#achievement — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #achievement, aggregated by home.social.
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🎻 Oh, #MIT made a "virtual violin" that sounds *just like* the real thing? 🙄 What a #groundbreaking #achievement for the future of... air-fiddling? 🚀 How about solving world hunger next? 🍽️
https://news.mit.edu/2026/mit-engineers-virtual-violin-produces-realistic-sounds-0429 #virtual #violin #air-fiddling #innovation #HackerNews #ngated -
Bruce Lee showed us: determination plus laserlike focus for success turns average into great.
#Quotes #BruceLee #Motivation #Discipline #Achievement
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Bruce Lee showed us: determination plus laserlike focus for success turns average into great.
#Quotes #BruceLee #Motivation #Discipline #Achievement
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Bruce Lee showed us: determination plus laserlike focus for success turns average into great.
#Quotes #BruceLee #Motivation #Discipline #Achievement
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Bruce Lee showed us: determination plus laserlike focus for success turns average into great.
#Quotes #BruceLee #Motivation #Discipline #Achievement
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Success
#draw #drawing #draweveryday #dailydrawing #dailysketch #sketch #sketchbook #art #mastoart #FediArt #artwork #comic #cartoon #cat #string #caturday #achievement #goals #silly #digitalink #digitalinkillustration #makeartnotwar #drawingaddict #whimsicalart #noai #charactersketch #characterart #characterconcept #characterdesign #conceptart #conceptillustration #illustration #illustrate #illustrator
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Success
#draw #drawing #draweveryday #dailydrawing #dailysketch #sketch #sketchbook #art #mastoart #FediArt #artwork #comic #cartoon #cat #string #caturday #achievement #goals #silly #digitalink #digitalinkillustration #makeartnotwar #drawingaddict #whimsicalart #noai #charactersketch #characterart #characterconcept #characterdesign #conceptart #conceptillustration #illustration #illustrate #illustrator
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Success
#draw #drawing #draweveryday #dailydrawing #dailysketch #sketch #sketchbook #art #mastoart #FediArt #artwork #comic #cartoon #cat #string #caturday #achievement #goals #silly #digitalink #digitalinkillustration #makeartnotwar #drawingaddict #whimsicalart #noai #charactersketch #characterart #characterconcept #characterdesign #conceptart #conceptillustration #illustration #illustrate #illustrator
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Success
#draw #drawing #draweveryday #dailydrawing #dailysketch #sketch #sketchbook #art #mastoart #FediArt #artwork #comic #cartoon #cat #string #caturday #achievement #goals #silly #digitalink #digitalinkillustration #makeartnotwar #drawingaddict #whimsicalart #noai #charactersketch #characterart #characterconcept #characterdesign #conceptart #conceptillustration #illustration #illustrate #illustrator
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Success
#draw #drawing #draweveryday #dailydrawing #dailysketch #sketch #sketchbook #art #mastoart #FediArt #artwork #comic #cartoon #cat #string #caturday #achievement #goals #silly #digitalink #digitalinkillustration #makeartnotwar #drawingaddict #whimsicalart #noai #charactersketch #characterart #characterconcept #characterdesign #conceptart #conceptillustration #illustration #illustrate #illustrator
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Sub-2-Hour Marathon Finally Breached in Official Race as Sabastian Sawe Makes History in London
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Ah, the groundbreaking story of a #runner who allegedly #defies the laws of #physics, but instead of details, we're hit with the riveting saga of "Enable JavaScript." 🏃♂️💥🔒 Meanwhile, somewhere in the digital void, Sawe's #achievement is as elusive as a #unicorn on caffeine. 🦄☕
https://www.letsrun.com/news/2026/04/15930-sabastian-sawe-shatters-the-2-hour-barrier-at-2026-london-marathon/ #EnableJavaScript #digitalvoid #Sawe #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨BREAKING NEWS: #Mathematician wins fancy medal; enters #exclusive #club of people who can solve #problems normal humans never knew existed. 🎉 Meanwhile, the rest of us still trying to figure out basic math while the Simons Foundation seems busy plotting how to make #science sound both incredibly complicated AND important. 🙄🔬✨
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2022/07/05/fields-medal-video-maryna-viazovska/ #Medal #Achievement #Complex #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨BREAKING NEWS: #Mathematician wins fancy medal; enters #exclusive #club of people who can solve #problems normal humans never knew existed. 🎉 Meanwhile, the rest of us still trying to figure out basic math while the Simons Foundation seems busy plotting how to make #science sound both incredibly complicated AND important. 🙄🔬✨
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2022/07/05/fields-medal-video-maryna-viazovska/ #Medal #Achievement #Complex #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨BREAKING NEWS: #Mathematician wins fancy medal; enters #exclusive #club of people who can solve #problems normal humans never knew existed. 🎉 Meanwhile, the rest of us still trying to figure out basic math while the Simons Foundation seems busy plotting how to make #science sound both incredibly complicated AND important. 🙄🔬✨
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2022/07/05/fields-medal-video-maryna-viazovska/ #Medal #Achievement #Complex #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨BREAKING NEWS: #Mathematician wins fancy medal; enters #exclusive #club of people who can solve #problems normal humans never knew existed. 🎉 Meanwhile, the rest of us still trying to figure out basic math while the Simons Foundation seems busy plotting how to make #science sound both incredibly complicated AND important. 🙄🔬✨
