If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being…
Millennials and Financial Literacy
Seth Godin on the Tim Ferriss Podcast
Seth Godin interviews are my favorites, and Tim Ferriss always gives him a great platform for imparting wisdom and insight into business related strategic thinking. And you might not like the output, but you probably can’t change the system by yourself. What you might be able to do is, back to your second thing, you’re…
The Social Contract
The classics provide the foundation for the philosophical structure of our country. I hope we continue to learn from them and heed their warnings.
Choice
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…
Financial Literacy via Khan Academy
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:
Pandemic Practice Drills
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.
My Digital Journal for 2025 & Beyond
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…
Excellence in all we do
“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…
Quietly Step Aside
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…