Testing To Open The Economy Safely

We cannot ensure success, but we can deserve it.
—  Joseph Addison
.
On This Day In:
2019	Or Thought I’d Thought
2018	Go And Dare
2017	And Wealth A Poor Substitute For Ability
2016	Neither Darkness Nor Shadows
2015	It Took Roots
2014	Hard Evidence
2013	Full Participation
2012	Roving (Again)
	Ooops, Again
2011	Why Not?

Read Full Post »

Still Measuring

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.
—  Warren Buffett
[Happy Birthday to me!  —  KMAB]
.
On This Day In:
2019	Living On The Couch
	Who Am I – One Interpretation
2018	A Gardening Goal: Feed The Flowers
2017	Freakishly Happy Cowboy
2016	One More, Please
2015	Infinite Adventure
2014	Unpaved
2013	Headstones
2012	Keeping Young
2011	Lessons Well Learned

Read Full Post »

No Answers Yet

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions – as attempts to find out something.  Success and failure are for him answers above all.
―  Friedrich Nietzsche
.
On This Day In:
2019	Stationary Target
2018	And Firmly
2017	Nearer My Goal To Thee
2016	Relatively Simple Actions
2015	And Yet, You Did
2014	Difficult Learning
2013	Four Things To do
2012	When I Was Young…
	Emergence

Read Full Post »

Six Reasons Why #DumbDonald Will Always Be A Failure

Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, Personal Integrity, Humility, Courtesy, Wisdom, Charity.
—  Dr. William Menninger
.
On This Day In:
2018	The Trouble With Bookstores
	Another No Chew Diet
2017	Biased World View
2016	Control In The Age Of Entanglement
2015	Okay, Maybe Not Ceaseless
2014	Can Do
2013	Are You Helping?
2012	Inside All Truth Is A Vacuum
2011	So, Whom Are We Trying To Fool Then?

Read Full Post »

Knocking On Impeachment’s Door

Perseverance is a great element of success.  If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
—  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
.
On This Day In:
2018	Do You Remember?
2017	Choose Life
	My Response To President Trump’s Threat To NBC
2016	We, Us, All
2015	No Less
2014	Life Advice (50)
	Orange October (IV) – Giants Win Game 1 Of NLCS!
2013	Running To
2012	Suddenly
2011	Liberal Washington
2010	Giants Advance To NLCS!!

Read Full Post »

Judging Success

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
—  The Dali Lama
.
On This Day In:
2018	Something Else
	Day 21: 10% Loss
2017	Courage
2016	Don’t H8! — I’m With Her!!
2015	$20 Anyone?
2014	And Yet I Still Study
2013	Use Your Own
2012	Strengthen Freedom
2011	Attrition = A Lack Of Imagination
2010	Mind The Fire, Love
	Just Beyond My Reach…
	Even A Life Of Quiet Desperation!
	Acts Of Courage

Read Full Post »

The Far Side

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it.  So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can.  Because, remember that’s where you’ll find success – on the far side of failure.
—  Thomas J. Watson
.
On This Day In:
2018	Hold On
	Day 11: Just Plain Tired
2017	Why Don’t You Tell Us What You Really Think?
2016	Discontent
2015	Do You Know Me?
	Appetite For Life Update
2014	Tough Journalism
2013	Things I’ve Learned
2012	Abstainer, n.
2011	Rain, Rain, Rain
	Test Your Strength
2009	End the mistakes…

Read Full Post »

In The Long-Run

Don’t aim at success.  The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.  For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.  Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.  I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge.  Then you will live to see that in the long-run — in the long-run, I say! — success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it.
―  Viktor E. Frankl
From his book: “Man’s Search for Meaning“
.
On This Day In:
2018	#NeverAgain
	Doss II
	Doesn’t / Does
2017	Talent Hates To Move
2016	Looking To November
2015	It Isn’t The End
	Prospero’s Precepts
2014	Friends
2013	Learning Bitter
2012	Remembrance, Minstrels & Going Off To War
	May I Have More Happiness, Please?
2011	There Is No God, But God
2010	Another Running Book…