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2022/07/05/fields-medal-video-maryna-viazovska/ #Medal #Achievement #Complex #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨BREAKING NEWS: #Mathematician wins fancy medal; enters #exclusive #club of people who can solve #problems normal humans never knew existed. 🎉 Meanwhile, the rest of us still trying to figure out basic math while the Simons Foundation seems busy plotting how to make #science sound both incredibly complicated AND important. 🙄🔬✨
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2022/07/05/fields-medal-video-maryna-viazovska/ #Medal #Achievement #Complex #HackerNews #ngated -
‘Return to the Moon’ Review: Artemis II’s Achievement on PBS - WSJ
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=return-to-the-moon-review-artemis-iis-achievement-on-pbs-wsj
Breaking: <p>‘Return to the Moon’ Review
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‘Return to the Moon’ Review: Artemis II’s Achievement on PBS - WSJ
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=return-to-the-moon-review-artemis-iis-achievement-on-pbs-wsj
Breaking: <p>‘Return to the Moon’ Review
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🚀 Oh wow, humans managed to not kill themselves while floating around the #moon and splashing into the #ocean. 🎉 Meanwhile, everything else from #world politics to entertainment is still a dumpster fire. 🔥🌍 But hey, we sent people to #space and brought them back without incident, so let's call that a win! 🙃
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/artemis-ii-splashdown-return/ #travel #mission #human #achievement #splash #news #HackerNews #ngated -
Research conducted by the German Institute for Economic Research in Cologne (IW) suggests that the increasing use of social media may contribute to the years-lo... https://news.osna.fm/?p=41173 | #news #achievement #declining #excessive #links
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Research conducted by the German Institute for Economic Research in Cologne (IW) suggests that the increasing use of social media may contribute to the years-lo... https://news.osna.fm/?p=41173 | #news #achievement #declining #excessive #links
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Research conducted by the German Institute for Economic Research in Cologne (IW) suggests that the increasing use of social media may contribute to the years-lo... https://news.osna.fm/?p=41173 | #news #achievement #declining #excessive #links
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🎧🤔 Behold, the pinnacle of human achievement: a #quiz to distinguish between the screeching #metal #tubes beneath #London. Because clearly, your life was incomplete without being able to identify the musical stylings of the Piccadilly Line. 🎶🔊 Please, just give this person a medal. 🏅
https://tubesoundquiz.com/ #achievement #music #fun #HackerNews #ngated -
🎧🤔 Behold, the pinnacle of human achievement: a #quiz to distinguish between the screeching #metal #tubes beneath #London. Because clearly, your life was incomplete without being able to identify the musical stylings of the Piccadilly Line. 🎶🔊 Please, just give this person a medal. 🏅
https://tubesoundquiz.com/ #achievement #music #fun #HackerNews #ngated -
🎧🤔 Behold, the pinnacle of human achievement: a #quiz to distinguish between the screeching #metal #tubes beneath #London. Because clearly, your life was incomplete without being able to identify the musical stylings of the Piccadilly Line. 🎶🔊 Please, just give this person a medal. 🏅
https://tubesoundquiz.com/ #achievement #music #fun #HackerNews #ngated -
🎧🤔 Behold, the pinnacle of human achievement: a #quiz to distinguish between the screeching #metal #tubes beneath #London. Because clearly, your life was incomplete without being able to identify the musical stylings of the Piccadilly Line. 🎶🔊 Please, just give this person a medal. 🏅
https://tubesoundquiz.com/ #achievement #music #fun #HackerNews #ngated -
🎧🤔 Behold, the pinnacle of human achievement: a #quiz to distinguish between the screeching #metal #tubes beneath #London. Because clearly, your life was incomplete without being able to identify the musical stylings of the Piccadilly Line. 🎶🔊 Please, just give this person a medal. 🏅
https://tubesoundquiz.com/ #achievement #music #fun #HackerNews #ngated -
"The best way to predict your future is to put it on the calendar—and then earn the right to be there." - Futurist Jim Carroll
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The Art of the Infinite Pivot has been paused until next Tuesday.
--Looking at my app today, these aren't just tee times. They are a receipt.
I mean, you don't often get to see something like this on your phone!
Let the bucket begin!
I'm sending this out just as my flight is coming up over the Irish coast - we should be landing in Edinburgh within the hour. My son Tom and I will get at least 4, and perhaps 5 or 6 rounds in. But, we might have—as they say in Scotland—a wee bit o' weather! Hi Dave! LOL!
I never thought I'd see it come to fruition, but I was determined.I certainly won't let a little storm get in the way of a bucket list!
Look, I know I was going to stop posting about this, but not yet.
You might remember that back in March, I was in the thick of "Rotation Day"—the grueling first steps of twisting a spine that had been fractured in three places. I talked then about "engineering the outcome" and following a blueprint. I did the cardio. I did the heavy lifting. I did the work. I wrote about it in this post, with this image:
Today, the "blueprint" phase is officially over. The "Upcoming Reservations" are no longer abstract goals—they are the next 5 days of my life. If we are lucky, we'll get out for a round on arrival today, simply as a part of the process of staying awake!
