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“I don’t think I’m better than anyone, I just don’t want certain energies around me.” #Principal…28all. Eya. ** The Warm-Up: “How to become exceptional at anything? The boring secret is that there isn’t a secret. You do the thing a lot, you pay close attention while you do it, and you stay alive long enough for it to compound. Also, don’t quit somewhere between ‘this is fun’ and ‘oh no, this is hard.’ It’s where the real work starts.” ~Kpaxs The Core: “Compete externally and you compare. Compete internally and you improve.” ~James Clear “You don’t need to be naturally talented; you need to be unnaturally persistent.” ~Orange Book “Opportunity won’t go to the most qualified guy. It goes to the most visible guy. The game is the game.” ~Coach Kay “Forget the algorithm. Forget the competitors. Focus on showing up every day. Inconsistency is the enemy.” ~Coach Kay “You don’t realize enough how contagious humans are... relentlessly remove the negative. Roger Federer changed his dentist because he was too negative. Cut them out.” ~Codie Sanchez “If the ‘good towels’ only come out when you have guests, you’re treating yourself like a second-class citizen in your own home. Use the nice things. You live there; they don’t.” ~Nithya Shrii “Success is getting to a random day in the week and realizing there’s nowhere else you’d rather be. You like the person beside you, the work in front of you, the home you return to, and the person you’ve become. Ordinary days stop feeling like something to get through or escape.” ~Vex King “You can spot the ones who are gonna win from a mile away. They’re just different. Their energy. Their presence. The way they move. They’re not trying to be different, they just are. That’s why knowing who you are matters. The world will constantly try to mold you into someone else. Fight that. Stay authentic. That’s where real success lives.” ~@MasterThousmg “A calm life is built through confrontation, not avoidance. Saying no. Drawing hard lines. Being blunt when the situation demands it. Disappointing people on purpose when it matters. Being agreeable just means other people’s chaos becomes yours. Handle the uncomfortable conversations early. That’s where the quiet life actually comes from.” ~Okadike Onyeisi “Everyone you meet forms an opinion of you, and some of those opinions will be bad no matter what you do. They’re working from very little information, filtered through their own past experience. E.g. a direct answer sounds confident to one person and rude to another, and you don’t get to choose which. So, the time you spend trying to manage those opinions is time you take away from the work itself.” ~Sidrell “You can tell someone’s smart by how easily they make things simple, instead of making them super complicated for no reason. Being intelligent isn’t about using big words, drowning people in info, or making easy stuff seem impossible to get. It’s really about knowing something so well that you can explain it clearly and simply. Being clear is a skill, really listening is a strength, and helping others understand is way better than making them feel dumb. This goes for feelings, relationships, and just everyday life too, where thinking too much can actually pull us away from what truly matters. True intelligence isn’t about making everything look hard; it’s about understanding things so deeply that you can bring simplicity, clarity, and meaning to what used to seem confusing.” ~@sunnkssdseraph “For years I thought cash flow was a finance problem. Something you solved with a better spreadsheet, a line of credit, or a more aggressive person chasing down invoices. Then I started a company, and I learned the truth the hard way. Cash flow is not a finance problem. It is a business model problem. If you are always short on cash, the answer is usually not hiding in your accounting. It is hiding in decisions you made much earlier. How you priced. Who you chose to sell to. When you agreed to get paid, and when you agreed to pay others. You can hire the best CFO in the world. If the model is built to starve you of cash, they will just help you run out of it more precisely. The founders who sleep well are not the ones with the fanciest financing. They are the ones who designed getting paid into the business from day one. Fix the model, and the finance problem quietly disappears.” ~Russell Elliott, Co-Founder & Co-CEO of FLOWT [on LinkedIn] Last Set: “It doesn’t matter what everybody else says and what everybody else thinks. It only matters what we believe and what we do. Our guys have refused to break and continued to believe and continued to put the work in, continued to improve. We did it with several great players that didn’t play today. For the guys, it’s like, ‘Now what?’” ~Coach Venables, Oklahoma Football Coach, after beating Texas in the Cotton Bowl Food For Thought: “When ChatGPT first came out I was convinced it was going to wipe out a huge chunk of jobs. Now I watch people use it and the output is so bad it was better before they touched it. The contrarian take on AI is that it’s not a threat...as long as you actually give a damn about the work, have taste, and curiosity. Those things are going to be worth more than ever.” ~Codie Sanchez Something For the Road: “The pressure you feel depends on how much you think you can affect what happens to you. The less you think you can do, the more worried you get. Compare a driver and a passenger going through the same turns at the same speed. The passenger is the one gripping the door. The road is no different. The driver just has hands on the wheel. I suspect a lot of what we call pressure is just not being able to do anything about it.” ~Sidrell
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