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I verified myself and refuse to donate to a blue check mark unless it's helping to cure hate or feed hungry kids. Think I'm a bot? Cool! Think I'm not? Okay!

[Kim_Possible @TheRealJodiKim]

Not sure, but my son was just complaining about this and what it may do to 401Ks with regard to forced buying and price discovery. (yes, we have weird dinner conversations) I had to ask my good friend Claude 😉 why the indices would want to do this, lol. --> Competitive pressure. If S&P 500 includes SpaceX quickly and Nasdaq-100 doesn't, flows shift. Index providers are in a race to remain relevant to the largest, most-watched companies — and that race increasingly runs through accommodating the companies rather than protecting the investors in the funds that track them. It's a slow erosion of the independence that made these indices trustworthy in the first place."

[Kim_Possible @TheRealJodiKim]

@sspencer_smb @SPGlobal @Nasdaq https://t.co/jNxgKEZRds

[Kim_Possible @TheRealJodiKim]

@sspencer_smb It was true back then....and still true today.

[Kim_Possible @TheRealJodiKim]

@FOX9 Non-story. Costco has always opened at 10am for everybody. They didn't TAKE anything away from non-executive...... It is an ADDITIONAL hour. Shall we now be upset that there are added perks with airlines, credit cards, amusment parks? Where is that outrage? NICE TRY

[Kim_Possible @TheRealJodiKim]

@ReedTimmerUSA Holy moly, that’s enough for three or four people!!!! Looks delicious though!

[Kim_Possible @TheRealJodiKim]

@ReedTimmerUSA @localmanweather That was almost predictable in downtown Minneapolis. I was so happy when my son graduated at U of M and got out of Dodge!

[Kim_Possible @TheRealJodiKim]

@cbouzy Well technically they all do have hearts, er… nevermind. But they all do have brains and are humans… oh shoot, nevermind. You win - not the same! 🤣

[Kim_Possible @TheRealJodiKim]

@sspencer_smb @Gwynne_Shotwell "Global Marketing" on a whole new level! (am I supposed to leave an obligatory blogger recommendation here? 🤣)

[Kim_Possible @TheRealJodiKim]

@sspencer_smb I knew B would back down. (but most people could've called that) Hopefully, other companies will follow through with line item tariff transparency. Per CNBC they may, to avoid being accused of price gouging.

[Agnieszka Wood | Trading Mindset Coach @Ahead_Coach]

Every trader needs a good relationship with themselves.

Because when you trust yourself—

You follow your plan.
You take the right trades.
And you finally trade in peace!

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[Kim_Possible @TheRealJodiKim]

@evofuse @unusual_whales You hit the nail on the head! It seems this fool realized he can’t live forever & has never uttered an intelligent or meaningful phrase in his life.He’ll never have a famous quote in an inspirational book, & now caught like a desperate student copying from an encyclopedia!🤣

[Kim_Possible @TheRealJodiKim]

@unusual_whales I hear Martha’s cell is available 😇

[Kim_Possible @TheRealJodiKim]

@sspencer_smb @X 🤣🤣🤣 Eagerly waiting for their response!

[Kim_Possible @TheRealJodiKim]

@MoneyMitch_TTP Happy Birthday to your boys and congratulations to you and your growing family!

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

After his second year at Michigan, Tom Brady wanted to transfer.

He wasn’t playing in games, and he was so low on the depth chart that he only got 2 reps in practice.

Brady met with his coach to express his frustration, “The other quarterbacks get all the reps.”

Coach replied,

“Brady, I want you to stop worrying about what all the other players on our team are doing. All you do is worry about what the starter is doing, what the second guy is doing, what everyone else is doing. You don’t worry about what you’re doing.”

Coach reminded him, “You came here to be the best. If you’re going to be the best, you have to beat out the best.”

And then he recommended that Brady meet Greg Harden, a counselor who worked in the athletic department.

Brady went to Harden’s office and whined, “I’m never going to get my chance. They’re only giving me 2 reps.”

Harden replied, “Just go out there and focus on doing the best you can with those 2 reps. Make them as perfect as you possibly can.”

“So that’s what I did,” Brady said. “They’d put me in for those 2 reps, man, I’d sprint out there like it was Super Bowl 39. ‘Let’s go boys! Here we go! What play we got?’”

“And I started to do really well with those 2 reps. Because I brought enthusiasm, I brought energy.”

Soon, he was getting 4 reps. Then 10, “and before you knew it,” Brady said, “with this new mindset that Greg had instilled in me—to focus on what you can control, to focus on what you’re getting, not what anyone else is getting, to treat every rep like it’s the Super Bowl—eventually, I became the starter.”

Takeaway 1:

Greg Harden telling Brady to focus on being great during his 2 reps reminded me of a piece of advice from the entrepreneur Mark Cuban.

“People come to me all the time and tell me they’re stuck,” Cuban explained. “They’re stuck in a job they don't like. They’re stuck working for a boss they don’t like. They're stuck on a team they don't like.”

“I just tell them, ‘Be great.’”

“The reality of life is that you can’t just always quit your job. You can’t just always go to your boss and say, ‘Give me the promotion, or I’m out of here.’” You can’t just always go to your coach and say, ‘Give me more reps, or I'm transferring.’

“So when you’re stuck, you’ve gotta find it within yourself to say, ‘Ok, this is where I am. And if I’m going to be here, I’m going to be great.’

Because if you’re great at your job, typically other people and companies find out, so it creates opportunities.”

Takeaway 2:

In the field of strategic management, there is a distinction made between “lead measures” and “lag measures.”

Lag measures are the results you’re trying to achieve: getting a promotion, winning a championship, being the starting quarterback. Lead measures are the actions that predictably drive those results. 

The core characteristic of a lead measure, the authors of “The 4 Disciplines of Execution” write, is that “a lead measure can be directly influenced by you.” To achieve your goals, they write (echoing what the Michigan Coach told Brady), “apply a disproportionate energy” to the things that are in your control.

Starting at Michigan and for the rest of his career, that’s what Brady did.

After he was selected by the New England Patriots with the 199th pick in the 2000 draft, Brady was asked: “Are you aware that [along with starting quarterback, Drew Bledsoe] there’s another quarterback here that they drafted last year?” 

Brady said he was aware of that, “and I know he’s a heck of a player. But I’ve always concerned myself just with the things I can control. I don’t put a lot of thinking into the other guys because I know I’m not at my best when I’m not just thinking about playing as well as I possibly can.”

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“I never once in my life ever said I wanted to be the best of all time. Ever. I wanted to be the best I could be, period. I learned that in college. It didn’t matter what the other guys were doing. It didn’t. It mattered what I was doing.” — Tom Brady

[Kim_Possible @TheRealJodiKim]

@JEM_el_tarasco @unusual_whales Can you guess who he is NOT looking into? 🤪

[Kim_Possible @TheRealJodiKim]

I hate how true this is. 🙄

[Kim_Possible @TheRealJodiKim]

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