I've learned a lot through this whole ordeal. Perhaps its that that we often spend too much time hoping for a "bucket list" moment and not enough time building the bridge to get there. If you are currently in your own version of "Rotation Day"—recovering from a setback, pivoting a business, or grinding through a tough project, keep your eyes on the calendar.
Because the future arrives for those who do the heavy lifting to meet it.
(I'm pretty certain I'll be sharing another golf photo in Monday's inspiration!)---
Futurist Jim Carroll just hopes he doesn't shank off the first tee on the Old Course.**#BucketList** **#StAndrews** **#Golf** **#Scotland** **#Calendar** **#Earned** **#Recovery** **#Blueprint** **#Journey** **#Achievement** **#Milestone**
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So #Claude #Code is exactly the hot mess I expected it to be.
The mental image I have of any "#Agent Layer" on top of #LLMs is always the same: a barrel battered by bullets fixed with (ineffective) #bandaids making it leak *a little slower*.
The #injection safeties are as ridiculous as they are insightful, the "#sentiment analysis" is a blacklist... c'mon.
Raising #billions for this is most definitely quite the #achievement.
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109-year-old lifelong Reds fan remembered for joyful life, lasting legacy https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/647968/ #achievement #ballpark #Baseball #Cincinnati #CincinnatiReds #CincinnatiReds #day #family #JoyfulLife #legacy #LifelongRedsFan #memory #MLB #moment #Reds #RedsGame #RuthWatkins #SummerLightner #watkins #year
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109-year-old lifelong Reds fan remembered for joyful life, lasting legacy https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/647968/ #achievement #ballpark #Baseball #Cincinnati #CincinnatiReds #CincinnatiReds #day #family #JoyfulLife #legacy #LifelongRedsFan #memory #MLB #moment #Reds #RedsGame #RuthWatkins #SummerLightner #watkins #year
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"A bucket list requires a blueprint. You can’t just hope to succeed. You need to engineer the outcome." - Futurist Jim Carroll
Ok, I'm back to my spinal recovery thing, but I'm damned excited!
You don't often get these tee times in your account!
April.
Old Course, St. Andrews.
And so with that, it was 'rotation day' yesterday!
What is 'rotation day'? It's the first day of exercises designed specifically to get my previously injured spine ready for the mechanics of the golf swing.
I've done the cardio. I've done the work to get the core back in shape. I'm doing the heavy lifting. I've put in the work. Here's 30 days of effort. I don't do this to brag; I share it to say, "I've put in the work."
(The workouts include walking - if I exclude that, I still had 28 solid days at the gym out of the last 30).
Rotation day involves doing a series of exercises that twist your body, torso, and spine.
All the things you couldn't and shouldn't do in the early stages of an L1 to L3 spinal fracture.
As I was doing this routine yesterday, I kept reminding myself that to make a bucket list item work, you've got to put in the work. I can't hope to show up in early April, swing a golf club after this situation, and expect a great round. I've got to put to work the muscles that were not put to work, and some of which were battered and bruised in the fall, to work.
On April 6, I'll tee off at the Old Course.
Pure bucket list.
You can't get to a bucket list if the potential for the bucket has been interrupted by circumstances.
You've got to push through the circumstances.
Fore!
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Futurist Jim Carroll hopes for 4 days of extraordinary golf at St. Andrews in early April.
**#BucketList** **#StAndrews** **#Golf** **#Recovery** **#Blueprint** **#Discipline** **#Goals** **#Effort** **#Fitness** **#Spine** **#Rotation** **#Milestone** **#Dreams** **#Engineering** **#Perseverance** **#Work** **#Preparation** **#Commitment** **#Progress** **#Achievement** **#Healing** **#Determination** **#Fore** **#April** **#Onwards**
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"Commitment to your most important goal will always be your greatest success." - Futurist Jim Carroll
I once wrote this phrase: "Real progress is often invisible, boring, and repetitive. Don't mistake the quiet for regression!"
In that context, sometimes your greatest small achievements come up against a bold realization. For me, today marks a unique milestone in a long-running personal project—3,500 days of consistent, quiet effort toward a goal that few people actually see. It's a significant step in a long journey, yet another link in a chain that grows stronger each day.
Progress and success always come from commitment to the cause. Wins are often not instant, dramatic, or bold - instead, they are quiet, barely noticeable, forgettable at moments - until suddenly, they collide with a marker of significant success.
Today is one of those days.
And with this comes an important realization about the work I do. I often tell clients that successful innovation doesn't always involve a big, dramatic breakthrough; it’s usually a messy, squiggly line of effort where the ultimate moment of success is eventually reached. In the same way, personal success on a big goal is often about the small steps, not the big leaps. Managing any major life goal isn't just about reaching the finish line; it’s about the mindset pivot you maintain along the way.
I've often said that you are the total of all your highs and each of your lows, and you must own the quiet, repetitive, low parts of the process for the highs to mean anything at all.
