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When Sleep Doesn't Help Like It Should ... It Might Be The Position You're In

Front, Back or Side ... What's Your Perfect Sleep Position?

Instead of a good night's sleep, it may be hurting you.

Here is an infographic from the WSJ that lays it out for you.

 

 

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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.

 

Lighter Links:

• 10 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)

 

Trading Links:

• 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?

Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Perhaps you've seen the t-shirt before ...

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• Washington, DC, Is No. 1 — at Watching Porn. So they are doing something there. (Newser)
• 20 Tech Trends That Will Define 2013. Selected By Frog Design (Fastcodesign)
• Seeking Cheaper Insurance, Drivers Accept Monitoring Devices. (NYTimes)
• Toyota Unveils a Lexus that Drives Itself. But Says It’ll Keep Drivers in Control (MIT TechReview)
• Getting the Right Dose of Exercise. Why Four Workouts a Week May Be Better Than Six. (Well)

 

Trading Links:

• How Michael Jordan Still Earns $80 Million A Year. (Forbes)
• Kass Gets ‘Summer of 1987 Feeling’. Sentiment and valuations make a strong bear case (CNBC)
• Fed Action This Year More Powerful Than in 2012. (WSJ)
• A Tax That Could Change the Trading Game. It’s all about ‘Carrots’ and ‘Sticks’. (NYTimes)
• Perhaps You Are Not as Good an Investor as You Think You Are. Many investors have been behaving as if the bloodbath between October 2007 and March 2009 never happened. (Wall Street Journal)

Bill Gates Annual Letter - Why The 'Right' Measures Matter

Why does measurement matter?

Bill Gates explores this question in his 2013 Annual Letter, highlighting innovations in measurement that are helping to eradicate poverty and disease.

 

Download Bill Gates' 2013 Annual Letter in PDF format.

Also see his "My Hope for 2030" video.

 

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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.

Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

When someone yells "Stop" ...  I don't know if it's in the name of love, it's 'Hammer Time,' or I should collaborate and listen?

 

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• Ray Kurzweil Says We’re Going to Live Forever. But, how can he prove it? (NYTimes)
• Iran Fires Monkey Into Space. (TheVerge)
• Wait, Iran Might Have Faked Its Monkey Space-Launch. It was a different monkey? (Newser)
• Former Obama CyberSecurity Czar Warns Against Use of CyberWeapons. (Mashable)
• Hillary's Farewell Speech: Read the Transcript. On her last day as secretary of state, Clinton spoke to the Council on Foreign Relations about her tenure (TDB)

Trading Links:

• The Global Elite Are Getting Worried—Finally. Notes from Davos World Economic Forum (Newser)
• Japan Recorded Its Largest Ever Trade Deficit. (FinancialTimes)
• U.K. On the Road to Nowhere. Rumblings of a Recession. (WSJ)
• Anonymous Hacks U.S. Government Site, Threatens Supreme 'Warheads'. (Mashable)
• The Trade: An Asset So Toxic They Called It 'Nuclear Holocaust'. Financial Crisis Suit Suggests Bad Behavior at Morgan Stanley (Dealbook)

Putting One Foot In Front of the Other

Whether you think you can ... or you think you can't ... you're right.
        ~ Henry Ford

 

Slack-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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How Can the U.S. Be Last in Such an Important Measure?

U.S. Health Worse than Nearly All Other Industrialized Nations.

Bloomberg recently reported that the last-place health ranking of the United States among 17 wealthy countries (based on a U.S. study of health outcomes).

Americans spend $2.7 trillion every year, more than any other nation, on healthcare costs.

Yet, America fares badly in a comparison of health measures in rich countries. Here is a chart from the Economist reporting similar results.

 

 

 
America is obviously doing something wrong. But what, exactly, is the question.

 

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Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Doomsday Planning?

 

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• The Five Cs of Opportunity Identification. (Harvard Business Review)
• SpaceX's Elon Musk: Your ticket to Mars? Half a million dollars. (LATimes)
• How IBM Is Watching How You Shop Online. (AllThingsD)
• Is Sleeping With a Partner Better For You Than Sleeping Alone? (WSJ)
• Why Do Children Think Covering Their Eyes Makes Them Invisible? (Popular Science)

 

Trading Links:

• Smart People Can Make Stupid Investing Decisions. (Forbes)
• Four Common Mistakes about the Fed. (OldProf)
• Fed Likely to Keep Buying Bonds. To combat threats of new turbulence & uncertainty. (WSJ)
• Raging Bulls. How Wall Street Got Addicted to Light-Speed Trading. (Wired)
• Two-Thirds of Millionaires Left Britain to Avoid 50% Tax Rate. (Telegraph)