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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Happy New Year from Kabul, Afghanistan
From: afirkin at afirkin.com (afirkin at afirkin.com)
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 16:24:30 -0500
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I wish I knew where to find "capital security" ;-)

> George,
> You can let it go if you learn to be content once you reach a certain
> point of financial security, say a net worth that will allow you to do
> around 75% of what you truly want to do. Then you switch roles on
> investment, focus on capital security rather than chase returns, and
> have fun from then on. The trick is to realise that more money will
> not really add anything to your preferred lifestyle, so why break your
> brains chasing it, putting up with the added stress of doing so?
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 9:35 PM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com>
> wrote:
>> Which is why I said, "even here in the US."
>>
>> The "how" probably can be found
>> in truly letting go of our own self-interest.
>> No easy task in our consumer culture.
>>
>> Regards,
>> George Lottermoser
>> george at imagist.com
>> http://www.imagist.com
>> http://www.imagist.com/blog
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>>
>> On Jan 2, 2010, at 9:49 AM, Steve Barbour wrote:
>>
>>> On Jan 2, 2010, at 5:24 AM, George Lottermoser wrote:
>>>
>>>> Education remains a wonderful ideal.
>>>>
>>>> Yet how do they (we) overcome the:
>>>> tribal self-interest
>>>> and
>>>> greed for wealth and power?
>>>
>>> simple fact is, this statement applies just as well to us, and our two
>>> major political parties. It's worse, not better.
>>>
>>> Yes, how do they (we) overcome the: tribal self interest and greed for
>>> wealth and power?
>>>
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> If we can't do it here, we can't do it there...
>>>
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