{"id":693,"date":"2007-05-03T21:43:23","date_gmt":"2007-05-04T02:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/mail-bag\/some-hard-hitting-thought-provoking-questions\/"},"modified":"2018-08-12T01:31:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T06:31:27","slug":"some-hard-hitting-thought-provoking-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/mail-bag\/some-hard-hitting-thought-provoking-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"some hard hitting, thought provoking questions"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been so busy I nearly forgot to respond to being tagged<\/a> by Chris (aka "the pirahna") Perruna<\/a>, but then an hour ago I was tagged again, this time from a member of www.tagged.com which to me reeks of spam.  I have no idea who the person is that "tagged" me from this website but it served as a good reminder.  Yeah, I lean towards the optimistic side.  Anyway, on to a few questions that were passed on to me- what are my obsessions and why is that I do what I do?<\/p>\n

Obessions\n<\/p>\n

1. this site\/my business – i’m a bit of a workaholic at times and have given up a lot in the last few years to build it so this may fall into the category of obsessive more than anything else<\/p>\n

2. travel – love it, but haven’t had much time to do it – spent 6 weeks in Thailand a couple years ago and eventually plan to live somewhere overseas for 6 months out of year (my ideas are panama, mexico, ecuador, uruguay, argentina).  That plan has been pushed back several times!  Here’s me on the way to a camping trip in Thailand a few years ago:<\/p>\n

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3. music – living in seattle, i’ve been lucky to see some great local bands just a few steps from my door.  One of these days I’m hoping to put together a music page at the blog where I can share some of my favorite tracks of "undiscovered" bands.  The last show I went to was the Silversun Pickups a couple weeks ago.. probably one of my  top albums for ’07.  Not exactly "undiscovered" now, but still a favorite of mine.  Here’s a video from a set they did for Spin magazine.
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 For more of a local flavor check out some friends of mine called The Maldives<\/strong><\/a>.  If you like your rock with a little bit of a country twang be sure to check them out and if you’re going to be in Portland in a couple weeks they are playing! They put on a fantastic live show.  They recently played a live set<\/strong> for the best radio station in the world!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

4. the gym – does it count as an obsession if you’ve managed to get in there just 3 times in the past 8 months?
\n5. trading stocks – i think most people in this business would say the same thing.. it’s like gambling but with much better odds.  The downside? Void of cheap drinks and steak dinners.<\/p>\n

Why Do I Blog?<\/p>\n

1. helping others navigate and learn the markets – I sure wish investing blogs were around when I was learning this stuff!
\n2. interacting with other like minded people from all over the world
\n3. the hoards of cash I rake in from doing it (kidding)
\n4. hey, it’s not a bad marketing tool for the business I’m building
\n5. i enjoy it!<\/p>\n

I’ll add one more question – An Embarassing (did I spell that right?) Moment<\/p>\n

1. misspelling "street" (I said it so fast I said "d" instead of "t" ) at the district spelling be in front of several hundred people in 6th grade<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been so busy I nearly forgot to respond to being tagged by Chris (aka "the pirahna") Perruna, but then an hour ago I was tagged again, this time from a member of www.tagged.com which to me reeks of spam.  I have no idea who the person is that "tagged" me from this website but … Continue reading some hard hitting, thought provoking questions<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mail-bag"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}