1. Producers: Hedge your crop. Quit relying totally on crop insurance.

2. Santa was born in – what is now – Turkey. Who knew.

3. “What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.” —William Ralph Inge

4. Travel is the best test of compatibility there is—especially when you and your companion are both thrill-seekers. —Geoffrey Kent

5. Volatility and risk management should determine everything in your trading. Everything.

6. Some of my best mentors have passed away, for you can not keep me from their ideas. All I have to do is read their books.

7. You have no idea what prices are going to do in the future. Stop acting like you do.

8. I do not dance. I just don’t get it. (Except with my daughter.)

9. If you want to know someone’s heart, observe that person’s final journey. —Max Lucado

10. “Why do writers write? Because they can’t not write.” I heard that quote again this week. It is so true.

1. “Why?” and “Compared to what?” are great questions to ask.

2. I read that 21,978 times 4 reverses the order of the numbers to 87,912. Not sure how that is useful.

3. Sometimes I am not sure if I need to go to the chiropractor – or if I am just getting older.

4. “Everyone has an Eden, a perfect world lost when they were small.” –Rich Cohen

5. I can think of almost no examples of an overnight success. Everyone I encounter and read about did their craft in obscurity – for the fun of it – for years, sometimes decades, before they were suddenly “an overnight success.”

6. Drink more green tea.

7. I crave learning from non-fatal failures.

8. What footing do morals have outside of theism?

9. Sometimes the difference between being resourceful and non-resourceful is a good night sleep. –Michael Hyatt

10. A job I could not wear blue jeans to is nearly undoable for me.