Life insurance is one of those subjects few people want to
think about most of the time.
You create your entire world by the way you think... «The most important principle of personal or business success is simply this: You become what
you think about most of the time.
But the closet is something I can do (and I know it won't take long, its just a matter of getting around to it — I spend so little time in my bedroom during the day, I don't even
think about it most of the time).
Not exact matches
You can also
think of this model similar to how Dan Sullivan
of the Strategic Coach talks
about how you need to spend
most of your
time doing the things you are best at and enjoy doing that you can also make money doing.
Most companies spend a lot
of time — and money —
thinking about customer acquisition.
But if you stop and
think about it, you'll begin to see that Facebook is actually a waste
of time for
most small businesses, and here's why:
The
most important habit you can develop for business success is the habit
of thinking about your customers all the
time.
It was the iPod that Steve Jobs was talking
about in 2003 when he uttered the line that has become one
of his
most defining, and frequently quoted, aphorisms: «Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like,» he told the New York Ti
most defining, and frequently quoted, aphorisms: «
Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like,» he told the New York Ti
Most people make the mistake
of thinking design is what it looks like,» he told the New York
Times.
At the end
of each business day, I take some
time to regroup and
think about the
most important items that need to be accomplished the next day, as well as what actions the team needs to take to accomplish those tasks.
The truth is,
most of our jobs are busy and hectic enough that there's never a good
time, so
think instead
about the accommodations you can make so you can slip away to recharge,» he chides vacation - starved business owners.
Most likely, if you're coming home complaining to your spouse
about work almost daily, and you're beginning to feel physical symptoms
of stress (perhaps unbeknownst to you because you
think, «no big deal»), it may be
time to admit that your work is a terrible, toxic, place to be.
But
think about just the
most basic level, people who come to Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger,
about 100 billion
times a day to share content or a message with a specific set
of people, and I
think that that basic functionality, people understand because we have the controls in line every
time, and given the volume
of the activity and the value that people tell us that they are getting from that, I
think that that control in line does seem to be working fairly well.
Most of the
time he
thinks twice
about spending his money because he knows he has to work for it.
While
most of us
think about our
time in 24 - hour blocks, Vanderkam
thinks that «anything you do once a week happens often enough to be important to you, whether it's church, a strategic
thinking session at work, your Sunday dinner with your parents, or your softball team practice.»
OK, you probably know this intellectually, but for our sanity (and our mood),
most of us go through
most of our days not actively
thinking about how much suffering is going on in the world at any given
time.
Spend some
time thinking about the demographics
of your target audience and what publications they're
most likely to read.
Most of us, I'd wager, don't spend a lot
of time thinking about immortality or the distant future.
I
thought about the loss that my child had suffered without even knowing it
of going from
thinking she was at five, or four at the
time, a Fortune
Most Powerful Woman, to asking me what a bimbo is.
Research shows that
most people achieve solution focused
thoughts about 40 percent
of the
time, while individuals with relentless solution focus replace 100 percent
of negative
thinking with
thoughts focused on solutions.
«Over the past several months we've been spending
most of our
time thinking about the future
of our business — what comes next for Maple?
«During my
time in Bohol there was a large number
of young volunteers who had shown up spontaneously, without much
thought about it, and
most had never had a significant volunteer experience previously.
Perhaps you're
thinking that if you simply do short - term trading stocks and ETFs with the
most relative strength to the major indices, there's not much
of a concern to worry
about market
timing because these stocks will outperform.
«But I believe there's something missing from
most of the discussion: You should spend just as much
time thinking about how to bring in extra money as you do
thinking of ways to save what you already have.
I have read lots
of Rubin's writing — I
think he's too perfectly hedged
most of the
time (oil is going to 200, unless it doesn't) and his predictions
about a smaller world have ignored productivity issues which are making the world, in his parlance, larger.
We're also trying to create one
of the
most interesting and fulfilling places to work, so I spend a lot
of my
time thinking about company culture.
As the editor
of MIT Technology Review, I spend much
of my
time thinking about the types
of stories and journalism that will be
most valuable to our readers.
At Oakmark, we believe that the academic view on stocks is largely, but not completely, correct: We
think that
most of the
time,
most stocks are priced
about right — but not always, and never each and every stock.
It may have been intended to encourage more angel investment by the end
of the year, but
most of the folks I know who've
thought about it agree that, if spurring additional angel and startup investment was the desired impact, the break would really need to be in place permanently, or for a longer period
of time.
We have pointed out numerous
times about how
most successful investors
think like owners
of businesses rather than owners
of stocks.
