from our man in Arizona, Michael Wade. Read on for the minimal plan to project success.
Write enough ideas and plans and you'll eventually scribble something that is remarkable.
— The List
by Execupundit
Playing The Long Game
Patrick Rhone is playing the long game on goals. Maybe you should too?
The smart players, at best, see such low dips as a buying opportunity — like a retail Labor Day sale. Most just ignore it because 3% off is hardly a bargain to tell your friends about. Nay, the truly market savvy are looking far out into the future. The trends they look for are not measured in days or weeks, but years. "Let’s look at where this stock was at 5, 10, and 20 years ago" they’ll say. Because that’s how true wealth is built and measured. They play the long game.
— Almost Always Bull
by Patrick Rhone
Obviously private accounts could be skipped but the rest of the accounts could be added to this special timeline.
It would be nice in Twitter if you could see other people’s timelines as they see them.
Good luck to Heather, Josh and Jack representing the @ElderslieGolf juniors in finals day today.
Tech news of the day. Twitter app is going lighter and Instagram is allowing portrait and landscape photos.
Most of the time tech news is much more pleasant to read than the actual news.
Morning Pages Should Be Like Skimming Stones
The morning pages habit trundles on with my Moleskine Volant notebook filling up by the day. Some days it's easy to get started while other days it seems like a struggle. It shouldn't be like this.
Every year we visit Jennifer's family just outside of Toronto. The holiday usually revolves around shopping for the girls and golf for the boys, but on those days where we want to spend the time together as a group we sometimes head down to the lake. It's a great spot for a picnic and a walk, it lets the kids explore and of course there's that love of skimming stones. You spend a couple of seconds looking for a good stone and you throw. There's no concern about the quality of the throw, a few throws is all that's needed to get better. Also you know that once it's thrown that stone is gone forever. Well at least until it's washed back up back onto the shore again.
Your morning pages should be like this. Just writing, seeing where it takes you and never worrying about that writing coming back. It's an exercise to clear your mind and nothing more. Also it doesn't matter about the content of your morning pages. It's all for you. No-one else. Once it's written it can disappear from the eye of the public forever. Just like your little stone skimming across the water and disappearing, your morning pages can hide forever.
This morning I was stuck for something to write about, so I just started writing. Half a page in and it started to get easier. The next time I start my morning pages it won't be so hard to get started. I just need to remember it's just like skimming stones.
Maintaining The Work Life Balance
Curtis McHale dispenses seven tactics that help getting the balance right between work and life.