Stocks and Company Shares Ownership

I had a round of stock market orientation with my 2 boys last week. And in order for them to apply what "paps" or "papsy" was talking about, I let them decide which stocks to pick over CNNMONEY.com live trading monitoring.

You can tell by the way they selected how unique and independent minded they are. And I'm equally amazed at the level of interest they possess at such a young age.

If I had been 'educated' or oriented this way by my parents early on, who knows what might I become...

Here goes:
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Eldest Son: Likes Fastfood, books, IT stuff!
1.Apple
2.Microsoft
3.Barnes and Nobles
4.BK

Youngest Son: Likes IT Gadgets, Cars, computers!
1.Sony
2.Dell
3.Nokia
4.RIM
5.Apple

What about you?

Leadership Habit

This caught my eye while browsing thru the latest postings on Bill Gates, the richest man on planet earth.

It is called "Bill Gates 9 Rules of Life"...



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1) Life is not fair---get used to it.

2) The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.

3) You will not make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

4) If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

5) Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping---they called it opportunity.

6) If you mess up, it's not your parents fault; so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

7) Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they will give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to anything in real life.

8) Television is not real life. in real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

9) Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

Youth Camp and Leadership

My son went to our local church Youth camp last Friday. As I reflect on his experience and how this overnight experience would impact his life, Im reminded of this story.

Hope you can draw similar parallelism on its power and impact.

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THE FENCE:
There was a little boy with a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that everytime he lost his temper, to hammer a nail in the back fence.

The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Then it gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold temper than to drive those nails into the fence.

Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone. The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence.

He said, "You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one.

You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry, the wound is still there. A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one."