Thinking about the next move…Walk good. 28all. Eya. *PB, JS, KO, JG*

The Warm-Up: 

“Before you get sick your body will whisper about its fatigue. Before you break up, your lover will whisper her requests. Before your business goes bankrupt, your customers will whisper their complaints. If you don’t listen to the whispers, you’ll be forced to hear the screams.” ~Aubrey Marcus [This was in the MML on 8.23.2019. I saw it on Insta earlier this week and oh my did it hit me between the eyes].

The Core: 

“Confidence is not a belief in success. It’s a comfort with failure.” ~Mark Manson

“If you hurt other people because they have an expectation of you that’s their problem. If they have an agreement from you that’s yours.” ~Naval Ravikant

“Why do so many people want to change the world, or attempt to own as much of it as possible, but have almost no interest in taking care of it.” ~Kelsey Hightower

“When you have a setback, you get back up and try again. You’re using resourcefulness; you’re using self-reliance; you’re trying to invent your way out of a box.” ~Jeff Bezos

“Elon Musk was laughed at by legacy organizations for years, but now he is making tens of billions of dollars in a single day. True innovation is invaluable.” ~Anthony Pompliano

“And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” ~Romans 12:2

“It is easy to convince yourself that you should learn more before taking action. But too often this becomes an excuse to not do anything. When failure is cheap, learn by doing.” ~Shane Parrish

“Millennials: I admire your zeal to do it your way, but your elders are not your enemies. It’s wasted wisdom when you choose to only learn from your mistakes, than others.” ~Jason Wilson

“External benchmarks are deceiving because accomplishments are advertised while the ugly, hard, and painful parts of life are often hidden from view.” ~Morgan Housel, Internal vs. External Benchmarks

“When you create yourself to make it, you’re going to have to either let that creation go and take a chance on being loved or hated for who you really are or you’re going to have to kill who you really are and fall into a grave grasping onto a character that you never were.” ~Jim Carrey

“We want the storyline of our lives to go from strength to strength, from success to success, and end happily ever after. But throughout the Bible we see something completely different—a persistent narrative pattern of life through death or triumph through weakness.” ~Timothy Keller

“The reason I love finance is because some people will spend 50 hours building a model and doing due diligence before buying a stock to generate a proud 15% return and other people will put their life savings into a cryptocurrency called ‘Shiba Coin’ to generate a 10,000% return.” ~@ParikPatelCFA

“I know You’ve ordered every step / Yeah, You are the Author / And there’s no predicting what is next / But You hold the future / And all the questions, they come second / To the one I know is true, yeah / Oh, You’ve always been true…So I’m gonna wait on You, yes / I’m gonna wait on You / I’ve tasted Your goodness / Trust in Your promise…” ~Elevation Worship & Maverick City Music, Wait On You

“I know You’re not a God out there hiding on mountains, oh no / You come right where I am, lost my way but You found me / Like the rain in the dark, on my ugliest days / You say that You’ll always love me just the same / And then You remind me that You’re holding me tight / You said the past is behind me and it will be alright…” ~Justin Bieber ft. Judah Smith, Chandler Moore & Tori Kelly, Where Do I Fit In

“We often make choices based on immediate outcomes. What can I do to experience a little joy in the next 30 minutes? What can I accomplish in the next hour? But if you always expect to get a little bit of reward for a little bit of effort, then you often overlook actions that lead to greater payoffs down the road. The relationship between input and output is rarely linear. The course of action that could provide greater happiness, meaning, or satisfaction in the long run may not make you happy in the next 30 minutes.” ~James Clear, 3-2-1

Last Set: 

“The second thing I’ve always known from the beginning is that diversity is not charity work. And so, before Jopwell, there were only non-profits in this space. And the non-profits do fabulous work, coaching, training, mentoring, hand to hand combat, really ensuring that people are getting jobs and opportunities, but that doesn’t scale…” ~Porter Braswell, CEO of Jopwell (AND MY BOY) on Gaining Altitude w/ Ed Bastian Ep: 4.

Food For Thought:

“Composed of things that we cannot measure, for which we keep no record and ask no recompense. Since they can’t be measured, they can’t be denominated in dollars, or barrels of oil, or bushels of corn — such things as respect, tolerance, love, trust, generosity, and care, the supply of which is unbounded and unlimited. The nonmonetary exchange of value is the most effective, constructive system ever devised. Evolution and nature have been perfecting it for thousands of millennia. It requires no currency, contracts, governments, laws, courts, police, economists, lawyers or accountants. It does not require anointed or certified experts of any kind. It requires only ordinary, caring people.” ~Dee Hock, One From Many: Visa & the Rise of Chaordic Organizations

Food For Thought II:

“A lighter version of this happens in business and finance, which are home to so many staggeringly successful people whose lives are broadcast over a staggeringly loud social media system. If you measure your career solely relative to them – the external benchmark – you’re on the never-ending path of feeling inadequate, incompetent, and poor. Nothing you do will ever feel that great because someone is always smarter than you, more popular than you, better looking than you, getting richer faster than you, and making sure you know about it. It’s not until you focus on internal benchmarks and see how far you’ve come, relative to where you began – the gap between today and your own cost basis – that you have a good view of where you stand and what you’ve accomplished. Even if it’s the career equivalent of clean sheets.” ~Morgan Housel, Internal vs. External Benchmarks

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