Go For the Jugular!! Tiger Used HGH Too!!
Now they're angling to try to discredit Tiger on the course as well? This is really getting out of hand.
Doctor being investigated in PED probe
A doctor that treated Tiger Woods after his knee surgery in 2008 was found w/ HGH (an admitted user himself for 10 years) and Actovegin was arrested in October for having it in his bag at the US and Canada border.
So of course now an investigation is pending and guess who's involved.. "Tiger Tiger Woods ya'll." Man the media is really angling on this one. They're trying to systematically bring this man down and ruin his image. He got too successful, too fast.
"He HAD to have an advantage right? I mean, he couldn't have just been THAT good right?"
Give me a break.. Give HIM a break.. What is the media really after? Do they want to see this man committ suicide or something? That's where you're pushing him.. You've already successfully helped rip his family from him by trying to unearth and listen to ANY woman that has said she had any kind of relationship with him. Ok, so he cheated, the only thing you're accomplishing now is making it more impossible for him to rectify his mistakes and salvage any kind of relationship with his family. That is not the media's place. They are to inform, not investigate and ostracize. And it's not society's place to pass judgement on his personal life.. Enjoy how he plays golf, and leave the rest up to him to sort out.
You should be ashamed..
Investment Strategies – Short Term vs. Long Term Gains
"Investing is the active redirection of resources: from being consumed today, to creating benefits in the future" - Wikipedia
Now if we take that statement out of the context of money (which I know most of you thought I was going to tell you how to be a millionaire in the market... I DARE NOT!!!), and put it in terms of ourselves, what does this mean?
Simply put, CHANGE and PATIENCE.
A true "investment" in ourselves normally doesn't manifest in immediate gratification. It's not some "ah-ha" moment that they like to portray in TV.(You know like when House talks to his friend and in the convo, he knows what's wrong w/ the patient? Why doesn't he just have the convo at the beginning of the show? - I digress) A true investment is a series of several small changes that eventually affects your life and turns you in a different direction. I like to call these small changes "short term gains" because while they do attribute to your over all success, they aren't necessarily the ultimate goal.
Long term gains are what we eventually receive when the short term gains add up and manifest into real change; lifestyle changes if you will. You can equate long term gains to the ultimate goal you're trying to achieve in order to change your life to for the better.. Unfortunately, often during the process, we sometimes get sidetracked, or "caught up" in the short term gains that we become complacent or even content. For example, we'll start a workout regimine and lose a little bit of weight, and enjoy the results, but then turn back around to old habits. We forget that long term, we planned to live a healthier lifestyle. This was but a result of that decision. A lot of us, due to social influence, equate healthy with thin, focusing on the external. We think we've already arrived at our destination, because we look a certain way, when we've only just begun our jouney. Same thing can be attributed to money. For instance, if we've paid off all of our credit cards, we haven't really made a life altering change. We've simply "fueled the beast" all over again if we havent changed our mentality about debt in general. If no plan has been devised to ensure that we don't get into the same patterns, routines, and habits, then there will be no long term realization and we will be in a never-ending cycle.
Let's look at a couple of examples of very simple plans..
Example 1: Living Debt Free:
Short term gains could consist of a strategy of paying off your credit cards, creating a budget that would allow for you to save and selling things you don't necessarily need in order to pay off debt. While these things would create change in your life, it's not necessarily life altering. It's not until we change our lives in a 180 degree manner that we're not able to go back to our old habits.
A long term gain would be the practice of paying cash for everything because you no longer had to rely on credit cards. This is a direct result of the short term accomplishments that you achieved previously and dedication to not going back to a debt-filled lifestyle.
Example 2: Being Healthy
Short term gains could consist of small changes in what you decided to/not to eat, an exercise plan, deletion of bad habits(eating while watching TV, bored, or emotional) and weightloss.
Long term gains could consist of the dedication to that healthier lifestyle, and a longer life.
The main message of this entry could have been summed up simply with the definition of "investment." How are you "reallocating and redirecting your resources to profit you in the future"? What are some of your "Investment Strategies"? Have you devised a plan to make your life profitable in the future?