out how to keep the golden goose on a laying! The cat and mouse game goes on, and I'm here to tell you the cats out of the bag. For years and years, retirement plans have been ...

Compete! Instead of trying to game the system, force the system to play in your game

I think that'll be the title of my book when I finally write one. The basis of the concept was brought to my attention as we were looking at a flowing grass landscape, beautiful, the occasional scrub oak with a horizon of snow-capped mountains. An artist friend pointed out the beautiful striations of color; being taller, I saw more of a giraffe coloring. The comment was, "imagine that was a 2 d picture". My response, "you can't compete with Nature" discussion then morphed into winning and losing, and therefore, you can compete with Nature, you just will always lose. However, to compete is to compete, and during competition, there is no winner or loser; there is just competition. Staying in context, did Michalango win when he took the stone and turned it into a masterpiece we now know as David? Or did Nature, because Nature supplied Michalango the image of David to make out of stone? Either way, I sure am glad that Michalango engaged in that competition.  Tha...