1.When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital maters however…the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within.
Sigmund Freud
2.There is no reality, only perception.
Dr Phil
3.Never tell your problems to anyone. 20% don't care, and the other 80% are glad you have them
Lou Holtz
4.When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer
(1902 - 1983)
5.All the tools in the world are meaningless without an essential idea
George Lois, Mad Man
and one more..........................
6.You are either putting weight or loosing, it's impossible to stay stable.
Me, Francisco Magalhaes Carneiro
Here’s the concept, as explained to me by Briggo CEO Kevin Nater: “There’s this unbelievably beautiful supply chain for coffee,” he says, from the way the beans are painstakingly cultivated and harvested in countries like Honduras to the way they’re packed and shipped and roasted to perfection—“and then, at the last step, when you’ve spent all this time and money trying to make the perfect product, there’s a person brewing the coffee. And that has the potential to really just kill the customer experience. So why not automate it?”................................................................
The Briggo machine may never be able to replicate the full, sit-down, Central Perk experience, but then again that’s not what every Starbucks customer is looking for. Starbucks is so successful because it dominates the market for two types of customers: those who want a place to sit down and chat with friends or get some work done, and those who just want a quick, reliable caffeine jolt on their way to work. It’s the latter market that might ultimately be better-served by a Briggo, or something like it. And that’s a very, very big market.
Slowly but surely all the jobs that are just execution are going to be replaced with machines. If you are not nice, talk to your customer, etc... you can be replaced. Be nice, be very nice or unemployed.
Companies are racing to issue stock and bonds because markets are high,
offering great prices for sellers, said Michael Farr, president of Farr, Miller
& Washington, which oversees more than $950 million in Washington, D.C..
Issuers are grabbing current terms before markets fade. That makes experienced
investors ask themselves a classic question: If the smart money is selling,
should we be buying?
http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2013/11/10/flurry-of-stock-bond-issuance-is-a-danger-sign-for-markets/
This plus this graph from John P. Hussman, Ph.D. What to say? SELL ? No way i think after a new high we will probably will have another new high. Even if the next 10 years are not going to be great i think the next year could be very ok? Why? because when the markets are at new highs nobody is loosing money (Except the shorts & skeptics) and the i see more pressure from people in the sidelines to buy than people that are in to exit. When is the ideal time to sell? after a big correction has started, you have to lose some 10% to 15 % and let some time pass before cutting.
This is a long article about how David can beat Goliath but with a caveat. David can not play the game by traditional/Goliath rules. If he does even with a top rate attitude usually he loses. What David can do is to play in a different way a way that put's David & Goliath at the same level.
How can that be? Well i don't have time to train properly for my bike (i can train up to 8 hours a week). So what i do is to focus on something i can do and it makes a big difference in Endurance sports. Nutrition. I am a almost 100% Veggan and that has made a big difference.
In another situation many years ago i was racing in a Canoe race in river Mondego representing BPI with Rui Nápoles my partner in the boat. We were in 3rd place with the finish line in view and the 2nd team some 10 meters ahead of us. The water was shallow (some 20 cm ) so i jumped out of the boat and pushed the back of the boat with my hands claiming the 2nd place in the race. Not pretty but effective.
"The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were
yesterday." - Anonymous
This is the same idea as in the Book Mindset from Carol Dweck. This is a book that really can change your life. The idea behind the book is that in the fixed mindset, people believe their basic qualities like intelligence are fixed and either you have them or not. They spend time proving that they have it and they don't like to lose because it implies that you are not so smart aftar all.
In the growth mindset, people believe that you can grow all your basic abilities through dedication and hard work. In this frame of mind people love to learn, to try new things and in result they really improve. Almost all the big winners in history are in the growing mindset campus.
In the bike my approach has been to improve a bit from what i did in the previous season, and that has served me well. Either on the nutritional front or in the cardio front i just have to a bit better than last season. And is not easy at all. But it's enough for me to do very well.
