The subtleness of the result was again not my original plan, but sometimes
letting things go is the right choice... at least for sanity's sake!
Even if evaluating your possessions and
letting things go is excruciatingly painful, there is something in the experience you can be grateful for.
If
letting things go is a struggle, the nuclear option — a pill to blot out the past — may soon offer respite, writes journalist Adam Piore in «Totaling Recall.»
Sometimes
letting things go is easier said than done.
Not exact matches
In this beautiful citation, wrongly attributed to Buddha, it
is said: «In the end, only three
things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived and how gracefully you
let go of
things not meant for you.»
Now
let me give you three
things that say that
's not true: If you ate a lot of vegetables and fruit, you probably aren't
going to gain weight; No. 2, if you work out like crazy, you
're probably not
going to gain weight; and No. 3, people who I've learned to really hate, people who have very fortunate, fast metabolism, aren't
going to gain weight.
«If people say mean
things to me, I
let them know if they talk to me like that I
'm going to walk away or hang up the phone,» she says.
«It
was in 1995,» he said, «when Bill said, «You know, this speech recognition
thing is going to
be important —
let's get started.»»
The book provides a practical guide for how to understand what
's weighing you down and how to rearrange and
let certain
things go in order to live your best life.
Meanwhile, some myths (I
'm looking at you multitasking)
are just so attractive (I really do wish I could do three
things at once) that they
're hard to
let go of.
When a big - name writer such as Rowling — who,
let's face it,
is the biggest there
is —
goes solo and decides to sell her own ebooks independent of any publisher, that contributes to two
things.
The smartest
thing currently
going on at RIM
is the development of BlackBerry Fusion, or the toolkit that
lets businesses manage all the different phones
being brought in by employees.
We hear about employees
being let go all the time over
things posted to social media that violate a company's policy.
So the decision
was made, «Alright, look,
let's take XPS, and
let's
go give the gaming business to Alienware, and
let's focus XPS on other areas like premium products and other
things.
Let employees know when
things are going well.
If you
're going to
be gone, give ample warning and
let them know that
things are under control, with appropriate detail.
As far as that
goes, the three rules of crisis management
are straightforward: First, own up to the truth and do it quick; second, move heaven and earth to make
things right; and third, quietly
let everyone move on.
«The hardest
thing for every CEO, especially a founder,
is the ability to
let go [and] trust your team; to empower and delegate and not micromanage; to not
be in the weeds of every single detail.»
Meditation gives me the opportunity to notice the
things that I
am holding on to — the more I notice them, the easier it
is to
let go.
One of the rules - of - thumb
is never to
let things go quiet.
Still, it does have a few
things going for it: The «fast delete» button
lets you quickly scrap whole words at a time; there
's a one - handed mode that
lets you crunch the keys over to one side of the screen; and, when your phone
is in landscape mode, it splits apart like an ergonomic keyboard, making it feel a little more natural for your thumbs.
There
are things you can do however to make your pitch
go down easier, or
let's
be honest, simply get noticed.
And Sherman isn't about to
let a little
thing like unprecedented revenue growth from streaming services stop him from
going after his favorite target.
What kind of energy
was required to turn on a dime and create a new approach to your product, or to
let go of all the investment and attachment you had to your product's success and starting planning your next big
thing?
«Jimmy
was very, very good at
letting go of the
things that might have made him a success up to that point, but he
was willing to shed them and
go for something completely different... Jimmy's career
is based on a tremendous lack of fear of moving forward.»
«
Let's say you want to
go look at power lines, or oil lines, infrastructure... this
is going to
be an airplane that
's going to
be used for many, many different
things,» he said.
There
's a couple reasons for this: after massive sleep deprivation and zero separation between work and personal life, taking a step back often reminds a founder of the
things that they want in their personal life and gives motivation to the work life and while in a lull this can upset investors or look like avoidance, its in almost every case helped the company and
lets be honest, if a company
is going to die it isn't
going to die in one week but
be surprised at how much sleep a founder might need and you probably wouldn't want many friends around.
