The Understanding of Money

The Understanding of Money

Understanding money is the key to our financial freedom. Money sticks to those who understand it, respect it, and put it to good use. The Federal Reserve is NOT Federal and it does not have Reserves. Currency is not money. What we call it money around the world is not money, it is currency. Real money has value; currency is a promise of value. Fractional reserve banking provides unlimited amounts of currency via loans, Fiat money. We have to pay it back with interest by using our most valuable asset, our time.

1.      Real money and currency are tools to serve others.

Time is an even better asset to serve others.

2.      We have no control over the value of currency.

Those in control of the supply of currency control the value of our currency.

3.      Money reveals our character.

Good people do great things with money and you know what bad people do with their money.

4.      Real assets, not currency, have real value.

Assets produce income. The right assets require little time to produce income.

5.      Time is more valuable than assets.

Assets are created to give us the time to serve others.

6.      Debt is the modern form of slavery.

We become assets to those in control of the value of currency and to real asset owners.

7.      Currency does not provide security.

Security comes from the ability to acquire assets that produce a continued supply of more assets.

Is your head spinning yet? You are not alone!

Thank you for reading and reflecting on today’s nuggets.          

Be blessed and be a blessing to others

Carlos Fontana

Author of the book Priceless, Co-author of the book Follow to Lead

www.tatepublishing.com/bookstore/book.php?w=978-1-61346-494-6

"The future belongs to those who can see and pursue opportunities before they are obvious."

"Those that take swift action will always leave those that don't breathing the dust."

Got White Privilege?

White Privilege Defined

What is white privilege? How can one recognize it?

Here is a story of a very close friend. The friend happens to be a white friend.

1.      Started working at the age of seven. Started school at the age of eight. Work always came before school. Often had to get up at 5 am to do chores before walking one hour to school. Had one thing helping, a very easy to detect parent privilege.

2.      Loved school just as much as work. Soon was at the top of the class. Everyone else thought that school hard. Thought school was easy. Loved math and knew math was critical to achieving anything in life.

3.      Worked very hard during school breaks. Was not bothered by those who had an easier life early on. Knew that success would only come from doing what others were reluctant or refusing to do.

4.      Loved college and immersed in studies. Found learning fascinating. Always prayed to God to give good health and the ability to study and prepare. Prayed like everything depended on God and worked like everything depended on self.

5.      Chose to get a great education. Did not care about being popular. Care most about learning and enjoying the work at hand. Accumulated great experiences at young age. Listened to people that had results.

6.      Went to work for a great company. Researched best companies to work for, those that were profitable and rewarded great performance. Chose the company that hired individuals that were hungry with a positive attitude and outlook on the future.

7.      Took on projects that were very difficult. Preferred to do work others rejected. Saw all people with great potential. Inspired others to do their best.

Is it fair this friend is enjoying the white privilege today?

Thank you for reading and reflecting on today’s nuggets.          

Be blessed and be a blessing to others

Carlos Fontana

Author of the book Priceless, Co-author of the book Follow to Lead

www.tatepublishing.com/bookstore/book.php?w=978-1-61346-494-6

"The future belongs to those who can see and pursue opportunities before they are obvious."

"Those that take swift action will always leave those that don't breathing the dust."

10 Things that Destroy a Nation

10 Things that Destroy a Nation

Can bad leadership destroy a nation? You bet it can. Remember the grand vision of uniting our nation? Was it poorly implemented or there was another vision implemented? When the wrong ideology coupled with corruption is implemented the greatness of any nation is eroded. Could the Great American Train be headed for a crash? When financial, health, and wisdom are derailed a crash is eminent. All bad leadership has to do is to execute well the following 10 things and we end up with a nation in the brink of chaos. There is a severe drought of good leadership in our land. We need new and strong leadership to bring an urgently needed paradigm shift to avert the crash and become a third world nation as a consequence. When the same isn’t working shouldn’t we let our voices be heard so we can change the course of history?

1.      Weaken the nation financially. Accelerate the level of national debt. With national now at $20,000,000,000,000 (that’s $20 trillion) our nation has severely been weakened. Promote the idea that debt is now normal. Give it a fancy name. Call it quantitative easing so folks think it is the right thing to do. Business debt sits at $20 trillion as well. Consumer debt is at $20 trillion too. In a little over four decades the total debt burden increased from $2 to $60 trillion. Do you think our borrowed standard of living can continue forever?

2.      Weaken the nation’s education and healthiness. Centralize education and healthcare. Dumb them down. The media controlled by government becomes in charge of informing the masses. Break up the family structure and accelerate the numbers of uneducated. What is our world ranking in education? How about health?

3.      Weaken the nation militarily. Pull the support and encouragement from those fighting for our freedoms and they will not only lose the trust but also the respect for those in power. Can you remember when America had the strongest military in the world (hint JFK and Reagan)?

4.      Weaken the nation spiritually. Remove God from all public institutions and places and prohibit praying. Instill relativism, liberalism, and devalue God’s laws. Do you long the time in history when we were strong spiritually?

