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Culture isn’t static…Walk good. 28all. Eya. *SB, JS* The Warm-Up: “The work is extremely minimal, but I find that the things that are most powerful are extremely minimal…” ~Knowledge Bennett The Core: “How > how much.” ~Jack Butcher “Your calendar is a better measure of success than your bank account.” ~James Clear “You barely understand yourself, never assume you understand someone else. Learning to listen. That’s the secret of great relationships.” ~Orange Book “Easiest business arbitrage: the risk/reward of a well-written cold email is so wildly favorable, and yet so few people will actually send one.” ~Andrew Reed “All the people that were telling me to ‘keep politics out of sports’ (which it wasn’t political at all), really inspired me to win. You better believe I’m gonna try to be on your tv for as long as possible.” ~Naomi Osaka “Don’t complain to me about integrity of the media when you have no problem clicking, liking, and sharing false information from questionable sources simply because it fits your narrative.” ~Simone Boyce “The path of your life can change in an instant. It’s the act of letting go of what no longer serves you that really changes everything. You must create space for the frequency of the reality you want.” ~poemsporn_ “Honest self-questioning is difficult. It requires asking yourself simple questions that are uncomfortable to answer. In fact, in my experience, the more uncomfortable the answer, the more likely it is to be true.” ~Mark Manson “If someone is petulant from hearing about the 400+ year oppression of a group of people, with data, death, destruction, and anguish to prove it, that someone is lacking moral substance, understanding of injustice, and compassion.” ~Bernice King, King Center CEO “Never run from your problems. That only makes them harder to deal with. No matter how deep, dark, or strange your problems may be, handle them as best you can. You will be so proud of yourself once you start attacking problems and finding solutions.” ~Sylvester McNutt III “If you get down and you quarrel everyday/ You’re saying prayers to the devils, I say, wooh / Why not help one another on the way? / Make it much easier (just a little bit easier) / Say you just can’t live that negative way/ If you know what I mean/ Make way for the positive day/ ‘Cause it’s news (new day) news and days / New time (new time), and if it’s a new feelin’ (new feelin’), yeah…” ~Bob Marley & The Wailers, Positive Vibration “And, fingers crossed, if everything goes well tomorrow at the NCAA … they just might change the college-sports landscape forever. They may create a new reality where hundreds of thousands of college athletes are able to vote on a more regular basis. What a legacy that would be for these young people. And, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. You better believe that’s some history I’ll be telling my own kids all about for a long, long time.” ~Chris Bosh, Let Them Vote “Real change takes time — lots of it. This is infuriating but not surprising when considered in terms of foundations. America is a country of contradictions because of its foundation. On the one hand, there’s the idea of what America is supposed to be, and on the other, what America really is. America claims to be the land of the free, but it was founded on indigenous genocide and built on slavery. As a result of this discordant origin, America is a country at odds with its past…As long as large swaths of Americans regard slavery, Jim Crow and racism as historical footnotes — missteps long since corrected — there is no way to move past racism. Fifty-three years won’t do it, and 153 years won’t do it. It’s like apologizing for something without knowing what you’re apologizing for — no real understanding comes of it. If America doesn’t reckon with the past, divisions will only worsen.” ~Bill Russell, Racism Is Not a Historical Footnote Last Set: “You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge. Apologize for mistakes. Apologize for unintentionally hurting someone profusely. But don’t apologize for being who you are.” ~Danielle Laporte Food for Thought: “Yes, of course I’m emotionally needy in relationships and here’s why: I don’t need to be with anyone. I’m just fine by myself. So, if I do choose to invest in someone else, he sure as hell better know how to show his emotions and make me feel loved in a way I can’t get from my friends. Because you’d better believe I’m going to pour my whole self and then some into making him feel like the royalty I see him as, but in return I need a helluva lot back. And his giving doesn’t have to look like my giving but it still has to be an equal feeling and flowing, from the heart, an equal level of reciprocation. And maybe you call that being too needy, too demanding, having unrealistic standards, but I call it upholding love in its highest form and refusing to settle for good enough. And if that sounds too hard for you, too much work for us to work, then I guess I’m too needy to need you.” ~lindsay_kat_writing Other tings: Open Letter to Jack Dorsey The Work You Do, the Person You Are
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