Failure Is Impossible

It was a trick question, I apologize. (If you’re slightly confused, please see Part 1 of this post.) In my opinion, it’s either possible, or it isn’t (and it’s always possible, in some form . . . ). You are either deserving and worthy or you’re not (and I can’t imagine too many instances where…

Choice, not circumstances, determines your success. – Anonymous Every day, minute, second, instant we are at choice. We can choose what is resourceful, what serves our goals and desires, and the development of our best self, or we can choose something else, or we can fail to choose and go with with rote habit. So…

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…

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. – Buddha  Just a reminder . . . that is all.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things. – Sir Edmund Hilary Extraordinary is not something you achieve, or arrive at, or can even purchase. It’s something that you become. You become extraordinary by what you do. Or is it? *  *  * As Sir Edmund says, you do extraordinary things…

. . . make any New Year’s Resolutions. They. Don’t. Work. The whole thing is an artificial construct that only makes you feel about yourself (and gives you a bad impression of goal-setting and achievement). What should you do instead? Well, you shouldn’t do anything. (Do things because you clearly and authentically want to do them.)…