Thought this was worth sharing.
Now if I could just find the time to put this stuff into practice.
Personal Development
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The Most Honest Three Minutes In Television History? [Video]
Tragedies often sound a clarion call that get people to band together and be their best selves.
But how long will the good behavior last? Like exercise or showers, while it is good to do … it is better to repeat.
It is time to take an honest look at ourselves … and take appropriate action.
The 3 minute video below highlights some tough issues. The hard truth is that progress starts with honesty.
Do you think this painted an accurate picture of the current United States?
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Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading
Some things are harder than others …
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
- Clayton
Christensen Wants to Transform Capitalism. Interesting insights. (Wired) - Why
Weirdos Outperform Normals. (Linkedin) - Your
Brain Is Hooked on Being Right. (Harvard Business Review) - Spotify’s
Top 10 most viral tracks. Or, proof I'm getting older and more like my
father. (Salon) - Online
Passwords. At the height of the cold war, the "secret unlocking
code" for America's nuclear missiles was 00000000. (Guardian)
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SEC, This Is HFT "Cheating" At Its Most Obvious. Regards, Everyone
Else. (ZeroHedge) - Computer
Algorithms Rely Increasingly on Human Helpers. (NYTimes) - FBI
Joins SEC in Computer Trading Probe. (FT) - Top
10 Richest Colleges for 2012—The Biggest Endowments. (AdvisorOne) - David
Stockman On ‘The Great Deformation’ and Our Economic Doom. Are these new
stock-market records just another bubble? (TDB)
- Clayton
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Some Things to Ponder After the First Quarter
Urgent, please read ASAP.That's what gets done, of course. The urgent.
Not the article you haven't gotten around to writing, the trip to the gym that will pay off in the long run, the planning for your upcoming birthday party, dinner with your parents (who would love to see you), ten minutes to sit quietly, saying thank you to a friend for no real reason… no, we do the urgent first.
The problem, of course, is that the queue of urgent never ends, it merely changes its volume as it gets longer.
Yes, we've heard it said that it's the important, not the urgent, that deserves attention. But it understates just how much we've been manipulated by those that would make their important into our urgent.
via Seth Godin.
We just finished the first quarter of 2013.
It's been three months since New Year's Eve, and most New Year's Resolutions have been forgotten.
As you prepare to face the rest of 2013, ask yourself these powerful questions from Greg Bustin:- What do I want?
- What’s holding me back?
- What’s the impact of not getting what I say I want?
Now get going. It's not just the first day of a new Quarter … it's the first day of the rest of your life.
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Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading
What bothers you most about someone else is often a clue about what you don't like about your own circumstances … or, a political cartoonist could point it out instead.
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
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Billionaire Biographies You Must Read. (Under30CEO) - Lessons
for Data Driven Businesses. (TechCrunch) - The
Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food. (NYTimes) - Desmond
Tutu and The Dalai Lama's Extraordinary Talk On God and Religion.
(HuffingtonPost) - An
Ingenious Way Of Using Google Maps To Tell Where Rich And Poor People Live.
(BizInsider)
- Forbes
Lists the World's Richest People. The Billionaire List. (Forbes) - Singapore:
The World's Richest City. (WSJ Video) - Google
Passes Apple as Top U.S. Mutual and Hedge Fund Holding. (AppleInsider) - Yardeni:
S&P 500 Could Hit 1665 Mid-Year. (BusinessInsider) - Sign
of the Times: Celebrity Mila Kunis Talked Stocks on CNBC. Is that as an
ominous sign for the rally, or just an indication that “dumb-money” is back in
the game? (TDB)
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The Countdown of Life – How What You Do Adds Up Over Time
Are you happy how you spend your day?
Do you ever think about how most people choose to spend their time?
As you might guess, average Americans spend 8 hours at work, maybe half an hour in traffic, a few hours watching TV in the evening.
But what if you looked at it another way – what if you added up all those hours over the course of your whole life? The following infographic shows the tally.
That half an hour in traffic adds up to over a year of your life. And those innocent hours of TV? They add up to 9 years for the average American.
"It's not the years in your life that count … It's the life in your years." ~ Abraham Lincoln
Are you giving time to the things you really care about?
