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Increasing Success By Lowering Your Expectations...

Each 2005 Calendar features the artwork of twelve Demotivators (see below) as well as a plethora of depressing dates. Chock filled with deep and discouraging insights about our current state of affairs, the Despair, Inc. 2005 Calendar is simply the perfect gift for the person who has everything, but still isnt happy about it! Also included are SIX mini-posters with every calendar poster to make you even more depressed!

Your 2005 Despair, Inc. Calendars feature:

• Achievement - You can do anything you set your mind to when you have vision, determination, and an endless supply of expendable labor.
• Ambition - The journey of a thousand miles sometimes ends very, very badly.
• Cluelessness- There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots.
• Consulting - If you're not part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem.
• Demotivation - Sometimes the best solution to morale problems is just to fire all of the unhappy people.
• Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black.
• Idiocy - Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
• Meetings - None of us is as dumb as all of us.
• Mistakes- It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.
• Motivation - If a pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you probably have a very easy job. The kind robots will be doing soon.
• Pretension - The downside of being better than everyone else is that people tend to assume you're pretentious.
• Procrastination - Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now.

In addition, you will receive SIX additional (10" x 12") mini-posters with every calendar purchase:

• Mediocrity - It takes a lot less time and most people won't notice the difference until it's too late.
• Burnout - Attitudes are contagious. Mine might kill you.
• Incompetence - When you earnestly believe you can compensate for a lack of skill by doubling your efforts, There's no end to what you can't do.
• Elitism- It's lonely at the top. But it's comforting to look down upon everyone at the bottom.
• Limitations - Until you spread your wings, You'll have no idea how far you can walk.
• Teamwork - A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.

Increasing Success By Lowering Your Expectations...

Each 2005 Calendar features the artwork of twelve Demotivators (see below) as well as a plethora of depressing dates. Chock filled with deep and discouraging insights about our current state of affairs, the Despair, Inc. 2005 Calendar is simply the perfect gift for the person who has everything, but still isnt happy about it! Also included are SIX mini-posters with every calendar poster to make you even more depressed!

Your 2005 Despair, Inc. Calendars feature:

• Achievement - You can do anything you set your mind to when you have vision, determination, and an endless supply of expendable labor.
• Ambition - The journey of a thousand miles sometimes ends very, very badly.
• Cluelessness- There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots.
• Consulting - If you're not part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem.
• Demotivation - Sometimes the best solution to morale problems is just to fire all of the unhappy people.
• Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black.
• Idiocy - Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
• Meetings - None of us is as dumb as all of us.
• Mistakes- It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.
• Motivation - If a pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you probably have a very easy job. The kind robots will be doing soon.
• Pretension - The downside of being better than everyone else is that people tend to assume you're pretentious.
• Procrastination - Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now.

In addition, you will receive SIX additional (10" x 12") mini-posters with every calendar purchase:

• Mediocrity - It takes a lot less time and most people won't notice the difference until it's too late.
• Burnout - Attitudes are contagious. Mine might kill you.
• Incompetence - When you earnestly believe you can compensate for a lack of skill by doubling your efforts, There's no end to what you can't do.
• Elitism- It's lonely at the top. But it's comforting to look down upon everyone at the bottom.
• Limitations - Until you spread your wings, You'll have no idea how far you can walk.
• Teamwork - A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.