Greg's Right FIT #371

Quick notes to help you grow your business in less time with less effort. . . sometime next week. 

In this issue: 

- Thoughts on Momentum
- Being Human
- Random Stuff

Thoughts on Momentum

• When asking for advice, consider your advisor's professional risk tendencies. Entrepreneur: ok with ambiguity; accountant: accurate numbers; lawyer: minimize risk; physician: needs background. Align their advice with your risk tendencies. 
• Well begun is half done wrote Aristotle. Trusting yourself to make corrections on the way is good for momentum. 
• Reducing friction is good for momentum. One way to reduce friction is to reduce the amount of direct contact between surfaces. This applies to people too. 
• One way to reduce friction is paying for convenience. (This is a reminder to myself as I research hotels. . .)

Being Human - Alone again, or

"I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity." – Einstein

(Backstory: What it's like to ask strangers if you can see what's on their phone)

Feeling alone and loneliness are not the same things. Loneliness is described by researchers as the subjective feeling that you lack meaningful relationships or a solid support system, while feeling alone is a more temporary condition. The latter long for a connection and are open to taking action to remedy the feeling. The former are described as being passively resigned their fate. It's a helpful distinction. Especially these days as we tend to bury our face in our phones more often than striking up conversations with strangers.

If you know someone who might be dealing with loneliness and want to help, help them plug into a big mission or purpose. It's not foolproof, but when we're tied into something bigger than ourselves it has a tendency to re-establish social connections. On the other hand, if what they're dealing with is feeling alone (new city, new job, friend moving) encourage them to try one of the many new connection apps and remind them it's temporary. 

Random Stuff

“Who wants to live forever" – Queen

I see that some scientists are working on storing the dead in a way that they can be brought back to life at some point in the future. "German Doctors Are Attempting to Reverse Death and Resurrect Humans" This seems like a bad idea. Maybe worse than trying to figure out how to live to 150. "‘The Most Measured Man in Human History’" 

By the way, as I write this, I have been on hold for the better part of an hour to cancel a subscription. It's $45, less than $4 a month, just over 10 cents a day. This is true. But if I'm going to live another 100 years, an extra $5K may come in handy.