{"id":248,"date":"2010-04-15T04:49:07","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T09:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/blog\/?p=248"},"modified":"2010-04-15T04:49:07","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T09:49:07","slug":"the-stupid-tax-no-refund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"The Stupid Tax &#8211; No Refund !!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpted from Dr Charles W Martin &#8220;The Stupid Tax&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I have paid this tax more than once in my life&#8230;many times&#8230;.in cash, worry &amp; other.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stupid Tax<\/strong> = the money, time, energy or effort you paid or lost <em>needlessly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The stupid tax is an error that costs you that didn&#8217;t have to.<\/p>\n<p>The tax is paid when one keeps doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.<\/p>\n<p>The tax is levied against one when one fails to act when one knows one SHOULD.<\/p>\n<p>The tax is levied against one 2 or 3 times when one fails to act when knows one MUST.<\/p>\n<p>The tax is levied against one when one fails to &#8220;DO what you know&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The tax is extracted from one&#8217;s bank account when one tries to go it alone when one is not an expert in a field when one needs an expert.\u00a0 <strong>&lt;(Think &#8220;I could hire Coach Bill&#8221;)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This &#8220;unnecessary fee&#8221; is paid when one fails to implement what works after being shown or told.<\/p>\n<p>The tax comes due when one tries to go cheap when one shouldn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>The tax gets paid when patience is required and impatience reigns.<\/p>\n<p>The tax is paid when one doesn&#8217;t nurture one&#8217;s leads and doesn&#8217;t continuously communicate with both leads and existing customers.\u00a0 <strong>&lt; (Think hire Coach Bill)<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>The stupid tax is life&#8217;s painful way of teaching us lessons &#8211; hopefully just once instead of several times over.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know someone who is paying one now?\u00a0 Maybe someone you know intimately?\u00a0 You CAN help them &#8211; even if it&#8217;s just by showing them what we have and introducing them to your coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpted from Dr Charles W Martin &#8220;The Stupid Tax&#8221; I have paid this tax more than once in my life&#8230;many times&#8230;.in cash, worry &amp; other. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; Stupid Tax = the money, time, energy or effort you paid or lost needlessly. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=248\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-coaching","category-general-business","category-personal-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}