VIX DAILY

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.

US $..................THEN AND NOW

“Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It’s something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.”  Vince

SEMI AUTO TRADING SYSTEM SPREADSHEET.............TNA/SILVER

GLD DAILY

"We can choose the path of excuses. On this easy path, we soon find ourselves surrounded by the vultures that feed on excuses: blame, self-pity, whining, wallowing. It’s a direction that leads to weakness, cowardice, and a miserly spirit. Excuses are incompatible with excellence."

LMT DAILY

"Being resilient starts with a choice. One must choose either to let his pain consume him or to find strength in his pain and serve a purpose larger than himself."

GOLD DAILY

"So you ask yourself: Am I willing to take responsibility for my life, in word and in deed? If not, your chances of living a rich and fulfilling life are almost zero. If so, you have the potential for a joyous journey ahead."

DOW DAILY ...................THEN AND NOW

Responsibility also offers power. If we take responsibility for ourselves, we become not victims, but pioneers. The victim falls prey to fear and delights in blaming others. The pioneer forges his own path: more difficult, but much more rewarding.

TRANS DAILY

You are not responsible for everything that happens to you. You are responsible for how you deal with what happens to you.

LULU DAILY

"The first step to building resilience is to take responsibility for who you are and for your life." 

NFLX DAILY...THEN AND NOW

"Hardship can create a helpless person or a heroic one."

CRUDE DAILY

“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” That line of Hemingway’s is famous for good reason. What sticks in most people’s minds is the phrase “strong at the broken places.” It’s also important to remember his qualifier: many. Not all. Not all of us are strong at the broken places. To be strong at the broken places is to be resilient. Being broken, by itself, does not make us better.

WHEAT DAILY

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Don’t expect a time in your life when you’ll be free from change, free from struggle, free from worry. To be resilient, you must understand that your objective is not to come to rest, because there is no rest. Your objective is to use what hits you to change your trajectory in a positive direction.   

COPPER DAILY

When pain hits you, it hits a moving target. And since you’re already moving, what will change is not so much your state as your trajectory.

BRITISH POUND DAILY.........................THEN AND NOW

And when we’re not at rest— when we’re struggling, agitated, anxious— we think that something must be wrong. But in human life there is no state of rest.

AAPL DAILY

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What happens to us becomes part of us. Resilient people do not bounce back from hard experiences; they find healthy ways to integrate them into their lives. In time, people find that great calamity met with great spirit can create great strength.

AMZN DAILY

There is only one road to true human greatness: the road through suffering.   —ALBERT EINSTEIN

CELG DAILY

"There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring."   —ERNEST HEMINGWAY

US $ DAILY

"What you will become is a result of what you are willing to endure."

EMINI DAILY

"Our aim in life is not to avoid struggles, but to have the right ones; not to avoid worry, but to care about the right things; not to live without fear, but to confront worthy fears with force and passion."

VIX DAILY...........THEN AND NOW

"Without some sense of meaningful struggle in our lives, something inside us begins to break down, a part of us begins to die.  In the long run, though, deprivation of purpose is as destructive as deprivation of sleep. Without purpose, we can survive— but we cannot flourish."

IBB DAILY........................THEN AND NOW

The worst form of stress is an absence of stress, because the feeling that there is no life before death gives rise to a despairing feeling of emptiness in the face of the void.   —BORIS CYRULNIK

GOLD 240 MIN ............FOLLOW UP ON POSTED DAILY

"STUDENTS look at boxes!"

‘What good does it do to point out the obvious?’ A great deal of good; for we sometimes know facts without paying attention to them. Advice . .  . merely engages the attention and rouses us, and concentrates the memory, and keeps it from losing its grip. We miss much that is set before our eyes.”

CANADIAN $ DAILY........THEN AND NOW

"Cut off from the wisdom of the past, we can feel overwhelmed by the incessant clatter of the present. But look: those who went before us left us a gift."    

A truly new and original book would be one which made people love old truths.   —MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES (1715– 1747)

BONDS DAILY

“When the world is storm-driven and the bad that happens and the worse that threatens are so urgent as to shut out everything else from view, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built through the ages. The eternal perspectives are being blotted out, and our judgment of immediate issues will go wrong unless we bring them back.”

GOLD DAILY

"You’re going to need to be patient, even kind to yourself. You won’t be able to judge most of what you do by a standard of imperfect or perfect. Usually our standard will simply be worse or better. But better sounds good, doesn’t it?"

TSLA DAILY.........THEN AND NOW

“Any nation that draws too great a distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.”

DOW/EMINI DAILY .........CYCLE

"If you want the wisdom, the strength, the clarity, the courage that can come from struggle, the price is clear: you have to endure the struggle first."

EURO DAILY .....THEN AND NOW

Of all the virtues we can learn, no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge.   —MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

TRANS DAILY.........THEN AND NOW

"When you’re in bed and not tired and it’s bright outside and you can’t seem to get your feet on the floor, you start to see that a lot of our most important battles are the ones we fight for self-mastery."

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EMINI DAILY

"Even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despite, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. "  —AESCHYLUS

NATURAL GAS ......THEN AND NOW

'When people reflect on their suffering, they often uncover a similar truth: that struggle helped them to build deep reservoirs of strength. Not all growth happens this way. But a great deal of our growth does come when we put our shoulder into what’s painful."

PALL DAILY ..........THEN AND NOW

"Great changes come when we make small adjustments with great conviction."

COPPER DAILY

"We can choose the path of excuses. On this easy path, we soon find ourselves surrounded by the vultures that feed on excuses: blame, self-pity, whining, wallowing. It’s a direction that leads to weakness, cowardice, and a miserly spirit. Excuses are incompatible with excellence."