Betting on lucky

Highline Trail
Hiking Glacier National Park.

 

Betting on lucky?

Most of us do.

But lucky never happens.

Well, it does happen…and something or someone goes viral.

But Facebook, Amazon, YouTube and Usain Bolt are a microscopic part of humanity and business.

And their luck was the result of a lifetime of focus and discipline.

The rest of us (all of us) need a much better plan than a lucky break.

Bank on a lifetime of focus and discipline.

Focus on the basics (mind, body, spirit, money, hq).

Discipline yourself to never waiver from that strategy.

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November 30th meet December 30

First principles thinking
First principle, without any help from Elon Musk – Think For Yourself.

 

 

November 30th meet December 30?

i love writing in such a way that there is no pressure on me to write to please others.

i used to worry about writing ahead – not posting live, but posting in the future. Kinda the way many television shows are recorded and then aired later.

Stumbled upon it on a 14-hour flight for a Disney Institute engagement because i was worried i wouldn’t have time the next morning to write.

Had just learned how to schedule a post to publish on a future date. In preparation for this trip, i wrote a post while still in Orlando for the morning i was worried about.

As luck would have it, my fear never happened and i wrote that morning, 14-hours from Orlando.

This meant i now had a surplus of five posts (one day’s worth).

Bottomline: i’m currently writing 30 days out  – in this case,  30 days before New Year’s Eve.

So i’m thinking about the ineffectiveness of resolutions.

i’m also thinking about how December 30, 2001 was the last day i drank alcohol.

Turns out, for determined people, you figure out how to conquer your fears and follow your dreams – no matter what day you decide to commit.

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The older you get

Colorful Church windows
Yesterday, Saturday November 11, 2017.

 

Getting old is wonderful.

Feeling old is not.

Getting old is a privilege many never experience.

It also comes with a personal responsibility to keep learning, doing, and refining what we hold on to and what we let go of.

Memories are nice, but never let them be bigger than your dreams.

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Only a glimpse of amazing

Rising Sun Motor Inn room
He was 12 on his first Red Bus Tour. And almost 16 on his second yesterday.

 

It was 1973 and roughly 40 Scouts plus chaperones arrived at Glacier National Park early evening and checked into Swiftcurrent Motor Inn, had dinner and went to bed. After breakfast the next morning, we drove an hour around the southern Park border to Lake McDonald Lodge. It was there i boarded and enjoyed my first Red Bus tour.

That first time, in 1973, i was 14 and all my fellow Red Bus tour passengers were fellow Boy Scouts from my Central Pennsylvania Council.

Yesterday (Aug 1, 2016) was my third tour.

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Recap from Sunday 07.31…6-hr Red Bus tour, lunch at Lake McDonald Lodge, Henry driver, dinner at St Mary Lodge, look at shops, ice cream at Two Dog Flats

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This website is about our mental attitude. To easily leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s physical health website, click here.

 

On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

 

How bold is too bold?

Delta flight info board
First flight.

 

What makes you think you can influence the future?

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What makes you think you can’t?

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PS. 07.30…leave home at 520am…Orlando-Salt Lake City-Kalispel, Target, Walmart, room 08, dinner Two Dog Flats.

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This website is about our mental attitude. To easily leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s physical health website, click here.

 

On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.