As I look toward my next milestone (like my upcoming tee time at St. Andrews!) I’m reminded that success is about patience.
It’s about trading the immediate dopamine of a "quick win" for the long-term guarantee of a life well-lived.
3,500.
Pretty fucking awesome!
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Futurist Jim Carroll plans an early-morning walk today, immediately after writing this post, to see if he might spot the sun rising in splendour.
**#Commitment** **#Milestone** **#Progress** **#Success** **#Patience** **#Goals** **#Consistency** **#Journey** **#Dedication** **#Quiet** **#Perseverance** **#Achievement** **#Discipline** **#Effort** **#Focus** **#Growth** **#Mindset** **#SmallSteps** **#Determination** **#Purpose** **#Winning** **#LongGame** **#Celebrate** **#Awesome** **#Onwards**
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"Commitment to your most important goal will always be your greatest success." - Futurist Jim Carroll
I once wrote this phrase: "Real progress is often invisible, boring, and repetitive. Don't mistake the quiet for regression!"
In that context, sometimes your greatest small achievements come up against a bold realization. For me, today marks a unique milestone in a long-running personal project—3,500 days of consistent, quiet effort toward a goal that few people actually see. It's a significant step in a long journey, yet another link in a chain that grows stronger each day.
Progress and success always come from commitment to the cause. Wins are often not instant, dramatic, or bold - instead, they are quiet, barely noticeable, forgettable at moments - until suddenly, they collide with a marker of significant success.
Today is one of those days.
And with this comes an important realization about the work I do. I often tell clients that successful innovation doesn't always involve a big, dramatic breakthrough; it’s usually a messy, squiggly line of effort where the ultimate moment of success is eventually reached. In the same way, personal success on a big goal is often about the small steps, not the big leaps. Managing any major life goal isn't just about reaching the finish line; it’s about the mindset pivot you maintain along the way.
I've often said that you are the total of all your highs and each of your lows, and you must own the quiet, repetitive, low parts of the process for the highs to mean anything at all.
As I look toward my next milestone (like my upcoming tee time at St. Andrews!) I’m reminded that success is about patience.
It’s about trading the immediate dopamine of a "quick win" for the long-term guarantee of a life well-lived.
3,500.
Pretty fucking awesome!
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Futurist Jim Carroll plans an early-morning walk today, immediately after writing this post, to see if he might spot the sun rising in splendour.
**#Commitment** **#Milestone** **#Progress** **#Success** **#Patience** **#Goals** **#Consistency** **#Journey** **#Dedication** **#Quiet** **#Perseverance** **#Achievement** **#Discipline** **#Effort** **#Focus** **#Growth** **#Mindset** **#SmallSteps** **#Determination** **#Purpose** **#Winning** **#LongGame** **#Celebrate** **#Awesome** **#Onwards**
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"Commitment to your most important goal will always be your greatest success." - Futurist Jim Carroll
I once wrote this phrase: "Real progress is often invisible, boring, and repetitive. Don't mistake the quiet for regression!"
In that context, sometimes your greatest small achievements come up against a bold realization. For me, today marks a unique milestone in a long-running personal project—3,500 days of consistent, quiet effort toward a goal that few people actually see. It's a significant step in a long journey, yet another link in a chain that grows stronger each day.
Progress and success always come from commitment to the cause. Wins are often not instant, dramatic, or bold - instead, they are quiet, barely noticeable, forgettable at moments - until suddenly, they collide with a marker of significant success.
Today is one of those days.
And with this comes an important realization about the work I do. I often tell clients that successful innovation doesn't always involve a big, dramatic breakthrough; it’s usually a messy, squiggly line of effort where the ultimate moment of success is eventually reached. In the same way, personal success on a big goal is often about the small steps, not the big leaps. Managing any major life goal isn't just about reaching the finish line; it’s about the mindset pivot you maintain along the way.
I've often said that you are the total of all your highs and each of your lows, and you must own the quiet, repetitive, low parts of the process for the highs to mean anything at all.
As I look toward my next milestone (like my upcoming tee time at St. Andrews!) I’m reminded that success is about patience.
It’s about trading the immediate dopamine of a "quick win" for the long-term guarantee of a life well-lived.
3,500.
Pretty fucking awesome!
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Futurist Jim Carroll plans an early-morning walk today, immediately after writing this post, to see if he might spot the sun rising in splendour.
**#Commitment** **#Milestone** **#Progress** **#Success** **#Patience** **#Goals** **#Consistency** **#Journey** **#Dedication** **#Quiet** **#Perseverance** **#Achievement** **#Discipline** **#Effort** **#Focus** **#Growth** **#Mindset** **#SmallSteps** **#Determination** **#Purpose** **#Winning** **#LongGame** **#Celebrate** **#Awesome** **#Onwards**
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"Commitment to your most important goal will always be your greatest success." - Futurist Jim Carroll
I once wrote this phrase: "Real progress is often invisible, boring, and repetitive. Don't mistake the quiet for regression!"
In that context, sometimes your greatest small achievements come up against a bold realization. For me, today marks a unique milestone in a long-running personal project—3,500 days of consistent, quiet effort toward a goal that few people actually see. It's a significant step in a long journey, yet another link in a chain that grows stronger each day.
