{"id":13786,"date":"2012-07-06T09:05:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T13:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=13786"},"modified":"2012-07-06T09:15:54","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T13:15:54","slug":"my-very-own-bucket-list-have-you-done-yours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=13786","title":{"rendered":"My very own Bucket List. Have you done yours?"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Bucket List:<\/p>\n

1. Finish my book “In Search of the Perfect Investment<\/em>.” I’ve been dicking with this book for 15 years. I learn. I study. I learn more. I procrastinate. Stupid. Investing is the hardest skill I’ve ever tried to master.<\/p>\n

2. Learn computer programming. I have a zillion ideas for great software. Every time I work with outside programmers, they get it wrong. It’s time to take control of of my own destiny (and give the boys at Facebook, Google and LinkedIn a run for their money).<\/p>\n

3. Visit Bhutan, Patagonia and the Konig See in southern Germany. Also re-visit my favorite place in the whole world — Yosemite.<\/p>\n

4. Stay healthy by exercising every single day, preferably by playing 1 1\/2 hours of aggressive tennis.<\/p>\n

5. Motivate, encourage, bribe … do everything necessary to get the kids to produce grandkids, before I kick the bucket, and they lose interest.<\/p>\n

I feel a huge urgency. Time passes so quickly. This chart says it all.<\/p>\n

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How to accomplish all this?<\/p>\n

First thing every morning, I must write down today’s top priorities. And then I must ask myself how do they further my Bucket List? Can I figure a better way of solving day-to-day urgencies (like changing lightbulbs or getting cars serviced) without impinging on my real top priorities — my Bucket List.<\/p>\n

If you feel inclined, drop your very own Bucket List in a comment below.\u00a0 Share it also with your wife and kids.<\/p>\n

If you haven’t seen the wonderful movie, The Bucket List<\/em>, please rent it and watch it this weekend. It’s a wonderful movie with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman.<\/p>\n

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My favorite lawyer joke.<\/strong><\/span> A Mafia Godfather finds out that his bookkeeper, Guido, has cheated him out of ten million dollars. His bookkeeper is deaf. That was the reason he got the job in the first place. It was assumed that Guido would hear nothing so he would not have to testify in court.<\/p>\n

When the Godfather goes to confront Guido about his missing $10 million, he takes along his lawyer who knows sign language.<\/p>\n

The Godfather tells the lawyer, “Ask him where the money is!<\/p>\n

The lawyer, using sign language, asks Guido, Where’s the money?<\/p>\n

Guido signs back, “I don’t know what you are talking about.” The lawyer tells the Godfather, “He says he doesn’t know what you are talking about”<\/p>\n

The Godfather pulls out a pistol, puts it to Guido’s head and says, “Ask him again and tell him if he doesn’t answer I’ll kill him!”<\/p>\n

The lawyer signs to Guido, “He’ll kill you if you don’t tell him.”<\/p>\n

Guido trembles and signs back, “OK! You win! The money is in a brown briefcase, buried behind the shed at my cousin Bruno’s house.<\/p>\n

The Godfather asks the lawyer, “What did he say?”<\/p>\n

The lawyer replies, “He says you don’t have the balls to pull the trigger.”
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Harry Newton who worries about the second half. This morning’s employment numbers aren’t wonderful. The U.S. work force added a bare 80,000 jobs in June; the unemployment rate was 8.2%, though some states are much lower. Fortunately, AGNC is holding in nicely and the Australian dollar is firming.<\/p>\n

The key to fixing things is to ask yourself: What did I last do that could have caused the problem?<\/p>\n

Several months ago, I change tennis racquets to a heavier one… This week I switched back to my older, lighter racket. Bingo, my shoulder feels a thousand percent better! Not recovered, but better. Dumb me for not thinking of this earlier. This logic applies particularly to computers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My Bucket List: 1. Finish my book “In Search of the Perfect Investment.” I’ve been dicking with this book for 15 years. I learn. I study. I learn more. I procrastinate. Stupid. Investing is the hardest skill I’ve ever tried to master. 2. Learn computer programming. I have a zillion ideas for great software. Every […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}