Know Your Limits

The goal in war is the win while using the least amount of resources. The goal in life is to live while having the least amount of disease. This forces you to be both effective in reaching the outcome and efficient in the use of your assets. Doing more with less. The danger lies in overextending yourself and biting more than you can chew. As an example, people will sometimes get two or three jobs instead of focusing on the one that will carry them to the next level. You must know how far you are able to push and cherry pick your battles with the utmost prudence. Do not fight another man’s war, nor should you fight out of pride or anger, consider the consequences: time lost, money wasted, enemies created, opportunity cost.  It is true, sometime war is just inevitable. When that happens, you must force the other side to fight on your terms and not the other way around.  The less you have, the more creative you have to be. Knowing your limits forces you to be a realist, not an idealist or a capitalist but a man that has his mind and heart grounded in reality. If you are wealthy, fight the poor man’s war, if you are poor be tirelessly inventive, and if you are neither than make the very best of what you have.  

The value in what you want, is not in what you get but in what you pay for it… the final cost , the aftermath … always level the golden scale by knowing your limits and you can outlast the biggest Goliath  with a hand full of slingshots … 

Omnipresent … Like the Devil ... Can You be?

Timing is everything in life. Life itself ought to be built around the concept of being at the right places at the right time, which involve being at most of the places most of the time. However, very few human beings have the ability to be omnipresent. The key is to have eyes and ears where you are not, therefore taping into an informal network of spies, friends and allies. This network “pushes” critical information to you or allows you to “pull” valuable information from the network at your convenience. This allows you to save time while bypassing the hierarchy in any chain of command in which you work.  The information lets you uncover potential opportunities, or threats that you otherwise could not have seen coming.

Isolation is the enemy of inclusion. Do not build fortresses around you, making yourself hard to find or reach. This will only make you an easy target. When you cut yourself from the network of valuable information and people, you stagnate, pollute and eventually dry off like snow during a hot summer day. The pilot of a plane can only take off with today’s weather conditions, not the conditions he had three days ago.

Finally, it’s easy for a hunter to shot a stationary object than for him to hit a fast moving target. The fast moving target is you, connecting with people and places in different social layers making it easy to see more than just the tip of the iceberg.
If God is Omnipresent and the Devil is not ... 
Why can't you ?