Author: Philip

It’s great when topics from some of my daily reading materials align to drive home a point.  From the January 11 entry of The Daily Stoic Serenity and stability are results of your choices and judgment, not your environment. If you seek to avoid all disruptions to tranquility—other people, external events, stress—you will never be…

Ready to get serious about financial literacy? You can take a FREE course through the Khan Academy to learn about a variety of personal finance topics. You can make excuses or you can make a change that will bring you an incredible return on investment. https://www.khanacademy.org/college…/financial-literacy Tina gives you a great overview of the course:

Snow/ice storms are like pandemic practice drills where we stay home and find ways to entertain ourselves for a couple of days.  Like making mulled wine. 

  I have updated the digital planner I created and have been using for several years on my iPad utilizing the Good Notes app.  Each year, I would spend a significant amount of time importing calendars and adjusting hyperlinks so the navigation within the planner made using it more convenient.  However, I still found getting…

“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play, his labour and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing and leaves others to determine…

While talking with a colleague yesterday about a retiring member of his staff and their increasingly combative attitude as the retirement date approaches, I recalled to him something an instructor once said while I was attending Logistics Readiness Officer training in 2011. This instructor was in a similar position, he had decided to retire after…

As they forewarne,   Wolves shall succeed for teachers, grievous Wolves,  Who all the sacred mysteries of Heav’n  To thir own vile advantages shall turne,Of lucre and ambition, and the truth  With superstitions and traditions taint,  Left onely in those written Records pure,  Though not but by the Spirit understood.  Then shall they seek to…

Cory Wong has one of the best horn sections in the music industry right now. 

“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” Rob Pirie has created a channel that promises to lead us on a quest of enlightenment and intellectual challenges. I was not yet familiar with the Harvard Classics series, but I have read a couple books featured in it and have heard reference to many others. This may…

Article referenced in the video: After You Vote: Unplug