Mark Witek

Certified Financial Planner. Securities offered through LPL Financial, Member FINRA/SIPC, and

[Mark Witek @witekmark]

Very true.

[AJ Inapi (Allan) @aj_inapi]

The American political cycle:

1. Elect a President.

2. Expect decades of problems to be fixed in 12–24 months.

3. Get frustrated when everything is not immediately cheaper, safer and better.

4. Blame the President for everything.

5. Flip Congress.

6. Spend the next two years blocking, investigating and fighting.

7. Elect the next President promising to “fix” what the last one failed to finish.

8. Reverse half the previous administration’s policies.

9. Start over.

10. Get frustrated again.

11. Repeat.

12. Repeat.

13. Repeat.

Then wonder why major problems never get solved.

Debt keeps growing.
Infrastructure keeps aging.
Manufacturing gets hollowed out.
Energy policy swings back and forth.
Border policy changes every election.
Foreign policy gets rewritten every four years.

And somehow Americans expect long-term results from a system they keep forcing into short-term thinking.

Then eventually you hit old age, complain that “the country isn’t what it used to be,” and pass the same political habits to the next generation.

Then they repeat the cycle.

Elect.
Expect miracles.
Get angry.
Reverse course.
Start over.

Until somebody finally understands this:

You cannot build a 50-year national future with a 2-year attention span.

Why not FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFETIME, change it up.

Vote consistently for Republicans just like you did when President Trump was on the ballot in 2024 and zee if anything changes.

If not, you can go back to your old ways.

Remember what Albert Einstein said about the definition of "INSANITY?"

[Mark Witek @witekmark]

Bureau County Fair …. LoneStar and Sawyer Brown Band … #smalltown USA

[Mark Witek @witekmark]

@farman4x 9

[Mark Witek @witekmark]

Fifty years of friendship and memories !

[Mark Witek @witekmark]

105th Marshal/Putnam Illinois Fair …. Scotty McCreery…. #smalltownusa

[Mark Witek @witekmark]

Great read …. Problem is, nobody takes the time to read anymore !

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

https://t.co/m9fLDjkjWA

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Military experts later confirmed that Chuck Norris and Walter Payton together on the same boat was temporarily the world’s fourth-strongest navy.

[Mark Witek @witekmark]

@IllinoisRivals The kid playing for Golden State could play a lick either...... lol

[Mark Witek @witekmark]

@TheHoopHerald T J McConnell ?

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Roger Federer broke the internet with one statistic that will change how you see every setback in your life.
1,526 singles matches.
Won almost 80% of them.
20 Grand Slams. 103 titles.

Now answer honestly:
What percentage of total points do you think he won across his entire career?
70%? 65%? 60%?

Try … 54%.
He lost literally almost EVERY SECOND POINT he ever played for 24 years.

And still became one of the greatest of all time.

Watch him explain it himself (2:07 of pure life-changing wisdom):
“In tennis, perfection is impossible… When you lose every second point on average, you teach yourself to say:
‘Okay, I double-faulted — it’s only one point.’
‘Okay I got passed at the net — it’s only one point.’
Even a screaming overhead smash that ends up on SportsCenter Top 10… still just one point.

So when you’re playing your point, it has to be the most important thing in the world.
The moment it’s over — it’s behind you.

That mindset frees you to attack the next point, and the next, and the next with absolute intensity and clarity.”

Then he looked at the crowd and said the line that hit a billion people in the soul:
“The real sign of a champion is not that they win every point.
It’s that they lose again and again and again… and have learned how to deal with it.
Negative energy is wasted energy.
Cry it out if you have to. Then force a smile.
Move on. Be relentless. Adapt. Grow.
Work harder — and work smarter.”

Save this post.

The next time you lose a deal, bomb a presentation, get ghosted, miss a deadline, or just have “one of those days” — come back here and read it again.

You’re not falling behind.
You’re just in the 46%.
And the 46% is exactly where every single legend has spent most of their career.

Keep playing the next point.
(full 2:07 clip — sound on)

[Mark Witek @witekmark]

@Tara_Schrock Rodney Atkins !

[Mark Witek @witekmark]

@brucefenton Rural Midwest practitioner .... definitely not the case.

[Phil Mickelson @PhilMickelson]

Not many people can run a $2.4 trillion company and he’s making less than countless pro athletes. Stop worrying about how much others make and look at what they produce and contribute to society. This narrow-minded thinking holds us back.

[Mark Witek @witekmark]

Very true !

[Tier1 Alpha @t1alpha]

Just remember.

No matter what happens today, 70 million working Americans will still be buying $NVDA every month, whether they realize it or not.

[Mark Witek @witekmark]

County Fair Time … Trace Adkins !

[Michael Downey @MDowney14]

An insane event weekend for the city of Chicago:

Southside: Savannah Bananas @ Rate Field
Westside: UFC @ United Center
Northside: Cubs/Pirates @ Wrigley
Lakefront: Bears/Bills @ Soldier Field

And then to top it off the Chicago Air & Water show flying over everything.

[Joe Concha @JoeConchaTV]

Great find by Maze.

[Mark Witek @witekmark]

@AdamKinzinger From a guy who got gerrymandered out of his seat …..