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Art Fettig’s Monday Morning Memo
November 16, 2009
In This Issue
o Books
o Say Something Good
o Points To Ponder
o A Little Humor
o Quote of the Week
Books
I’m in here at my computer early this morning so that I can send it off and get over to the library book sale in Chapel Hill. I had to promise my wife that for every book I brought home today I would get rid of at least one book from my office. Books are my addiction. I don’t think I had a half a dozen books around other than school books for the first twenty years of my life. When I was twenty two I was wounded in Korea and we moved on to Hokkaido, Japan and I hurt my leg taking ski training and as my leg was healing I would stumble across the street from my barracks and spend my time in the library across the way. Mostly I enjoyed the biography section. When I was learning to become a claim agent with the railroad I began to read books about behavior; why people bought things and how the creative mind works. I discovered Alex Osborne and the topic of creative thinking. For many, many years I have gone through a book a week and the topics are as varied at those wet leaves that have piled up all around our home in the woods.
I’m sure you have heard the expression “Readers are leaders.” Well all I can say is that most of what I have learned has come from the books I bought or borrowed. I’ve done my learning my way and it has been a joyous venture.
This week I learned that my new novel, The Old May and the CD won the NABE 2009 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award for best book in the category of Novel for which I am most grateful. I might truly be a slow learner but I keep on striving. .
Say Something Good
Veterans Day. President Obama spoke to the troops in Alaska this week and he said something to the effect that he would not send our troops into action without the support of our people. Sounds great in a speech but for far too long here in America we have been doing just that. When I was in Korea the war did not have the support of the American people. In fact, most of them didn’t even know it was going on. Same with Viet Nam. For a number of years that war did not have the support of the American people. This current mess in Iraq and in Afghanistan has lost the support of many Americans and I have this sad feeling that we are sending troops who do not want to go to a place where they are not welcome at great expense to the American taxpayer with money we do not have backing up corrupt leaders there for only God knows why. Oops, I am supposed to say something good in this column and I got sidetracked. I took my Almost Andy character to the Durham Veterans Hospital this week and gave a show for patients there. They were great and they laughed and they applauded in all of the right places and then they thanked me personally for visiting them. Everyone of them said “Thank you.” Of course, I thanked them from the bottom of my heart for everything. It is hell fighting in a war that is not supported by the American people. I pray that God will bless America and bring our troops home safely.
Points To Ponder
The reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first. Robert K. McKain
A Little Humor
Why do tug boats push their barges? For the same reason that we sing “Take me out to the ball game” when were already there.
Quote of the Week
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Niccolo Machiavelli
Recommended Reading
The Platinum Rule by Art Fettig
The Age Old Secret to Happiness and Prosperity. If you believe in the Golden Rule then, just maybe, you are one of those fortunate few who are ready to take a giant step forwaqrd in your lives to fame, fortune and a great new plateau of personal satisfaction.
Art Fettig has identified a little known key to wealth and happiness in his book The Platinum rule. I hope that millions of people discover this little book and apply this giving formula. Trul their lives will be enriched and certainly this will be a better world.” – The Wickman Formula, Executive Press 1991
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