Price and time are the two levers that investors use to capture value.

Price is weighed on two scales: cheap or expensive.

If you see the price as cheap, no matter how high, you will feel you are getting a good bargain and commit.

If you see the price as expensive, no matter how low, you will feel you are being fleeced and not commit.

That feeling has nothing to do with the price and everything to do with future value.

Value is a fleeting and subjective emotion, which is why the best investors build criteria for defining value that serve as guardrails to keep their emotions in check.

Time is weighed on two scales: long or short term.

If you are a long-term investor, time is in your favor, and timing the market feels like you are not committed to your strategy.

If you are a short-term investor, time is against you, and not timing the market feels like you are not committed to your strategy.

Timing is seen as a burden to the former and as wings to the latter. 

Understanding your default feeling towards timing can help strengthen the criteria you use to set for value.

– Osasu Oviawe

The story those you love tell about you becomes your destiny.

You cannot choose the story people tell, but you can choose those you love.

Choose people who are kind. They tell the most beautiful stories.

– Osasu Oviawe

Ignorance serves enterprise.

If you knew how hard it would get, you wouldn’t start anything.

The not knowing is what helps you commit. It is the only way the impossible is made possible.

Those who wait for all the facts before starting serve those who start before all the facts are in.

Whatever lights a flame in your heart does not need to first fog your brain with the smoke of overanalysis. Start immediately the fire is lit. When the path gets hard, that fire will melt a way through.

– Osasu Oviawe

What is not said holds everything that needs to be heard.

I am a good listener.

– Osasu Oviawe

Ignore the urge to show personal success and keep it as the one thing that is yours.

Until your success gets tired of being ignored and speaks for itself.

Then you stop ignoring it and just stay silent in its presence, soaking it in.

– Osasu Oviawe

The greatest trick of life is the concealment of death.

The greatest trick of death is its sneaking up on life.

– Osasu Oviawe

The body remains fixed in the present but carries a mind that is in a constant flow from retrospection to introspection to circumspection to prospection.

The more turbulent any flow, the faster the rate of wear on what is fixed in it.

Even a gentle flow wears what is fixed; it only takes much longer.

Stillness is the only state that allows the fixed to unravel in its true nature.

A still mind is your greatest gift to your body.

Practice stillness until it becomes your practice.

– Osasu Oviawe

The approach to solving any computer issue is to first check the hardware before checking the software.

The same approach works with humans.

When an issue is reported, check the physical conditions before exploring the psychological.

– Osasu Oviawe

Love is a willing sacrifice of self: your ego, your interests, your becoming, your being, with the reckless abandon of a child that does not know deep waters take your breath away figuratively and then literally.

But you love, even without any promise of tomorrow, because however fleeting it might be, like a shooting star, it unmasked all your wishes and carries them to a place where they do not have to be real to come true.

To love and be loved is man’s greatest beauty and surest pitfall.

– Osasu Oviawe

There are some important attributes of nicknames you must accept, and if you don’t, it sticks even harder.

You do not pick your nickname.

You do not decide how it is pronounced.

You do not choose who gives it to you.

It is as random as a butterfly.

Every nickname is a story, with you as its subject.

You will serve it.

– Osasu Oviawe