Category: Sunday Planning
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Day 495 of 1000: The 39th Anniversary of Black Monday
Tomorrow marks 39 years since Black Monday, October 19th, 1987, when the S&P 500 fell more than 20% in one day.
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Day 481 of 1000: Nietzsche on Free Will
Nietzsche argued that we don’t have free will, but just the illusion of it. Where consciousness fits in.
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Day 475 of 1000: Building a Cat Enclosure
This week I’ll be building an outdoor cat enclosure for my cats, especially Carlos, who loves the outdoors.
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Day 461 of 1000: Varieties of Relational Happiness
Living in a one woman – one man marriage is not the only one to achieve happiness in your relationship life.
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Day 454 of 1000: Called Towards solitude
You’d think I had enough solitude but I want more. Setting down societal demands that I share more. Seeking coherence not connection, for now.
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Day 447 of 1000: Focusing on What I Truly enjoy
I’ve found I don’t enjoy entering art shows. But I do enjoy money management. So I’m focused on the latter, not the former.
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Day 440 of 1000: You Can’t Step Into the Same River Twice
Living a flow-oriented life (a life of practice) vs a stock-oriented life (a life of acquisition and hoarding).
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Day 412 of 1000: Art Intensive
I’m expanding my art practice into “assemblage” — bringing together scrap materials, found objects, and everyday items in a 3D sculpture.
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Day 405 of 1000: Tragedy vs Transformation
Planning a book-based artwork about great novels featuring adulterous women.
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Day 398 of 1000: Inspired to Make Art
Attending the WCACO member show opening inspired me and my daughter to make some art. My plans for book-based art.
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Day 391 of 1000: Goblet by Goblet
The big plan for the week ahead: applying to the Keystone River Run Arts Festival to show and market my painting-photo pairings.
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DAy 377 of 1000: Becoming Carefree
Seeking a carefree state of mind in trading, and in facing my upcoming retinal surgery.
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Day 363 of 1000: Making Magic
Today is a week for making magic, ordinary kinds of magic, magic in hosting a graduation, magic in getting immersed in a great novel, magic in creating a trading plan for all seasons and markets.
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Day 349 of 1000: Midlife Manual Competence
When I was married, I let my husband to do any fix-it tasks around the house. After the divorce, I began a slow process of learning to do those tasks myself.
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Day 342 of 1000: What I don’t Want to Do
Finding your own path often involves doing things that feel weird, and that feel wrong too. Time to bust out of the shackles of what society tells you to do.
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Day 335 of 1000: Confidence in the Future
Meditations on having what you need — not to include $10 million in retirement.
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Day 328 of 1000: Affirming a Chosen Midlife
Nietzschean ideas of affirmation instead of nihilism. Walking to win thoughts. Choosing not to do things.
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Day 321 of 1000: Authenticity in Later Life
Charles Taylor and Iris Murdoch on what’s good and meaningful. Authenticity not simply as individualistic pursuits.
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Day 307 of 1000: My Interests this Week
In Sunday planning, I review the week ahead. In today’s post, I also report on the current state of negotiations between the U.S. and Iran.
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Day 293 of 1000: Surgery Week Arrives
As I approach major surgery and its aftermath at the same time I’m learning to trade, pondering the Hermit and his wisdom.
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DAy 286 of 1000: Global Trade and the Fourth Turning
The current closure of the Hormuz Strait is putting pressure on the petrodollar system. If the U.S. loses it, they’ve lost their economic power too.
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Day 272 of 1000: The Inspiration Society
Instead of the achievement society, how about participating in the inspiration society? How The Fool Tarot card got me thinking of a different way of living.
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Day 266 of 1000: Planning the First Week of March
Planning my portfolio buy/sell day in the shadow of war, getting paintings ready for sale, solving an insomnia problem.
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Day 259 of 1000: In the Wintertime of a Transition
It’s wintertime and I’m in the neutral zone of reinvention. But spring is coming, and I’m going to paint with springy colors, in an energetic style.
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Day 252 of 1000: Finding Hopefulness
Pondering how uncertain I feel as I attempt to reinvent myself. Considering ideas from Byung-Chul Han’s The Spirit of Hope.
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Day 245 of 1000: Planning for Valentine’s Day Week
Plans for the week including Valentine’s Day dinner, writing about investing, working on Mechanism paintings, dancing through life.
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Day 231 of 1000: Art and Money
This week, I’ll be working on my kline-inspired Motion Memory paintings as well as the new portfolio dashboard I’m putting together in Google Sheets.
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Day 217 of 1000: Back to the creative life
Getting back to my writing and painting after spending most of last week on a very long road trip.
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Day 211 of 1000: Choosing recklessness, road trip edition
More on the reckless road trip that has been postponed once already but maybe won’t be again. The idea of recklessness as letting of doing things right.
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Day 204 of 1000: Space and place on a road trip
Random musings about the upcoming Denver to NOLA road trip we’re taking to transport a poodle to my sister’s house. Geographer Yi-fu Tuan on space and place.
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Day 190 of 1000: Planning under uncertainty
Looking forward to a week of uncertainty, when my dad might be discharged from rehab and I’m integrating his dog into my household.
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Day 183 of 1000: Investing if there is an AI bubble
What do you do if you believe that U.S. stocks are in a bubble due to AI euphoria? Choose an equal-weight portfolio of global risk assets instead of market weight.
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Day 176 of 1000: The end of people pleasing at midlife
At midlife, I’m finding myself unwilling to people please, perform, and pretend niceness. The reasons behind that.
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Day 162 of 1000: Repetition and releasement
Planning my creative work around the twin ideas of releasement and repetition.
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DAy 155 of 1000: Seeking releasement
On Eckhart and Heidegger’s concepts of releasement, and what it means in an extremely online era. How recklessness relates to releasement.
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Day 148 of 1000: Groundhog day
The creative’s groundhog day: Just keep showing up and doing the work day after day, with ideas from Kleon and Burkeman.
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DAy 142 of 1000: a developmental self-edit
After finishing the first draft of my book manuscript, I’m going to do a developmental-self-edit. Also continuing to work on my daily routine.