1. Saturday morning at the pool with your daughter is one of this life’s great delights.

2. It can be hard to know if you are a good trader, or just lucky.

3. Wish I had traveled more when I was young, maybe I can do it more when I am old.

4. Reading this book next…

5.”But the town’s most distinguished citizen was the Lithuanian, Casimir Slapelič. Fifty years ago he found the dinosaur in the barranca. Now, toothless, hairless and in his middle eighties, he was one of the oldest flying pilots in the world. Each morning he put on his white canvas flying-suit, pottered down to the Aero Club in his Moskva and hurled himself and his antique monoplane to the gales. The risk merely increased his appetite for life.”

-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia (Amazon)

1. If possible, your trading should be automated.

2. This one of the best books I have ever read.

3. The process of buying a car should be avoided when possible.

4. Perception is important.

5. “Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It’s like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can’t stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship.”

-Anne Lamott, Bird By Bird (Amazon)