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Patience pays…28all. Eya. *WH* The Warm-Up: “I taught all my [naysayers] how to fish. Some caught more than others. Some said they rather be fed. Some pas[sed] me up in the process. But at the end of it all, I know I aint hide the game from my people and I’m Real for that.” ~@NipseyHussle (12/18/17) The Core: “Bad decisions aren’t without consequence, but in the frame of grace they’re never beyond redemption.” ~Steven Furtick “And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.” ~Galatians 6:9 NKJV “Everyone is talented at something, most people just can’t make up their mind about one thing that they are relatively good at, and they also lack the self-discipline to keep training hard every day for at least one decade.” ~Orange Book “While journeying, you’ll find change is constant, uncertainty is a gift over stagnancy and risk is better than complacency. All 3…change, uncertainty & risk aren’t what fear makes them out to be, but a trust fall with your path.” ~Matt Gottesman “A lot of people assume that they’re gonna figure out their purpose and be happy ever after once they become a millionaire, they have it backwards, you become a millionaire during the process of figuring out your needs, your talents, your best way to contribute to the world.” ~Orange Book “One fact of financial life should never be forgotten. Wall Street – to use the term in its figurative sense – would like its customers to make money, but what truly causes its denizens’ juices to flow is feverish activity. At such times, whatever foolishness can be marketed will be vigorously marketed – not by everyone but always by someone.” ~Warren Buffett, Annual Shareholder Letter “If you don’t know what you’re looking for, you’re unlikely to find it, just as you’re unlikely to hit the target if you don’t know what you’re aiming at. When you don’t know what’s important, you miss things that are relevant and spend a lot of time on things that are irrelevant. Knowing what to ignore—separating the signal from the noise—is the key to not wasting valuable time.” ~Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking “That was the implicit message of Muhammad Ali’s life. He was a great American athlete. He was an essential American. He was a powerful pivot in American history. He was such a better American citizen than the people who denigrated him for his brashness, who spat on his religion, who called him a coward because he wouldn’t be an accessory to mindless slaughter and who hounded him out of his profession at the height of his powers and influence. They were the American government. He was America, the great and self-evident contradiction of a nation, and that, as Melville warned us, makes all the difference.” ~Charles Pierce, The Essential American “You can’t ask customers want they want //... not if your goal is to find a breakthrough. Because your customers have trouble imagining a breakthrough. You ought to know what their problems are, what they believe, what stories they tell themselves. But it rarely pays to ask your customers to do your design work for you. So, if you can’t ask, you can assert. You can look for clues, you can treat different people differently, and you can make a leap. You can say, ‘assuming you’re the kind of person I made this for, here’s what I made.’ The risk here is that many times, you’ll be wrong. But if you’re not okay with that, you’re never going to create a breakthrough.” ~Seth Godin “When I was starting out as an assistant in Hollywood, someone told me that the best thing I could do was make my boss look good. Don’t worry about credit, they said. Forget credit so hard that you’re glad when other people get it instead of you. It ended up being pretty decent advice, but it was nowhere near the right wording. I think a better way to express it would be: Find canvases for other people to paint on. Come up with ideas to hand over to your boss. Find people, thinkers, up and comers to introduce them to. Cross wires to create new sparks. Find what nobody else wants to do and do it. Find inefficiency and waste and redundancies. Identify leaks and patches to free up resources for new areas. Produce more than everyone else and give your ideas away. The person who clears the path ultimately controls its direction, just as the canvas shapes the painting.” ~Ryan Holiday, 37 Pieces of Career Advice I Wish I’d Known Earlier Last Set: “Bertie, like most of you, understands many accounting terms, but she is not ready for a CPA exam. She follows business news – reading four newspapers daily – but doesn’t consider herself an economic expert. She is sensible – very sensible – instinctively knowing that pundits should always be ignored. After all, if she could reliably predict tomorrow’s winners, would she freely share her valuable insights and thereby increase competitive buying? That would be like finding gold and then handing a map to the neighbors showing its location.” ~Warren Buffett, Annual Shareholder Letter Food For Thought: “In theory, consistency is about being disciplined, determined, and unwavering. In practice, consistency is about being adaptable. Don’t have much time? Scale it down. Don’t have much energy? Do the easy version. Find different ways to show up depending on the circumstances. Let your habits change shape to meet the demands of the day. Adaptability is the way of consistency.” ~James Clear, 3-2-1 Food For Thought II: “What’s free to me? It’s just a feeling. It’s like how do you tell somebody how it feels to be in love? How are you going to tell anybody who has not been in love how it feels to be in love? You cannot do it to save your life. You can describe things, but you can’t tell them. But you know it when it happens. That’s what I mean by free. I’ve had a couple times on stage when I really felt free and that’s something else. That’s really something else! I’ll tell you what freedom is to me: NO FEAR! I mean really, no fear. If I could have that half of my life. No fear! Lots of children have no fear. That’s the only way I can describe it. That’s not all of it, but it’s something to really, really feel. Like a new way of seeing. Like a new way of seeing something.” ~Nina Simone
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