You’re in a jail cell of your own making
...From time to time, it’s helpful to put a question mark on your processes and routines...
Keys on the ground
...It’s easy to get excited about half the system, but real change and real benefit only happen when both pieces are working together...
The Reason Your Dog Follows You Everywhere
...a dog will shadow its owner because it sees them as an object of trust and security...
How to keep your financial dreams in focus - From Blue Waters Wealth Advisors
...A simple way to dig deeper into the underlying reason for your financial goals is by peeling back the layers and asking yourself “why?” three times...
The Definition of Success Is Autonomy
...As Seneca said, “Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power...”
Focused and Diffuse: Two Modes of Thinking
...Our brains employ two modes of thinking to tackle any large task: focused and diffuse. Both are equally valuable but serve very different purposes. To do your best work, you need to master both...
Easy check-in questions for your 1:1s during times of crisis
...What’s been working for you so far...
Hindsight bias says to abandon your plan. Here’s why you shouldn’t
...No matter the market conditions, there are always messages from the media or the investing community that a market event, such as an extreme drop or increase, was foreseen, perhaps even obvious. If you begin to believe you’ve missed opportunities or you’re at risk for losses, you might attempt to overcorrect by trying to time the markets or weighting your portfolio too heavily in one area...
The Evolutionary Benefit of Friendship
...Healthy friendships offer far more than a reliable person to share a beer with. Research shows they can make us healthier, wealthier, happier and overall more successful...
Don't Kill Time
...If you’re okay with killing time, it’s not scarce enough...
Creating predictability and stability in times of rapid change
...Our core needs are exactly that: needs that must be met in order for us to feel safe and secure. And guess what? During times of rapid change, it’s really hard to address them...
That’s a good idea
...We put a lot of pressure on the idea to be perfect because it distracts us from the reality that the hundred steps after the idea are going to make all the difference...
33 Things I Stole From People Smarter Than Me on the Way to 33
...that distinction between amateur and professional is an essential piece of advice I have gotten, first from Steven Pressfield’s writings and then by getting to know him over the years. There are professional habits and amateur ones. Which are you practicing? Is this a pro or an amateur move? Ask yourself that. Constantly...
Why Sleep Deprivation Kills
...Then in 2016, she and her colleagues reported that they had found oxidation in the livers, lungs and small intestines of sleep-deprived rats. Markers of inflammation are often found floating around in tissues after sleep deprivation, Everson said, but their source has never been clear. If oxidation is out of control somewhere in the body, the resulting crisis of cellular damage could cause that boost...
The Art of Being Alone
...Loneliness has more to do with our perceptions than how much company we have. It’s just as possible to be painfully lonely surrounded by people as it is to be content with little social contact. Some people need extended periods of time alone to recharge, others would rather give themselves electric shocks than spend a few minutes with their thoughts...
3 Things The Most Resilient People Do Every Day
...Hope isn’t just passive wishful thinking. It’s also inextricably tied to action — helping others and turning an upside down world right side up...
The Four Tools of Discipline
...Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. When we desire to encourage the growth of the human spirit, we challenge and encourage the human capacity to solve problems, just as in school we deliberately set problems for our children to solve. It is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems that we learn...
In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed
...Fast eats time. One consequence of fast is that we make poor decision after poor decision. Those decisions don’t go away never to be seen again. It’s not like we make a bad decision and we’re done with it. No, the consequences are much worse. Poor decisions eat time. They come back to haunt you. They create issue after issue. They feed into the perpetual motion machine of busyness. And in a culture where people wear busyness as a badge of honor bad decisions actually lead us to think that we’re doing more...
Average is not the same as typical
...We know that the median is often not the same as the mean, but in describing a population, it also pays to differentiate between the average person and a typical one...
Don't Make These Investment Mistakes During the 2020 Election! - from Blue Waters Wealth Advisors
Presidential election years bring a lot of uncertainty and stress. And that's not just for the candidates who are running...
