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Phone Scam - Protect Yourself

Many good folks have received phone calls recently - supposedly from the IRS. Whether they leave a message or the person talks to them on the phone, they tell you that there is a warrant out for your arrest for unpaid taxes, etc. Then they offer to take care of it, but they will need information from you.



Don’t fall for it! The IRS does not contact taxpayers in this manner, and they will not ask for personal information over the phone.



They can be persistent, as evidenced by them calling my 87 year old parents multiple times. When my parents called me and asked me about it I told them to tell the crooks they contacted the FBI which stopped the calls immediately. They subsequently did contact the FBI and the FBI gave them an 800 number to call to report. This is very prevalent and does need to be reported for tracking purposes.

The Good Stuff

   Some successful folks suggest filling your brain with as much good, useful information as possible. Avoid negative inputs and instead focus on positive stories. Here is one such positive tale -

Dream A New Dream

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. -- C.S. Lewis

What is Success?

“The trouble with a great many folks is that they have a wrong conception of success. Large numbers imagine it lies in mere money-making. Yet the average millionaire is not a happy or even a contented man. He has been so engrossed from his youth in piling up dollars that he has had no time for the cultivation of the higher qualities of his mind and heart, in the exercise of which the only true happiness is to be found. You may remember that Emerson said: ‘Happiness lies only in the triumph of principle.’

“Of course, a certain amount of money is a necessity, and more of it enables one to enjoy many things which would be an impossibility without it. I am not advising any young man not to do all he can in a legitimate way to make money; but, if he is successful, he must be careful to keep money his servant, and not let it become his master.

Character is power—is influence; it makes friends, creates funds, draws patronage and support, and opens a sure and easy way to wealth, honor and happiness.
—J. Hawes

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do, without a thought of fame.
—Longfellow

There is no road to success but through a clear, strong There is no road to success but through a clear, strong
purpose. A purpose underlies character, culture, position, attainment of whatever sort.
T. T. Munger.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.—DISRAELI.

Secrets of Success

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of." —Franklin.

Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.
LONGFELLOW.

"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did anything I have come that way. No, I never decide anything without knowing the conditions of the market, and never begin unless satisfied concerning the conclusion.”


“Not everyone could do that,” the reporter said.

“I cannot do everything. Every man can do something, and there is plenty to do.”

“You really believe the latter statement?” asked the reporter.

“There was never more. The problems to be solved are greater now than ever before. Never was there more need of able men. I am looking for trained men all the time. More money is being offered for them everywhere than formerly.”

“Do you consider that happiness consists in labor alone?”

“It consists in doing something for others. If you give the world better material, better measure, better opportunities for living respectably, there is happiness in that. You cannot give the world anything without labor, and there is no satisfaction in anything but labor that looks toward doing this, and does it.”

Self Confidence

To each man's life there comes a time supreme;
One day, one night, one morning, or one noon,
One freighted hour, one moment opportune,
One rift through which sublime fulfillments gleam,
One space when fate goes tiding with the stream,
One Once, in balance 'twixt Too Late, Too Soon,
And ready for the passing instant's boon
To tip in favor the uncertain beam.

Ah, happy he who, knowing how to wait,
Knows also how to watch and work and stand
On Life's broad deck alert, and at the prow
To seize the passing moment, big with fate,
From opportunity's extended hand,
When the great clock of destiny strikes Now!
MARY A. TOWNSEND.

The great things of the world have not been done by men of large means. Ericsson began the construction of the screw propellers in a bathroom. The cotton-gin was first manufactured in a log cabin. John Harrison, the great inventor of the marine chronometer, began his career in the loft of an old barn. Parts of the first steamboat ever run in America were set up in the vestry of a church in Philadelphia by Fitch. McCormick began to make his famous reaper in a gristmill.

The first model dry dock was made in an attic. Clark, the founder of Clark University of Worcester, Mass., began his great fortune by making toy wagons in a horse shed. Farquhar made umbrellas in his sitting-room, with his daughter's help, until he sold enough to hire a loft. Edison began his experiments in a baggage car on the Grand Trunk Railroad when a newsboy.

Opportunities? They are everywhere. "America is another name for opportunities. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine Providence in behalf of the human race." Never before were there such grand openings, such chances, such opportunities. Especially is this true for girls and young women.

"Not in the clamor of the crowded street,
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng,
But in ourselves are triumph and defeat."