August is Coming Quickly

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They call August the dog days of summer.🐶 It’s hard to disagree but in many ways it’s also the time when summer starts to close itself out.🏖

Usually during the end of July I post my classic essay, “Warning Summer is an Endangered Species” because it really is. By the end of July the sun sets before 8:30 PM in Albany, and the hottest days of the year are already passed by. 🌇 Swimming pools close in four weeks and Labor Day Weekend means schools re-open. I often are quite busy with work once September rolls back around. 🌄

Time is an unstoppable force. ⏲ It’s best to embrace every day as soon those great summer days will be gone.

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."