Life is pretty simple


Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.


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Nutrition

71 kg, 9% fat

 Yeasterday i ate 

 lentils & a green salad for breakfast (it's weird but you feel strong but not full. Bread and milk is not a good breakfast for me anymore)
Put some Iswari Hemp seeds and some Flaxseeds on top of the lentils

 At lunch after a class of Pilates i ate 1 veggie soup and 1 big Salad with Greens, some Beans, tomato and cucumber

 at 5 pm i ate some Almonds and some more Hemp seeds

 For dinner i ate Beans & ratatouille with some more seeds and lemos juice

 Rooibos tea for desert
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China stock's hit 3 year low!


By Bloomberg News
     Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- China’s stocks fell, with the benchmark index closing below 2,000 for the first time since 2009, as the value of shares traded slumped to the lowest in four years. Material and health-care companies led losses.
     The Shanghai Composite Index dropped 1.3 percent to 1,991.17 at the 3 p.m. local-time close, its lowest level since 
Jan. 23, 2009. Shares worth 33.1 billion yuan ($5.3 billion)
 
 
PS If you are a commodity you don't make money. You can sell but you are always racing to lower prices. With lower prices it's difficult to make money. Solutions:
1.Kill de competition/Monopoly. Be nº1 in something (Visa, Master card, etc...) 
2.hire a good marketing guy that builds a good brand. The marketing guy is the top person in a company (Nestele, Daimmler, etc...)
3.Build a product that no one has. I don't believe in this you can build a solid product (this is not a durable solution and it's difficult to do)
4.Keep cutting costs to survive, race to the bottom. Most people are doing this in order to survive.
5.Be small, organic, local, of service, in short with a top service.
 
Leaving for Rio & São paulo, still 71 kg & 9% fat. Hope to be able to get to Rebook Gym in São paulo if it's not too expensive!!
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If only......


If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;
If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son!
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It's true

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk or running for office


Shirley MacLaine
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Better to be Bang & Olufsen than Sony


     Nov. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Sony Corp. and Panasonic Corp., the
Japanese electronics makers reeling from record losses, had
their long-term credit ratings downgraded to junk by Fitch
Ratings, citing a weak recovery in the television market.


Things Investors should hate: Innovation

Innovation has two very nasty effects on investors. 

The first one is that it gets everyone excited, often over-excited. It’s possible to trace most of the great booms in stockmarket history to the over-enthusiasm of investors for some new technical trend……

This is the second way in which innovation is a bane to the investor: it destroys existing, often long-established, business models.  This process of creative-destructionism usually, eventually, leads to simpler, better ways of organising corporations and lives.  But in the meantime all of those careful investment plans, built on careful historical analysis of sales and earnings can go hang.

So, yes, I love innovation personally.  But as an investor I’d rather find something which is more likely to stand the test of time.  Powerful brands and physical goods are harder to displace. 

http://www.psyfitec.com/2012/07/things-investors-should-hate-35.html

Better to have design than to have innovation & product. Is Apple a B&O or a Sony? I don't know
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Nutrition

71,6 kg, 11% fat and 20,6 BMI
yesterday was an ok diet day
I eat Lentils with a big Salad for breakfast with green tea
Eat some almonds at 11 am
Lunched in a Buffet
Eat some white beans with mushrooms cooked in a delirious sauce
the second time i went to the buffet i ate rucola salad and more mushrooms
1 glass of wine
1 muesli bar at 5 pm
No time to go to the gym
1 hour of Spinning in my Cyclops 3.0 at home, easy, easy
for dinner i ate Lentils with a big green salad with Lemonade (Green Salad with Mushrooms, Spinach, peppers, carrots, lettuce, red cabbage, mini tomatoes and Endives)
1 Rooibos tea before bed

 not a lot of carbs, only the beans and lentils. The breakfast is strange because i eat real food.  Today i am going to eat a bit of brown rice and fruit.

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