Nothing Works Unless You Break The Rules
Monday, March 19th, 2012 by admin | Posted in Unconventional Thinking | Comments
In all of life, in every pursuit or endeavor we engage in, there are rules. Rules for business. Rules for love. Rules for managing our money and our relationships.
Rules. Rules. Rules.
As young people, we are taught to follow them. Actually more than that, to worship them with blind obedience. It is, after all, said to be our responsibility as members in good standing of the society of responsible citizens.
But then something unexpected and diametrically opposite to this dogma happens to us as we move along the road of life. We start to see that those who follow the rules wind up as claims adjusters at State Farm or clerks at the local post office. They follow the rules, get their gold stars and fade away on a modest pension, leaving nary a trace where a life once lived.
Then there are the rule breakers and their stories are a 180 degrees from those who do as convention dictates. When Bob Dylan was told that the rules of folk music forbade electric anything, he plugged in, pissed off the whiner purists and became one of the five greatest musicians in history. A career of breaking one rule after another.
When Sam Walton was advised that the retailing rules laughed at the idea of huge stores in one horse towns, he made his Walmart’s even bigger, changed the way America shops and amassed one of the greatest fortunes of all time. The rule worshipers wagged their fingers; Sam flashed them his.
Almost every time I have been advised by experts, by professors, by the all knowing guardians of the rules, I have been led down a blind alley to a dead-end – sealed by a barbed wire fence.
Life is a journey of discovery. Listen to no one. Go where your instincts guide you. We only have one pass at this earth. Do we really want to spend it painting by the numbers?
Learn why I say it’s my business & I’ll buy where I want to at 10:45am on Varney & Co. on Fox Business.
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March 20th, 2012 at 10:12 am
Great job on Varney and Co. Most of usin the business world realize it is a coordinated attack. Otherwise, the same treatment would be given to everyone who has said things far worse.
I will now follow your blog and buy your book.
March 20th, 2012 at 4:20 pm
Thanks again Mark for comments today on Varney & Co. I’ll repeat my comments here because I’d like others to see, there are like minded people everywhere across this nation. While I’m simply one person, believe me when I say there’s tens of millions us that refuse to any longer remain silent. The silent majority is now a roaring LION. While we need business leaders and job creators everywhere to speak up for Freedom and Liberty, we are encouraged by those voices who will no longer stand for tyranny or terrorism, no matter the source.
While caving to pressures from the left is always easier, I applaud your strength and determination to make a difference. Please let we (the weary, the over-tolerant)souls know if there’s anything we can do to support you and Rush in your collective efforts. Don’t ever let the voice of liberty be silenced….collectively, or individually.
March 20th, 2012 at 5:12 pm
If you had a product to sell beyond your marketing service, I would buy it. Keep strong! This is just the same kind of technique used by SEIU.
March 21st, 2012 at 11:46 am
You are absolutely RIGHT ON with your thinking about advertisers as it applies to Rush… Keep it up.
March 21st, 2012 at 12:20 pm
I want to express my gratitude for your standing up to those attacking our freedom of speech. I will be buying your book just to support you for that alone. If I ever need anything that msco sells, your company will be at the top of my list of places to get it. You, Sir, are a Great American. I take issue with only one thing you said–your assertion that Rush was wrong.
I completely disagree, even with Rush apologizing for what he said. There was absolutely nothing wrong with it. “Slut” is not obscene. It’s not the T-word or the C-word. “Slut” is an institution; an institution considered so legitimate by Leftists that they themselves have produced an entire, intelligent documentary exploring it and they proudly gave that documentary the title, “Sluts: the documentary”
youtube.com/watch?v=9bIbz8Shd2w
For Pete’s sake! They interviewed famous porn stars and lots of other self-admitted sluts to try to define exactly what a slut is. It’s actually quite a good piece of work.
Exploring the institution of sluttiness is only considered offensive when conservatives dare to do it themselves while trying to stop the Leftist agenda. What’s “wrong” with that? Rush was just exploring the institution of Sluttiness from the conservative perspective because it is in fact entirely relevant to the slimy speech Sandra gave at that press conference staged for useful idiots to look like an official Congressional hearing.