5.      Weaken the nation patriotically. Downplay patriotism and instill fear. Divide the nation. Promote the racial divide and don’t reward earned distinction. Do you still have that strong sense of pride to be an American?

6.      Weaken the nation morally. Disregard the sanctity of life from conception. Have government laws supersede God’s laws that no longer foster ethics and morality. We could have an additional 50 million people if all those abortions had not been performed. Would we be now fighting over immigration?

7.      Weaken the nation economically.  Have a strong centralized banking system and foster strong ties between government and big business. Create a financial matrix to trap people so they don’t know how to escape. Don’t you feel that something is wrong but you cannot quite pinpoint the real problem? There are couples today holding five jobs between the two of them and still cannot make it. Could they maybe have six or seven jobs?

8.      Centralize and increase big government. Instill the belief that government has the solutions and will take care of the population. Offer something for nothing. Entertain them to death (sports, concerts, gambling, lotteries, and some dirty dancing too.). Value pleasures over responsibility. Can you remember when it was honorable to accept the hard life early on so you could have an easier life later on?

9.      Promote distrust in businesses. Keep messaging that profit is a bad word. Increase regulations to discourage new and existing small businesses. Do you know of any great nation without great businesses?

10.  Give preference of one religion over another. Promote hatred among religions. Keep them distracted from the real commonality among religions. Have we made any progress at all when it comes to religious discrimination?

Thank you for reading and reflecting on today’s nuggets.          

Be blessed and be a blessing to others

Carlos Fontana

Author of the book Priceless, Co-author of the book Follow to Lead

www.tatepublishing.com/bookstore/book.php?w=978-1-61346-494-6

"The future belongs to those who can see and pursue opportunities before they are obvious."

"Those that take swift action will always leave those that don't breathing the dust."

The Democratic Political Matrix

The Democratic Political Matrix (DPM)

The DPM is real. If you don’t believe the following, you are a part of the DPM system. The time to get out of the DPM is now!

1.      The DPM is a rigged system of control that preys on the masses that are blind to the truth.

2.      The DPM as created to explore those not even aware that DPM exists.

3.      The DPM entices the masses to believe the government is better than they are to educate their children, run the economy, and spend their money.

4.      The DPM is a system created to be run by the media.

5.      The DPM was designed to keep you broke and enslaved by believing in something for nothing, especially free food and entertainment.

6.      The DPM was designed to erode your freedoms by surrendering responsibility to big government in exchange for a false sense of short term security.

7.      The DPM was designed for you to voluntarily sign up to be a slave for the rest of your life.

Please share with others; our community, our country, and our world will be a better place because you did it.

Thank you for reading and reflecting on today’s story.   

Be blessed and be a blessing to others

Carlos Fontana

Author of the book Priceless, Co-author of the book Follow to Lead

www.tatepublishing.com/bookstore/book.php?w=978-1-61346-494-6

"The future belongs to those who can see and pursue opportunities before they are obvious."

"Those that take swift action will always leave those that don't breathing the dust."

The Political Matrix Exposed

The Political Matrix Exposed

When people are in a state of illusion the empress can have no clothes

 Knowledge without actions and results is useless and dangerous

1.      The intellectual ignorance.  People have short memories. We can sell them the same things over and over, like we do with fractional banking. They will voluntarily sign up for it every time!

2.      The broken equality. Distinction is only for those of us in power; the rest of you are all equal, and broke. Please keep it that way. We are all about LOVE.

3.      The creative destruction. Look how great we are. We are the best in the world. We only need to convince the world that we really are the best. You already believe it, don’t you? The more problems we create the more problems you have to solve. That is how you keep an economy prosperous.

4.      The speechless dead. The end does justify the means. Don’t look at the dead bodies please. What difference does it make now? I must become your empress no matter what.

5.      The compassionate machine. We really care about our children, immigrants, any race you can think of, any sexual preference, etc, etc. Please take a picture of ME with you (she said in one of her commercials). Go ahead and show the world I am their compassionate mother. 

6.      The caring judgment. Let’s judge them by their results and judge ourselves by our intentions. Someone else always is responsible for the problems; we only take credit for the great solutions others implemented.

7.      The free slavery. Free everything is a right. We demand it! Please don’t worry about who has to pay for it. The rich can afford to share their wealth with us. Please spare the empress of any financial hardship (we have hardly horded enough for us); she really loves you.

Please share with others; our community, our country, and our world will be a better place because you did it.

Thank you for reading and reflecting on today’s nuggets.  

Please vote and let your voice be heard in this November election!

Be blessed and be a blessing to others

Carlos Fontana

Author of the book Priceless, Co-author of the book Follow to Lead

www.tatepublishing.com/bookstore/book.php?w=978-1-61346-494-6

"The future belongs to those who can see and pursue opportunities before they are obvious."

"Those that take swift action will always leave those that don't breathing the dust."

NET Learning

NET Learning

What is NET (No Extra Time) learning? It is learning during little cracks of time.

If the same is not working you may try changing

1.      The thinking. We become what we think about it.

2.      The right information. Small doses of the right information consistently applied over time leads to a significant life.

