Lessons From Walden Pond

Walden Pond is a place I will visit soon. What an amazing area to have taught some of the amazing writers so much. When you look to two of these Emerson and Thoreau, you can find the lessons that are so applicable today. It is where Emerson discovered to "double your success, double your rate of failure."
Thoreau purchase a small plot of land with a modest cabin. He was a great book keeper so we know it was purchased for $26 dollars. He moved there for a couple years and lived off the land. The conclusions he brought to us that many could use is that there is really only four things anyone needs to survive. Survive is not a good word for what this great man did in those few years. He thrived. Four things everyone needs-
1) Food
2) Clothing
3) Shelter
4) Fuel
This doesn't mean extravagance, but I can tell you many of the economic hard times have been caused because people have placed these top 4 priorities at risk, or taken no thought for them whatsoever as they attempted to keep up with the "Joneses"
In the book "The millionaire next door" you will find those who have the wealth in this country do not live in homes worth more than 350,000 dollars on average. The average car of the Millionaire in the eighties was a station wagon. Today it is a pickup truck.
There is such a profound point here that I am pointing out there for food for thought. There has been a country that has lived outside of its' means for so long that it has become a generational sickness. Finally over the past two years there has been scarcity that was hidden at first very easily now you cannot turn on the news without seeing it.
Giants of Business have been paying their workers on credit causing forced government buy outs when stock markets crash.
Now let me take you for a turn in your thinking.
This is great news. This means a redistribution of the wealth. There were more new millionaires created during the depression and the few years that followed then at any other time.
Small business owners call to action. Get those 4 priorities handled, cut down on the unneeded expenses and charge the hill. The fact is while the shift of wealth occurs for the red-taped corporations the needs of the public abound. Recognize this and fill the needs. Treat your customers well they are your lifeblood. You serve them and you will create a steady income that you have not dreamed about on your most ambitious days.

Joshua Andrus
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