Here is a great essay by my colleague Bill Bonner that he wrote for the Daily Reckoning earlier this week:
The Dow sinking.
Gold sinking.
Oil sinking.
Copper sinking.
Yields sinking.
We struggled with this, Dear Reader. We meditated. We prayed. We drank heavily.
And finally…we overcame the rank desire to say: “We told you so!”
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“What Happens When the World Economy “Goes Japan”
With her lifetime production of 1,700 poems, Emily Dickinson was one of the most prolific poets of all time.
You could replicate her feat by writing a poem a day (five a week) for less than eight years.
I did it for one year — and during the process my skills definitely improved. I don’t know if any of my poems will ever match her best stuff… but I know now that my good poems are better than her weak ones.
By Brian Tracy
Your success in life will be largely determined by your ability to find your true calling, the right work for you to do, and then putting your whole heart into doing it very well.
The happiest people are those who have carefully thought through who they are, what they want, where they are going, and then decided exactly what they need to do to get to their goal. Asking yourself five targeted questions can help you home in on whatever path is right for you.
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How beautiful old and broken things can be:
An armless, marble statue of a warrior saint,
A door that shows four centuries of paint
A bronze clock with burnished filigree.
New things are pleasing too:
The pin-thin plane of new-pressed pleats
The aroma of fresh leather seats
A crystal glass of Grand Cru.
New things stand for futile dreams
Fresh-born hopes wrapped in satin skin.
Push-button souvenirs from where we’ve been
Endless ends without the means.
Old and broken things are best, you see
They give the shape of what was then
A seedling thought that grew to bend
In human hands our history.
On Wednesday, I wrote about how I transformed from being an underachiever to a motivated successful person.
Most people reading this will think, “I don’t need another motivational speech. What I need is a change of luck.”
I’m here to say that luck had nothing to do with the change in my life. And it needn’t have anything to do with whatever changes you would like to make in yours. Had I waited for luck to come to me, I might be waiting still. My life changed when I got fed up and started planning my success.
You, too, can change your life if you are (a) dissatisfied with the lack of success you’ve had so far; (b) willing to make a big change – and not just a minor adjustment; (c) prepared to start working differently and thinking about yourself as a different kind of person; and (d) willing to start now by preparing yourself to succeed.
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