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Choose carefully the friends you associate with. Show me your friends and I will show you your future. You are guilty by association and you will always lower yourself to your friends’ goals, they will never rise to yours. Go find friends that have the same goals as you, you may find your goals by osmosis.

Choose who has power over you. Warren Buffet said perfectly “you will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True powers is sitting back and observing things with logic and true power is restraint. If words control you that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.”

3 (maybe 4, maybe 150) maxims are written into the temple of Apollo at Delphie in Greece. Potentislly 2000 years before Christ! What is written?

1. Know thyself
2. Nothing in Excess
3. Certainty brings Insanity

Resist what’s easy. Resist selfishness, ego, pride, and comfort. Be brave enough to stand alone against the darkness of this world and thrust kindness and love to the world. When we rise against the cold and inject warmth into this world, the world throws warmth back. Rage, Flower Thrower – Banksy

Parkinson’s law is the adage that “work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”

I have a large volume of cases, it feels never ending. often, we think its different elsewhere (where the grass is greener). I had a fellow colleague leave the firm recently to find this greener pasture. The first week I asked how the new gig was. 6 motions for summary judgment (HUGE projects) were due the next week.

A colleague said “volume is relative. whether its 1 case with 100 to-do’s or 100 cases with 1 to-do.” This is correct: busy people fill the day with completing tasks. the next day when the next step of the task is due, we are overwhelmed and stressed. by the very progress we created.

If you want something done, give it to a busy person with not enough time. if you are stressed, you would be the same way making widgets. You trade your volume, you dont extinguish it.

Listen at least twice as much as you talk, you have 2 ears and 1 mouth for a reason. listen. The loudest in the room is usually wrong and falls the hardest. listen. close your mouth: breathe through the nose not the mouth. your nose cleans, warms, and at moisture to the beautiful healing new breath. so close your mouth and listen.

Smoking, gum, smoking, gum, vaping, gum, smoking and vaping, gum, vaping and gum, Zyn, what’s next? gum? No. No more. Nicotine is slavery, I have been in slavery since I was 15 years old- 20 years. I will not show my son that his father is a junky, an addict, a slave.

You dont step down gradually from slavery, you break free. No better place than here, no better time than now

Ah, the difficult one. This one will be supplemented but here is what I have. I read a quote once that said “your conditions for happiness are the chains of your suffering.” Wow. All too often, we think in conditional statements (If X, then Y), that If I [buy this, become that, get this, get that), THEN Y = I will be happy. But we are terrible forecasters. We either 1) dont get, buy, become the thing (thus we could never be happy) or 2) we get the X, but dont become happy. We may have pleasure initially, but you will move on and your beaten up tennis shoes you have that you thought would make you happy when you bought them, that sit beat-up somewhere prove the point. By the time we get what we want, we probably want something else. That means happiness isn’t a thing to get – its a thing in and of itself – To get happy, be happy.

I once saw on the internet, a person allegedly on their death bed who was taking questions. Someone asked the author, “how does one find happiness?” The author replied, “conscious appreciation.” I have “conscious appreciation” framed in my living room. Not passive appreciation, very much actively thinking and actively appreciative: I am fed, I am warm, I do have so many blessings of laughter, family, love, and things so easily could be worse. To be happy later, be happy now. If you dont chose it, you can’t find it. To be happy, be it. Just like smiling – we smile when we are happy but we can also smile to become happy. We too easy get trapped in the regrets of the past or fear of the future, be in the now, look around and be grateful, smile, and be happy.

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