In one of my previous blog posts I told about cleaning out closets, which was one of my New Year's resolutions. In doing so, I came across a ledger that my grandfather kept.
I never knew my grandfather as he died more than 10 years before I was born. Gottlieb Klenk was born in Germany and came to America with his parents as a young boy. His was truly an American success story. The family settled in Defiance, Ohio and Gottlieb became a sheet metal worker, an entrepreneur, an inventor, a real estate investor, and a father of two boys.
His ledger strangely includes many, many newspaper clippsings relating to not only his accomplishments, which were many, but also varioius health tips. These remedies include how to treat the common cold, the evils of smoking, why you should not whip your children, etc.
He also had hand written notes among the clippings and rental accounts. One that I thought was timely both in the early 1900's as well as now is:
"What would you do, if you could do what you like to do.
For your occupation, to make an honest living.
What would you do, if you could do what you would like to do.
To make yourself useful"
So I ask you and I ask myself:
What would you do, if you could do what you like to do.
Hopefully we will all respond similarly to my grandfather
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