Money can disappear, but the ability to create wealth remains forever

Be better than before, than yesterday...

It is a common story that just when the old man or woman is to die, the heirs quarrel as to who gets the lion share of the inheritance.   Quarrels arise.  If there is no quarrel, the heirs surely have taken up the MBA on how to squander and dissipate the wealth that took so hard for the parents to gather and grow.

So there was story of father who gave his eldest son one cow;   the other one, a hundred cows plus a dairy.  Of course the eldest was aghast on his one cow gift from his father.   So the father said you will see that I gave you a better inheritance ie how to build wealth.  Thus the eldest milked the cows, sold the milk ot neighbors saved the money, then bought more cows.  Eventually he bought more cows and eventually had a dairy.  The younger one of course simply enjoyed the wealth and eventually lost his money.  

So would you prefer the inheritance of experience and knowledge how to build wealth?

Give man power and wealth - this is the best way to test him/her

Be better than before, than yesterday...

That is what sages say.

I gave an understudy the title of chief, and made him incorporate  for the pupose of wealth accumulation.  Howver one of the core staff, a founder also found himself without shares and was complaining that he could be left out  with no share in the founding of the firm, while he was doing all the hard pioneering work.    He long have asked him to clarify this and said he would not fool anyone.  

But when time passes by, everything said is forgotten and when everything passes, agreements in the past are forgotten and memories dim.

I was witness to a family drama where a son said a car dealership was bequeathed to him by the mama.  But in the end the elder brother showed the articles of incorporation which did not show anything of that sor..

Can people be trusted to keep their word,  and or that the incident all ready told me everything about the understudy?

Did not attend a wake of cousin because the family members are on family feud.

It is about getting better...

I have a cousin who died recenetly becasue of cancer of the lungs that had metastized to his bones.   But  I know that there is still a family feud.  One of the family members with whom I am communicating with is not visiting the wake, becasue there is a family feud.

We have a family feud, they have a family feud.  I am sick and tired of this feud.  I am not excacerbating this so I did not attend. 

What was the feud all about?  Inheritance.    Money wealth changes the personality and relationship family members

On material wealth and health from Alexander the Great

It is about getting better...

A mechanical engineer for a multinational company, a kapadyak in biking shared this with me at pm on FB:

Source is Alexander the Great (the great at age 33) conqueror of Egypt, Persia, and rest of Asia

Worth reading and sharing: When you see a man selling handkerchiefs and still sweating profusely in traffic, it tells you that possession is not the same as ownership! Your life belongs to God; you are only having it but you don't own it. So, be careful what you do with your life before the owner asks for it. The last wishes of Alexander the Great......... On his death bed, Alexander summoned his army generals and told them his three ultimate wishes: 1. The best doctors should carry his coffin ... 2. The wealth he has accumulated (money, gold, precious stones) should be scattered along the procession to the cemetery ... 3. His hands should be let loose, so they hang outside the coffin for all to see !! One of his generals who was surprised by these unusual requests asked Alexander to explain . Here is what Alexander the Great had to say : 1. "I want the best doctors to carry my coffin to demonstrate that in the face of death , even the best doctors in the world have no power to heal .." 2. "I want the road to be covered with my treasure so that everybody sees that material wealth acquired on earth , will stay on earth.." 3. I want my hands to swing in the wind, so that people understand that we come to this world empty handed and we leave this world empty handed after the most precious treasure of all is exhausted, and that is : TIME. We do not take to our grave any material wealth. TIME is our most precious treasure because it is LIMITED. We can produce more wealth, but we cannot produce more time. When we give someone our time, we actually give a portion of our life that we will never take back . Our time is our life !. The best present that you can give to your family is your TIME and to God is your LIFE.. May God grant YOU plenty of TIME, to share this important message with all your contacts. We all forward jokes and other messages...pls forward this message to all your friends and request them to forward it to their friends too. Pls every living person should read this.

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The Gospel today on wealthy people

I happenned to attend two masses for this Sunday:  one the anticipated mass of  Fr. Orbos at Marian Hills 1st anniversary at San Carlos Hts, Tayuman, Binangonan Rizal.   and the other one at Megamall.

Fr. Orbos simply enjoined the faithful to lead a simple, not complicated life.

At Megamall, the priest, while saying that we should not making wealth as center of our life, used I think the wrong example:   that it is better to be  relaxed fisherman, not even fishing, than to work hard to gain leisure at the end of the day.  Taken extremely that means, it is better not to mind things of this earth, the frontlines, but to escape and to relax.  But I think the Christian teaching challenges us to live with the challenges of contemporary life.  I do not think that working hard to benefit others is bad.

The mass featured the Bagong Binhi Community Inc, an NGO to promote the rehab/return of former prisoner to the fold of society. He sang together with a vid, a song for prisoners who want to be free (Ibong may layang lumipad, kulungin mo at umiyak) that is an adaptation of "Bayan ko" And he was well applauded.

Bayan Ko