Your Big Break Is Never Coming (Do This Instead) – The Mission – Medium

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Your Big Break Is Never Coming (Do This Instead) – The Mission – Medium

"You can’t count on luck. What you can do, however, is prepare for the likelihood that good fortune will visit you at some point."

"In his book Great by Choice, author Jim Collins compares the performance of enduringly great companies to average companies. Collins demonstrates that the more successful companies had about the same amount of “luck” (defined as unlikely but fortunate events) as less successful companies."

"What separated the successes from the failures was the fact that the successful companies got a “return on their luck” and the unsuccessful ones did not. In other words, they did something with the opportunity they had."

"Opportunities come — either by putting ourselves in the right place at the right time or simply by sticking around long enough. But good opportunities lead to great work when we make the most of them."

July 24, 2018 Morning

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Good morning! Happy Tuesday. A bit tired this morning, as I inch closer to my summer vacation, taking the local bus to work. Cloudy, humid and 76 degrees in Delmar. ☔ There is a south-southeast breeze at 8 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 68 degrees. The skies will clear around 4 pm.

Today will be scattered showers, mainly after noon. Partly sunny ⛅, with a high of 86 degrees at 4pm. Three degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 71 at 2pm. South wind 8 to 17 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had light rain in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 72 degrees. The record high of 96 was set in 1941.

The sun will set at 8:23 pm with dusk around 8:56 pm, which is 56 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for rain showers💧 and 81 degrees. The dew point will be 70 degrees. The heat index around sunset will be 77. ⛱ There will be a south-southeast breeze at 14 mph. Today will have 14 hours and 43 minutes of daytime, an decrease of one minute and 54 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of showers, mainly after 11pm. Mostly cloudy ☁, with a low of 71 degrees at 5am. Nine degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 71 at 10pm. South wind 10 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2017, we had cloudy skies. It got down to 58 degrees. The record low of 46 occurred back in 1953.

Definitely a pretty humid one. Not as much rain as yesterday but its still a muggy, cloudy morning.☁ That and I wasn’t going as well this morning, so I decided walking down to the express bus. 🚍

Small Inverter is bought at Walmart last week works well.🔌 Like the reviews say it’s a bit of a noisy fan but I don’t care as I can’t hear it much outside of the truck cap and I only really use it to power the camp lighting. I’m sure it puts out a really noisy signal but I don’t care as I just use it with the led lighting which does not really care.

Thinking of ordering more camping supplies from Walmart today. That pick up tower is handy, you just walk in with your bar code and scan it in. I want to replace that leaking propane line and are looking for a gopro mount for my waterproof camera that I can tie to my kayak.📷 It would be neat to make a video paddling along in the kayak with people seeing on YouTube the same thing I’m seeing. Great way to capture memories. While I’ve not been assigned active updating the blog lately, I’m always interested in creating new multimedia content to share my experiences.

Taping more of John Wolcott tonight. Continuing the interview and maybe starting to go through some of his papers.📹 He’s a fascinating man.

Continuing to get ready for vacation. They’re really isnt all that much to do besides packing a week’s worth of clothes as most of the camping gear is the same. Forecast looks fairly cool, I might decide to bring the heater if I have a cold rainy day for hanging out in the tent and drying off on a cold rainy afternoon. ⛺It takes up a lot of space in the truck but it might be nice to have.

It looks like I leave Friday night then head out to Brookfield, 🌲then from there to the Montezuma Wildlife Refuge and then down to the Finger Lakes National Forest. Things could change though, but I liked that trip going out along US 20. 📷 I’m thinking I may stop and grab some quick Instagram pictures along the way.

On this day in 1969, Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean. Mission accomplished!🚀 Good for all involved. In 1974, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes📼 and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor. In 1959, at the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a “Kitchen Debate”. 🍔🍟I hear the United States wins that one.

One month 📅 from now the Average High Falls To 79 ️Degrees ⛱️️️ when the sun will be setting at 7:42 pm with dusk at 8:11 pm.