The story goes that Jesus was in Jerusalem, teaching at the Temple, when nearby at the treasury people were coming and going in the act of paying their tribute or tithing to the where the custom was for people to come and offer their sacrifices. Jewish custom was for a storehouse to be established whereby […]
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Overwhelming Accumulation
The secret to success is to slowly, incrementally, build an accumulation of advantages that it eventually becomes so overwhelming that you just win automatically. The best example I have of this is the game of chess. Most people, who may know how to play, but know very little of the strategic element of the game, […]
Chicken
Mile 18. Thump. Thump. Thump. Breathe In. Breathe Out. The runner looked down at the pavement passing beneath his feet. The discarded plastic bottle cap was interesting. “I should stop and look at that for a few moment and take a break,” he thought. No, that was silly. He was not going to stop. Thump. […]
Feelings are Lame
If you are waiting to “feel better” in order to make life improvements, you are in trouble. Feelings are lame. You do not need to “feel” good about what you are doing. You just need to do it, regardless of your little feelings. You see we can have feelings over a variety of reasons, and […]
Day 1000
I did it! 1,000 days in a row of following the first habit that I created. Effectively the 365 day commitment that I made has now turned into 1,000. Everyday I have got out of bed at 5am and prayerfully created a list of the most important things to accomplish that day ad every evening […]
Uncle Ben
The latest victim of the cancel culture is the iconic figure of Uncle Ben that we are used to seeing on boxes of rice at the grocery store. If you are not familiar with the icon, it is a box of rice, red in color with a image of a well dressed black man smiling. […]
Let it Grow
Learning to raise crops from the ground is a good exercise for everyone to learn. Doing the necessary work to prepare the environment, the soil and other conditions is a lot of work. Then the physical planting and routine fueling and protecting of the plants as well. The thing that you really learn is that […]
Hell is Coming to Breakfast
One of my favorite movie scenes is in the old spaghetti western, The Outlaw Josey Wales. It is a story about the post civil war era of the wild west expansion. There is a group of settlers way laid by a band of thieves who are marching their captives south to be sold off or […]
The World of Myr
So as part of my “next 1000 days” initiative, I am coming up with some audacious goals. One of my concepts that I have centered around is in the art of story telling. I indeed want to become a masterful story teller. That probably will not happen, but it will be fun to try! So […]
The Good Steal
“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.” – T.S. Eliot When I was a kid I was taught not to steal. I think that is generally a good thing, especially for a well organized and a society […]