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“You Hold It All Together” ~Maverick City Music on repeat…Walk Good. 28all. Eya. *JD, PB, PR, MH, MM* A Note to the Reader: I’m not usually one to save quotes or not put all the goodness in that I get each week. My philosophy is: people are gonna read what they are gonna read. Some aint gon make it to the end if there’s four or seventeen quotes. Others don’t stop till they get enough! Nonetheless, I had some really good conversations this week – idk, they just hit different. Old friends, new friends, and even folk that I don’t consider friends, but the universe needed me to hear a message. Sorry for the long preamble, but this MML is more articles driven given many of the real conversations spawned from many of these articles – click the links and get your read on! I really hope you make it to the end and follow the Call to Action – one more time before I put it all together. One love. Finish strong. The Warm-Up: “If you want to be important, wonderful. If you want to be recognized, wonderful. If you want to be great, wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be a servant. That’s a new definition of greatness.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr., The Drum Major Instinct The Core: “Only poor people think someone else succeeding means they’re failing.” ~Alex Hormozi “Create an environment where you’re free to express what you’re afraid to express.” ~Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being “Happy is the man who can make others better, not merely when he is in their company, but even when he is in their thoughts.” ~Seneca “In terms of priority, inspiration comes first. You come next. The audience comes last.” ~Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being “How much you know in the broad sense determines what you understand of the new things you learn.” ~Hilde Ostby and Ylva Ostby “Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy… The idea of caring that someone is making money faster than you are is one of the deadly sins.” ~Charlie Munger “In fact, no matter what you’re doing, write. Show your process. Decode yourself, so others might see the world how you see it. It’s incredibly powerful when done well.” ~Reggie James, Free Game PT. 2 “We cant force greatness to happen. All we can do is invite it in and await it actively. Not anxiously, as this might scare it off. Simply in a state of continual welcoming.” ~Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being “Good relationships keep us healthier and happier. Period. If you want to make one decision to ensure your own health and happiness, it should be to cultivate warm relationships of all kinds.” ~Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz, The Lifelong Power of Close Relationships “While the next few months will be challenging for executives, they will be illuminating for investors. For years, easy money has disguised well-managed, proactive companies from more reactive ones. The curtain is about to be pulled back.” ~Rana Foroohar, CEOs beware: cost-cutting isn’t the same as growth “Having no FOMO might be the most important investing skill. Being immune to the siren song of other people’s success – especially when that success is sudden, extreme, and caused by factors outside their control – is so powerful and important that it’s practically impossible to do well over time without it. When strategizing, Dwight Eisenhower used to quote Napoleon, who said a military genius is ‘the man who can do the average thing when everyone else around him is losing his mind.’ Same with money.” ~Morgan Housel, FOMO: The Worst Financial Trait “You don’t really realize it when you’re a voyeur into everyone you know’s lives, but since IG lets you keep tabs on everyone, you don’t really need to ask questions about what they’ve been up to. You don’t need to ask how their vacation was…you saw it. You don’t need to ask if they’re engaged yet….you saw it. You don’t need to ask what they dressed up as for Halloween….you saw it. But now, I don’t know how your honeymoon went. I didn’t even know you went somewhere. I’ve learned that staying informed on people’s lives takes active questions. It takes actually caring. And it creates more room for discovery. I had no idea you were just in Peru – show me the highlights!” ~Andrew Fisher, T·B·P. HOT TAKE - FOUR YEARS W/O INSTAGRAM Last Set: “Embrace your squad… Build with them. Write with them. Intro them to each other, and to the connections you’ve built further up the food-chain. Your squad will influence how others start to think about the changing world… because you’re the ones that are meant to be changing it… and we are all in the business of change.” ~Reggie James, Free Game PT. 2 Food For Thought: “Really loving all these interviews with Rick Rubin as he’s on his new book tour (Rich Roll, Huberman, Tim Ferriss etc.), but would love if someone Black interviewed him. The impact he’s had on Black music / culture is profound. A convo like this would hit nuances the others cant.” ~Joe Holder Call to Action: I would love one and | or two things from yall! I’m going to curate the content gathered for a blog post at the end of this month! 1) Talk to me! What are some of your favorite quotes from 2022? What are some that hit you right in your third eye? Please send and I’ll compile into a blog post for the end of Jan. 2) Working on a blog post…What are some of your favorite Bible Verses? And why?
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