Rush dared to shine the Light of Truth on what Sandra was hiding beneath her Leftist rhetorical skirt: exposing Sandra’s implication–which constituted the whole first 4 minutes of her speech–that most Georgetown girls are hopeless sluts driven to financial ruin by an attraction to losers and/or scumbags who either can’t, or don’t care to, help them cover the costs even of their contraception. Women are the gatekeepers to their private parts and Sandra is actually implying that they are not up to the task; that they need help from government. That is insulting to women and Rush simply called her on that.
Leftists are so furious about this–to the point of Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem going to the FCC to get Rush forcibly removed–because they see Rush as Toto in the Wizard of Oz; a lower form of animal who totally insults their intelligence by having the audacity and intelligence himself to recognize them for what they really are and to fearlessly pull back the curtain, publicly exposing their absurd Leftist charade:
youtube.com/watch?v=NZR64EF3OpA
To say that Rush was wrong without providing a rational supporting argument is to yield to Leftist ruling-class elitists and accept the dhimmi status they wish for all conservatives. Leftists, as the rulers of their stupid caste system, can call Sarah Palin awful things totally irrelevant to anything that she has ever done or said, while conservatives are denied even the privilege of exploring legitimate institutions that Leftists themselves have made relevant to what Congress is doing; institutions Leftists themselves have explored with zeal and no fear of retribution.
I absolutely reject this dhimmi status for conservatives! I absolutely refuse to be treated like a dhimmi! RUSH WAS RIGHT!! RUSH WAS RIGHT!! SANDRA IMPLIED THAT GEORGETOWN GIRLS ARE ALL SLUTS!! RUSH WAS RIGHT DAMMIT!!!
March 21st, 2012 at 1:04 pm
Mark: I am so proud that you have the courage to stand up and call a spade a spade. As the president of my own small company, I am continually amazed at the people’s indifference to what is going on around them and the, as you so eloquently stated, attack on small business in America.
I can’t begin to tell you how much of my day is taken up by dealing with or responding to regulations that add little to no value to my business.
We cannot continue to allow the mainstream media to flip the script on us!.
Thank you for your courage.
Regards,
March 21st, 2012 at 2:52 pm
I can only hope others will come to the realization we are in a fight to keep capitalism and free-markets alive. Rush’s right to free speech, in reality, protects and advances others right to free speech. Keep up the good work.
Red Dog…
March 21st, 2012 at 5:54 pm
Bravo Mark! There are many more people like us that support you. These Leftists have no idea what they are up against now that they have awoken the sleeping giant!! Keep up the good work!
March 21st, 2012 at 6:07 pm
Troll here. Rush is King. MSCO will reap huge profits. Human-enhanced global warming is a hoax. Drill baby, drill. Do I look like I’m descended from a monkey?! Libtards love their kool-aid, don’t they? Kirk Cameron is right. WWJD. And, “In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the loin sleeps tonight”. -fin-
March 22nd, 2012 at 5:14 pm
Mark- Thanks for taking the good fight head on and standing up for the truth on Varney. I came to your site as well to buy something just to show my support. Keep it up!
March 22nd, 2012 at 6:44 pm
Great READ MARK….I agree that Rules are generally a good thing, but apparently in the 21st century they’re only made for those of us that wish to live in an orderly society. As liberty erodes, regulations become increasingly burdensome, and laws become more and more meaningless to those who carry the entitlement mentality as a badge of honor…the few of us that still believe in personal responsibility and governance of ’self’ find that we being attacked on every front.
The rabid dog, which bites the hand of the one who would care and feed for it….at some point must be dealt with. We have tolerated the lies, listened to the mindless chatter of the media, the hollywood elites, the Michael Moore’s, the Sandra Fluke’s, and YES the Union thugs…about a feel good society…all the while being made into caricatures by the left as uneducatecd, uncaring and hateful, selfish, self-centered demons to be erradicated and exterminated. So what of the RULES of civility? What of the RULES about judgement and honor and self-control?
Mark….If there were ever a poster child for cyber-terrorism, you and your company definitely qualify. I for one, will be proud to stand by your side and fight for Freedom of Speech and support you in whatever manner you feel appropriate. Rush’s show means more to millions of American’s than you will ever know, and to silence voices from the RIGHT for using language deemed inappropriate by such arrogant, egotistical, narcissistic, hypocrits….is laughable at best and criminal at worst.
