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“If you cringe at your former self, that’s good—it means you’ve grown. Never stop cringing…It’s impossible to be a life-changing presence to some without also being a complete joke to others.” -Mark Manson You will write or do something that at the time you think is amazing. You think you couldn’t have said or doneContinue reading “Never Stop Cringing”

So, so what’cha, what’cha, what’cha want? (what’cha want?)I get so funny with my money that you flauntI said, “Where’d you get your information from” huh?You think that you can front when revelation comes?(Yeah, you can’t front on that) So what’cha, what’cha, what’cha want? (what’cha want?)So what’cha, what’cha, what’cha want? (what’cha want?)I said, what’cha, what’cha, what’chaContinue reading “What Do You REALLY, REALLY Want?”

“What’s worth doing even if I fail?” -Brene Brown The above question is a great one to ask yourself. Repeatedly. For if you arrive at an answer, and then take action towards it, there is no way you can “fail.” The true value always lies in the attempt.

“You’ve gotta love the dirt.” -Gary Vaynerchuk “The dirt is where you start. It’s where you’re built. It’s where you find your initial success. We all start in the dirt on the journey to success, but few are willing to remain there. Few fall in love with the dirt. The day you leave the dirtContinue reading “Pick And Shovel Work”

“My anger is more likely to do me more harm than your wrong…Moreover, if it be the duty of the wise man to be angry at base deeds, and to be excited and saddened at crimes, then is there nothing more unhappy than the wise man, for all his life will be spent in angerContinue reading “Mad As Hell”

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.” – Ernest Hemingway “When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.” –Tao Te Ching by Lao-Tzu (Stephen Mitchell translation) “Blessed is he who expects nothing,Continue reading “Make Friends With The Joy Thieves”

“Visualization works if you work hard. That’s the thing. You can’t just visualize and go eat a sandwich.” -Jim Carrey Timothy Gallwey, author of The Inner Game Of Tennis, has a nifty formula to measure performance. It’s as follows: P = P – I Performance = Potential minus Interference. There are two ways to boostContinue reading “The Performance Formula”

“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.” – Franz Kafka, novella The Metamorphosis if you don’t become the oceanyou’ll be seasickevery day -from the poem, “Good Advice For Someone Like Me” by Leonard Cohen In his masterpiece, The Inner Game Of Tennis,Continue reading “Become The Ball”

“Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want. Therefore, choose your desire wisely.” -Naval Ravikant One way to not get overly attached to your desires is that for whatever it is you seek, constantly say or think to yourself, “I desire this…Or something better.” Like aContinue reading “This…Or Something Better”

Stop waiting and thinking up your original, “million dollar idea.” Instead, come up with your “one dollar idea.” Meaning, find a simple, perhaps even boring, idea that has value to someone else. A value in which that someone would be willing to pay you one dollar more than it cost you to make or provideContinue reading “One Dollar Idea”