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Do you remember that kid, usually a girl [sorry ladies], when you were in school that always managed to be sitting next to the teacher’s desk? They were always performing little tasks and getting little perks. They were the acting class tattle when the teacher was out of the room.

That’s right, we called them the teacher’s pet.

Well, out here in the real world, that kind of activity isn’t called the teacher’s pet anymore. No. It’s called getting ahead. It’s how you make more money. It’s called doing what your boss asked you to do.

Now, there’s nothing worse than a stupid suck up. Don’t misunderstand. I mean a suck up who is stupid. They’re just sickening, both to their co-workers and to the people they try to suck up to. I’m a supervisor where I work. I know all too well how ridiculous a stupid suck up is. Don’t read any further if you’re just plain stupid. You’ll just be a stupid suck up.

What a concept. Do what the boss asks, and you get paid. Wow! The more you do what the boss asks, the more you get paid. Astonishing.

Yes, the teacher’s pet–now, the suck up–soon to be the supervisor, the manager, or, if any actual skills go along with the suck up, the new VP.

The information I am about to share with you can be quite dangerous. First of all, because it will help you get ahead. But, secondly, because getting ahead without skills is usually only temporary. This will force you to move from company to company and from city to city to stay ahead of the ultimate death spiral should you remain beyond your skills. This latter tactic of job surfing requires at least a rudimentary level of language and writing skills to develop good resume and job interview abilities. I’ll cover these later in another article.

So, as pertains to getting ahead where you are, here it is. Realize this. Use it.

Anytime you start working at a company, you start out with a certain amount of change. Let’s say we all start out with a buck fifty.

Now, that’s not much, but it doesn’t take much.

Anytime you do something noticeable, and good, you get a little change. Say, a nickel. But, anytime you do something noticeable, and bad, you lose a bunch of change. Say, fifty cents.

Further, if you continue to do noticeable, and bad things, you lose change at an increasing rate. Whereas, continuing to do noticeable, and good things, has a smaller increase, but does multiply a little just the same.

I’m sure you’ve heard or have been told of someone saying something like this: “I don’t understand it. I’ve been with that company for several years. Why would they fire me for such a small thing?”

Here’s where understanding the change allegory helps. This person simply ran out of change. A quarter here. A quarter there. Eighty cents over here. Boom. One little thing, only a dime, but, they were out of change.

OK, there’s quite a lot I could say about the dynamics of gaining and losing change. For this discussion, I only need you to understand one element of it.

Notice above, I kept writing noticeable good things and noticeable bad things. This is the one single difference between being a good suck up or a stupid suck up. Making your positive contributions noticeable to the people who matter is the absolute key to getting ahead. A person of only average ability can move up the ladder if they can practice this well.

Any time you make a mistake, you have to downplay it to keep it less noticeable. Do not attempt to hide mistakes. NO. The only way to redeem a noticeable mistake is to be as involved in finding it as possible. The full redemption is to be the one to solve or repair the mistake as well as is humanly possible and to make this as noticeable as possible.

I can’t iterate the word ‘noticeable’ too much here.

Now, here is the central concept of this whole discussion. Get this, and it will all fall into place for you. Bad things are almost always noticeable, even when they are small. But, good things are rarely noticeable unless they are huge. So, the all important strategy for success comes from recognizing and utilizing the best platform and the best approach to making good things get noticed by the right people without being a stupid suck up.

This will be different in every field and for each kind of position and work.

Here’s an example:

You receive a praise from a client in an email. Forward it to your boss, or bosses. Forward it to your HR for internal publication, if you do that, and if appropriate. Simply type something like: Thought you would appreciate this positive note from John Doe. Putting the right note in is the key to success.

Another finer related point to this is the concept of attachment and detachment. Simply put, find ways to keep yourself attached to positive things and detached or in the middle of fixing bad things–whereas a negative can become a huge positive. Most successful, active people aren’t perfect. They’re just really good at noticing and fixing mistakes quickly before they become destructive and making sure they get noticed on the sweet end of the deal.

So, make more money. Move up the ladder. Keep it positive and turn negatives into positives.

Do what your boss wants. What a concept.

Regards.

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According to a Gallop’s poll, money is the number one problem in a marriage.

Money is the leading cause of divorce.

Sixtyfive percent of all couples argue about money.

Since money is so central to problems in your life and relationships, you need to practice handling money properly.

First of all, you should keep good records.

You need to know what you own.
You need to know what you owe.
You need to know what you earn.
You need to know where you spend–where it goes.

How many times have you said it, or heard it said: “I don’t know where my money goes?”

Have you ever thought or felt you don’t have time for complete records–especially if you don’t itemize on your taxes?

Let me ask this. Do you have time to worry?

You simply must plan your spending. This is the major principle of budgeting. You have to know what you are going to spend.

Financial freedom doesn’t come from what you earn. It comes from what you spend. No matter how much you earn, if you spend too much you can not have financial freedom. If you plan carefully, you will have plenty.

Some of the most common reasons for financial collapse are the results of abusing your money.

You see it. You want it. You have to have it. It’s on sale. This approach to spending will ruin you.

