|
Not either or, but both, and more. #ElizabethLesser...Walk good. 28all. Eya. *TM, KO, DK* The Warm-Up: “Had a friend sell some of his Bitcoin yesterday to pay off all his student loan debt. He feels bad that he might have given up some upside, but I told him that the ONLY guarantee in his future were those payments…until now. Sometimes you should trade maybes for certainties.” ~Nick Maggiulli The Core: “Software doesn’t replace humans, it frees them.” ~Sahil Lavingia “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” ~Anais Nin “There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.” ~Andy Grove “If you worked as hard at doing difficult things as you did avoiding them, you’d become unstoppable.” ~Shane Parrish “Keep grindin’ boy your life can change in one year and even when its dark out the sun is shinin’ somewhere.” ~J. Cole “Anxiety can cause you to run from a blessing. In this season, may you learn to breathe, slow down, and receive.” ~Dr. Thema Bryant “Seek after happiness, you will be miserable. Become still and unmoved by that which comes and goes, you will know peace.” ~Thibaut “Stop learning by consuming, start learning by creating. Stop learning by researching, start learning by doing. Stop learning by listening, start learning by talking. Stop learning by reading, start learning by writing.” ~Thibaut “The events of your past are fixed. The meaning of your past is not. The influence of every experience in your life is determined by the meaning you assign to it. Assign a more useful meaning to your past and it becomes easier to take a more useful action in the present.” ~James Clear “When people put you up on a pedestal, don’t come off the pedestal acting like you’re humble...Stay up on that pedestal, because if they put you there, that’s showing you how high they can see. Stay there and then pull them up...! And they’ll grow faster than if you come down.” ~Victor Wooten “I know you never-ever-ever let me drown or, Won’t let that devil-evil-evil win this round naw, And though I stray from you, you know that my heart is good, And I know I ain’t exactly living how I probably should, And I’m a try to act better like it’s Hollywood, [people] congratulate me I just tell ‘em God is good, God is good.” ~J. Cole, Show Me Something “People can talk around this subject in nice, friendly marketing meetings. They can ‘um’ and ‘ahh.’ They can bend over backwards and give a billion and one excuses. But quite frankly, if somebody wanted to change it, it would happen tomorrow. If they really wanted to change the way sportswomen are used in marketing, who is chosen to represent an industry to the public, they would get it done. In a heartbeat.” ~Dina Asher-Smith, Who We Elevate “Investors often imagine there are two distinct macro environments: times when the future is clear and times when it isn’t. In reality, though, these periods are all pretty much the same, since perceived clarity regarding the future often turns out to have been illusory…Although no markets are starved for capital these days, there may be alternative ‘alpha’ markets where investment skill can add to returns, hopefully without a commensurate increase in overall risk…This past year challenged many preconceived notions about the economy, markets and policy—and even changed the way we live. But the inescapable truth of investing remains unchanged: there is no magic answer, no solution (other than superior skill) that will enable an investor to earn a high return safely and dependably. And that’s especially true in today’s low-return world.” ~Howard Marks, 2020 in Review Last Set: Disturb us, Lord, when
We are too well pleased with ourselves,
When our dreams have come true
Because we have dreamed too little,
When we arrived safely
Because we sailed too close to the shore. Disturb us, Lord, when
With the abundance of things we possess
We have lost our thirst
For the waters of life;
Having fallen in love with life,
We have ceased to dream of eternity
And in our efforts to build a new earth,
We have allowed our vision
Of the new Heaven to dim. Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly,
To venture on wider seas
Where storms will show your mastery;
Where losing sight of land,
We shall find the stars. We ask You to push back
The horizons of our hopes;
And to push into the future
In strength, courage, hope, and love. Attributed — Sir Francis Drake — 1577 Food for Thought: “There is no model swing in this business, no pat answers. Each person must develop a blueprint for his swing and style of play. He must have such a conviction for the manner in which it is done that there are no chinks in the armor when facing the toughest foe on tour. The toughest challenge you will face is not necessarily the golf course, or even your competitor’s scores. Your toughest foe will be the casual comment offered up by a fellow player or teacher about how you should be doing it. When I ask you about any part of your game, I want a solid answer, and I want to hear conviction in your voice. If you don’t have a solid answer I’ll send you to the oak to write about it. I deeply believe that in writing our thoughts unseen wisdom rises to the occasion. I am not here to improve your swing; my purpose is to help you find your game. That is exactly what I tend to do.” ~David Cook, Golf’s Sacred Journey—Seven Days at the Links of Utopia
|
