For the first time in my life, I am paying for house cleaners and gardeners. It’s nice and it saves me time and effort but sometimes I feel like I’m paying just for them to clean our bathroom and mow our lawn. They do much more than that, but that’s what I tend to notice …
Monthly Archives: September 2020
“I grew up this morning.”
I visited my parents this weekend with my kids and my 2-year-old daughter can now reach the water of the bathroom sink when she’s on a stool. I said something about reaching that milestone and she said, “I grew up this morning,” meaning that she grew taller this morning. It seemed like a silly thing …
Maybe you’re singing the wrong song
I came across this YouTube video of Shaheen Jafargholi, a young Welsh boy, auditioning for Britain’s Got Talent. He starts to sing Valerie by Amy Winehouse and sings it for about 15 seconds before host Simon Cowell cuts him off and asks him to stop. He tells him, “You got this really wrong.” Simon continues, …
The way to win in the long run is to have a long run
In poker, you might make a good decision, one that has a chance of winning 2 out of 3 times over the long run but if the 1 in 3 times that you don’t win comes first, then you had better make sure that you don’t bet all your chips on that hand. If that …
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Be conservative while you still can be conservative
In Texas Hold ’Em Poker, there are forced bets that move around the table clockwise and the amount of these forced bets goes up over time. This means that the longer you play, the fewer chips you will have, even if you never play a hand. When you get low on chips, you have fewer …
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Talk yourself into it
I think we’re too good at talking ourselves out of things. It won’t work because of X, Y, and Z. Let’s practice talking ourselves into things. It might work, because of A, B, and C. Oh, and we forgot about ñ, ø, and é! It might just work. Let’s give it a chance to work.
Family first
My cute wife and cute kids went to the aquarium today and I had to stay home and work. In the bigger picture, I would have loved to have gone with them. In the smaller picture, I’m not working hard enough to figure out a way to become financially independent of a job so that …
It’s a little wet. And a little dry.
My 2-year-old saw some water on the sink counter and she said, “It’s a little wet.” And then she said, “And a little dry.” I think most things are like this. Not all one thing or all another. A little bit of both. So the next time you think someone is mean or nice, or …
Love of the game
Professional high stakes poker players play against each other. Why? They could make a lot more money playing against players that are much worse than they are. But they like playing against other high level pros. Why? Because they like the challenge. Because they love the game. Find a game you love to play. Or …
What do you remember?
A birthday comes, an anniversary passes, it’s been 5 years since something. But what do you remember? It’s not the number of years. It’s the number of life-changing moments. How often do you work on creating life-changing moments?