“Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths.” – Epictetus
“Our visions are the world we imagine, the tangible results of what the world would look like if we spent every day in pursuit of our why.” – Simon Sinek, Start With Why Sinek’s talk is one of the most watched YouTube videos of all time, largely focused on business’s asking this critical question, “Why…
Friday’s feel a bit different when your entire week is spent working from home… And the weekend before that… And this coming weekend too. Indeed, Saturday and Sunday feel different, and so does Monday. There’s a cadence to a normal week that’s been disrupted for most everyone, but it’s all kind of lumped together now…
“Process saves us from the poverty of intentions.” – Elizabeth King (via Seth Godin & Tim Ferriss) “You begin with a subject, gather material, and work your way to structure from there. You pile up volumes of notes and then figure out what you are going to do with them, not the other way around.”…
Each day the reading list grows. The will to read is there, and I’m working through the stacks, but the stack grows nonetheless. I feel like Permetheus pushing the rock up the hill when it comes to tacking the mountains of books I’d like to get through. Counting some Christmas additions and leftover 2018 reading…
Buzzards Bay is a 28 mile long body of water lined on one side by the mainland of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and on the other by Cape Cod, the Elizabeth Islands and Martha’s Vineyard. Buzzards Bay is named after the osprey’s that thrived along the bay. Osprey are very different from buzzards, but the…
“Seems to me it ain’t the world that’s so bad but what we’re doing to it, and all I’m saying is: see what a wonderful world it would be if only we’d give it a chance. Love, baby – love. That’s the secret.” — Louis Armstrong I hear babies cryI watch them growThey’ll learn much…