Luck doesnât just happen, itâs created. You can do things to increase the odds of serendipity.
Meeting more people makes you lucky.
Learning more skills makes you lucky.
Being willing to fail makes you lucky.
Offering to help others more often makes you lucky.
Rubio: "Invasion of Ukraine has been strategic disaster for Russians. They are not going to achieve objectives they set out on day one, for certain, and they may not even be able to, militarily, ever achieve objectives they're demanding now in negotiations.
Ukrainians not only bravely fighting, they're effectively fighting. Ukrainians have actually made some battlefield gains in the last month as well.
Russians are losing 5,000 â not injured, but dying. In fact, according to Department of Defense, it is one of the first conflicts ever in which death rate is higher than casualty rate, on Russian side. It's the first time ever that you have more deaths than casualties."
It is not too late to stand with Ukraine and win. Help us bring Russia to the breaking point where it can no longer sustain this war.
Ukrainians are performing miracles on the battlefield, and you can help strangle Russian war machine economically and save Ukrainian civilians with air defense. Letâs win together!
If you canât be happy without it, you wonât be happy with it. If you think something outside of you is the missing piece, youâre missing the point.
Most traders think they're stuck in a losing position. You're not.
You can sell any time youwant. What's actually holding you hostage is your ego refusing to accept the idea was wrong.
The market doesn't trap you. Your need to be right does. Once you understand this, you stop asking "will it come back?" and start asking "if I didn't already own this, would I buy it today?"
That one question has saved more portfolios than any indicator ever will.
I know rich men who are miserable. I know middle class men who are happy. I also know the vice versa.
The unhappy ones are the one who chose their life based around money. Whether out of pursuing excess of it or making enough to just get by.
People that work jobs they hate are JUST as controlled by money as a person driven by endless greed.
The happy ones are the ones who found their passion in work regardless of the $$ amount.
Don't get me wrong. More $$ is better than less $$.
But it won't replace the real point. A man needs a purpose.
The happiest men work for purpose. Kobe would of played ball for minimum wage and would have lived a perfectly happy fulfilled life
If you find that purpose and a way to make rent. You've won. The end. You've won. You've won hard.
Old footage emerges of Marco Rubio explaining the assurances given to Ukraine when it gave up its nuclear weapons.
Now he says Ukraine is ânot Americaâs warâ and Europe must step up to help USA in Iran.
From guarantees⊠to transactions.
If you donât prioritize, everything seems urgent and important.
If you define the single most important task for each day, almost nothing seems urgent or important.
Oftentimes, itâs just a matter of letting little bad things happen (return a phone call late and apologize, pay a small late fee, lose an unreasonable customer, etc.) to get the big important things done.
The answer to overwhelm is not spinning more platesâor doing moreâitâs defining the few things that can really fundamentally change your business and life.
Jordan Peterson: "You're underestimating how much you can improve"
"If the gap between you and your ideal is so great that it paralyzes you, you've created a dragon you don't have the tools to master. So you have to scale the dragon down to size. You want to scale it down until it's a size you're willing to move toward, however small that is."
Jordan explains the math behind growth:
"There's a gospel principle called the Matthew Principle: to those who have everything, more will be given. It implies that reality works like this: when you're moving up, it's exponential. When you're going down, it's downhill, then cliff. So it doesn't matter how small your first steps are, even if they're shameful in their size. Because if you're disciplined, you'll speed up extraordinarily rapidly. The ball doesn't roll in a linear fashion. It rolls in a geometric fashion."
He shares his own story:
"When I first started going to the gym, I was 23. I weighed 135 pounds at 6'1". Very thin. I smoked like mad, drank too much. I wasn't in good shape. I went to this swim class, it was me, a really overweight young guy, and seven women over 70. They could outswim me. It was pretty damn humiliating."
Jordan continues:
"Then I started lifting weights. I'd be underneath the bench press trying to lift 75 pounds, and some muscle-headed bastard would come over and tell me how to do it. It's embarrassing. Lots of people won't go to the gym because they're embarrassed about how they look. But you start at the bottom where you're weak. If you want to rectify what's weak, you have to accept that the first steps are going to be painful."
The result:
"It took me about 3 years, but I stopped smoking, stopped drinking, and gained 40 pounds of muscle. I got a lot more physically confident. A lot more coordinated. Then I could dance, so that was better when I was going out in graduate school."
He explains why self-reflection matters:
"If your plans didn't work out, sit down and say: 'Even if the world was conspiring against me and my failure was 95% the fault of external circumstances, what did I do that wasn't as good as it could have been? Where did I fail to look?' To ask that question, you have to want the answer. That's what it means to knock, to ask, to seek. You have to want to know."
Jordan concludes:
"One of the reasons you confess your sins is because you want to discover where you're insufficient. It's painful, but the advantage is you can rectify the error. And then as you move forward, you're stronger."
If we assume the point of investing is ultimately to improve your quality of life and the quality of life of those you most care about, investments that consistently add stress over long periods of time probably donât make sense.
Money is traded for things or experiences that catalyze certain feelings. If your investments are generating the opposite spectrum of feelings, it might be time to reassess. Itâs easy to miss the forest for the trees.
Money is a means, not an end.
And in the end, most things matter very, very little.
Do what helps you sleep at night and wake up with a low heart rate.
To me, those are the hallmarks of a world-class investor who gets the big picture.
ÂżNada te sale bien? No es que la vida sea injusta es que tĂș sigues esperando a que sea fĂĄcil y no lo serĂĄ. Mientras tĂș te quejas, hay alguien que tiene menos que tĂș y aĂșn asĂ lo estĂĄ intentando. Tiene hambre y tiene disciplina y eso vale mĂĄs que cualquier excusa.
Work so hard you become every teacherâs top student.
Work so hard you make a losing strategy a winning strategy.
Work so hard, the people who helped you claim your success, because itâs bigger than their own.
Violence is the answer.
Tus padres estĂĄn envejeciendo.
30 cosas que hacer con ellos antes de que el tiempo pase.
1. Graba su voz contando una historia. AlgĂșn dĂa, esa voz se convertirĂĄ en un sonido que nunca volverĂĄs a oĂr.