This is part 2 of the series in which I test whether the dream propagated by the many self help books and social media glitterati is achievable
I’m a dad of 3 — two boys ages 9 and 7 and a girl aged 4 and a lot. I’ve spent most of my career as an accountant and have no ability to code. Being no spring chicken and possessing no ability to code — the game is on!
What if everything you ever wanted to learn about yourself and your business had already been written. …
Acres of diamonds is a story of Ali Hafed — a wealthy Persian farmer — who, upon deciding to search far and wide across many lands for diamonds — ends up impoverishing his family. The moral kicker is that underneath his farm, lay a diamond mine which enriched not he — but the next owner of the farm.
“Had Ali Hafed remained at home and dug in his own cellar, or underneath his own wheat fields or in his own garden — instead of wretchedness, starvation, and death by suicide in a strange land — he would have had ‘acres of diamonds.’ …
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