The Kiyosaki 401(k) Knell..

The first and possibly last time I'll ever post a link to yahoo! finance, and it's not even particularly relevant unless you're in the states, but it's a good article, in my humble, from the ultimate economic doom-monger (problem is he may well be right) Robert Kiyosaki.

Throw a Bigger Rock - Walt Gleeson

Canfield, Proctor, Nightingale, Zagler, Hill, Robbins, Tracy, Aaron... step aside please..there's a new success guru in town! Walt Gleeson is a highly successful, internationally renowned author of motivational books and CDs and other products. With a career spanning over half a decade, he has enthralled readers all over the world, from Alaska to Florida and from Hawaii to Rhode Island, with such titles as You Can Do It!, You Can Do It! Too, Literally Make Your House Work For You and Become a Billionaire Whilst On The Toilet. Here, Walt expands and improves upon an old teaching by synergizing it with his own native Nebraska wit, to bring it up to date for the i-Wap generation.

You know one of the  greatest personal motivators of all time, at least until the twentieth century, Jesus Christ reportedly said 'let he who cast the first stone have a bigger one thrown back at them', in a story which only appears in the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, and even then might be a later addition, probably by schoolboys in the Greek lessons in nineteenth-century public school Britain. But nevertheless he was an important spiritual teacher and I happen to agree with him on this. But I'd like to add something more to it.

Throughout the last few decades we've seen a lot of upheaval and destruction directed toward us. The war on terror, Eye-rack, Uzbekistan, El Garagua and the confusions in Western Ireland to name but five of them. But through it all one truth has remained steady, that of sticking up for yourself and throwing back a bigger rock at your opponent. But I say, why wait for someone to cast a stone? Why not just chuck a big rock at your problems straight  off the bat?

Let me example-ize for you. Supposing you're a guy, 22 years old who's been working a few years and is afraid he's already past it. The boss has only given a small pay rise, the corner cafe has stopped serving those delicious lattes you used to treat yourself to every half hour, Shelby have brought out a new model which makes yours now obsolete and looking like something from the "wacky races", and with the 401k situation looking more and more direr and direr by the year, your retirement years are looking pretty bleak.
But stop, wait! Throw a rock at it - now I'm not just talkin' any old run-of-the-mill housebrick, that'd be too easy; I want you to find the biggest rock in the yard that you can possibly pick up, and just pitch it there and then at your problems. You'll find it immensely empowering how they seem to melt right away, a feeling of serenity will descend on you for the rest of your life and noone will think you're a lunatic.

Then carry that rock round with you in your pocket to remind you of everything that you have to express aggression towards, and pull it out of your pocket at regular intervals in case you forget again.

Walt.