Doing Cool Stuff on a Daily Basis.
1. The boom is not coming back, and the bust will get worse. We live in a post-bust world. This is the new normal. Get used to it. Your equity is not coming back. It wasn’t real anyway. Neither is your 401K. The Dow Jones might come back to 15,000, but in deflated dollars. What [...]
In the movie “Groundhog Day,” Bill Murray is forced to live the same day over an over again. Initially, he pursues the superficial goals of his Shell Identity. He tries to make lots of cash, get women to go to bed with him, etc. Eventually, these things no longer satisfy him. He is bored with [...]
“I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one [...]
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn’t, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. -Honore DeBalzac Let’s review where we have been so far, shall we? Know Yourself. Do you have a single clue about who you really are and the kind of work you are supposed to do in the universe? [...]
We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us. -Hannah Moore The Transcendence Factor is when we engage in our calling, and it engages us back. No matter [...]
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