Read Full Post »

Missing Failure

I have missed more than 9,000 shots, lost almost 300 games, on 26 occasions been entrusted to take the game winning shot — and missed.  I have failed over and over again in my life.  And that is why I succeed.
—  Michael Jordan
.
On This Day In:
2018	Praise God
2017	Necessary Gaps
2016	Nor My Dogs
2015	Say What?
	I’m A Dog, Too!
	Beginnings
2014	Astonishing Choices
2013	Three Hard Tasks
2012	The Only Remains
2011	Personal Capability
	What Price Failure?
	Both Of W’s Elections
	Tea (Baggers) Anyone?

Read Full Post »

Why #IncompetentDonald May Be The Most Successful President Ever

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
—  Winston Churchill
.
On This Day In:
2018	Blocking The Light And Air
2017	It’s Even Dimmer When You Don’t Have It
2016	Inconvenienced By Degree
2015	Sincerity
2014	Prayers For Junior
	Senseless
2013	Interesting Drink
	Super Bowl XLVII Declared A No Bird Zone
2012	Smile
2011	Come Forward

Read Full Post »

Just To…

To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
to appreciate beauty;
to find the best in others;
to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden path, or a redeemed social condition;
to know even one life breathes easier because you have lived: this is to have succeeded.
—  Ralph Waldo Emerson
[The above quote is a single sentence in the original, but I prefer it in verse-like formatting…   —  KMAB]
.
On This Day In:
2018	Still Going…
2017	Great Risk
2016	Robbery
2015	Humanity Plus
2014	Dinner For Two?
2013	Exercise For Those Over 50
2012	Tearful Joy!!
	Except When He’s Left

Read Full Post »

And Pay In Full

There are only three requirements for success.  First, decide exactly what it is you want in life.  Second, determine the price that you are going to have to pay to get the things you want.  And third, and this is most important, resolve to pay that price.
—  H. L. Hunt
.
On This Day In:
2017	If Only
2016	Equal Justice
2015	Not Enough
2014	Are You Even Listening?
2013	Namaste
2012	Looking Up
2011	Et Tu Brute?

Read Full Post »

Maya, Maya

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
―  Maya Angelou
You alone are enough.  You have nothing to prove to anybody.
―  Maya Angelou
.
On This Day In:
2016	Give Value
2015	Believe In Substitution
2014	Pragmatic Religion
2013	How’s Your View?
2012	Giants Win Game 3 Of The 2012 World Series 2 To 0!!!
	Still Haven’t…
	Accidental Me
2011	What Is Your Ratio?
2010	Giants Win Game 1 With 11 Runs Scored – Repeat 11 Runs!!

Read Full Post »

To Infinity And Beyond

For continued success, study and prepare to accomplish future objectives.
—   Harry F. Banks
.
On This Day In:
2016	And Some Unawake, Too
	Winds And Reign
2015	Natural Shapes
2014	Seeing The Light
2013	Requirements
2012	Tricked Again
2011	Liberty And Justice For Earth
2010	Home Again, Home Again, Jig-A-De, Jig…

Read Full Post »

Happy 32nd Anniversary, Hil!!

Hil & me on our wedding day at City Hall in San Francisco, CA (3 Dec 1984)
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
—  Simone Signoret
[Happy 32th Anniversary, Hil
You are the roots for the life-tree we have lived and, this year, just another ring in our life-tree…
Love Always, Your Kev XXX 00 X
— KMAB]
.
On This Day In:
2015	Happy Anniversary Hil!!
2014	30th Wedding Anniversary
2013	Number 29 (And Counting)
2012	Hammer ‘N Roses
	Happy Anniversary
2011	I Can Hear It Now

Read Full Post »