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Today we are going to talk about Returns. I’m not talking about tax returns - perhaps that’s another show. I’m talking about the Returns you receive. Yes I’ll discuss Return on Investment, but there’s also Return on Cash, Return on Equity Return on Assets. But there are other Returns in life beside the financial. There’s a Return on Effort, a Return on Deeds, a Return on Principles. Some of these things are difficult to precisely quantify, but we are going to do our best to provide food for your thinking. And I’m going to recommend you think through your investing decisions and using the ideas I’m sharing today, nearly every decision you make in your business is a type of investment and it will bring a “return.”

There is a law of sowing and reaping discussed in the Bible. Some of us spend our youth sowing wild oats and then spend our adulthood praying for crop failure. Similar to this idea is the idea of Karma. We all have a few people that we would really like to say, “see that light ahead? That’s not the end of the tunnel, it’s the headlight of the Karma train about to visit you up close and personal.” From the computer business we get the old phrase GIGO - Garbage In Garbage Out. A computer can do amazing things amazingly fast, but the results are only as good as the programming that goes into it. All of these are just different ways of saying you get out of your investments, your job, your relationships, your church, your hobbies, your LIFE -- what you put into them. And this is generally true. So we are going to think about this, try to quantify some of it, and perhaps most importantly, try to help you understand how to respond and what to invest when you are on the wrong end of injustice. Because you know, sometimes life hands you a basket full of difficulties before you’ve ever had a chance to make mistakes. Occasionally we begin with an uphill struggle. It’s easy to think this is unfortunate, but for many, this challenging situation was the crucible in which their character, dedication, and determination were forged. And we MUST deal with the question of how to respond to a wrong when all we have done is sow good seed. We’ve invested kindness and it what we got in return was lies, cruelty, and heartache. I’m going to do my best to answer those questions in a few minutes when we talk about Returns.