Clair Schwan
BS from Wayne State University
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Financial freedom Expert

Clair Schwan Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Routine maintenance optimization, homestead management, living debt free
- Career Focus
- Consultant, writer, trainer, entrepreneur, and business owner
- Affiliation
- Americans for Liberty and Limited Government, Wyoming Liberty Group, Wyoming Republican Liberty Caucus, Gadsden Legal, CATO Institute, Institute for Justice, National Rifle Association, 2nd Amendment Foundation
Clair Schwan is an expert in financial freedom and has achieved a debt-free life through frugal living, deliberate planning, hard work, and good decision-making. He is self-employed, self-retired at age 49, and lives debt-free on his 12 acre estate in Cheyenne, Wyoming. His focus in life is "more life, less work" and being ever more self-sufficient and financially secure.
His professional career included establishing a technical and management consulting firm in the electric utility industry that served client needs around the U.S. and in many locations around the world. Mr. Schwan is known in the industry as a speaker, training, consultant and technical analyst.
Today, he focuses on sharing with other the lessons he has learned in his business and personal life. The center of his activities is Best of Both Worlds, his homestead where he: grows and raises his own food; eliminates the need for traditional utilities; engages in construction, fabrication and repair on his own; and writes four websites dedicated to frugal living, small businesses, libertarian thought, and homemade greenhouses.
Clair Schwan is the founder of Americans for Liberty and Limited Government, and is a registered lobbyist in the State of Wyoming where he supports legislation that promotes and potects individual liberty, free enterprise, civil rights, limited government and justice.
He shares his home with his sweetheart Ellen and their cat and dog. His life is relaxed and comfortable. It's a peaceful life in the country where each day is dedicated to good living with friends, neighbors and associates.
Free Articles & Book Excerpts
Is-Now-a-Good-Time-to-Be-Self-Employed?
http://ezinearticles.com/?Is-Now-a-Good-Time-to-Be-Self-Employed?&id=1866809
Start-Your-Own-Enterprise---A-Good-Way-to-Meet-Your-Financial-Needs
http://ezinearticles.com/?Start-Your-Own-Enterprise---A-Good-Way-to-Meet-Your-Financial-Needs&id=1866688
A-Smoking-Ban-in-Public-Places-Can-Be-a-Violation-of-Individual-Private-Property-Owner-Rights
http://ezinearticles.com/?A-Smoking-Ban-in-Public-Places-Can-Be-a-Violation-of-Individual-Private-Property-Owner-Rights&id=1916242
Articles by this expert
SelfGrowth articles and saved writing connected to this expert.
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Stop Limiting Your Own Success - Get Out of the Box You've Built for Yourself
For many of us, our lives consist of a series of steps that tend to follow the same pattern - we build a "box" that we believe is a comfortable place to be, we put ourselves in it, and then wonder why things aren't working out the way we'd like them to. It's often self-defeating, and many times it's self-destructive. We hear the advice of others. They often implore us to "think outside the box." We hear it, but quickly dismiss it simply because following it would require us to get out of the comfortable and familiar box that we've built for ourselves.
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Success is Yours if You Believe in Yourself
Many of us go through life thinking that success is for the other guy, someone else that has more talent, more intelligence and better "connections." We keep convincing ourselves that we can't do things that would be special, meaningful or profitable. We end up on the outside looking in, and staying in the "tried and true" rut of working for someone else in a job that often only just meets our financial needs.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Clair Schwan
- Adages are never so well understood as when they are experienced.
- You can learn from anyone, just spend time, and look and listen carefully.
- Smart people make you smarter – the opposite is also true.
- Turn off the TV – stop celebrating the lives of others and start celebrating your own.
- Things are rarely as bad as they first appear to be.
- There is no such thing as reality – there is only perception.
- Most of our experiences are those that we helped create.
- If you don’t know where you are going, then any road will get you there, and when you arrive you’ll never know it – have a plan.
- Growing old is a great and ever changing learning experience that beats all known alte atives.
- We all make it through life in our own way, and we should all be there to help one another do it.
How to get started
The best way to learn about who I am and what I have a passion for is to visit my websites:
http://www.frugal-living-freedom.com
http://www.sensible-small-business-ideas.com
http://www.libertarian-logic.com
http://www.vegetable-gardening-and-greenhouses.com
http://dude-the-boston.blogspot.com
These sites provide extensive insight as to my personal and professional experience, and offer a wealth of information on financial freedom, self-sufficiency, starting and operating your own enterprise, libertarian principles and values, and enjoying your life.