Crazy Month

This month seems to have been crazy busy with something important happening every weekend.

In addition, of course, we’ve had about 20 cucumbers to pick every day plus beans, a few tomatoes and some carrots to deal with.  Tom enjoys Chile Rellenos, so that takes care of some of the Anaheim and banana peppers we are growing.

The chickens are up to about 6 eggs per day, and we need to figure out what to do with them. I enjoy my chickens.  I like to watch them.  It’s fun to feed them, and very rewarding to go look for eggs.

I’ve been busier than usual with church activities.  Our institute teacher shifted over to teach seminary.  To fill in the gap, I’ve started teaching institute on Wednesday.  Then the seminary teacher will be out on Monday (tomorrow) and I agreed to teach his class.  That was before I realized I also had a conflict on Monday, but I worked around that.  They also decided to run another teacher development class on Sundays and I’m teaching that as well.

I have 6 people to visit teach with three different companions as part of our new program to keep visiting teaching and home teaching within a geographic region.  I’ve seen 5 of the six and communicated with the 6^th.  However two are not in good health and need more than just a monthly visit.  I’ve been sharing garden bounty with them as well.

Monday we invited Ernie, one of Tom’s home teaching families over for dinner.  He was delighted to come and chat.

Tuesday and Wednesday I tried to get a lot of work done.  I have my two regular articles for the Executive Coach.  I am also in the process of creating the newsletters for two HVAC companies and a generic one for promotional materials.  I was working to finish up the web copy I needed to do for the Infinite Banking/Whole Life Insurance agent.

Thursday I left to drive to Nashville for a “Night of Clarity” event.  The drive went well—about 7 hours including stops. That evening there was a gathering for all of Rebecca Rice’s colleagues and clients.  I met Tom Dyson, editor and publisher of the Palm Beach Newsletter (a place I’d like to write for) a number of insurance agents and very interesting clients.  I connected with Josh, the web designer I’m working with in Little Rock and Nelson Nash, author of Be Your Own Banker and founder of Infinite Banking.

Friday morning I sat in on a meeting of Agents and a representative of Mass. Mutual.  The good news was if agents shifted their designation under them, they’d get a lot more in benefits and commissions.  The bad news was they could not promote “Infinite Banking.”  This was important to me as I was designing the website and looking at writing a book for her. This was her focus. It has necessitated a paradigm shift.

The reality is that everything IBC promotes--a secure place to park money, tax free withdraws, control, privacy, easy loans, retirement income, etc. --are still there as a benefit of a well-crafted whole life policy.  It just needs to be framed as something other than “infinite banking.”

Now she needs new web copy and a different kind of book. She needs a system to train her agents. She said, “How about if I just put you on a $10,000 retainer.  Work that off, and send invoices. Then I can transfer more.” Yes.  That works for me.

Friday was spent learning about Austrian economics as opposed to Keynesian economics.  They showed how the boom/bust cycle is caused by government intervention.  Keynesian economics thinks government needs to control things.  So the more things go south, the more the government tries to control it—creating more and worse bubbles and busts.  Ron Paul was the keynote speaker.  And I actually got a photo with him.

It reminds me of a story about an airplane that had such wild swings it hurt the passengers.  When they re-created the situation, it was caused by the pilot trying to correct the initial problem. If he had taken his hands off the controls, the auto pilot would have corrected the problem much sooner.

They talked about the dangers of fiat currency and a central bank that allows governments to keep spending by loaning them money.

Saturday was spent talking about the solution: privatized banking.  Essentially with Infinite Banking you become the bank of one.  You have control, you get borrow. If you don’t pay it back, no-one comes and repossess your house or car.  It’s secure—not influenced by market swings.  Indeed, it was the way successful people avoided the extremes of the depression in the 1930’s.  Nelson Nash spoke this day.

I learned a lot.  I ate too much good food.  I left to drive home about 4 pm and got home a little before 11pm.  I had some books on tape, some lectures and courses to listen to, and I spent some time thinking about projects and singing as loud as I wanted.

Tom, bless his heart, snoozed on the chair downstairs so he was there to welcome me home.  He’d continued to pick about 20 cukes a day and took them to the farmer’s Market for Wendy to sell.

Today went well.  Elder and Sister Rice reported on their mission.  My class went well for the first day.  The Teacher Development Class is 6 weeks long. I have just enough time to teach it before I go off to be Grandma for new babies.

Tom has a Priesthood meeting in Branson tonight, so he won’t get home until late.  Tomorrow he goes in to “follow in his brother’s footsteps.”  We’ll let you know how that goes.