Kenneth Lind
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Kenneth Lind Quick Facts
Born and raised in Detroit Michigan, USA.
Experiences include four years in the U.S. Air Force, twenty three years in various sales and management jobs with major corporations and thirty years in business for myself.
Completed the Air Force language school, marketing management courses at Detroit Institute of Technology and Owens Technical College plus three separate corporation management schools.
Past President of Detroit Metropolitan Toastmasters. Member and officer of two other business related information exchange clubs.
Have traveled to all 50 United States, spent two years in Japan and shorter periods in Germany, France, Canada, Mexico and Jamaica.
Lived in Michigan for 26 years, then in Ohio for 13 and upstate New York for 36 more.
Have been married for over 50 years, with five children and five grandchildren.
Have a passion for learning, reading and improving. I don’t believe we can really fill up the allotted helping of grey matter.
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Are you gaining on success or falling behind?
Are you gaining on success or falling behind? I have heard many times that businesses are either going up or down. Never staying the same. We lose customers every year for one reason or another. They die, retire, move away, their brother in law becomes a competitor, you irritate them somehow. If you don’t have an ongoing program to gain new customers you are shrinking.
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Success starts with truth.
A life insurance agent once said to me “Ken, you are not immortal.” Picture a tall bird with his head in the sand. I was in my 30’s, with military, college and business experience plus a wife and kids. This was not new information. He made his point by starting with a truth that most of us avoid. He kept it friendly but serious. When he got my head out of the sand he sold a policy.
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Relax, nonsense is normal
Words that describe nonsense in the dictionary include pointless, meaningless, irritating, disrespectful, obnoxious. Nonsense is words or actions that others don’t understand. Doing or saying things that seem illogical. In my experience, nothing is really illogical. If it seems illogical I don’t know all the facts. We send and receive nonsense from childhood onward. We act and speak in puzzling ways accidentally or on purpose. We may or may not become aware of it. It can affect our lives temporarily but usually not permanently.
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Money is the root of all evil?
I've heard that said since I was a little boy. Usually when talking about some awful deed that was committed. Fraud? Theft? Robbery? Murder? It's all been done to get money and will be again. Many people believe the origin of the saying is religious. The Bible (Timothy 6:10) says something like the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil causing some to stray from the faith. That message doesn't say money itself is evil but that some of us value it above more important things. Sounds like things haven't changed much since then.
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Attitudes?
“Dad and mom think rock music is stupid, poke along under the speed limit, and I wouldn’t be caught dead in their clothing and hair styles.” Sound familiar? It’s what I thought in the teenage years while wearing my blue suede shoes with white socks, cuffed jeans and greased hair. In later years it was followed by “Where did these teenage clothing and hair styles come from? The boys are trying to look like girls and the girls like something in a horror movie. Their music is so loud I cover my ears.”
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Quitting cigarettes
Like most people my age I started smoking as a teenager. At first it was obvious that my body did not want that smoke in my lungs. The coughing, nausea, foul taste and eye irritation were worth putting up with in order to look grown up. Before long my body adjusted and the habit was formed.
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Valuable lessons are everywhere.
I was the first child of two people with negative blood types. Doctors didn’t know how to handle that yet and as expected only the first child survived. My younger brother and sister didn’t live long enough to make it home from the hospital. Lesson: I am alive by dumb luck, not superiority.
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Find success, not decay
I googled “how can I improve my life” and got 216,000,000 results in one third of a second. Millions of different people worldwide are contributing advice. The problem is not finding advice but finding some that I can use. There must be help for people in my circumstances in there somewhere. If I can sift through 10,000 Google results per day I can get to them all in 80 years or so. Piece of cake.
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My life is my own creation
Others have tried to mess with it by giving advice but are not to blame. I have listened to teachers and motivational speakers, read inspirational books and thousands of quotes written throughout history. The internet has exposed me to much more. Some of it good, some not. Once in a while over the years I have met, spoken with or traded emails with a top business executive, famous actor or athlete.
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Handling problems
Around 100 AD an old Greek writer named Plutarch said the Spartans only ask where the enemies are, not how many. His description of the Spartan attitude was simple. We have a problem so we are going where it is and face it. We will see what to do and do it when we get there. I can find no better attitude. Whether the problem turns out to be too big to handle, not so bad, or just my imagination the first thing I need to do is get face to face with it. Realistic dimensions are needed before construction.
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Addictions
When I was a kid my mother’s younger brother Sammy was a guy to look up to. A marine during world war II, a foreman in an auto plant after the war, a decent house in a nice neighborhood, wife, two kids. He was a big happy friendly guy who was fun to be with.
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Why write about self improvement?
Because I know how much better life can be with a few adjustments. I have experienced it. I believe there are people who will greatly enjoy experiencing it too. I am not Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Sam Walton, the Dalai Lama, I am the guy next door and if I can do it, you can do it. You have to experience it to appreciate it and begin to enjoy it. Until then it is just an idea you might try some day if you have time. The truth is you have time today. You are just in the habit of filling it with something else.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Kenneth Lind
File these thoughts under TRUTH:
The old tale about all wisdom in a single phrase is true. “There is no free lunch”.
Progress means change. Being unwilling to change removes the chance.
Keep doing what you’re doing and you’ll keep being what you’re being.
The only person you can change or who can change you is you.
Your old comfort zones are quickly forgotten. Two minutes after you’re out of bed the warm, fuzzy under the covers
feeling is replaced by an interesting day.
Having an interested and enthusiastic attitude is a choice.
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