How to Wake Up Smiling: The 9 Decisions That Led To A Life I Love
“You only have to get things right a few times” — Warren Buffett
When reading, “The Warren Buffett Way,” I came across a line that has been running around in my head ever since —
“You only have to get things right a few times. 12 investment decisions in my career have made all the difference.”
Having recently turned 40 years old, it seemed like a fitting exercise to follow Warren’s lead and get down onto paper what my personal best decisions have been that have led me to a place where most days I wake up smiling.
1. I decided to make curious my baseline:
Last year, when talking to my dad about the realities of getting older, he hit me with the following words —
“The saddest part about getting older is seeing how intellectually dead some of my friends have chosen to become.”
Few sentences have frozen me more.
And after I let them sink in, I made the decision then and there to make curious my baseline and as a result the idea that “anything…
