“Consider a broad range of possibilities for how the future might unfold to help guide long-term planning and preparation…. The reason why we do reconnaissance is because we are uncertain. We don’t (and likely can’t) know how often things will turn out a certain way with exact precision…. By at least trying to assign probabilities,…
A little more than a year into my focus on daily habits, the overall the results are encouraging. James Clear’s Atomic Habits poured gasoline on my focus on doing things that matter every day, beginning with small things like reading more, writing every day and exercise. It started with changing the routine when I got…
“In most of our decisions, we are not betting against another person. Rather, we are betting against all the future versions of ourselves that we are not choosing.” – Annie Duke, Thinking In Bets As we enter the first full work week of the New Year, I’m focused on this concept of Second Order Thinking…
“It might be possible to do something that’s not ordinary.” – Tom Petty I’ve heard this Tom Petty quote in my head since I heard him say it in an interview, released well after his death. Do something that’s not ordinary. Don’t just read about the accomplishments of others, take some action yourself. And this…
Standing out on the jetty thirty feet out in Buzzards Bay earlier this morning looking for that familiar glimmer of sunrise, I realized that the show was going to be too far into the trees over land. It seems Earth’s obliquity, or axial tilt, is so far along that the sunrise is 30 degrees past…
Walking 10,000 steps a day doesn’t make the scale move much, but the walking offers benefits beyond incremental movement of the scale. Writing a blog every day doesn’t move the needle much on reader count or followers, but the writing has changed me in ways I hadn’t anticipated. Reading books every day seems elementary on…
“The true joy in life is to be a force of fortune instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.” – George Bernard Shaw I’ve used this quote to challenge myself a few times over the years. Shaw didn’t mince…
“What got you here won’t get you there.” – Marshall Goldsmith Indeed. But knowing where there is is an essential part of making the shift in the what. December is a great time to think about then and there stuff, but really every morning you should reflect a bit on where you’ve been and where…
The snow arrived late in the day Sunday, and is staying for awhile. It wasn’t a surprise; this storm has lumbered across the country painting the landscape white, and now it’s New Hampshire’s turn. I welcome it with the reluctance of a road warrior. This guest came at a bad time, but snow is here…
Accelerating to the end of the year, and the stack of books to read has grown even before I finish other books in the stack. And so it goes. There’s a lot to be said for focus, and reading one book to the end before beginning another. It’s like being on the highway alone, zipping…