I may not have grown up in the 1950s, but I've
watched all 39 classic episodes of The Honeymooners, and I've seen Ralph Kramden try every harebrained scheme in the world to get ahead.
We are treated in these episodes to one failed business after another, as well as countless other schemes to generate quick cash. Ralph thinks the deck is stacked against him: "It's not what you know, it's who you know," he tells Ed Norton, his best friend.
Well, ol' Ralph could have used a little guidance, and Ed was definitely not the one to give it to him.
You, dear reader, have a massive advantage over poor Ralph, although in a very limited sense Ralph had an advantage over you.
Ralph's advantage: in his day, it was much more common to get a job and keep that same job until retirement.
Today things are a little less stable than that.
The price Ralph paid for stability, however, was barely making ends meet and enjoying essentially no creature comforts -- no telephone, no television, no air conditioning, no refrigerator.
More importantly, he did not have available to him the avalanche of low- to
no-capital business possibilities that people in 2025 have.
I understand why people think things are bad these days. The career advice of Ralph Kramden's day is unlikely to serve you well, it's true. And no school is going to teach kids how to take advantage of living in 2025, rather than glumly concluding that it's a terrible time to be alive and everything is too expensive for them to get a fair shake.
Thus I recommend you attend the session I'm holding on Thursday with my business partner, Paul Counts, on how people build freedom-based businesses in the 21st century -- not to mention how to find customers, how to make sure you're not one of the new businesses that fail, how to generate more revenue in less time, and plenty more.