Stay strong…..we the silent majority are with you 1000%
March 26th, 2012 at 1:38 pm
Respect your true boldness on taking your own path. I look forward to hearing more from you and your company.
Stay strong!
Oh ya – just saw you with Megyn Kelly!
March 26th, 2012 at 1:43 pm
I caught your segment on Kelly’s Court, Fox News…. !!
Bravo, Bravo Mark Stevens…!!!
I am with you, support you and America 100%.
Thanks!!
March 26th, 2012 at 1:49 pm
Mark, I just saw you on Fox News and was so impressed with what you had to say and your stand to continue advertising on RUSH in spite of threats from the leftists. Our country needs RUSH and his uncovering of the truth. Our country needs people like you who will stand with RUSH to make it possible for him to continue informing the public so that we can be in the know and spread the word and take action, if possible.
We must all work together to defeat Obama and his co-conspirators in Washington and around the country. This election will probably be the last chance to save our country for our children and grandchildren. May God be with us!
March 26th, 2012 at 3:01 pm
Thank you Mark for your courage and commitment to liberty and free speech.
You truly have a spirit beyond the ordinary to stand up to the hate and vitriol from the left. I will buy your books and subscribe to your blog. Thank you so much for all of us who feel we have no voice.
March 26th, 2012 at 4:10 pm
I think you are an idiot!
When the masses mobilize against your products and services, that is not terrorism, its people choosing where they want to do business.
when your business gets crippled, don’t blame it on the masses, blame it on your idiotic choices.
That’s democracy in Action mate
March 26th, 2012 at 5:52 pm
Rules…mainly advertising rules seem to follow economic trends. 25 years ago as a Podiatrist in Australia just prior to the ‘87 crash my advertising was restricted to a total of 3 month when opening a new clinic…Bold one line entry in yellow pages and an entry in the Public notice section of the Local paper, no display advertisements. Was this restriction a way to keep the establish health providers in power?
Forward through the years and the loosing of advertising restrictions seemed to follow the climbing stock market…with prosperity we allowed greater inclusion of free market competition…display advertising, no restriction to yellow pages etc…a much looser control in general because everyone was making money.
2011 and the economic situation is Tight and with new legislation in Australia to govern Health Providers…you guessed it…RULES….have slipped back in. They now exclude the use of …Testimonials, Time limited offers and even discounting to attract patients is frowned upon. This is the OLD BOYS club protecting its turf.
2012…the final implication of RULES…is the ENFORCING of RULES. We now have threats of ADVERTISING AUDITS to keep us all following the Rules…the level playing field so to speak.
So as a content marketer in the Health arena I have to know the Rules…so I can sneak up on them, push them to the limit and not be fined.
If you think the Rules are bad now wait and see what happens when the Stock market takes another Dive.
Cheers from Down Under
March 26th, 2012 at 6:23 pm
Hey, when are we going back to the DR?
I have some friends I want you to meet.
March 27th, 2012 at 6:57 am
…You make me feel good to be an American…
March 27th, 2012 at 8:12 am
I find Rush to be a highly intelligent buffoon with negligble moral compass in his personal or political life. He is, in a word, a cretin.
However he should not be hounded of the air for calling someone a slut. Everyone is acting like he killed a puppy. He called someone a slut and that’s about it. Sure he may be a tubby creep but that s no reason to hound him to the ends of the earth.
So despite my political views I am forced to become a ditto head….. Just this once
March 27th, 2012 at 9:09 pm
I going to “break the rules” and say, if a company’s wants to advertise on Rush’s show, go for it. If a company can afford it, go for it, especially if they feel it will help their business. We are certainly are blessed to have the freedom of speech and Rush is certainly free to say whatever he wants on his show, as long as it doesn’t violate FCC regulations. But also with that freedom comes possible negative consequences. When Rush slanders an individual such as he did with Sandra Flute with false information and calling her obscene word’s, as he did, people also have the right to boycott his advertisers to demonstrate their strong disagreement with what he said . Boycotting advertisers is not illegal and “whining” about it only demonstrates to those who are boycotting that they are winning. It’s also not a terrorist action and to make that statement is ridiculous. So basically, freedom of speech is great, but it is also has consequences if not used reasonably. Besides, it also made you look as if you were working for Rush, which could be a reasonable assumption. So am now banned because of I exercised my freedom of speech? If so, i’ll gladly accept the consequences of my comment.
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