Often the thing to do when faced with challenges is just keep doing what you're doing -- that is, if you're doing your best.
Hope and change sound good, but keep on doing the work that needs to be done.
I've found continuity to be a valuable asset to my business. Same business hours for decades, same location, same basic strategies. Not to say I don't change, but I do make changes in a measured, thought out way.
The stock market is having a tempter tantrum, and I pay about as much attention to that as I would a 3 year old being denied ice cream.
I was impressed last night by how little Obama's support has changed, despite four years of being ragged on by talk radio and a cable news channel. Sure, it was a little less, but that's not surprising considering. The basic support was there.
Got to mention Nate Silver.
You know that when you're partisan, you can be in danger of falling into a virtual reality. I try to avoid the bubble, forcing myself to read mainstream and even slightly right leaning news outlets. So my clinging to FiveThirtyEight had the potential of being nothing but a security blanket.
Except that he appears to have been almost 100% right in his predictions.
As Colbert said about it: "Statistics have a well known liberal bias."
I think that Obama is a centrist. Personally, I think he should stare down the Republicans and say, "Go ahead, go off the cliff. I'm going to let the tax measures lapse, otherwise, and there isn't a thing you can do about it."
He won't do that, of course. He'll try to find a compromise.
I'm not hopeful.
Sure, we might have had more movement if Romney was elected.
Bottomline, it would've been movement in the wrong direction.
Hope and change sound good, but keep on doing the work that needs to be done.
I've found continuity to be a valuable asset to my business. Same business hours for decades, same location, same basic strategies. Not to say I don't change, but I do make changes in a measured, thought out way.
The stock market is having a tempter tantrum, and I pay about as much attention to that as I would a 3 year old being denied ice cream.
I was impressed last night by how little Obama's support has changed, despite four years of being ragged on by talk radio and a cable news channel. Sure, it was a little less, but that's not surprising considering. The basic support was there.
Got to mention Nate Silver.
You know that when you're partisan, you can be in danger of falling into a virtual reality. I try to avoid the bubble, forcing myself to read mainstream and even slightly right leaning news outlets. So my clinging to FiveThirtyEight had the potential of being nothing but a security blanket.
Except that he appears to have been almost 100% right in his predictions.
As Colbert said about it: "Statistics have a well known liberal bias."
I think that Obama is a centrist. Personally, I think he should stare down the Republicans and say, "Go ahead, go off the cliff. I'm going to let the tax measures lapse, otherwise, and there isn't a thing you can do about it."
He won't do that, of course. He'll try to find a compromise.
I'm not hopeful.
Sure, we might have had more movement if Romney was elected.
Bottomline, it would've been movement in the wrong direction.