Fifty years ago........................

Ringo Starr.................................It Don't Come Easy

 

Twenty bucks for me.............................

.................................It would be like stealing.

Twenty per cent of the site’s users were willing to quit for as little as a dollar; raise the monthly price to $48 (in 2016) or $38 (in 2017) and half of Facebook’s US users would happily jump ship.

Which reminds me of one of my favorite cartoons:

And he ruins my day......................

6.   Meetings are for actions. Not doughnuts.

-Nine more bits of rocket scientry here

Consistency....(and compounding).......

"The prosaic reality: For the vast majority of Americans, the only sure road to riches is socking away one dollar after another, month after month, year after year. Nobody’ll pay you $25,000 to deliver that seminar. But it’s the truth."

-Jonathan Clements

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It's that time of the year...............

Pumpkin carving made easy......................................that'll do it

Most things are.........................................

"But revolution is much easier than real governance and state-building"
-as excerpted from here

Ah, a "shortcut"...........................

"I think it's fascinating to note that some of the most successful organizations of our time got there by focusing obsessively on service, viewing compensation as an afterthought or a side effect.  As marketing gets more and more expensive, it turns out that caring for people is a useful shortcut to trust, which leads to all the other things that a growing organization seeks."
-Seth Godin, as excerpted from this blog post

Marketing.......................................

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Eagerly..................................

A gentleman never makes himself the center of attention.  His goal it to make life easier, not just for himself but for his friends, his acquaintances, and the world at large.
     Because he is a gentleman, he does not see this as a burden.  Instead, it is a challenge he faces eagerly every day.
-How To Be A Gentleman (Revised and Expanded):   A Timely Guild to Timeless Manners

My Christmas present from the kids?

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Wait, I pushed the button and.....................

..............oh....... never mind.....................everything IS ok

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As a public service..............

From Ka-Ching! comes a whole host of simple ideas to make life a tad easier.  Many ideas here.  One idea here:

You can thank me later.

Currency....................

     "The greatest of disadvantages is that we are too prone to welcome everybody else's wrong solution to the problems of life.  There is a natural laziness that moves us to accept the easiest solutions - the ones that have currency among our friends."
-Thomas Merton, No Man Is An Island

Hard........................

“Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and 
putting off a hard one makes it impossible.”
-George H. Lonmer

Are you hiding?

thanks Mme Scherzo

You pays your money and takes your chances....