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If you’ve ever read Lee Iacocca’s autobiography (Iacocca: An Autobiography), or heard any of the history surrounding him, you know one thing: he’s a straight shooter. (If you haven’t read his biography, for the love of God, go to your library and pick it up, or buy it at a bookstore somewhere. Heck, most thrift stores have copies of it which you can get for really cheap. Check out the Amazon retail partners (linked above) if you want cheap and convenient.) At the age of 82, this guy’s been firing off left and right about what he sees as right and wrong with America today, and I’ll tell you, I agree with him, big time.

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The following are a few of the notes I took from speakers I heard at a recent conference. Note that each of the speakers spoke on a different topic, so when you see three or four notes that seem to be talking about the same thing it’s because, in essence, they are. (A note to singles: Some of these are very marriage and relationship specific. They may not make much sense right now, but read them for future reference.)

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The following are some points that stood out to me while reading How to Get Rich, by Donald Trump, listed here by chapter. I’ve bolded both chapter titles (which are lessons in themselves) and extremely important points within the quotes. I’ve also added some personal observations in [brackets].

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If you’ve ever created a resume, I’m sure you’ve heard something along the lines of “make sure you put ‘goal oriented’ somewhere in there. Employers like that.” If you’ve ever owned a business, you understand the idea of being goal oriented better than most, since without goals you wouldn’t have started the business in the first place, you can’t make quarterly or yearly projections, and your business doesn’t grow.

Yet, being goal oriented isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. In fact, I’ll go out on a limb and say that while being goal oriented is good in the short run, in the long run it is most certainly detrimental to anyone who goes by that mindset exclusively.

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Synchronicity is a funny thing: one minute it’s nowhere to be found, the next minute it’s everywhere you look, in everything you see, feel and think.

I’ve been reevaluating much of what it is I do, why I do it and why those reasons are there in the first place. I’m discovering more and more that over the past few years I’ve reached a bit of a dead-end when it comes to personal growth. In the pursuit of such things as what I should want, I’ve forgotten a lot of the stuff I’ve always truly wanted. The problem is I’ve done the first so long that the second was almost forgotten, with the only thing reminding me if its existence being that little voice inside saying illogical things like “I’d rather be doing X.”

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