“You can’t get lucky if you don’t take action. The best opportunity in the world is just a missed opportunity if you don’t grab it.” -James Clear “Luck is a volume game disguised as a mystery. It’s what happens when you create enough surface area for opportunity to stick to…Luck is a heat-seeking missile thatContinue reading “More Than Luck”
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Suck Now. But Not Suck Later.
“I’m one of these people that thinks that everybody has certain gifts when they’re born. Not everybody goes through the trouble of trying to figure out just what they are.” -Bob Dylan “If you haven’t learned how to do something, the people who have may seem to be magicians, possessors of mysterious secrets. But theyContinue reading “Suck Now. But Not Suck Later.”
Just Enough For One Step
“Clarity isn’t about knowing what you want to do with your life, it’s about knowing what you want to do this week. You don’t need to have it all figured out. You just need to know your next step.” -James Clear “As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.” -Rumi Do youContinue reading “Just Enough For One Step”
What If My Best Isn’t Good Enough?
“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” -Michelangelo Perhaps the reason you’re not going all out, not giving it everything you have, is that you’re worried, “What happens if my best isn’t goodContinue reading “What If My Best Isn’t Good Enough?”
Gotta Stay In It To Win It
“Compound interest is the eight wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it… he who doesn’t… pays it.” -Albert Einstein “No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time.Continue reading “Gotta Stay In It To Win It”
Love The Struggle
“Your entire life will change the moment you realize it’s not supposed to be easy. The most valuable things in life are hard to earn. That’s precisely why they’re so valuable.” -Shail Bloom It don’t come easyYou know it don’t come easyIt don’t come easyYou know it don’t come easyGot to pay your dues ifContinue reading “Love The Struggle”
100 Boring Days
“Everybody wants a transformation. Nobody wants the hundred boring, thankless days it actually takes to get it. Progress feels like nothing’s happening when you’re mid-journey. You only see how far you’ve come once you stop and look back.” -Mark Manson For whatever the project, goal or new initiative, ask yourself if you can commit toContinue reading “100 Boring Days”
Godly Love
“To love is to will the good of the other, as other.” -Saint Thomas Aquinas Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ MatthewContinue reading “Godly Love”
Alexander and Diogenes
“He has the most who is most content with the least…It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.” -Diogenes Speaking of wisdom and wishes… The Greek and Roman historian Plutarch tells a famous story about Alexander the Great visiting the impoverished Greek philosopher Diogenes of Sinope.Continue reading “Alexander and Diogenes”
End Right
There’s an adage in basketball that says the team that usually wins the last two minutes of every quarter or half, wins the game. Apply that to your life. No matter how bad today went–whether in or outside your control–stop whatever negative habit you’re continuing to do. And right now, before you go to sleep,Continue reading “End Right”