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Speaking of telling better stories… H/t to Suse Sternkopf for sharing the above 3 provocative quotes on last night’s Vs. “Bring Your Art” Night. What is “Bring Your Art” night, you ask? So we started doing Vs. Tuesday Night Readings on Zoom back in March, 2020. It was a way to keep art and communityContinue reading “Vs. “Bring Your Art” Nights”

“Pressure feels like a threat, but it’s not. You feel pressure when your decisions matter, and people depend on you. It can feel uncomfortable at times, but it’s also a privilege. When no one relies on you — when no one expects something from you — you’re irrelevant. Pressure is a privilege.” -Shane Parrish Can’tContinue reading “Under Pressure”

“Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny.” -Lao Tzu As much as possible, you want to avoid thinking and certainly saying, “I don’t want” statements. The reason?Continue reading “X to Y”

“What is truth?” -Pontius Pilate “Men formulate perishable dogmas, and call them Truth. Truth cannot be formulated; it is ineffable, and ever beyond the reach of intellect. It can only be experienced by practice; it can only be manifested as a stainless heart and a perfect life. Who, then, in the midst of the ceaselessContinue reading “The Real Truth”

“Love is for today; programs are for the future. We are for today; when tomorrow will come we shall see what we can do. Somebody is thirsty for water for today, hungry for food for today. Tomorrow we will not have them if we don’t feed them today. So be concerned with what you canContinue reading “Solve One Problem”

“When we take the focus off ourselves and what we want, we inherently become more creative with our messaging because we have to imagine what someone else would want, which moves us away from our assumptions and the familiar. Because most of the anxiety we experience often comes from worrying about ourselves and what willContinue reading “Not About You”

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is a habit, not an act.” -Aristotle “Excellence is one of the most authentic and human experiences there is, and it must be earned. The payoff is a deep internal satisfaction, a genuine self-respect based on effort and competence, a sense of aliveness and resonance that you won’tContinue reading “The Excellence Habit”

“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: ‘I have to go to work — as a human being…’” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations “We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to playing them well.” -Epictetus Life isContinue reading “Doing Your Duty”

I have climbed highest mountainsI have run through the fieldsOnly to be with youOnly to be with youI have runI have crawledI have scaled these city wallsThese city wallsOnly to be with youBut I still haven’t found what I’m looking forBut I still haven’t found what I’m looking for -song “I Still Haven’t Found WhatContinue reading “Still Haven’t Found It”

They may not ever know if you tried your best, if your intentions were pure, if you behaved virtuously. Perhaps you got away with it. Or were wrongfully criticized. But you know. And that’s the only thing worth knowing anyway.