Nature uses capital punishment

Take care of yourself.

Eat right, sleep enough and exercise 4x a week.

Left to yourself, you get stuck.

You can’t rely on what you already know for long.

Tune in to voices of value.

What are you learning today?

We are all essential workers

To make a country/world of XXXX millions of people work and have all enjoy a high standard of living, we all need to row the boat.

As we have seen with supply chain problems, and even getting a table at a restaurant or getting our car washed, we need all of us.

Look at any one product around you and we can trace it being there to the collective effort of thousands of hands and minds or more.

We all rely on each other. 

We need you.

What you do = what you get

There is an undeniable connection between what you do and what you get.

Actions determine outcomes.  

Outcomes inform actions.  (If I want X, I have to do Y).

Do you know clearly what you want?

What do you have to do to get what you want?

If it feels a little scary…

Being purposeful means doing things that do not feel natural.

If you are to break new ground in your life, then you have to do things that don’t feel exactly comfortable, because you have not done them before. 

Merry Christmas everybody!

Merry Christmas to all.  May the spirit of the season bring you peace and love.

Reach out to someone you haven’t talked to in a long time, and tell them you love them, offer forgiveness (silently or audibly to lighten your load), or just listen or tell a nice story.

May there be warm light in your home.

From the invisible…

I was listening to an interview with Kyle Maynard who was born with only half of his arms and legs (arms ended at the elbow and his legs ended at the knee; no hands or feet). When he was young his parents put him on the wrestling team.  Yes, the wrestling team.  

He lost every match for a year and a half.  Some adults were saying it was borderline child abuse.  But in his senior year Kyle was undefeated and today he is in the wrestling Hall of Fame.  Wow.  

Kyle said that some kids made fun of his handicap – they could see it – it was so obvious. But many people have handicaps you can’t see – they don’t believe in themselves, they think negatively, they identify as victims in one or more areas of life, or they fail to learn good useful things each day and put mental junk in instead.

From the inner – comes the outer.

This is why you and I need to work on us as much or more than we work on anything outside us.

From the invisible – the visible.

Give thanks for those that made this world possible

“Live honestly and honorably within the limits and to the limits of your own ability – and give thanks to the men and women whose greater ability has made such a magnificent world possible for you.” – Ayn Rand

I am talented, and so are you.  But together you and I could not have created this easy, fascinating, safe, and wonderful world by ourselves.  Just the computer you are reading this on…I mean, holy smokes!

Let us strive to make our life count by using what we have been given to make the world even better, and give thanks for those who have come before us, with less than we have and in very different circumstances, who made our current life possible.

Should you "go with the flow"?

As a life strategy – probably not.  Going with the flow means being like everyone else – and that means average.

You can do better.

Make a decision for yourself.

Don’t be “normal”.  

Why inflation is a bad thing

In the last 12 months, inflation has gone up by 10%.  This is the highest number in many decades.  But many things have gone up more than that; houses by 17%, gasoline, etc.

When inflation goes up, the buying power of your money goes down.  People that have money saved, have lost 10% of that money’s value.  People that don’t have a home and want to buy one, find it less affordable.

Here are some comments by Steve Forbes commenting on a book by Nathan Lewis –

“Why is monetary policy so fundamentally important?

A modern economy is ultimately “a vast network of cooperation”…in which hardly anything is created without combining goods, services and labor and capital from all over the world…The network of cooperation is organized through the use of money, with information transmitted via prices, interest rates, and profit and loss.  These seemingly simple bits of information direct all economic activity.

Unstable currencies are like viruses in your computer – they corrupt those bits of information.

Everyone understands the basic need for fixed weights and measures in daily life – number of ounces in a pound, minutes in an hour;  just as we use money to measure the value of products and services.  If the measuring stick itself becomes unstable the smooth functioning of an economy is disrupted just as our lives would be if the  number of minutes in an hour constantly fluctuated.”

Imagine 10% inflation year over year?  In 7.2 years prices would double.  In 14.4 years, prices would quadruple.  

We should all care about inflation and pay attention to who and how it is being caused.