You need to decide today to save for your future.

Stupid people spend as fast as they earn it. Statistics show that a high percentage of Baby Boomers will retire broke.

Look at this:

The average person in Japan saves 25% of their income.
The average person in Europe saves 18% of their income.
The average person in the United States saves a mere 5% of their income.

This isn’t a lack of income. This is a lack of responsibility. You see it. You want it. You have to have it. It’s on sale.

I guess those in the United States have decided they don’t have to worry about what they don’t have! Well believe me. They don’t have, and that makes them worry more. It’s a vicious cycle that has to be stopped.

John D. Rockefeller was one of the wealthiest people on the planet. He said: “Save 10%; Tithe 10%; Live on the rest.”

Most of you would freak out if you had to try to live with 20% less income.

Do you believe in God? Don’t read the rest of this if you don’t.

Did you know God says the first 10% is his?

Do you think God needs your money? Of course not. So, what’s the reason for the tithe?

Hang on to your hat, I’m going to say something that may shake your world.

–If you say you are serious about God, and you don’t tithe, you are just kidding yourself!

Why do I say this?

What is money in your life, and what does having it mean?

That’s right, everything–security, shelter, food, clothing–just about everything that means anything to you circles around money.

The more you cling to money, the more you are claiming your own control over all the things in your life. Doesn’t that describe the place God should have in your life?

That’s right. You place yourself as God in your life. That’s the ultimate idolatry. In fact, Jesus told us to seek the kingdom of God and his righteousness. He said that seeking money was the same thing the pagans were seeking. Furthermore, He said God would supply all the things for which we were seeking money in the first place if we did seek Him first.

Tithing isn’t because God needs money.

1) It’s an act of gratitude since everything you have comes from God or an ability God gave you in the first place.
2) It’s an act of priorty placing God as number one in your life.
3) It’s an act of faith. God said to test him and see if he wouldn’t bless us in our giving. This is the only time he said to test him.

You simply have to practice being happy with what you have. It is far better to be satisfied than always wanting. What you have is a gift from God anyway. You were never owed anything in the first place.

Did you know, if you live in the United States, you have more than 90% of the rest of the world?

If you learn to be content, you can enjoy what you have. Why do you think so many commit suicide when they get what they thought they had to have to be happy? They found it empty of happiness.

Make it your motto to Use it up. Wear it out. Make do, or do without.

Or, better yet, make it your motto to keep God as God and you as you, and to know that you ain’t God.

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Recently a friend sent me this Mondex PowerPoint file and asked me what I thought about it.

Basically, the Modex PowerPoint is about the new small transmitters that are placed under the skin to be used as a personal Id for security from everything to building access and account access, to physical location through RFID.

Watch this PowerPoint and then read my response: Mondex

Here’s what I have to say about Mondex:

Remember when the coming ‘mark of the beast’ was Proctor & Gamble?

Hitler has been the antchrist. Russia’s Kruschev has been the antichrist. Ronald Reagan has even been the antichrist.

All my life, I have heard this preacher, and that teacher proclaiming who fulfills the prophecies concerning the antichrist, and those that are cursed by receiving his mark on their foreheads.

Now, their saying Mondex chips.

This is what Jesus’s favorite disciple revealed to us almost 2000 years ago:

1Jo 2:18 Little children, it is the last hour: and as ye heard that antichrist cometh, even now have there arisen many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last hour.

1Jo 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they all are not of us.

1Jo 2:20 And ye have an anointing from the Holy One, and ye know all the things.

1Jo 2:21 I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

1Jo 2:22 Who is the liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, even he that denieth the Father and the Son.

It seems pretty clear to me that John tells us clearly that the antichrist they had heard was coming in the last hour was not just a single individual, and that he knew it was already “the last hour” since many antichrists had already come at the time he was writing. He even goes on to tell us exactly who the antichrist is: This is the antichrist, even he that denieth the Father and the Son. Preachers and teachers too often want to proclaim their guess about some prophetic, highly interpretive verse in Revelation, all the while ignoring these completely frank and extremely clear and unambiguous verses. I might add that John, who is telling us these things, is the same John who gave us Revelation to read.

So, to answer your question about what I think about this, I don’t think anything about it.

I’m not looking for the last hour, John said 2000 years ago: Little children, it is the last hour.

I believe many people get really out of whack worrying about prophecy and some new thing, while ignoring the plainly spoken sayings of Jesus. If we live our lives by His words, why would we worry about the future–regardless of who is right about prophecy?

The sum of all the prophets, prophecies, and preachers can not bring any greater truth or revelation than that of “Christ, and Him crucified.” In fact this is the result of all Paul’s ambition. No human wisdom. No remarkable insight. Paul finished it all by claiming to desire to know only this one thing: “Christ, and Him crucified.”

So, between John and Paul, I don’t concern myself with any of these new things. They are often fruitless toward winning others to Christ anyway.

That said, I have no condemnation of those that get caught up with these things. I just think their efforts would serve better preaching the gospel. Doesn’t that fix it all anyway?

Regards.

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