Life its ownself.....................

 

.................................sharp teeth and all.

Aging.........................

 

................................like a fine wine:

The main culprit here is something called “genomic instability.” This is science’s polite way of saying that as we age, our cells go on a bender. They’re mutating left and right, spiraling out of control. Your cells go from reliable employees to either early retirees or anarchists, and the repair crew is phoning it in.

the quest........................

 

     Life is full of experiences—touching and seeing and looking and doing and acting—but you're going to lose the lessons of those experiences if you don't take time to reflect.

     We can all learn to gather up the past and invest in the future.  Gather up today and invest it in tomorrow.  Gather up this week and invest it in the next week.  Gather up this year and invest it in the next year.  Many people simply hang on one more year.  They are just hanging in there, seeing what's going to happen.  I am asking you to choose a different path, to learn, study, and reflect.  This is a major part of personal development: the quest to become better than you are now.

-Jim Rohn

a craft.....................

I start my valuation classes with a question of whether valuation is an art or a science, and I argue that it is neither; it does not have the precision that characterizes a science and unlike an art, it does come with principles that constrain you on what you can and cannot do. I describe valuation as a craft, where you learn as you value companies, and in the process, there are times where you question how it is practiced, and try to find ways to do it better. I have learned my share of lessons in the four decades that I have practiced valuation, and I have often abandoned standard practices, in the hope of developing better ones.

-Aswath Damodaran, from this episode

Winging it.................

 

Aging like a fine wine...........

 

     From the inside, old age is not so simple.  We may be more concerned about time as death approaches, but older folks are also more capable of appreciating that time.  The fewer moments we have to look forward to in life, the more valuable they become.  Past grievances and preoccupations often dissipate, and what's left is what we have before us.  The beauty of a snowy day, the pride we have in our children or in the work we've done, the relationships we cherish.  Despite the perception that old people are grumpy and cantankerous, research has shown that human beings are never so happy as in the late years of their lives.  We get better at maximizing highs and minimizing lows.  We feel less hassled by the little things that go wrong, and we are better at knowing when something is important and when it's not.  The value of positive experiences far outweighs the cost of negative experiences, and we prioritize things that bring us joy.  In short, we're emotionally wiser, and that wisdom helps us thrive.

-Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz, The Good Life: Lessons From the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness

opportunities..................

 

Each day is composed of 86,400 seconds—that's 86,400 opportunities to make ourselves better than we were yesterday, to bring hope to someone else.  These opportunities can be as simple as offering a genuine "thank you," sharing a warm smile, or giving an encouraging pat on the back. . . .

     In the end, that's all we're made for—to lift each other up, to remind each other of our inherent worth and potential, to keep hope alive in big ways and small.

-George Raveling, What You're Made For

On exercise...........................

 

The sheer volume of pseudoscientific drivel available on the subject of “getting in shape” is so dense, it could collapse in on itself and form a black hole of misinformation.

The absolute best exercises are the ones you will do every day, no misses, no excuses.  Just saying.

Trade......................

 

Time is the broker through which we trade our youth and vitality for experience and wisdom.

-Dale E. Bredesen, The Ageless Brain: How to Sharpen and Protect Your Mind for a Lifetime

anti-excitement..........................

 

Investing isn’t supposed to excite you every day. In fact, the more exciting it feels, the more likely it is that you’re not actually investing but just speculating, with a fancier vocabulary.

-Vishal Khandelwal

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Compounding.....................

 

Continual incremental improvement is the gateway to success.

-Paul Rabil, The Way of the Champion

Productivity-debt..................

 

      A done list isn't solely a way to feel better about yourself, though.  When you start to view each day not as a matter of paying off a debt, but as an opportunity to move a small-but-meaningful number of items over to your done list, you'll find yourself making better choices about what to focus on; and you'll make more progress on them, too, since you'll be wasting less energy stressing about all the other tasks you're (inevitably) neglecting.

-Oliver Burkeman, Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts

habits...................

 

You need ritual, not inspiration.  Everyday, no matter what, you must practice.  Your practice ritual is your highest priority—an unbreakable commitment.  Stubbornly protect this time against the demands of the world.

-Derek Sivers, How To Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion

choices....................

 

Happy Anniversary Sweetie...........................

Eric Clapton........................Wonderful Tonight

 

Consistency....................

 Stop trying to be spectacular. Start being consistent. . . .

Moments don't make legends. Consistency does. And the hardest consistency isn't in doing brilliant things but avoiding stupid ones. Every mistake puts you in hard mode, forcing you to make up lost ground. 

-Farnam Street

on mickles and muckles..............

George Washington’s favorite saying was “many mickles make a muckle.” It was an old Scottish proverb that illustrates a truth we all know: things add up. Even little ones. Even at the pace of one per day. Because, as the Stoics would say, it’s the little things that add up to wisdom and to virtue. What you read, who you study under, what you prioritize. Day to day, practiced over a lifetime, this is what creates greatness. This is what leads to a good life.

-Ryan Holiday, from here

Get your daily..........................

 

...............................................dosage here.

Considering...................

 

.............................both time and quality of life.

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The secret sauce..............

 

When people start, they want to know the secret sauce.

     After Katie Ledecky won four gold medals at the Rio Summer Olympics, that's what she was asked.

    And she said, "The secret is there is no secret."

    Work hard.

    Take care of your body - nutrition, sleep, training, recovery, and so forth.

    Pay attention to the details - the little things that will add up to make a big difference.

    Show up every day - whether it's a Sunday game day, a Wednesday practice day, or a Tuesday in the off season.    

    Fall in love with what you do.  The simplicity of it.  The beauty of it. The day-to-dayness of it.

    You do all of this, and on a long enough timeline, you'll get where you want to be,

-Paul Rabil,  The Way of the Champion: Pain, Persistence and the Path Forward