Opinion | I Just Turned 60, but I Still Feel 22 – The New York Times:
Friendship is forged across time, through good fortune and tragedy alike, and true friends are those who keep on loving one another even when it isn’t convenient and even when they don’t always agree.
Maybe wisdom is just too much to ask of a culture in the grip of collective trauma. Maybe wisdom can be acquired only with time, even if time by itself is no guarantee.
Show me someone who sweats every day, and spends as much time at events as watching them on TV, and I’ll show you someone who is good at life.
— Read on www.l2inc.com/daily-insights/no-mercy-no-malice/happiness-the-gorilla
*Lots of interesting and useful advice in this article. Read the whole thing. You will learn something about yourself and life.
Life is sort of like the stock market, there are daily ups and downs. Sometimes your stock falls in the short term, current examples are Amazon & Netflix, even as you play out the long term strategy of working hard (Hustle + Intensity w Passion) and helping others along the way. Give value first (Gitomer) and be interested in other people (Carnegie) are a few other personal traits that will be useful in addition to working hard.
The new opportunity. Can you see it? Are your ready for it? No? That’s ok. Most people are not completely ready for what opportunity demands. The key is to be ready to make quick adjustments and to make changes on the fly after embracing that opportunity is out there and that one will push onward …
Notes:
Rather random thoughts. No editing, just writing
The goal is to do the work as beautifully as you can, faster than anyone else, so you can do more work.
via Seths Blog: When is it due?.
Love what you do, do what you love. If you can get alignment like that, you can do great work and work longer making it great.
Find a way to make it to important events.
There are not a lot of these, but it’s important to know the ones that fit in the Important category. Imagine yourself in the future, how you or the other person or people would feel if you were not in attendance. Yeah, that’s how you’ll know.
GID = Get It Done.
Some things should, no, NEED to be done. Make a distinction and start doing. The time for talk is over. Make a choice and take decisive action. The time to start, the time to DO, is NOW. This might be your only shot. Second chances aren’t guaranteed.
No more excuses. If it’s worth doing, it’s worth taking to completion. FINISH! That’s what winners do. Be one.
“Just keep going”
Figure out what you want to do, achieve, accomplish, get started.
Then, Just Keep Going!
D.L. Damore 