I
think most entrepreneurs, rather than making a mistake in picking a niche, make a mistake in «playing at business» — getting business cards, spending tons
of time on optimizing their website, etc — before they need to worry
about any
of that.
You might
think it will convince a casual reader to invest their
time in your article if you can persuade them that M & S are a mandatory part
of contemporary cultural literacy, but really, the
most relevant question in a reader's mind is not whether the topic is important but whether it is entertaining or enlightening, and whether you have anything entertaining or enlightening to say
about it.
In the case
of the creation story you must read it as if you were a hunter / gatherer (caveman) who did not have a concept
of time (no watches, no calendars,
most likely someone who didn't keep track
of how old he was —
think about indigenous peoples who had no contact with western civilization until the 20th century).
The kind
of questions that Popper has in mind are ones that
most of us
think about from
time to
time.
Billy Graham is one
of the
most spiritual men
of our
time... I do nt
think you will have to worry
about beng there when all things come to pass... i do nt
think you will be in the same place... I commend him for supporting Chic fil a they have a right to stand by what they believe... they are not saying they will discrimnate or hate gays they just do nt support them..
Most persons do not consciously
think about this danger all the
time; and this is good, for we should be utterly terrified and unable to live with any degree
of efficiency if we did.
The fact that people are tempted to abuse Scripture by calling upon it to support whatever they believe is one
of the reasons it is inappropriate
most of the
time to
think that the primary theological debate is
about whether the biblical text is authoritative or not.
Later that day, I
thought about the game again and realized I had been hiding
most of the
time: When the game began, the other players ran to the second floor or across the room to station themselves for attack.
If
most of us spent more
time loving others rather than
thinking up new forms
of theology, we might actually live like Jesus instead
of arguing
about Him.
Thus if we
think of God as temporal the
most reasonable picture is the Hartshornean one
of God and the world confronting one another throughout
time as equally basic metaphysically, with God's creative activity confined to bringing it
about, so far as possible, that the world is in accordance with His aims.
I've never really spent much
time thinking about my dreams (they seem so random and bizarre
most of the
time) but your post has convinced me that there may be more to them than meets the mind's eye.
Most of the
time, however, we simply take our creaturely worth as something granted and given; we may not
think about it much if at all, yet it is the basis for our existence.
well just
thinking about these wars in the muslim / mid-east world over religious differences (which may reflect mental states in many ways) in a world where
most realize that living in the present moment is best way to happiness and being in the moment in non-strife and awareness through the teachings
of masters such as found in the buddhist, taoist, zen, etc., etc., etc. spriritually based practices
of religious like
thought and teachings, etc. that to ask these scientifically educated populace whom have access to vast amounts
of knowledges and understandings on the internet, etc. to believe in past beliefs that perhaps gave basis and inspiration to that which followed — but is not the end all
of all
times or knowledges — and is thus — non self - sustaining in a belief that does not encompass growth
of knowledge and understanding
of all truths and being as it is or could be — is to not respect the intelligence and minds and personage
of even themselves — not to be disrespected nor disrespectful in any way — only to point out that perhaps too much is asked to put others into the cloak
of blind faith and adherance to the past that disregards the realities
of the present and the potential
of the future... so you try to live in the past — and destroy your present and your future — where is the intelligence in that — and why do people continually fear monger or allow to be fear — mongered into this destructive vision
of the future based upon the past?
He protested
about the fashion in which those who proclaim the gospel often spend
most of their
time in stimulating an artificial sense
of utter failure and sinfulness, so that then those preachers could declare that after all God still cares for such miserable wretches as he has induced his hearers to
think themselves to be.
After much study, prayer and
thought I am convinced that the idea that only men are allowed to teach scripture, be a pastor, be an elder etc. etc. was a teaching that came
about due to the status
of women during a particular
time and culture and continued because
of the patriarchal system that
most churches have continued to operate under.
But
most of the
time anyone who
thinks deeply
about it sees reasons for the anger
of the Holy.
But they are also
thinking about the person
most likely to be with them in
times of family transitions.
Questions like these are indeed inescapable; even if
most of us do not spend a great deal
of time thinking about them, the implicit, unspoken, assumed answers are determinative
of how we
think and act.
Most of» the
time Niebuhr was not
thinking about things like language, agriculture, or hospitals.
For in the face
of what appeared at the
time (1929) to be the radical nature
of Russell's views
about sex and marriage, some
of his
most important arguments were, I
think, misinterpreted and overlooked.
God is and controls everything through laws, some
of which we understand, some
of which we don't, some
of which we
thought we did and have been proven wrong with
time, and will
most likely be proven wrong in the future
about some things we
think we know now.