Progress and success always come from commitment to the cause. Wins are often not instant, dramatic, or bold - instead, they are quiet, barely noticeable, forgettable at moments - until suddenly, they collide with a marker of significant success.
Today is one of those days.
And with this comes an important realization about the work I do. I often tell clients that successful innovation doesn't always involve a big, dramatic breakthrough; it’s usually a messy, squiggly line of effort where the ultimate moment of success is eventually reached. In the same way, personal success on a big goal is often about the small steps, not the big leaps. Managing any major life goal isn't just about reaching the finish line; it’s about the mindset pivot you maintain along the way.
I've often said that you are the total of all your highs and each of your lows, and you must own the quiet, repetitive, low parts of the process for the highs to mean anything at all.
As I look toward my next milestone (like my upcoming tee time at St. Andrews!) I’m reminded that success is about patience.
It’s about trading the immediate dopamine of a "quick win" for the long-term guarantee of a life well-lived.
3,500.
Pretty fucking awesome!
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Futurist Jim Carroll plans an early-morning walk today, immediately after writing this post, to see if he might spot the sun rising in splendour.
**#Commitment** **#Milestone** **#Progress** **#Success** **#Patience** **#Goals** **#Consistency** **#Journey** **#Dedication** **#Quiet** **#Perseverance** **#Achievement** **#Discipline** **#Effort** **#Focus** **#Growth** **#Mindset** **#SmallSteps** **#Determination** **#Purpose** **#Winning** **#LongGame** **#Celebrate** **#Awesome** **#Onwards**
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"Commitment to your most important goal will always be your greatest success." - Futurist Jim Carroll
I once wrote this phrase: "Real progress is often invisible, boring, and repetitive. Don't mistake the quiet for regression!"
In that context, sometimes your greatest small achievements come up against a bold realization. For me, today marks a unique milestone in a long-running personal project—3,500 days of consistent, quiet effort toward a goal that few people actually see. It's a significant step in a long journey, yet another link in a chain that grows stronger each day.
Progress and success always come from commitment to the cause. Wins are often not instant, dramatic, or bold - instead, they are quiet, barely noticeable, forgettable at moments - until suddenly, they collide with a marker of significant success.
Today is one of those days.
And with this comes an important realization about the work I do. I often tell clients that successful innovation doesn't always involve a big, dramatic breakthrough; it’s usually a messy, squiggly line of effort where the ultimate moment of success is eventually reached. In the same way, personal success on a big goal is often about the small steps, not the big leaps. Managing any major life goal isn't just about reaching the finish line; it’s about the mindset pivot you maintain along the way.
I've often said that you are the total of all your highs and each of your lows, and you must own the quiet, repetitive, low parts of the process for the highs to mean anything at all.
As I look toward my next milestone (like my upcoming tee time at St. Andrews!) I’m reminded that success is about patience.
It’s about trading the immediate dopamine of a "quick win" for the long-term guarantee of a life well-lived.
3,500.
Pretty fucking awesome!
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Futurist Jim Carroll plans an early-morning walk today, immediately after writing this post, to see if he might spot the sun rising in splendour.
**#Commitment** **#Milestone** **#Progress** **#Success** **#Patience** **#Goals** **#Consistency** **#Journey** **#Dedication** **#Quiet** **#Perseverance** **#Achievement** **#Discipline** **#Effort** **#Focus** **#Growth** **#Mindset** **#SmallSteps** **#Determination** **#Purpose** **#Winning** **#LongGame** **#Celebrate** **#Awesome** **#Onwards**
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🏆🌍 #HISTORIC!
On the eve of the #GrammyAwards ceremony, held this January 1st in #LosAngeles, #FelaKuti, the legendary king of Nigerian #Afrobeat, #posthumously received a Grammy #Award for his lifetime #Achievement 🎶🔥
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.
#OvercomingChallenges #Victory #Accomplishment #HardWorkPaysOff #Resilience #Achievement #Pride #Quotes #ShareInspireQuotes
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The Day I ran my First Semi-Marathon
Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday was cold and grey when I set off on my daily walk/run and my intention was to go up to Cheserex across to Tranchepied and then back down towards Nyon. I had no intention of running a semi-marathon.
The reason for which I ran so far is that I saw dog walkers and their dogs were not leashed. Years ago I was agressed by three dogs, one of them every time we crosssed paths, so now, if I'm alone, and I see a dog, I cross where the field boundary is, and then I continue my walk, run or bike ride.
Dog Walkers and My Running Detours to Avoid Them
It's not that I had a bad phobia of dogs, but that in one situation I was standing, unable to move, as a woman just watched me. She didn't leash the dog, she didn't do anything to help me. Eventually the dog charged me and I began to run. I then had the common sense to stop running and froze. After this incident my phobia of dogs, when walking alone was radical.
I never, ever, ever want to be so close to being mauled again. That's why I backtrack as soon as I see dogs in the distance and find another route.
It's relevant to how I ran my first semi-marathon. If the dog walkers hadn't been on the path between Cheserex and Tranche-Pied I would not have taken a detour, and if I had not seen a crowd walking around Tranche-Pied, then I would have headed down, and my run would have been short.