3.      Being happy. Creative leisure (working, learning, fun) leads to happiness.

4.      Being free. We are the masters of our fate and the captains of our souls.

5.      The decision. The decision to get ahead in life is personal.

6.      Working against us. Most of us know what is working against us (taxes, interest, inflation, consumerism, etc.).

7.      Working for us. Do you know what is working for you? Do you know what to master and duplicate?

Enroll today in a revolutionary and affordable leadership course and learn how to live the life you always wanted to live.

Please share with others; our community will be a better place because you did it.

Thank you for reading and reflecting on today’s nuggets.          

Be blessed and be a blessing to others

Carlos Fontana

Author of the book Priceless, Co-author of the book Follow to Lead

www.tatepublishing.com/bookstore/book.php?w=978-1-61346-494-6

"The future belongs to those who can see and pursue opportunities before they are obvious."

"Those that take swift action will always leave those that don't breathing the dust."

Creating Fanatics

Creating Fanatics

What is a coffee fanatic? 

A coffee fanatic is the one who’s first thought in the morning is “I got to have my coffee”

Entrepreneurs are the backbone of our economy and our country. Entrepreneurs are the propagators and protectors of freedom. Entrepreneurs are the builders of communities. In times of uncertainty true entrepreneurs take calculated risks with decisiveness and certainty that they will succeed. When everyone steps on the breaks waiting for things to get better, entrepreneurs step on the gas and go. Meet Charles Solano, the owner of a new Biggby Coffee in town. His store is located on 1125 E Michigan Ave, Battle Creek, MI 49014.  Charles went from a corporate employee to an entrepreneur who knows that the greatest risk of all is not to taking a risk. He took his life savings to become the owner and operator of a Biggby coffee store in our community. When talking with Charles you can see the fire in him and the determination of his spirit. As a coffee drinker, I know that coffee can do that to you; besides the fact that entrepreneurship and coffee go hand in hand. Charles invited me for a cup of coffee, a delicious latte, at his new store and what a great experience that was. The coffee was amazing and the conversation with him equally stimulating. Here is what Charles had to say about his business and his immaculate store.

The Biggby mission is to create one new coffee fanatic per day per store who will actively promote us to others.  Here is how we do it a Biggby:

1.      Company History. Biggby Coffee is a Michigan based company that started in E. Lansing Michigan back in 1995. Biggby Coffee is the dominant gourmet coffee in Michigan, and is also currently in 9 other states.

2.      The culture. Be Happy, Have Fun, Make Friends, Love People, & Drink Great Coffee.

3.      The Business. Operating Philosophy (summarize by the acronym PERC)

a.      Perception by customers that we respect their time and move them as quickly as possible

b.      Every Customer leaves the store in a better mood than when the customer arrived

c.       Recognize each customer as an individual

d.      Consistently produce a high quality beverage.

4.      The Store. Biggby Coffee – Store 476, Battle Creek, E. Michigan Ave. I truly believe in the system & operating philosophy at Biggby! If you follow it, I am confident that it will prove successful!  The product is great and the high energy & friendliness of the barista’s is what always caught my attention in stores!  I would like my store to follow suit in this philosophy and give the customer’s a high caliber VIP experience upon every visit!

5.      The Products. Biggby Coffee offers six special coffees daily.  All beans are 100% Arabic and vigilantly roasted at Paramount Coffee in Lansing, MI.  Biggby Coffee is much more than just coffee.  We also offer excellent frozen smoothies, tea lattes, and several flavors hot chocolates.  Any of our famous lattes, teas, and hot chocolates are available hot, iced, or frozen.  Biggby Coffee also offers several varieties of bagels and muffins.  Our bagel sandwiches are toasted bagels with cheddar, Havarti, or Swiss cheeses with turkey or ham and crème cheese.  They are delicious!

6.      The community. Community involvement is a big part of Biggby Coffee, and a big part of my store! So far we have sponsored local churches; local youth baseball, the Battle Creek Police Department, the Battle Creek Community Foundation, local school events, and we are always looking for more!

7.      The Development of People. A big part of the reason for being an entrepreneur that is important & exciting to me is getting a chance to develop the younger generation just getting started in life, or early in their young adulthood.  Many of our customer’s here at Biggby Coffee are professionals within the community, and encourage our baristas to actively engage in conversation with our customers.  I encourage our baristas to learn our regular’s names, learn where they work, and jump at any opportunity to network with our customers.  I would be sad to see any of them go, but life is about networking, meeting new people, and developing skills throughout life. 

If you have not been on his store, go and you will have an amazing experience. You will be greeted with a smile that can make your day, let alone the coffee jolt you will have along with that irresistible bagel!

Please share with others; our community will be a better place because you did it.

Thank you for reading and reflecting on today’s story.   

Be blessed and be a blessing to others

Carlos Fontana

Author of the book Priceless, Co-author of the book Follow to Lead

www.tatepublishing.com/bookstore/book.php?w=978-1-61346-494-6

"The future belongs to those who can see and pursue opportunities before they are obvious."

"Those that take swift action will always leave those that don't breathing the dust."