"You're never completely ready, eventually it just becomes your turn" - Ty Murray
It’s hard to write when I’m not home. Not at my desk. Not in my preferred environment. Not on my normal schedule. My favorite view not out my window. Translation: it’s hard to do anything outside of what consists of your comfort zone. Anything… This issue is not specific to me. I’m not special. Not the only one who’s encountered …
“I apologize. I’m sorry…” – is the new National Pastime. Of course you are experiencing “higher than normal call volume”. This is because you (company that outsourced their customer service) has no staff and do a pathetic job at what it is you do. Please. No really. Please, STOP apologizing. You are not sorry. You’re reading a script. You are …
The experts are always wrong – ALWAYS. One hundred percent of the time, they are wrong. I’ve seen it all my life. At the racetrack. All sports. Politics. The trading world. On TV. Wrong, wrong and wrong. Economists, analysts, forecasters, pundits, commentators, critics. All of them – wrong. I watch numbers Economists forecast everyday. They’re never even close. Most of …
“Half the work done in the world is to make things appear what they are not.” – E.R. Beadle. “The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda.” – Michael Crichton, Harvard Medical School graduate, author of State of Fear With the above quotes in mind, this really struck me.. A friend of …
Here’s the question: Who would YOU rather be, A-Rod or Tebow? I keep thinking about these two guys. Both of them are reviled by at least 50% of the sports world, which is roughly 50% of the population. Although Alex Rodriquez was recently reinstated. Both of them are essentially out. Out of their respective sports. On the bench. On the …
The last couple years I’ve been practicing at failing more often. Yes, that’s right – failing. It takes practice you know. Nobody “wants” to fail. So how do you get good at it if you don’t practice? The better question is: why the hell do you need to get good at it? Especially when it seems so damn easy! Here’s …
Professional bull-rider, Ty Murray put it best when an interviewer ask him how do you get ready to ride a bull. He responded: “You’re never completely ready, eventually it just becomes your turn”. If you’re a bull-rider you step over the side of the chute, gingerly sit down on a 2000 pound bull. You slip your hand in the rope, …