“The hard part is becoming satisfied with spending less. It’s not easy. It’s a behavioral trait, not analytical skill, and investing attracts more of the latter. Some are better at it than others, but virtually everyone is primed to at least assume they’ll be happier if they spent more.” – Morgan Housel
Day: May 21, 2019
Burning platforms
A burning platform is not the only way to create a sense of urgency for change.
Ask parents. A sense of urgency can also be created by an aspirational trigger. Something that makes you see yourself as needing to be fundamentally better, not that your current situation is uninhabitable, but the future situation is more desirable.
A big mistake is creating a burning platform when everyone sees that the current situation is not really dire. They will treat your change as a drill and return to their default mode when the burning platform (that happens to be you) burns out.
– Osasu Oviawe
Peace
John 14:27-31
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
You heard me say to you, `I go away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I go to the Father; for the Father is greater than I.
And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place, you may believe.
I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me; but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go hence.
Homily:
May the peace of the Lord forever be upon me, Amen.