Let's go one step further: it
's hard to imagine
things going right.
They
let go of having
things be their way when they come across more effective solutions.
Here
are all the reasons it
's going to
go well, but now
let me tell you about the five
things that I really worry about...»»
When you
're talking to a user one - on - one this way, you can dig deeper into the little
things they say and
let them
go off on tangents.
One of our investors actually told me that if there
's something that someone can do even 80 percent better than you can,
let them do that
thing, and you
go focus on the
thing that only you can do at 100 percent.
«The wonderful
thing it
's done by increasing permanent wages for a million employees
is now
being defined by, sadly, 11,000 people
being let go,» said Crutchfield.
If you
let people you
're traveling with or meeting on the road know in advance that you
're going to need time to get
things done, they will
be much more understanding when you have to bow out before that third round of drinks.
The reason more people don't have high networths
is because they don't want to cut out all the «little crap» they spend money on: coffee in the morning,
going out to lunch,
going out to dinner,
going to a movie, buying that
thing you will never use,
letting your food spoil, having to pay interest on your credit card... congrats, there
goes your earnings.
We have spent considerably more time thinking about keeping safe the crown jewel, and
letting go of the
things that
are less relevant.
I like the idea of real estate crowd funding, but
am hesitant to
let go of the real
thing.
In passive years you
are hopefully still able to get around, but
let's fact it,
things are going to get pretty slow.
There
's no «right way» to
let an employee
go — but keeping these 6
things in mind will help you with what to do and what to say when firing someone.
He
was attentive to my needs and called me back to
let me know how
things were going with my loan as the approval process
went forward.
Let's
go through the finer points of the entrepreneur salary, so you can breathe easy that you
're not screwing up this entrepreneurship
thing — and know that you
're 100 % not alone.
Bill Gurley:
Let me make this assertion, which I think
is, especially if we
're on an 80 - year time window, I think China
is going to
be a really interesting
thing to watch.
«Even if people buy back stock, that
is money that
goes back into the economy that
lets investors take that money and allocate it to other
things,» Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin argued at a late - February Chamber of Commerce event.
The reason franchises fail
is because the business owners think they can just
let things go and the business will take care of itself.
An investor who
goes out and
lets emotions or impulse drive his or her investing strategy
is probably not
going to have very good results, but the investing strategy provides that structure and that framework that will help keep any investor on track if
things start to
go off, and maybe the results aren't as great as what he or she expected originally.
Well you know
let's also talk about,
go back to the financial repression part because one
thing I've started to write about and other people have also started to write about
is the possibility that we finally get some inflation.
«
Let me say this right off the bat: These
things are a big step up from previous faux - meat burgers, though they still have a way to
go before they
're going to fool anyone who eats meat critically on a regular basis.
Here
's a letter to the board of Biglari Holdings
re: executive compensation [Noise Free Investing] & then more thoughts on Biglari
's compensation agreement [My Investing Notebook] Where
things stand in the market [Bespoke Investment Group] A list of stocks Nasdaq
is canceling trades in from yesterday
's madness [Business Insider] The best interest rate chart in the world [Trader
's Narrative] A great macro overview from Barry Ritholtz [The Big Picture] A look at John Paulson
's possible ownership of Bear Stearns CDOs [Zero Hedge] John Mauldin on the future of public debt [Advisor Perspectives] Top buys & sells from Morningstar
's ultimate stock pickers [Morningstar] The truth about «Sell in May &
Go Away» [WSJ] An interview with hedge fund manager Hugh Hendry [Investment Week] Bill Ackman:
Let's have a public registry for stock opinion [Barron
's] Hedge fund Harbinger hires ex-Orange chief for wireless plan [Dealbook] & Deutsche Telekom has
been in talks with Harbinger [FT] Hedge funds begin to restructure fee system [FT]
«Even
things like trimming trees
were long ago
let go,» Cartagena said.
These days, there
are so many ways to lower your monthly student loan payment, that that the last
thing you want to do
is just
let them
go unpaid.