Dog Lovers Economics

You and your financial world is as if you were a new little puppy dog. You come into an opportunity and you are turned loose in your little backyard. The problem is there is the BIG DOG. In a dogs world there is always the BIG DOG. As it turns out your big dog only has two legs and is about six feet tall. He says you can only play in this back yard and you can only eat this much of this kind of food and you have to sleep in this little house. That works out very well for a while because really, thats all you need. Then one day you are sniffing your fence line and you scents there is something more on the other side. You have been eating your puppy chow for a number of months now and you are beginning to feel the need for a little adventure. You could dig a little adventure so dig you do and under the fence and away you go. Then the first thing that happens to you is someone kicks you and hollers GO HOME, whatever that means. A few hours go by and a few hunger pangs later you hear the BIG DOG calling your name. You would think he would be glad to see you but Nooo. He actually hits you with a rolled up newspaper and sticks you back in that little back yard.

Next day comes. Lets try this again. The old hole is filled in so you dig a new one and away you go. When evening comes this time you hear the BIG DOG again. This time he beats you with that paper and actually chains you up inside your own back yard. You're a smart dog and catch on pretty quick, and you figure out that fence is as far as you dare go. The BIG DOG is merciless, cruel, and unwilling to let you go beyond his limits and if you do he will find you, drag you back, and beat and humiliate you.

Just in case you haven't figured it out yet that BIG DOG is not your boss. Your BIG DOG is your own belief system about yourself. Try as you will to escape he will always bring you back within his boundaries. Your big dog might be bad now but the truth is, just like any other dog, it can be trained. If you train it right it will take you anywhere you want to go. If you don't it will always and forever keep you where others have trained it to keep you. You will always be on his leash but that is just the way it is and you will have to learn to accept it. So for a new leash on life pick your dog training books wisely and work with your BIG DOG diligently until he is changed. Life is too short to have to do this rover more than once. I wish you good and speedy success in your new dogs life. Chow.
Tom Geerdes