Blog Minx

Sometimes I pause in my daily tasks, look up and think, “What would Benjamin Franklin say about this?”

Okay, I don’t, but I was reading the ever-inspiring Pick the Brain this morning which has a list of classic Ben Frank wealth-building tips. It’s a thorough and interesting list and a couple of things struck me:

• All those years, my parents were quoting Mr Franklin.
• Mr Franklin was a very clever (if slightly preachy) man. He is long dead and yet he lives on through his inventions, kite-flying and memorable adages.
• There is a lot of nature imagery in his words. “Little strokes fell great oaks”, etc. And clearly he wants us to be frugal, disciplined and patient. And to get up early. Ha!
• But some of them are a bit heavy handed, in my opinion.”Be ashamed to catch yourself idle”? Geez, what a whip-cracker.

Still, in the vain (in both senses of the word) hope of immortalizing myself, I thought I’d take a stab at some adages of my own.

Rich Minx once said….

• A subscriber in the RSS feed is worth two of the Stumbles.
• He that lives upon hope of AdSense will die fasting.
• Rather go to bed postless than rise with a bad post in your mouth.

There. It’s only three but that should be enough to ensure my words live on. Come on, don’t die old and wrinkly at 100, write your own!