A d d u c e n t

Here is a quote that tells a little about my personal (and business) philosophy:

"I respect the person who knows what they wish.  The greatest part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that most do not sufficiently understand their own aims.  They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut."  

~ Goethe

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I hope to be able to help you with your business.

“If you can look into the seeds of time and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then to me.”

- The Bard, Macbeth

I don't know anyone who can foretell the future.  Do you?

That is why it makes common sense to do the things that you should do to prepare yourself for the things that happen in life.  Life is not a passive activity.  You have to participate.  You have to engage life and take some measure of control.  Being able to manifest control means you have to have that ability or create it if that is something you lack.  You should do the following:

- continue to educate yourself, broadening your knowledge base

- take care of your health

- work on your personal and professional relations so that you handle and develop them in the best possible ways

- have respect for your self - if you don't no one else will

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

- George Bernard Shaw

The above should be considered a "universal truth".  The world is populated in the majority by those who adapt and "give way" to the world.  It shapes them and they feel they have little to do that can affect that.

The "movers" of the world view things differently.  The world does have impact on them but they shape the outcome of their efforts.  They don't accept only what the world gives them; they reach out and grab what they want by adapting their world to create opportunities for themselves.

Sometimes you have to be "unreasonable" in order to move ahead and get the things that you want from life.  Never be afraid to be a non-conformist if doing that is what you need to do to achieve your goals.  Never hesitate to believe that there is good in the world and that the bad is just something that comes with life and you have to deal with it when it appears.

I believe that life gives us tremendous opportunities.  I also know that it gives us challenges that can sometimes seem insurmountable.  The thing of it is that success in life (or so I believe) is all in how you react to what happens to you.  As Rudyard Kipling put it in his poem "If":

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster,
And treat those two impostors just the same;

By that I believe he means: deal with things evenly and in proportion ... take the "bad" with the "good" and understand that you will encounter both in life.

The Navy has a phrase "take an even strain" ... while originally it was intended for sailors who were handling lines (the ropes used to moor ships to a pier or that were used when handling a transfer of some object or person between two ships underway) so that they would not pull too hard or slack off too much (both could result in an accident or injury).. it also came to have a similar meaning, at least to me and many others, to not over or under react.  Success in life requires we come up with the right level or response more times than not.  That right level of response is something that we all have to figure out as appropriate for us in the context of our situation.

With that in mind, and knowing that life deals out good and bad to all of us ... my personal philosophy came to be one of "poptimism" ... a touch of pessimism and optimism mixed together.  I try to take an "even strain" in all matters.

And as Kipling put near the closing of "If", if you can deal well with most things that go on in life:

Then Yours is the Earth and all that is in it.