MarkFord
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
The latest issue of AWAI’s Barefoot Writer
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* “Get Predictable Writing Income by Feeding the World’s Information Fire”
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* “The Secret Strategy to Turn Each Writing Gig into Multiple Paydays”
* And much more!
It’s amazing what you can fit into a little package these days
21 Ways to Make Your Life Miserable
- Believe that, as a human being, you are entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- Believe that, as a citizen of the wealthiest country in the world, you have the right to free health care, free education, and a comfortable standard of living.
- Believe that your parents’ failures at parenting account for your shortcomings.
- Believe that you have a right NOT to be offended.
- Keep a mental record of the harms others have done to you.
- Keep a mental record of anyone doing better than you that doesn’t deserve to be.
- Postpone or avoid experiences that take you out of your comfort zone.
- Be attentive to aging. Imagine that every ache and pain is another sign of your senescence.
- When listening to others, think about how what they are saying applies to you.
- Try to improve your financial situation by befriending wealthier people.
- Try to improve your emotional situation by climbing the social ladder.
- Allow bullies to bully you.
- Spend time with people that you don’t like or admire.
- Socialize with people that don’t like or admire you.
- Depend on your spouse, your family, or your friends for your self-esteem.
- Depend on anyone but yourself for your financial wellbeing.
- Do work that you don’t value.
- Forgo learning for amusement.
- Think about yourself… incessantly.
- When you have the choice, always take the easier path.
- See yourself, unconsciously, at the center of the universe.
“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.” – Pearl S. Buck
hapless (adjective)
Hapless (HAP-lis) means unfortunate; unlucky and deserving of pity. As used by Carroll O’Connor: “The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.”
According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
The latest issue of Independent Healing
“Don’t Wait Until You Get Cancer to Try This”
Natural killer cells are your body’s first line of defense. Here’s how to raise your levels to stop cancer before it can even threaten your health.
An email from SM:
Thank you for everything Mark. For telling me that I had potential. For encouraging me to try something I would not have tried otherwise. For the many hours, you spent mentoring me and teaching me the basics… for the opportunity to better my life…
You taught me many things about writing advertising copy and about business, but in retrospect, I can see that the most important lesson you taught me was a personal one. Do you remember when, after talking about a problem I was having with my old job, you told me, “Stop complaining, no one wants to hear it!”?
That was hard to take initially, but it forced me to examine that aspect of my personality. It gave me the opportunity to change it. And that has made me a more effective businessperson and a happier soul. So thank you most of all for that!
PS: I know I’m not the only one that has a story about “when Mark was tough on me.” You’ve told me there are legions. I hope they realize, as I do, how easy it would have been for you to NOT give out that tough love when it was called for.
A huge mountain bike race begins with a massive crash…