Easy to do, and easy not to do.

Living a successful life is not the result of 90 years of learning ten thousand things and struggling mightily with them.  It’s finding and doing a handful of easy and important things as a habit each day, and letting the results compound.

Often these easy things are in the “everybody knows that” category.  But what’s easy to do, is easy not to do, and that’s why not everyone gets the same results.

What things should be a habit for you today that are not?

"I had a great day", or…

“I wasted my day”.  We’ve all had days where we felt one way or the other.

Every action we take moves us farther away or closer to what we were meant to be.

Your happiness is the indicator.

"Confirmation Bias"

This is when you attach more significance to information that confirms your preconceptions.  

Consider that you are seeing in the world what you believe you’d find.

To see something better, you have to believe it’s there first.

Nature is not human hearted

Humanity is part of the natural world on earth, but cannot defy its laws.  Chemistry, geology, weather, physics, and cause and effect of the sciences will not change because we feel good or bad about how they affect our personal lives, or how intensely we feel these emotions.

We must be aware and make the best long term personal decisions we can, and face the consequences of our choices.

Free markets and trade solves a lot of problems

We want to do good in the world and reduce human suffering; two problems we want to eradicate most around the world are poverty and war.

The best way to do this is by working to (and help others who are working to) establish economic liberty, the rule of law, property rights and free markets in these countries, and between your country and these countries – even countries that are politically different than the U.S.  The reason is that free markets allow people to pull themselves out of poverty, and prosperous people tend to be peaceful.

"We are losing jobs to…"

When you or a family member loses their job, or a business closes down in town, or if you read about it in the news, it’s easy to start saying that we are losing jobs to other countries, or that things are going to hell.

But the reality is that unemployment is low.  How could this be?

Each year in the United States 21 million jobs are destroyed.  At the same time 24 million new jobs are created.  The world is changing, as it always has and always will.  This is a good thing.  

Be ready and participate. 

Study what you want

What do you really wish for and want in your life?

Are you studying it each day?

Why Self-Discipline?

The only reason I would deny myself simple pleasures and ease today is because I know that what I do today will determine how it’s going to be for me tomorrow.

Self-discipline requires making the connection between today’s action and tomorrow’s result.

Are you making that connection?

Experience Abundance

From a material point of view, we don’t need much money to experience abundance.  We can go into beautiful buildings that cost hundreds of millions of dollars, ride in vehicles that are modern marvels, enjoy a large park and its natural beauty, and eat in a restaurant where people spent a long time creating beautiful ambiance for us.  We can move about in a society where most others are not destitute and suffering around us.  All this, even if we don’t have a lot of money ourselves.

Today, commercial abundance is not something you have to own to experience. 

A brief moment in time

How old is the earth? How did those mountains get there? Imagine how violent that must have been. How about when the continents were all connected? How about when there was an ocean in what is now the Southwest US? Or when glaciers or great rivers carved those valleys? Dinosaurs?

It’s an amazing wonder.

Great change is part of the history of the earth. In our brief moment here, we cannot expect all this change to be over just because there are 7 billion of us here now.

Can we?