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Those who leave everything in God’s hands will eventually see God’s hands in everything.…Walk Good. 28all. Eya. *NP, KA* A Note to the Reader: Always one of my favorite MMLs to write as we get to show some love to one of the best to ever do it, Bob Marley! Robert Nesta Marley woulda turned 78 today, nuff respect. His music continues to touch and inspire me; if I’m down, it lifts me up. And if I’m good, it makes me feel even better! And after an eventful week and some more riveting conversations, Nesta’s words, vibes, and energy still hitting home…Happy Black History Month! The Warm-Up: “The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too...because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.” ~Bob Marley The Core: “‘Piti piti, zwazo fe nich li.’ Little by little, the bird builds its nest.” ~Haitian proverb “Impressing people is utterly different from being truly impressive.” ~Ryan Holiday “Urgency gets more people to buy. Scarcity gets people to pay more.” ~Alex Hormozi “The problem today is people don’t cherish good people, they try to use them.” ~Bob Marley “You have more good ideas than you realize. They’re just escaping you because you don’t write enough.” ~David Perell “If you dont see the value in us, people of color, then that’s a massive opportunity for us to create wealth for ourselves.” ~Kwame Anki, Chairman & CEO of Black Star Fund “You naturally get rid of your sense of entitlement once you are abroad. You understand that no one knows you, and that no one cares, unless you bring value first.” ~Orange Book “If a founder is going on and on about how clever their idea is, I don’t want to hear it. But if they are going on and on about how interesting their problem is, that is what gives me confidence they may actually be on the right path to solving it.” ~Marc Randolph “In every country in the world there are patriots and there are nationalists. Patriots love their country and just do things about it. Nationalists love themselves and the cult of themselves and they use their country to advertise it. It’s just narcissism with a flag.” ~Vir Das “4 harsh truths that changed my life: *Not everyone wants to get better. *Words are hallow, behavior is true communication. *Chronic venting keeps us stuck in cycles. *Blaming others serves the ego, and blocks us from creating the life we choose.” ~Dr. Nicole LePera “You leak energy when you overshare. Protect your energy and keep your personal life private. Maturity is living in private, dating in private, making money in private, healing in private, unlearning in private, growing in private, and letting them assume and be wrong about you.” ~@MindTendencies2 “At some point you have to decide what’s acceptable for your life. Most people don’t do that deliberately…they get pushed into the decisions others make, and then they’re unhappy. Step up & start directing. You’ll get some pushback, but it’s worth living the life you want.” ~Dr. Julie Gurner “Them belly full, but we hungry / A hungry mob is a angry mob / A rain a fall, but the dirt it tough / A pot a cook but food nah nuff / You’re going to dance to Jah music, dance / We’re going to dance to Jah music, dance, oh-ooh… / Forget your troubles and dance.” ~Bob Marley & The Wailers, Them Belly Full (But We Hungry) “My ambition has always devoured all of the oxygen in the room so that I can grow bigger, sparking to catch and expand hungrily beyond the neatly kept boundaries that polite society says that I shouldn’t cross. Fire keeps no borders and neither do I. I am not afraid to burn those who cross me—it is how I have always lived my life, whether it is scrambling to sell lunch tickets to make a few dollars in high school or surpassing the expectations of the good ole boys in the boardroom. A fire is always in motion, and I’ve never stopped moving forward.” ~Cin Fabre, Wolf Hustle – A Black Woman on Wall Street Last Set: “If she’s amazing, she won’t be easy. If she’s easy, she won’t be amazing. If she’s worth it, you won’t give up. If you give up, you’re not worthy...Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.” ~Bob Marley Food For Thought: “People that have a bad relationship with money get trapped in a brutal worldview. They hate people that sell a product…Just to work for a massive company that exploits its employees to sell a product…And never realize that to get out, you have to sell a product.” ~Dan Koe Food For Thought II: “The way we think about our priorities makes a huge difference. Leaders of every stripe make one thing more than any other: decisions. In any environment with constraints (which is, actually, any environment), the decisions about time and resources–about what to do next–change everything. How do we decide what’s next? Is it based on urgency, proximity or values? First in/first out is not a strategy, it’s an excuse. Even worse is the one about the squeaky wheels.” ~Seth Godin, “What’s next?”
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