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Your Weekend Linkfest
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
- Marc
Andreessen On The Future Of Enterprise. (TechCrunch) - What
We Should Fear? Top scientists and writers ponder this single question.
(NewYorker) - Deception Is
Futile When Big Brother's Lie Detector Turns Its Eyes on You. (Wired) - Pentagon
on CyberSecurity Force: Quintuple It. (Newser) - SIRI
RISING. The Inside Story Of Siri's Origins – And Why She Could Overshadow the iPhone Itself. (HuffPost)
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Great Central Banking Experiment. Will Unlimited Cash Solve or Cause Problems? (Time) - There's
a New Worst-Rated State In the Nation, and It Isn't California. Can you
guess? (BizInsider) - In
the Choice of ‘More Data’ or ‘Better Algorithms’ – Better Data Wins.
(AllThingsD) - Ranking
the Yearly Performance of Global Markets. (Capitalogix) - SAC
Braces for Big Exodus. The hedge-fund group has been bracing for client
withdrawals of at least $1 billion this year—nearly 17% of its AUM. (Wall
Street Journal)
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How Winners Are Made: A Little Inspiration To Start Your Week
What a great speech … short, simple, and to the point. Hope you get something from it.
After you watch the video, here is the transcript.
Life is tough, that's a given.
When you stand up, you're gonna be shoved back down.
When you're down, you're gonna be stepped on.My advice to you doesn't come with a lot of bells and whistles. It's no
secret, you'll fall down, you stumble, you get pushed, you land square
on your face. And every time that happens, you get back on your feet.
You get up just as fast as you can, no matter how many times you need to
do it.
Remember this, success has been and continues to be defined as getting
up one more time than you've been knocked down.If experience has taught me anything, it's that nothing is free and
living ain't easy.Life is hard, real hard, incredibly hard. You fail
more often than you win, nobody is handing you anything.
It's up to you to puff up your chest, stretch your neck and overcome all
that is difficult, the nasty, the mean, the unfair.You want more than what you've now, PROVE IT!
You want beat the very best out there that is, get out there and earn
it!Once you decide that, you'll know where it is you want to be, then you
won't stop pushing forward until you get there! That's how winners are
made.At the end of the day, success is what we all want.
We all want to win, and the race will be won. There is no question about
that.So come on, get out on top, run faster, dream bigger, live better
than you ever have before. This is in you. You can do this. Do it for
yourself. Prove it to yourself!You can download this in MP3 format here.
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Putting One Foot In Front of the Other
Whether you think you can … or you think you can't … you're right.
~ Henry FordSlack-Lining is kind of like tight-rope walking (except the line isn't as taut … so it moves and bounces around). The image to the right is of me trying it less than six inches off the ground.
It was harder than you might guess … Perhaps fear of falling contributed to the heart racing and muscle tension that went along with it.
Josh Beaudoin (the guy trying to steady me) claims that slack-lining is not an adrenaline sport. It is about being composed in the moment. It is about finding the confidence to face your fear and the power to manage your emotions.
Listen to some wisdom as you watch an awesome video by Josh. It was shot in Rock Canyon near Provo, UT.
Imagine the experience of being up there … and what we do down here doesn’t seem risky.
To see something else a little crazy. Check out this link about Fire-Walking.
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Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading
Who put Washington in charge of the ball drop this New Year?
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
- The
Year in Photos. Photos of the Year 2012. (WSJ Graphics) - The
Best Books of 2012. Interesting list with some unusual choices. (BrainPickings) - The
Best City Time-Lapse Videos of 2012. (TheAtlantic) - Life's
Work 2012. Highlights from Interviews of 10 Intriguing People. (HarvardBizReview) - How to
Keep Your Resolutions. 25 apps for a happier, healthier, better 2013.
(VentureBeat)
- Why
2013 Will See Faster, Stronger Global Growth. (CNBC) - How
to Play the 4 Likely Potential Economic Scenarios Over the Next 3 Years.
(Forbes) - The
Fiscal-Cliff Fix: Winners and losers. (The Week) - Defying
Mao, Rich Chinese Crash the Communist Party. (Wall Street Journal) - Amateur
Investors Are 3.2 Percent Worse Than Chimpanzees at Picking Stocks. Fear,
greed, and mistakes are a bitch to deal with (BusinessInsider)
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