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New Years Resolutions 2024

By |2024-01-01T19:11:26+13:00January 1st, 2024|Excellence|

For 2024, my word is Enrich.This year I am focused on growth, both internal and financial.After six years of learning about cryptocurrency, trading, and technical analysis, I feel like I have learned enough to build my fortune. For centuries, clever people with a bit of capital have engaged with financial markets to generate fantastic amounts [...]

Annual Review 2022

By |2024-01-02T09:38:55+13:00January 31st, 2023|Excellence|

This annual review is one month overdue. Ever since 2014, I have published an Annual Review on my blog on New Year's Eve, and my New Year's Resolutions on the first of January. Keeping this annual rhythm has given me a pulse to the years, allowing me to review my accomplishments and challenges with [...]

New Years Resolutions 2020

By |2020-01-03T17:40:14+13:00January 1st, 2020|Excellence|

For 2020, my word is Relax. My work ethic has really messed me up. I've been using the stress response to catapult me into high levels of productivity, and the fight-or-flight mode formally known as the sympathetic nervous system has been my fuel for working hours. By relying on the sympathetic nervous system, and artificially [...]

New Years Resolutions 2019

By |2020-01-02T14:59:13+13:00January 1st, 2019|Excellence|

"There is nothing magical about the flip of a calendar," says Jason Soroski, "but it represents a clean break, a new hope, and a blank canvas." Making New Year's Resolutions presents us with an opportunity to reboot our lives, and reset our habits. I typically keep less than half the resolutions I make every [...]

New Years Resolutions 2018

By |2018-10-12T09:40:12+13:00January 1st, 2018|Excellence|

These are the habits that will support the achievement of my goals for this year. I may not keep all of these resolutions (read my thoughts on Why Breaking New Year's Resolutions Is Good For You) but just by setting these resolutions, I have aligned myself with the direction I want to go for the [...]

10 Daily Tools For Positive Thinking

By |2017-10-31T23:49:17+13:00September 16th, 2017|Excellence, The Good Stuff|

By nature, I am not a positive thinker. I have to work at it. Positive thinking will not do anything by itself, but as Zig Ziglar said, “Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.” The success or failure of many things you do in life depends on how well you [...]

New Years Resolutions 2017

By |2017-01-02T08:39:20+13:00January 1st, 2017|Excellence|

I know that New Years Resolutions are ridiculed and lampooned by many, but I find them to be an indispensable goal-setting tool. The annual act of lifting my gaze into higher possibility keeps my attention focused upward, on what I could become, instead of behind me, on my mistakes. Yesterday before my annual review, I [...]

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