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Whoosh!

 

I sailed by person after person on the track.

 

Whoosh - Whoosh - Whoosh!

 

I am a runner. Well, technically a jogger. I often run at the track near my home. Most on the track walk, therefore my speed, however meager in running terms, is far faster than walking.

 

So it's whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, as I pass the walkers over and over around the track.

 

My speed and endurance seem amazing to the walkers. Some will come and walk for an hour. I am running when they come and still running when they leave. I have whooshed by them twenty or more times.

 

I got several lessons in life today on the track.

 

As I circled the track with my long steady strides passing the walkers like lamp poles, I got to feeling superior. I know you shouldn't, you don't have to tell me, but after the constant whooshing past far younger people, it goes to your head.

 

Then he came.

 

He was short, perhaps five feet three. He didn't look like much of a runner. I saw him get out of the car and stretch as I whooshed by a couple holding hands.

 

He started running a few feet ahead of me.

 

He was fast. I sped up to keep up. At last, I had someone to pace myself against. After half a lap I was on his heels but my breath was coming harder and heavier. After the first lap I was gasping but still on his heels. After a lap and a half my foot started hurting.

 

I was hurting; I was gasping for breath. I had a MountainWings Moment.

 

I slowed up and got back to my pace. The pain in my foot went away. I could breathe again without sounding like I had a lung disease. He sped away.

 

In a fairly short time, Whoosh! He went past me. Whoosh - Whoosh - Whoosh!

 

In life, there will always be those slower and faster. Some have natural ability; some have trained harder. For some, speed is simply their destiny.

 

The point is, we each have our own speed, and we often end up hurting ourselves and pushing ourselves to the point where the breath is knocked out of us...

 

Because we are trying to keep up.

 

I learned several lessons that day.

 

Don't get puffed up because you are faster than some. Don't feel inferior because some are faster than you. Don't judge the capabilities of others by how they look.

 

How much of your breath (spirit) is knocked out because you are running someone else's race?

 

Are you trying to outrun someone's car, house, clothes, looks, job title, etc.?

 

How much pain are you in trying to keep up with someone who may be running for an entirely different reason, heading to an entirely different place, with entirely different muscles?

 

Slow down or maybe speed up, but run your race to the best of your ability.

 

Whether you realize it or not, you are the real pace setter.

 

Don't run fast when you should be running slowly. Don't run at all when you should be walking, and don't walk when you should be running.

 

A MountainWings Original

 

From MountainWings.com ? The Daily Inspirational Email

 

bdaycake.gif And Happy Birthday to stoolie sheet4brain, who celebrates today.

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It's all about sussing about that purpose. And, oddly, that seems to boil down, ultimately, to a matter of aesthetics. This thought along my 40 minute walk to work uphill through the snow felt like a revelation.

 

 

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7:57AM General Motors cut to Sell at BofA; target $28 (GM)

 

7:39AM Applied Materials estimates cut after earnings (AMAT) 11.94: Merrill Lynch is one of several firms reducing numbers following co's disappointing Q1 earnings and Q2 guidance.

 

7:00AM Qwest restates revenue for 2000 and 2001 by $2.2 bln (Q) 4.17:

 

6:49AM Labranche warns for Q1 (LAB) 22.25: NYSE Specialist firm warns that if current market conditions continue, it will be difficult to meet the Q1 consensus estimate of $0.36.

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When it sinks in that the payback for $360 billion in annual defense spending,

coupled with many billions more for interior ministry security, as well as for

state and local police, is a directive to buy duct tape, bottled water, non-perishable

food items, and.....to go about your business as if we were still at only code

"yellow alert", will the sheeple of today have different sentiment than their

grandfathers demonstrated in March, 1942, when the DOW sold down to 100,

which was 4 months after Pearl Harbor, and 35 years after the DOW first touched

100, intraday ?

 

Prechter's book drpped to the 268th bestseller at Amazon, ftom 131 yesterday !

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/047...product-details

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SG has laid down the smackdown on Elliott wave international on his thread this morning... you might want to read it...

 

SG has continued to defy the "experts" with this views and his bearishness that has not wavered one iota... SG added to his shorts last night btw....

 

Why the EWI experts are about as clear as Greenspan commentaries

 

Wait til you read how he mentions "1's and 2's"... exactly what SG posted with charts yesterday on IDS...

 

SG, here to help the Stoolies... always.... ya gotta separate the wheat from the chaff

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7:57AM General Motors cut to Sell at BofA; target $28 (GM)

 

7:39AM Applied Materials estimates cut after earnings (AMAT) 11.94: Merrill Lynch is one of several firms reducing numbers following co's disappointing Q1 earnings and Q2 guidance.

 

7:00AM Qwest restates revenue for 2000 and 2001 by $2.2 bln (Q) 4.17:

 

6:49AM Labranche warns for Q1 (LAB) 22.25: NYSE Specialist firm warns that if current market conditions continue, it will be difficult to meet the Q1 consensus estimate of $0.36.

Hanky, what you have posted had better not be a cruel joke!

 

I have been short GM for a long time -- this just makes my heart go pitter-patter -- and just in time for Valentine's Day!

 

The problem with the "Conquer the Crash" indicator is that at some point everyone will have bought it and there will be no one left to buy -- kind of like the QQQ's.

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From my IDS post yesterday... I mentioned 1's and 2's...

 

Good thing Im not an expert... just a Simple Guy

 

Note my 2 was right on, and the 1 started down after the intra-day top

 

What shall we expect the next few days??? heh heh... thats easy...

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Your Suctors and Stoolwethers are posted. Some real interesting stuff, such as AOL's cmap of 5.

 

If you're not checking in every day, you are missing some good stuff. Of course, if you're not a member of the American Society of Shortsellers, (membership included with subscription) you won't be able to get in. So become a member of the ASS now, by subscribing to the Anals!

 

Don't forget the first meeting of the New York ASS chapter in March. Details over on LOB. MAny tanks to Mousey Dung for organizing this meeting of the ASS.

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Your Suctors and Stoolwethers are posted. Some real interesting stuff, such as AOL's cmap of 5.

 

If you're not checking in every day, you are missing some good stuff. Of course, if you're not a member of the American Society of Shortsellers, (membership included with subscription) you won't be able to get in. So become a member of the ASS now, by subscribing to the Anals!

 

Don't forget the first meeting of the New York ASS chapter in March. Details over on LOB. MAny tanks to Mousey Dung for organizing this meeting of the ASS.

I told my brother in law 3 years ago that aol would go to 5 bucks

 

he said"get the hell out of here,your out of your mind."

 

their secondary sure won't help things

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DOC

 

May I say I really enjoyed your targets on the SOX, NETWORKERS, AND THE SOFTWARES, NOT TO MENTION INTERNUTS...

 

Makes the SG smile for sure...

 

I only read Doc's anals once in awhile, mainly because I dont want to cloud my Ewave views... you know, Doc and I have to keep arms length here so Y'all can look at E waves, Cmaps, and other stuff objectively...

 

But that said, if you dont' subscribe... you are nuts. $19.29 for 3 months is a typical friggin commission on a trade or round trip trade.... where half of you are losing money anyhow....

 

Why dont you spend $19.29 and make several thousand??? If you wanna talk about a profitable trade... thats a profitable trade...

 

You gotta spend $$ to make it...

 

Thanks Doc

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