It's thanks to those dogs I saw that I took a détour. It's thanks to those people that I didn't head home. It's thanks to these people that I decided to try running to Divonne, and then I ran towards Céligny, and from Céligny towards Eysins. Without the dogs I'd have had a long run, but not this long.
A Cycling Route
I know of the connections between La Rippe and Divonne through cycling with two or three groups. It is by cycling with them that I discovered these alternative, lower traffic paths. They're good to know about because you can run, and cycle, without roads and cars for quite a distance.
A Slight surprise
When I ran from La Rippe to Divonne I was surprised to come out where I did. I came out right by the voie verte. From there I could have easily run to Crassier, and then back home, rather than run along the Lac de Divonne before crossing the border and towards Bogis Bossey and Céligny.
Through the Fields or through the Villages
I considered whether to run down to Céligny and then along the roads to Crans and then back up but chose not to run that route because of dog walkers. Dog walkers are just as likely on the route I did run but I could usually see them from a distance so I could easily avoid them.
In the end the route was perfect to achieve a 21km loop, with minimal walking to get home, at the end of the run.
Two Changes
When I run this distance again I will make sure to have fuel with me, in the form of either energy gels or the haribo style fruit things. I did this 21km run without water and without any fuel. The reason for this is that I had no intention of beating my distance record. It was a fluke occurence. I'm proud of this achievement but I will take a day or two to rest and recover. I don't want to end up injured.
And Finally
If I had run just 6km I would have reached the 100km mark, so far this year. By overshooting like I did I achieved two notable things. Furthest distance, and most running in a week.
I suspect that running in Spain, on those steep gradients, really helped me to get better at running in switzerland.
At this time I do not plan to attempt a marathon. I plan to do a few shorter runs. I don't want to overdo it.
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A year after Jimmy Carter’s death, the disease he swore to eradicate reaches an all-time low – CBS Atlanta
A year after Jimmy Carter’s death, the disease he swore to eradicate reaches an all-time low
By Dan Raby, Senior Digital Producer, CBS News Atlanta, Dan Raby, the senior digital producer for CBS News Atlanta, has been covering everything happening around Georgia for more than a decade.
Updated on: January 30, 2026 / 12:26 PM EST / CBS Atlanta
The Carter Center’s decades-long fight against an ancient parasite affecting some of the world’s poorest may soon end in a victory.
After leaving the White House, former President Jimmy Carter made the eradication of Guinea worm a top mission of the Carter Center, the nonprofit he and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, founded. Even after entering home hospice care in 2023, aides said Carter kept asking for Guinea worm updates.
Rarely fatal but searingly painful and debilitating, Guinea worm disease infects people who drink water tainted with larvae that grow inside the body into worms as long as 3 feet. The noodle-thin parasites then burrow their way out, breaking through the skin in burning blisters.
To get rid of the parasite, worms have to be gently wound around a stick as they’re slowly pulled through the skin. Removing an entire worm without breaking it can take weeks.
When the Carter Center started leading the global Guinea worm eradication campaign, an estimated 3.5 million people in 21 African and Asian countries were afflicted with the disease. On World NTD Day on Friday, the center announced that there were only 10 human cases reported across the world.
The center said two of the provisional cases were detected in South Sudan, four in Chad, and four in Ethiopia.
These numbers remain provisional until they are officially confirmed by each country during the campaign’s annual meeting, which is usually held in April.
Former President Carter receives delivers a lecture on the eradication of the Guinea worm, at the House of Lords on Feb. 3, 2016, in London. The lecture, entitled “Final Days of the Fiery Serpent: Guinea Worm Eradication,” was delivered by Mr. Carter on behalf of The Carter Centre. Eddie Mullholland-WPA Pool / Getty Images“President Carter always said he wanted to outlast the last Guinea worm. While he didn’t quite get his wish, he and Mrs. Carter would be proud to know there were only 10 human cases reported in 2025. And they would remind us that the work continues until we reach zero,” said Carter Center CEO Paige Alexander.
Defeating a disease through persuasion
Guinea worm would be the second human disease to be eradicated in history, following smallpox. Remarkably, it’d be the first without a medicine or vaccine.
Instead of finding a cure, the campaign sought to break the worm’s life cycle in communities suffering from the parasite —persuading millions to change their behavior.
Workers from the center and host governments trained volunteers to teach neighbors to filter water through cloth screens, removing tiny fleas that carry the larvae. Villagers learned to watch for and report new cases — often for rewards of $100 or more. Infected people and dogs had to be prevented from tainting water sources.
Farmer and bicycle fitter Nuru Ziblim teaches children how to filter their water with a special drinking device, when visiting the farms, so as to not ingest the guinea worm larvae. Louise Gubb / Corbis via Getty ImagesHealth workers investigate every report of the disease. The Carter Center says there were more than 1 million rumors investigated in 2025, most within 24 hours of notification.
“This campaign reflects the values that shaped my grandparents’ lives — the conviction that hope, hard work, and respect for everyone can change the world. Seeing Guinea worm cases reach historic lows is one of the clearest expressions of that legacy and our commitment to the communities where trust has been earned,” said Jason Carter, the Carter Center board chair and eldest grandchild of Jimmy and Rosalynn.
