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One love. 28all. Eya. *OA, JG* The Warm-Up: “Society says…find your niche. Soul says…the niche is you.” ~Matt Gottesman The Core: “Conformity is the resistance the self offers to the truth.” ~Kpaxs “It isn’t where you came from. It’s where you’re going that counts.” ~Ella Fitzgerald “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” ~Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God “Sometimes self-love shows up as a willingness to lose the argument so that you can keep the relationship.” ~Michell C. Clark “Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.” ~Bruce Lee “Most of the culture wars are a struggle between what’s best for the children and what’s best for the childless.” ~Naval Ravikant “One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes—and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt “In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.” ~Margaret Wheatley “When things go wrong, it’s almost always because of distraction. Chasing what’s sexy comes at the expense of doing what’s boring. Consistently doing the boring stuff builds success.” ~Farnum Street (12.31.23) “Your long-term integrity is your long-term wealth, once you gain the reputation of being a short-term opportunist, no one is going to bother doing business with you anymore. Never forget what you stand for, protect what you believe in, and it all starts with your core values.” ~Orange Book “Once you start to get older, the impact of having a lack of financial literacy weighs so much heavier on your mentals. Your 20’s are not a waste. Yea have fun but you have the advantage of time. Use that for what it’s worth. Set up the system that will make the rest of your adulthood so much easier.” ~Joe Holder “Don’t worry about being the most interesting person in the room, just try to be the most interested person in the room. · The interested person asks about others and leaves a good impression because people like talking about themselves. · The interested person is genuinely curious about someone’s craft and learns a lot about how things work. · The interested person engages with more people and—because opportunities come through people—is more likely to catch a lucky break. In general, the interested person learns more and tends to be well-liked. And in the long run, it’s hard to keep down someone who is well-learned and well-liked.” ~James Clear, 3-2-1 [1.4.2024] Last Set: “Be mindful that you don’t promote a spectator to a main character. Remain discerning about the roles you allow people to play in your life.” ~Dr. Thema Bryant Food For Thought: “It’s probably faster to get rich and influential yourself, and make the changes you wish to see in society, rather than trust, and beg, rich and influential people who never experienced poverty or real struggles, who probably don’t even share any of your values, to do the job.” ~Orange Book Food For Thought II: “That the native does not like the tourist is not hard to explain. For every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming and crushing banality and boredom and desperation and depression, and every deed, good and bad, is an attempt to forget this. Every native would like to find a way out, every native would like a rest, every native would like a tour. But some natives—most natives in the world—cannot go anywhere. They are too poor. They are too poor to go anywhere. They are too poor to escape the reality of their lives; and they are too poor to live properly in the place where they live, which is the very place you, the tourist, want to go—so when the natives see you, the tourist, they envy you, they envy your ability to leave your own banality and boredom, they envy your ability to turn their own banality and boredom into a source of pleasure for yourself.” ~Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place
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