Gyroscopic Investing

Coffee wrote: That's pretty good, Tex.  Although I think that the type of high speed/low drag boat you're describing would not be the same type of boat you'd live aboard.

Watch many Bond movies as a kid? 

Coffee wrote: I've already decided to table the idea for now and do something more along the lines of Paolo Coelho's "The Alchemist".  Because apparently, weak minded people like that kind of dribble and it is easy to write. 

Pointedstick wrote:

Coffee wrote: I've already decided to table the idea for now and do something more along the lines of Paolo Coelho's "The Alchemist".  Because apparently, weak minded people like that kind of dribble and it is easy to write. 

If that's how you see it, you may be quite interested in the information in this thread on another forum I was reading the other day:

http://www.thefastlaneforum.com/inventi ... ccess.html

MediumTex wrote: You can do a lot with boats.

MediumTex wrote: Coffee,

I've always heard that the best way to get rich quick in the publishing business is to write books about investing.

Coffee wrote: I ended up reworking the entire concept of the book into more of a personal growth/transformation niche book.  Let me know what y'all think?


Down-on-his-luck real estate broker David Chase loses his wife, his house, his car and a big business deal... all in the same day.  But when a little dog named "Schwartz" leads him to a small cottage on a beach in Malibu, his life begins to change. There he meets Malibu Joe, a reclusive beach bum who controls a billion dollar investment company. 

Joe tells David that his success is the direct result of a mystical book containing ten laws for eternal happiness and prosperity.  Intrigued but skeptical, David opens the book... and a new unexpected chapter in his life.

1. Take care of your body because it's possible that you aren't immortal and thus you want your ride through life to be as free of physical pain and discomfort as possible.

2. Don't watch TV.  It is designed to damage your mind and then sell you innumerable cures for your broken brain, none of which work.

3. Find a marriage partner who can travel with you through life gracefully.  Your success in this pursuit will mostly be driven by luck, but still do your best to choose well.

4. Don't worry too much about the past or the future.  They're just figments of your imagination anyway.

5. Happiness is a mental state of well-being.  It's not a warm blanket, a fancy car or a million dollars.  Those are just catalysts for some that help to trigger a mental state of well-being (though they often don't work).

6. Many people in this world will lie to you and they don't even know they're doing it.  Learn to see this without getting upset about it.

7. You will rarely regret being kind to other people.  Do this as much as you can without putting yourself in too much danger.

8. Life is a long road (we hope) and your mind can get fatigued just like your body can.  Be careful about ideas and thought patterns that can damage your mind in the same way that a virus can damage a computer by endlessly running unnecessary processes.

9. Don't hate the world, no matter how much it seems to hate you at times.  The world is actually indifferent toward you, but it's also clumsy and often breaks things.

10. Assuming your childhood wasn't miserable, try to remember what it felt like when you were a kid and hold that feeling of wonder, excitement and newness for as long as you can (which usually won't be for very long, but it's still a good thing to try to do).