Jimmy Carter made eradication a personal mission
Mr. Carter’s fundraising enabled the center to pour $500 million into fighting Guinea worm. He persuaded manufacturers to donate larvicide as well as nylon cloth and specially made drinking straws to filter water. His visits to afflicted villages often attracted news coverage, raising awareness globally.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: A year after Jimmy Carter’s death, the disease he swore to eradicate reaches an all-time low – CBS Atlanta
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A year after Jimmy Carter’s death, the disease he swore to eradicate reaches an all-time low – CBS Atlanta
A year after Jimmy Carter’s death, the disease he swore to eradicate reaches an all-time low
By Dan Raby, Senior Digital Producer, CBS News Atlanta, Dan Raby, the senior digital producer for CBS News Atlanta, has been covering everything happening around Georgia for more than a decade.
Updated on: January 30, 2026 / 12:26 PM EST / CBS Atlanta
The Carter Center’s decades-long fight against an ancient parasite affecting some of the world’s poorest may soon end in a victory.
After leaving the White House, former President Jimmy Carter made the eradication of Guinea worm a top mission of the Carter Center, the nonprofit he and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, founded. Even after entering home hospice care in 2023, aides said Carter kept asking for Guinea worm updates.
Rarely fatal but searingly painful and debilitating, Guinea worm disease infects people who drink water tainted with larvae that grow inside the body into worms as long as 3 feet. The noodle-thin parasites then burrow their way out, breaking through the skin in burning blisters.
To get rid of the parasite, worms have to be gently wound around a stick as they’re slowly pulled through the skin. Removing an entire worm without breaking it can take weeks.
When the Carter Center started leading the global Guinea worm eradication campaign, an estimated 3.5 million people in 21 African and Asian countries were afflicted with the disease. On World NTD Day on Friday, the center announced that there were only 10 human cases reported across the world.
The center said two of the provisional cases were detected in South Sudan, four in Chad, and four in Ethiopia.
These numbers remain provisional until they are officially confirmed by each country during the campaign’s annual meeting, which is usually held in April.
Former President Carter receives delivers a lecture on the eradication of the Guinea worm, at the House of Lords on Feb. 3, 2016, in London. The lecture, entitled “Final Days of the Fiery Serpent: Guinea Worm Eradication,” was delivered by Mr. Carter on behalf of The Carter Centre. Eddie Mullholland-WPA Pool / Getty Images“President Carter always said he wanted to outlast the last Guinea worm. While he didn’t quite get his wish, he and Mrs. Carter would be proud to know there were only 10 human cases reported in 2025. And they would remind us that the work continues until we reach zero,” said Carter Center CEO Paige Alexander.
Defeating a disease through persuasion
Guinea worm would be the second human disease to be eradicated in history, following smallpox. Remarkably, it’d be the first without a medicine or vaccine.
Instead of finding a cure, the campaign sought to break the worm’s life cycle in communities suffering from the parasite —persuading millions to change their behavior.
Workers from the center and host governments trained volunteers to teach neighbors to filter water through cloth screens, removing tiny fleas that carry the larvae. Villagers learned to watch for and report new cases — often for rewards of $100 or more. Infected people and dogs had to be prevented from tainting water sources.
Farmer and bicycle fitter Nuru Ziblim teaches children how to filter their water with a special drinking device, when visiting the farms, so as to not ingest the guinea worm larvae. Louise Gubb / Corbis via Getty ImagesHealth workers investigate every report of the disease. The Carter Center says there were more than 1 million rumors investigated in 2025, most within 24 hours of notification.
“This campaign reflects the values that shaped my grandparents’ lives — the conviction that hope, hard work, and respect for everyone can change the world. Seeing Guinea worm cases reach historic lows is one of the clearest expressions of that legacy and our commitment to the communities where trust has been earned,” said Jason Carter, the Carter Center board chair and eldest grandchild of Jimmy and Rosalynn.
Jimmy Carter made eradication a personal mission
Mr. Carter’s fundraising enabled the center to pour $500 million into fighting Guinea worm. He persuaded manufacturers to donate larvicide as well as nylon cloth and specially made drinking straws to filter water. His visits to afflicted villages often attracted news coverage, raising awareness globally.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: A year after Jimmy Carter’s death, the disease he swore to eradicate reaches an all-time low – CBS Atlanta
#35MillionInfectedEarlier #Achievement #AllTimeLow #CBS #CBSAtlanta #CBSNews #Disease #Eradicate #Georgia #GuineaWorm #JimmyCarter #LowHumanCases #Parasite #PersonalMission #PresidentJimmyCarter #WorldSPoorest -
A year after Jimmy Carter’s death, the disease he swore to eradicate reaches an all-time low – CBS Atlanta
A year after Jimmy Carter’s death, the disease he swore to eradicate reaches an all-time low
By Dan Raby, Senior Digital Producer, CBS News Atlanta, Dan Raby, the senior digital producer for CBS News Atlanta, has been covering everything happening around Georgia for more than a decade.
