May 17, 2021
Good morning! We’ve had the sights and the sounds of spring — and now the wonderful aromas waft through the morning mist as well… lilacs, apple blossoms… how wonderful!Are you an angler? Do you fish for the walleye? Here in Minnesota the season opened this past Saturday at sunrise. Welcome back from the lake — supposedly 400,000 or more people here in Minnesota.
- How will your behaviour change now that the COVIDs appear to be ameliorating to some degree?
- If you don’t file an extension, today is the last day to file your 2020 taxes.
- What’s the best way to make a small fortune betting on horse racing?
- Start with a large fortune.
- Do you have a favourite horse joke?
- Start with a large fortune.
- “Do not fear death, but rather the unlived life. You don’t have to live forever. You just have to live.” (Babbit)
- “A growth mindset doesn’t age just because you do.” (LinkedIn)
The Trouble with Not Having a Goal
- This article published by Vye caught my eye. (Jennifer Lawrence — I don’t think THAT Jennifer Lawrence, but…)
- It is specific to the freight brokerage business, but everything in it is relevant for almost anyone.
- “The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.” (Copeland)
- Whatever your process, there are certain things that can help improve the quality of your goals:
- Start with an open-ended brainstorming session with your leadership team;
- Drill down on specific goals from the brainstorming session;
- Bring goals to fruition. (My add: This is the DIFFICULT step most never achieve because of lack of persistence — and patience.)
- “Racism should never have happened and so you don’t get a cookie for reducing it.” (Ngozi)
- Some fear knowledge and the inevitable unlearning that joins unavoidably and symbiotically with new information.
- Why?
- Would you fear revealing the heart of the artichoke one succulent leaf slathered with Hollandaise at a time?
- Are you interested in the cryptocurrencies? Should you be?
- Here is a teaser from The Economist (2021)
- “Eagle-eyed beachcombers may recognize the round white shells etched with a five-petal flower. These erstwhile homes of sea urchins resemble a silver dollar, earning them the nickname, sand dollars, and the myth that they are the money of mermaids or the long-lost city of Atlantis. They pile up on the shores of the 700 cays of The Bahamas, so its central bank picked the sand dollar as its logo. In October 2020, when The Bahamas launched the world’s first central-bank currency (cbdc), the authorities chose to adorn the application with the familiar floral pattern and call it the sand dollar.”
- When studying anthropology 50 or more years ago I learned dentalium shells were the widely accepted currency of native North Americans who lived in the area of current-day Vancouver, BC.
- I started collecting them, large ones, medium-sized ones, and smaller ones; I still have them.
- Maybe I’m rich?!
