shall we leave it to chance? or shall we do something about it?
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A rare list of your true enemies
1. Fear
2. Laziness
3. Lack of exercise
4. Zero reading habit
5. Too much carbs
6. No mentor
7. Lack of vision
8. Self doubt
9. Comfort
10. Zero prayer life.
Identify the people you admire the most. Write out why you admire them and then learn and practice the things they do which makes you admire them. Over time these become your habits
Warren Buffett on why the gap between smart and really successful has nothing to do with intelligence:
A question he believes most high achievers never stop to ask themselves is this:
"Why do smart people do things that interfere with really getting the output they're entitled to?"
For Buffett, the answer comes down to habit, character, and temperament.
"Everybody here has the ability absolutely to do anything I do and much beyond. And some of you will and some of you won't, but it will be because you get in your own way. It won't be because the world doesn't allow you to. It will be because you don't allow yourself to."
The real gap between smart and really successful is measured in daily behaviour.
To prove it, Buffett offers a deceptively simple exercise.
Pick the person in the room you admire most. Write down why. Then pick the person you can stand the least and write down what turns you off about them.
"You won't find it's a bunch of things like throwing a football 70 yards or anything of the sort."
What you'll find are behaviours and attitudes that have nothing to do with intelligence and everything to do with conscious choice.
And here's what makes this exercise powerful:
Those admirable qualities are not out of reach.
"The qualities of the first one that you admire are qualities that you, with a little practice, can make your own — and which if practiced will become habit forming."
But Buffett doesn't stop there. He adds the warning that gives this whole framework its urgency:
"The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they're too heavy to be broken."
At his age, he admits, his habits are fixed. But for everyone earlier in the journey, the window is still open and the decisions made today compound quietly for decades.
"At your age, you will have the habits 20 years from now that you decide to put into practice today."
The framework is simple. Identify what you admire in others and make those behaviours your own.
"Ben Franklin did that a few hundred years ago and it still works today."
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Someone asked me how do you know you enjoyed your Christmas in the east? By the number of canopies you sat under … because the things wey dem dey share for canopy … no be today
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@Pontifex wins 2 trophies in 1 day! After his home country Argentina won #CopaAmerica then Italy the home of the Vatican goes on to win the #EURO2020 final over England… First time in history this is happening .. winning across 2 continents on the same day!
If Italy wins it would be the @Pontifex 2nd trophy today after Argentina won copa America but of England wins it would be the Queens first major victory in 55 years … May Gid save the Queen
@AirbnbHelp @Airbnb it’s now officially impossible as a host to call Airbnb over a cancellation ... I’ve been trying for the past 2 hours and there’s no line to call
Eko Bridge partial closure + Third Mainland closure + Costain partial closure = A horror traffic movie ... please can the @LasgoOfficial coordinate with the Minister of Works to delay this bridge closure till we finish Eko bridge and Costain
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After 12 years I just couldn’t watch the last two episodes of #TheCloneWars its impossible to manage the sadness of the split of a great relationship between Anakin and his Padawan #MayTheFourthBeWithYou #AhsokaTano
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Kano may be to Nigeria what Wuhan was to the world; an incubator of deadly chaos. After sacrificing so much in the past 4 weeks, the findings from Kano especially from the almajiri deported to kaduna tells us that we probably have over 10K-50K positive with #coronavirus in Kano
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Has Sweden’s economy collapsed? Do they have criminal gangs raiding homes and people? Let’s please share the full picture .. what are you going to tell Bisola, that hairstylist of yours to do when she’s unable to eat or pay any bills for the last 2 weeks?
People in Nigeria were suggesting that we should copy Sweden.
I attempt an emergency/intensive care conference for the Nordics yearly. The innovation blows my mind.
They put CT scanners in their air ambulance, so the scan can be done before reaching hospital.
As always there seems to be this group who insist on blowing things out of proportion so that we all embrace lockdowns till vaccines are available ... they as usual lied in this post
Swede here. The situation is not good (as for any other country). But what the article fails to mention is that the TOTAL death toll from Covid in Sweden is 2355 so far. 358 deaths per day is correct, but from Covid it is approx. 80/day. And it is not exponentially increasing.
