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For years, the world’s brightest and most talented have been harassed and dismissed for their ingenuity. Newness goes against the old grain by definition. Newness would say, “Oldness goes against tomorrows grain.” They old guard cudgels and dominates—for a time—not because it is right, but because it is old and big.

“Teamwork” is the nonsense the old guard uses to excuse what it wants.

Calculated non-offense failed American businesses and, now, every establishment-favored candidate in the Republican party.

Why do captains despise the the turbulence that gives speed to their sails? Calmness itself was always their plotted destination.

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Life results from choices.

When corruption erupts through a society, somewhere there lies a long trail of bad decisions. When government can’t control crime, it’s doing something wrong—either unethical or incompetent. When large companies impose themselves on the rights of their customers—the people—, the customers made a bad choice in giving those companies their patronage to begin with. When children grow up to be foolish, the parents did something wrong. When we aren’t happy with our own lives, we probably overlooked more than one opportunity to learn.

The notion of choice and consequence seems nice, until it compels.

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Achieving anything takes time. Don’t quit. You’ve heard it. But, remember something else: Be busy.

The best way to know that things are working is if you are working.

Get busy. When you don’t see the results you want, don’t just do random things—that’s called “dilly-dallying”. Instead, start constructive avalanches; get good things going that will require you to do more work when they succeed.

Many people fail because they are afraid of having too much work. But, the more successful you are, the more you will want to work. Successful paths entail work. That is where to go.  · · · →

Needs and wants present choices. Often times, we think we must choose between needs, only to find that most of what we think we need is only a want.

When our eyes get bigger than our stomachs, we over-spend and break our budgets and are forced to start from scratch. That’s when we rediscover our proper place.

Once you learn to trim your own spending you get ruthless with yourself, you take a liking to straight-shooters, and get irritated with uber-polite yes-men. If we haven’t been there we tend to criticize the manners of people who have.  · · · →