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Eya Lata 2020. Let’s all make 2021 the best one yet! Walk good. 28all. Eya. *DM, IL, AAS, SH, OA, CP, JQ, SA, RB, PR, AT, JG, PB, SD, TM, GE, JD, MM, JP, KK* Note to You, The Reader: Simply put, thank you. I know attention (and thus your time) is the most precious commodity in the world. How you choose to spend it makes all the difference. I thank you for taking the time each / some / all week(s) to grapple with some of this content as we all try to put one foot in front of the other and continue to level up. Below is a short selection of the year’s most liked quotes. Check the MML website around noon today to see the latest blog post with ALL the quotes—you see all those initials above! Print that bad boy, get your annotation on, and slap some of those words where you will see them every day. 2021, here goes nothing! The Warm-Up: “How To Make 2021 Great: Get excited about your goals. Grind like you’ve still got a point to prove. Rest when required. Build stronger relationships. Step out of your comfort zone. Take on new challenges with courage. Develop a healthy sleeping pattern. Adapt to your environment and resources. Choose faith over fear. Let go of what no longer contributes to your joy. Create better habits. Keep a routine in place. Encourage positive energy in your circle. Smile, laugh, and love often. Count your blessings daily. Work with passion and purpose. Try out new things. Upskill. Travel when you can. Live in your means. Spend more time with your loved ones. Take good care of your mind, body and soul. Make happiness, healing and kindness priorities. Meditate. Be humble.” ~Vex King The Core: “List of assets you control the value of: yourself.” ~Jack Butcher “If you aren’t afraid of the truth, then you’re nowhere near it.” ~Naval Ravikant “Everyone wants the spot until they realize what it takes to play the position.” ~The Lion Law “Switch the word ‘life’ with the word ‘time’ and you’ll start spending it differently.” ~Matthew Kobach “If you don’t regularly get lessons of humility, you are not playing at the right difficulty level.” ~Orange Book “Fake it till you make it, honors distrust. Practice it till you master it, honors truth and respect.” ~Anonymous “When the fear of being a fool is stronger than the hope of being a genius, the status quote thrives.” ~Thibaut “It is crazy how when something is already written inside of you it just presents itself to you...” ~Sarah Wood “Don’t hate people during their winning season. You don’t know what they lost in their losing season.” ~Matt Gottesman “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation, and go to the grave with the song still in them.” ~Henry David Thoreau “Sometimes we don’t need advice. Sometimes we just need to hear we’re not the only one.” ~Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights “You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.” ~Charlie Tremendous Jones “There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.” ~John F. Kennedy “If you are looking for me, I will be somewhere in between inspiring others, on my grind, focusing on my growth and ducking bad vibes.” ~Tim Karsliyev “Mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together.” ~Lisa Kleypas
“Shift your goals from the external to the internal. Repeat to yourself that your objective is not to hit the target, but to deliver the best shot of which you are capable. It’s not about getting the job promotion, but about being the most deserving candidate for it.” ~Thibaut
“I will never consider defeat and I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools.” ~Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World “If you do not transform your pain, you will most assuredly transmit it…If we’re not trained in letting go of it, transforming it, turning crucifixion into resurrection, so to speak, we’ll hand it off to our family, to our children, to our neighborhood, to our nation.” ~Richard Rohr, Letting Go Is Liberation “Life punishes the vague wish and rewards the specific ask. After all, conscious thinking is largely asking and answering questions in your own head. If you want confusion and heartache, ask vague questions. If you want uncommon clarity and results, ask uncommonly clear questions.” ~Tim Ferriss “2020 can literally be the turning point to make the kind of decisions that bring everyone together (well most) in efforts to rebuild what has been broken for so long. Change is not scary. It’s only in your mind that it might be scary, but change is what makes life worth living. If you fear change, maybe it’s because you fear what you don’t know and you’ve yet to realize that what you don’t know is where everything good actually exists. 2020 literally said, ‘enough, deal with your shit.’ 2020 is not cancelled, it’s game 7 and we’re playing for something much bigger.” ~Matt Gottesman “I don’t speak on it all, but I notice. These mental notes have always been on point; I’ve never been naïve. Don’t underestimate what I know just because I’m selective about what I share. People think that just because you don’t care to catch them in every single lie that you aren’t paying attention. That’s a mistake. I don’t play detective or set traps or any of that. Time reveals all; eventually everything comes to the light. Your actions dictate our relationship. I don’t keep people in my life who haven’t shown me they deserve to stay. The little things add up. Always remember that.” ~Rob Hill Sr. “Here’s the thing about privilege: everyone has it, to some degree. I think when some people hear the word privilege, they get defensive, but I’m here to tell you that having privilege, or being privileged, is not the problem. Entitlement is the problem. I think of it this way: privilege is a hand-me-down heirloom, rooted in the circumstances you’re born into; entitlement is something you procure and choose to wear. There is nothing wrong with being privileged, as long as you use your privilege to help others who lack it. It’s as if you’re at a concert and someone shorter than you is standing behind you and can’t see the stage; you would probably move aside to let them stand in front of you, right? It’s only a slight inconvenience, you didn’t get any shorter, and you both get to enjoy the show.” ~Arlan Hamilton, It’s About Damn Time “For I’m convinced that the pandemic we’re currently living through is both a manifestation of and a mere interruption in the relentless march toward an interconnected world, one in which peoples and cultures can’t help but collide. In that world—of global supply chains, instantaneous capital transfers, social media, transnational terrorist networks, climate change, mass migration, and ever-increasing complexity—we will learn to live together, cooperate with one another, and recognize the dignity of others, or we will perish. And so the world watches America—the only great power in history made up of people from every corner of the planet, comprising every race and faith and cultural practice—to see if our experiment in democracy can work. To see if we can do what no other nation has ever done.” ~Barack Obama, A Promised Land Last Set: “Brokenness can be a remarkable gift. If we allow it, it can expand our space to transform—this potential space is slight, humble, and unassuming. It may seem counterintuitive to claim the benefits of having been broken, but it is precisely when cracks appear in the bedrock of what we thought we knew that the gravity of what has fallen away becomes evident…” ~Michele Harper, The Beauty in Breaking Food for Thought: “If I could give you just one thing, I’d want it to be a simple truth that took me many years to learn. If you learn it now, it may enrich your life in hundreds of ways. And it may prevent you from facing many problems that have hurt people who have never learned it. The truth is simply this: No one owes you anything… Once you learn that you must earn the love and respect of others, you’ll never expect the impossible and you won’t be disappointed. Others don’t have to share their property with you, nor their feelings or thoughts. If they do, it’s because you’ve earned these things. And you have every reason to be proud of the love you receive, your friends’ respect, the property you’ve earned. But don’t ever take them for granted. If you do, you could lose them. They’re not yours by right; you must always earn them.” ~Harry Browne, A Gift for My Daughter
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