Week #1 of 2025 has arrived. Wow... look at that stretch of empty squares!  So much potential energy waiting to be unleashed on the world!   Time to walk over to your 4K Weeks poster and fill in another square.  Done?   It's a NEW YEAR, and so... a new look to the newsletter!  Let me know what you think, and thanks to Eli, my spectacular executive assistant, for all of her hard work pulling it together.   I know this is a bit strange... getting the Week #1 of 2025 email on 12/29/2024.  But, come Wednesday we will be in the middle of Week #1, 2025.     So, think of these 2 days left in 2024 as a launch ramp. ...

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You often don't have a choice about the first arrow.  You ALWAYS have a choice about the second.

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One of the best ways to protect your downside risk is to invest in yourself. 

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 The point is in the struggle. The lessons are in the struggle. The wisdom is in the struggle.

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Strive to spend significantly less than what you make. The things that truly make you happy probably aren’t that expensive.

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Be the kind of person that it is easy to be friends with. Be generous, be helpful. Invest time in your friends, especially as you get past your 20's.

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I think one of the most valuable things you can telegraph to young people is that you lovingly have high expectations.

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Regardless of how bad or good you think your life is, it is true that you are better off than nearly everyone that has ever existed.  You take for granted, every day, things that would put all the riches in Ancient Egypt to shame.

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I choose to think that what I do and what I don't do matters. I choose to believe I have agency. 

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Week 28 of 2024 has arrived. Just over halfway through 2024.  Smack dab in the middle of the summer and the 4th turning. The world turns and moves on. I wonder if my 18-year-old self would recognize me at 47. I'm not sure he would. Time to walk over to your 4K Weeks poster and fill in another square. Done? In our house, Ryann (my wife) and I are in the middle of the struggle with the speed of the childhood clock. It's easy to see the loss.  They aren't the chubby little minions who say things like "my toe-thumb hurts" or reach out spontaneously to hold my hand. We weren't quite prepared to be relegated to spectator so "early" in the timeline....

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