What Time Is It?

Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning. – Winston Churchill Courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s acting anyway. Where are you afraid, where you could act anyway? Which of your fears are just excuses?

So. Here I am, in the final month of the first quarter of 2024, wondering what to do with my (“un-invested”) retirement savings. (In a nutshell: believing the markets to be over-valued in 2020, I got out and went to cash… ) The S&P 500 and NASDAQ are at all-time highs, recession is (supposedly) nowhere…

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results. – Norman Vincent Peale Call it reciprocity, karma, whatever . . . what you put out into the world comes back to you. I can’t convince you if you aren’t convinced. But I’ll guarantee you: if…

“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.” – John F. Kennedy You must be pro-active. Waiting for problems to occur is what many do. The vast majority of difficulties we have are days/weeks/months, or even years, in the making. When something goes wrong, we feel bad because we know, deep-down,…

Hurt people, hurt people. That’s how pain patterns get passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion and cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault.  Love is the weapon of the future. – Yehuda Berg [Note: what follows might…

Don’t do what you sincerely don’t want to do. – Ernest Hemingway *  *  * There are all sorts of opinions, and myths, about Millennials (the generation born between 1980 and 2000)  and work. Yes, it’s true that Millennials have different professional values, but certain things don’t change. There are timeless principles that apply to…