It’s been a while. I don’t know why I just can’t sit down once in a while and update this thing. It’s not a lack of time, because as you know there’s always time to do something. You can steal it from somewhere. Life is so overwhelming right now. I feel like I’m drowning in never ending to do lists, projects, deadlines, and problems and excitement all at the same time. There seems to be no end to the insanity. But there’s no one to blame but myself and I know it. I’m not complaining or attempting to be negative. I know that I am… I’m just not trying it.

I’m listening to this great book right now. That’s right… "listening". I don’t read anymore. Just don’t have time (Well.. I dooo have time… I just don’t want to steal it from anything else) I listen to books… in the car and while I’m cleaning (which isn’t often) Anyway… it’s by Stanley Bing and it’s called "The Big Bing". It’s actually nothing like I thought it would be. The description that I read was this:

Stanley Bing knows whereof he speaks. He has lived the last two decades working inside a gigantic multinational corporation, kicking and screaming all the way up the ladder. He has seen it all: mergers, acquisitions, layoffs, the death of the three-martini lunch; and has himself been painfully re-engineered a number of times. He has eaten and drunk way too much, stayed in hotels far too good for him, waited for limousines in the pouring rain, and enjoyed it all. Sort of. Most importantly, Bing has seen management at its best and worst, and has practiced both as he made the transition from an inexperienced player who hated pompous senior management to a polished strategist who kind of sees its point of view now and then.

In one essential volume, here is all you need to know to master your career, your life, and when necessary, other weaker life forms.

Now that I re-read it I realize that I should have assumed that it would be more about corporate life as a middle manager than it was of business in general. It is very funny… just be opened minded. Bing has an extremely sarcastic point of view and dry delivery… Very funny though.

I know this is getting long, but I must also let you know that I finished reading (listening to) The Google Story. It was one of the most incredible Corporate Biographies I have EVER READ. It really put a life behind the story that we all know so well. You find yourself learning the details bout how Google grew from nothing to everything in a matter of 9 years. In reading it you really get to know the company and it’s founders Larry and Sergey.

So what else… Oh… another book… (Boy, it’s been a long time)… Major dissapointment. The Millionaire Next Door. In this book Thomas J. Stanley, Ph.D. and William D. Danko, Ph.D. do a "study of the rich in america". Their bottom line is this… if you hoard your money and never buy anything… you’ll become wealthy. Page after page talks about how you should never spend money… take the majority of your paycheck and save it for a rainy day. I don’t know… just seems so boring. I believe that if your goal in life is financial independence… their are ways to achieve it outside of sticking money in your savings account… Have fun with your money! Instead of a bank about… get a rental property! Learn something new! Buy some stocks and play the market a little. Invest in a new business venture that a friend is doing… Money isn’t the world… but it has the ability to make the world more fun. Just have fun.

Wait a minute… I just realized something. I’m not financially independent or I wouldn’t go into the office every day… so I really don’t know what I’m talking about… hmmm…