It’s sad to see my home town descend into such disgrace. It wouldn’t be this bad if Republicans were in charge and were really as evil as Democrats are incompetent. Unemployed and not looking 47% 35% on foodstamps; 1000s of homes abandoned’. Population cut in half in 20 yrs “Leaders” crying out for more dole […]
Category: Spirituality
Dr Kenneth Ginsburg on resilience
just listened to a brilliant and human presentation on resilience and children by Dr Kenneth Ginsburg, and what we can do to help them weather life storms, deliberately and intentionally. Directly connects how I go about coaching my youth soccer teams, using athletics as the vehicle for important life lessons. his work is definitely worth […]
Reflecting on pride…
examine the difference between “the source of pride” and “the need for pride” 2 related but quite different feelings that satisfy different needs? do they arise from different places from within? we can’t choose our feelings but we can work on breaking the automatic linkage between feelings and action through mindful effort we can learn […]
The source of moral authority?
It’s horrible when your “spiritual advisor” is more concerned about preventing scandal than doing the right thing Insert commentary on “Hate the sin, not the sinner” here, and how that doesnt invalidate “the message”
Sharing my BrainMode power report
wanted to share out my BrainMode power (BMp) report. BRAIN MODE power for Professional Development for Ken Long Quite a few folks had expressed interest in learning more about BMp, so I thought I would share mine and how I will use it in my trading practice As/if you read further, Notice the auditory, visual, […]
mountains and efficiency
I am thinking about “efficiency” in time(t) as Gain/TrueRange(sum) the TrueRange = sum of distance travelled on the way to getting the gain think of a perfect ramp from groundlevel to mountaintop think of rolling hills from groundlevel to mountaintop think of a series of identically high mountains from ground level to mountaintop think of […]
breathing = trading
ask yourself: “what is the crowd waiting for?” “What do they need to see?” What would confirm in their mind that the trade is NOW?!” learn to see it before it happens create separation between you and the crowd be on the edge of them, so you can sense the mood, but don’t be inside […]
Traders Roundtable: six tangible benefits of reflective journaling
Image via Wikipedia Reflective journaling is the process of deliberately recording your thoughts and feelings and then analyzing them in a process called double loop learning. With reflective learning, we examine our feelings and responses and then we look at how we act upon this newfound knowledge improving our self awareness and self-consciousness. Reflective journaling, […]
Transparency in your personal life: an act of courage
Image by Will Lion via Flickr Transparency was one of the stated values of our most recent senior leader in the college, and as I look back at his two-year career here, as he prepares to depart, I can see that he really lived that value area it made it very easy to work with […]
What to say at halftime when we’re losing
Image via Wikipedia It’s my opinion that your halftime speech should be the same each game, regardless of the score. And I say that because I think you should be focusing on the things that really matter and that is: are the players executing the game plan that we have agreed upon and are they […]