Updated on: January 30, 2026 / 12:26 PM EST / CBS Atlanta
The Carter Center’s decades-long fight against an ancient parasite affecting some of the world’s poorest may soon end in a victory.
After leaving the White House, former President Jimmy Carter made the eradication of Guinea worm a top mission of the Carter Center, the nonprofit he and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, founded. Even after entering home hospice care in 2023, aides said Carter kept asking for Guinea worm updates.
Rarely fatal but searingly painful and debilitating, Guinea worm disease infects people who drink water tainted with larvae that grow inside the body into worms as long as 3 feet. The noodle-thin parasites then burrow their way out, breaking through the skin in burning blisters.
To get rid of the parasite, worms have to be gently wound around a stick as they’re slowly pulled through the skin. Removing an entire worm without breaking it can take weeks.
When the Carter Center started leading the global Guinea worm eradication campaign, an estimated 3.5 million people in 21 African and Asian countries were afflicted with the disease. On World NTD Day on Friday, the center announced that there were only 10 human cases reported across the world.
The center said two of the provisional cases were detected in South Sudan, four in Chad, and four in Ethiopia.
These numbers remain provisional until they are officially confirmed by each country during the campaign’s annual meeting, which is usually held in April.
Former President Carter receives delivers a lecture on the eradication of the Guinea worm, at the House of Lords on Feb. 3, 2016, in London. The lecture, entitled “Final Days of the Fiery Serpent: Guinea Worm Eradication,” was delivered by Mr. Carter on behalf of The Carter Centre. Eddie Mullholland-WPA Pool / Getty Images“President Carter always said he wanted to outlast the last Guinea worm. While he didn’t quite get his wish, he and Mrs. Carter would be proud to know there were only 10 human cases reported in 2025. And they would remind us that the work continues until we reach zero,” said Carter Center CEO Paige Alexander.
Defeating a disease through persuasion
Guinea worm would be the second human disease to be eradicated in history, following smallpox. Remarkably, it’d be the first without a medicine or vaccine.
Instead of finding a cure, the campaign sought to break the worm’s life cycle in communities suffering from the parasite —persuading millions to change their behavior.
Workers from the center and host governments trained volunteers to teach neighbors to filter water through cloth screens, removing tiny fleas that carry the larvae. Villagers learned to watch for and report new cases — often for rewards of $100 or more. Infected people and dogs had to be prevented from tainting water sources.
Farmer and bicycle fitter Nuru Ziblim teaches children how to filter their water with a special drinking device, when visiting the farms, so as to not ingest the guinea worm larvae. Louise Gubb / Corbis via Getty ImagesHealth workers investigate every report of the disease. The Carter Center says there were more than 1 million rumors investigated in 2025, most within 24 hours of notification.
“This campaign reflects the values that shaped my grandparents’ lives — the conviction that hope, hard work, and respect for everyone can change the world. Seeing Guinea worm cases reach historic lows is one of the clearest expressions of that legacy and our commitment to the communities where trust has been earned,” said Jason Carter, the Carter Center board chair and eldest grandchild of Jimmy and Rosalynn.
Jimmy Carter made eradication a personal mission
Mr. Carter’s fundraising enabled the center to pour $500 million into fighting Guinea worm. He persuaded manufacturers to donate larvicide as well as nylon cloth and specially made drinking straws to filter water. His visits to afflicted villages often attracted news coverage, raising awareness globally.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: A year after Jimmy Carter’s death, the disease he swore to eradicate reaches an all-time low – CBS Atlanta
#35MillionInfectedEarlier #Achievement #AllTimeLow #CBS #CBSAtlanta #CBSNews #Disease #Eradicate #Georgia #GuineaWorm #JimmyCarter #LowHumanCases #Parasite #PersonalMission #PresidentJimmyCarter #WorldSPoorest -
A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. The life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Speech (1899-04-10), “The Strenuous Life,” Hamilton Club, ChicagoMore about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/1…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #teddyroosevelt #theodoreroosevelt #danger #dishonor #ease #effort #exercise #hardwork #hardship #ignobility #labor #leisure #relaxation #toil #work #adversity #achievement #overcoming #meaningoflife #purpose
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. The life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Speech (1899-04-10), “The Strenuous Life,” Hamilton Club, ChicagoMore about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/1…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #teddyroosevelt #theodoreroosevelt #danger #dishonor #ease #effort #exercise #hardwork #hardship #ignobility #labor #leisure #relaxation #toil #work #adversity #achievement #overcoming #meaningoflife #purpose
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. The life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Speech (1899-04-10), “The Strenuous Life,” Hamilton Club, ChicagoMore about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/1…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #teddyroosevelt #theodoreroosevelt #danger #dishonor #ease #effort #exercise #hardwork #hardship #ignobility #labor #leisure #relaxation #toil #work #adversity #achievement #overcoming #meaningoflife #purpose
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. The life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Speech (1899-04-10), “The Strenuous Life,” Hamilton Club, ChicagoMore about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/1…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #teddyroosevelt #theodoreroosevelt #danger #dishonor #ease #effort #exercise #hardwork #hardship #ignobility #labor #leisure #relaxation #toil #work #adversity #achievement #overcoming #meaningoflife #purpose
