Sleep has two side benefits.....

If you sleep enough you will have two side benefits

lose weight and make some more money......I love the phrase that skinniness and money are never too much well we can now work for both at the same time....................


Sleep loss appears to do two things:
  1. Makes you feel hungry even if you are full. Sleep loss has been shown to affect the secretion of cortisol, a hormone that regulates appetite. As a result, individuals who lose sleep may continue to feel hungry despite adequate food intake.
  2. Increases fat storage. Sleep loss may interfere with the body's ability to metabolize carbohydrates, which leads to high levels of blood sugar. Excess blood sugar promotes the overproduction of insulin, which can lead to the storage of body fat and insulin resistance, a critical step into the development of diabetes.



The key message: If you want to be an effective leader, and rise in the ranks, get enough sleep.
 HBR


Fatigue makes cowards of us all

Vince Lombardi


Surprisingly, one group that doesn’t need to heed these warnings is executives. In our assessment of 35,000 leaders and interviews with 250 more, we found that the more senior a person’s role is, the more sleep they get.
HBR


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You have no control, so what can we do...............

From The Guardian

Peterson’s worldview is complex, although 12 Rules makes a heroic attempt to simplify it into digestible material. It might be encapsulated thus: “Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak and everything else is huge, complex and overwhelming. Once, we had Christianity as a bulwark against that terrifying reality. But God died. Since then the defence has either been ideology – most notably Marxism or fascism – or nihilism. These lead, and have led in the 20th century, to catastrophe.

“‘Happiness’ is a pointless goal. Don’t compare yourself with other people, compare yourself with who you were yesterday. No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life. You conjure your own world, not only metaphorically but also literally and neurologically. These lessons are what the great stories and myths have been telling us since civilization began.”


I think Jordan Peterson has a point, life is suffering . If you have expectations, if you think you are in control you have a problem, life can give you some surprises and you would be shocked! yes everything is possible. If you don't accept that anything is possible you will suffer.

                                                                         
 "If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time."

 Edith Wharton

I bought this book in Thailand recently i am not yet here but it's a decent proposal


So, understand your situation from a greater perspective. Don't think that what s happening to you is unfair or unjustified; what is happening to you at all the times is just what should be happening.

Ajahn Sumano Bhikkhu

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we hope Trump fails


From Wikipedia
The Triffin dilemma or Triffin paradox is the conflict of economic interests that arises between short-term domestic and long-term international objectives for countries whose currencies serve as global reserve currencies. This dilemma was identified in the 1960s by Belgian-American economist Robert Triffin,[1] who pointed out that the country whose currency, being the global reserve currency, foreign nations wish to hold, must be willing to supply the world with an extra supply of its currency to fulfill world demand for these foreign exchange reserves, thus leading to a trade deficit.
The use of a national currency, such as the U.S. dollar, as global reserve currency leads to tension between its national and global monetary policy. This is reflected in fundamental imbalances in the balance of payments, specifically the current account, as some goals require an outflow of dollars from the United States, while others require an overall inflow. 

This requirement for a chronic deficit in the world’s major reserve and transaction currency means that the
natural desire of U.S. government leaders to run a balanced trade and current-account, if not a surplus to
spur domestic growth, would be disastrous for the rest of the world if achieved. This conflict, known as the
Triffin Paradox, was first identified by Belgian-born economist Robert Triffin, who taught at Yale.
A Gary Shilling

If trump manages to shrink the trade deficit of the USA the world would be in big trouble

we hope Trump fails otherwise it's better to be long USD

the European Union will go the way of the Soviet Union............


Europe is sleepwalking into oblivion and its people need to wake up before it is too late. If they don’t, the European Union will go the way of the Soviet Union in 1991. Neither our leaders nor ordinary citizens seem to understand that we are experiencing a revolutionary moment, that the range of possibilities is very broad, and that the eventual outcome is thus highly uncertain.

++George SOROS in The Guardian 2019

In my country Portugal there is a saying that states that if there is no bread much screaming and no reasoning

In Europe there is no growth there is no prospects for the children to live better than the parents (i don't agree with this i believe kids have a wonderful life) and above all there is no jobs in some countries and plenty in other counties.

I think the culprit is too much state. To much intervention too much regulation too much bureaucracy 

20 years after the Euro started cars are being build almost exclusively in Germany. 20 years ago Italians had car manufacturers , France etc... Now the best country doing cars is moving closely to produce all the cars. Germany. 

Is it possible with the single currency that the best place to produce ZYX is going to produce all XYZ??? YES

 the solution is immigration to Germany in engineering and immigration to Portugal if you want to drive a Tuk Tuk in Lisbon or table serve the millions of tourists arriving in Lisbon to see the Torre de Belém. Yes the solution is let people move in Europe. 


Stock markets can be volatile and subject to extremes, but over time they’ve
provided an excellent measure of overall economic health. Since the beginning of 2009, the cumulative 10-year performance of equities in the eurozone has laggedthat in the U.S. by 40%.

A Gary Shilling


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This can't be a surprise !

Some Europe is near a recession. No surprise here.

How to make money from this information since banks already halved in anticipation?

Europe works like this

No growth
less tax receipts
Fixed Government expenses (or Growing like in Portugal)
Government increase taxes or new taxes on everything
less growth
people dissatisfied
government spends more money to calm the voters
No growth because the Government multiplier is below 1

In the US from time to time Trump,  Bush Senior and Reagan cut taxes big time. In Europe no government ever cuts taxes.


How to play Europe?

yes you got it. short banks even if they are very cheap




Does Having a Plan B Sabotage Your Plan A? yes


You can't have a plan B if you want to succeed



Why? Because when you have no Plan B, guess what?  Plan A has to work. 


Focus is a key to do well in everything, focus focus focus. being a specialist doing just one thing and that is only possible if you are all in. No Plan B please.



A recent research study (Shin and Milkman, 2016) revealed the dangers and risks of having a “Plan B" when you truly want your “Plan A” to succeed. The researchers found that once you begin thinking about a fallback plan, your desire to achieve your ultimate goal decreases.


Why does the stock market generally always tend to go up?

The stock market does not always go up, make no mistake about it.

Markets in general are not moving up always. they move in cycles.

Why people think that the stock market always go up?

a)Because companies don't distribute all their profits, so like a zero coupon it goes up naturally because they store a bit of profits every year.
b)With growing labor force (more hands) GDP & profits have been growing in the 20 century
c)Since we measure the market with the stock indexes and the stock indexes accept companies that are doing well and expel companies that are doing poorly naturally with a rule like that you always win.

In countries that are not many companies waiting to enter the stock indexes the process i described in c) does not materialize. In Europe there are not enough candidates, some indexes like Portugal PSI 20 don't even have 20 companies that the name PSI20 suggest. In those cases things can get nasty for a long time. The all time high in Portugal was established at 13384 in 2007 now trades at 5200 points.

So my advice is the following


a)Never think that investing is a science, it's not it's a game with some rules but no a science
b)Anything is possible
c)Be flexible
d)Don't have a philosophy unless the Philosophy is not having one
e)just do like the indexes do more of what is doing well and get out like the plague of what is not working
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