Hmmmmm.................

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Hey, wait a minute................

Briefly.........................

Jeff posts some flash fiction:

"He was confident of the brief consequences"

Live my life...........................

The Seeds.....................................Pushin' Too Hard

Teach.......................

"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."
-Socrates

A higher standard..................

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody 
else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. 
Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else."
-Henry Ward Beecher

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Change........................

"The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions."
-Stephen Covey

Victory...................

Movement.........................

"Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates.
There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's
going to be forward, backwards, or sideways."
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


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Conquer...............................

"You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer 
yourself."
-Jim Whittaker

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Yourself...................

"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to 
be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be."
-Thomas á Kempis

Clouded..................

"There are no short cuts to any place worth going."
-Beverly Sills

The one quality.................

Self-Discipline...................

Napoleon Hill..............................Think and Grow Rich

Fill your head.......................

Art Garfunkel............................................Disney Girls

Need to get at it......................

thanks Jessica

Well, yeah....................

Or lose it...........................

Absolute differentness.............

Goldwater on The Conservative.......................

    "The first thing he has learned about man is that each member of the species is a unique creature.  Man's most sacred possession is his individual soul - which has an immortal side, but also a mortal one.  The mortal side establishes his absolute differentness from every other human being.  Only a philosophy that takes into account the essential differences between men, and accordingly, makes provisions for developing the different potentialities of each man can claim to be in accord with Nature.  We have heard much in our time about 'the common man.'  It is a concept that pays little attention to the history of a nation that grew great through the initiative and ambition of uncommon men.  The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery."

-Barry Goldwater, The Conscience of a Conservative

Our company's new motto is...................

"We just want to live long enough to put all the lessons we've learned in the past four years to good use."

One of these days, posts will appear that encapsulate those lessons from a real estate development and investment point of view.  For now, however, we will rely on the ever-brilliant Nicholas Bate.  I can remember advising a contractor friend back in 2007 to "hunker down."  It is advice like that that reminds me not to give advice.  Five years is a tad long to be hunkered down.  Next time the urge to give advice strikes, I'm going to hand them this: