Hey Friends, this week’s musings will be slightly short due to some unforeseen engagements and requirements.

We’ll resume our regularly scheduled program next week! Big changes coming and I’ll likely want to talk about them too!

-e

One Quote I’m Musing

“You are living as if destined to live forever; your own frailty never occurs to you; you don’t notice how much time has already passed, but squander it as though you had a full and overflowing supply — though all the while that very day which you are devoting to somebody or something may be your last. You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire…

How late it is to begin really to live just when life must end! How stupid to forget our mortality, and put off sensible plans to our fiftieth and sixtieth years, aiming to begin life from a point at which few have arrived!”

-Seneca, On the Shortness of Life

Two Ideas From Me

The best man doesn’t always win. In fact, how you act or react in loss is more important than actually losing.
We control whether we give our best or not. The effort we put in, not whether we succeed, is how we should measure ourselves.

Three Favorite Things From Others

“When I’m 80 and reflecting back, I want to have minimized the number of regrets that I have in my life. And most of our regrets are acts of omission—the things we didn’t try, the paths untraveled. Those are the things that haunt us. And I decided that if I didn’t at least give it my best shot, I was going to regret not trying to participate in this thing called the internet that I thought was going to be a big deal.” - Jeff Bezos
“We make decisions based on the long-term value we create as we invent to meet customer needs. When we’re criticized for those choices, we listen and look at ourselves in the mirror. When we think our critics are right, we change. When we make mistakes, we apologize. But when you look in the mirror, assess the criticism, and still believe you’re doing the right thing, no force in the world should be able to move you.” - Jeff Bezos
“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.” - Richard Feynman

One Question

Over the last 6 months, when have you felt the most alive and electrified?

Now, complete this sentence with anything other than your job title: I am a __________.

Have a wonderful week,

I’ll see you Sunday.
-e