Things get to good and bad places one step at a time.

You have to be prepared and ready for stars to align. It doesn’t happen overnight.

“Other than death, all failure is psychological. So get up and get after it.”

Jocko Podcast #177

So long you don’t give up and quit, you never fail; you’re just improving and following the path.

Today is Friday, November 1st 2019. The month of October 2019 is gone, what was one memorable event or activity that you have accomplished?

A tarnished reputation is difficult to clean. The investment profession is built on trust as much as it relies on expertise.

Effectiveness, is a habit; that is, a complex of practices. And practice can always be learned.

Peter Drucker

The cowards never start and the weak give up along the way – that leaves the winners.

If you are not part of the solution, then you are part of the problem.

“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing.” — Thomas Jefferson

Napoleon allegedly said that no successful battle ever followed its plan. Yet Napoleon also planned every one of his battles, far more meticulously than any earlier general had done. Without an action plan, the person becomes a prisoner of events. And without check-ins to reexamine the plan as events unfold, the person has no way of knowing which events really matter and which are only noise.

Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone – those that are now, and those to come. Existence flows past us as a river, the “what” is in constant flux, the “why” has thousands of variations. Nothing is stable, not even what’s right here. The infinity of past and future grapes before us – a chasm whose depths we cannot see.

– Marcus Aurelius