What Are YOU Waiting For?

Life is short, and a positive sustained run in the stock market is much, much shorter.

The way the markets have been plunging lately, making that ugly sucking sound as you watch your future earnings disappearing, tends to give one pause. It should also sound the alarm clock in your head to wake up and smell the (high-priced) coffee. Just when you thought it was safe to dream of retirement, pulling the pin, heading for a warmer climate, the welcome mat to your Winnebago was jerked out from under you, forcing you to get up, dust yourself off, and park it in the storage garage for a few years of recovery. What might this be telling you? Well, one lesson to be learned is that it's not ever good to hold off doing the things you love now, until that "someday" when you "have the time, and money" to do so. You may never get the chance if you wait. (Oh, and it's OK with your kids to have some fun now...I checked.)

This theme has been visited in the past by those far more egg-headed than the B-Stud. Take for instance, "More Ice-cream Less Beans" by Brian Andrew published in 1996. This book basically tells the reader to skip the boring main course and get to the dessert. My 47 year-old take on the whole thing is much simpler; Live it up and quit moping around, just smell the roses, notice things on the ground, look at people in a brand new way, watch what they do, listen what they say. Find your niche' and flourish in it!

To tie this mantra for living into this format of Birds and Blogs; Go Birding NOW and don't wait for the someday that may never come. Heck birds don't care if you have $100K in your portfolio or cobwebs anyway, and they are much more interesting than staring at a spreadsheet.