“So I called up one of the landlords… she didn’t even speak English!” I said. “Oh man… that’s not good,” replied the buyer. I had just finished my lunchbreak at work, where I called four different apartment listings in the Denver area. I was scraping the bottom of the real estate barrel, trying to keep …
“Hey another quarter! And a dime! I’m so lucky…” As I walked across downtown Denver to my 341 meeting, I found a total of sixty cents on the street. A good omen, I figured. Then I arrived at the building, took the elevator to the 14th floor, and found the classroom-sized office for my meeting. …
We can help, the lawyer wrote to me on a Sunday afternoon. For weeks, I had been obsessively researching bankruptcy, online. It fascinated me. Although there’s room for abuse (and I suppose my opinion is understandably biased), I love the concept of bankruptcy. It encourages entrepreneurial risk, because as a business owner, you know you’re …
“Your skin is BURNED. You face looks like a lobster! The ladies love that I’m sure…” “…yeah…” I muttered. I was walking back from the convenience store, fetching some snacks for the buyer in between rounds of sign-holding outside. It was dead in the middle of summer, and I had to admit what the kid …
*Knock knock* I opened the door to see a deputy waiting for me. “Are you Nathaniel Rifkin?” “Yeah.” “This is for you,” he said, handing me an envelope. “Don’t worry, it’s nothing bad.” I thanked him, closed the door, and immediately opened the letter. A lawsuit had been filed against me By the state of …
“Hey Doberman Dan! I’m talking to you right now from the street corner! Can you hear me alright?” I asked, pressing my cell phone close to my ear to overcome the traffic noise. “I sure can!” he replied. “Awesome! I’m outside, waving my sign right now.” Months earlier, had I signed up for a monthly …
Crack – click – snap. “Hmmm.” Every single morning and evening, for at least a couple years, I’d done a standing meditation. And several months before I got my sign-spinning job, I noticed something interesting: My spine would creak and crack as if I were getting a chiropractic adjustment. And the cracks would occur around …
“It’s less than two weeks until the next ad runs. If I make a new video, do you think you can switch the webpage by then?” I was asking my long-suffering webmaster and technical expert. After recovering from my despair over the failed advertising campaign… I stepped up to “get shit done mode” The awful …
“Oh man I wonder how it’s going to do…I hope it profits…I’ll know by tonight…just shut up and don’t think about it…how’s it going to do…” My brain looped and looped on this as soon as I woke up that day, and accelerated as I went through my morning meditation and drove to work. All …