Good life is where forgiveness lives. #GetItRight…Walk good. 28all. Eya. *JP*

The Warm-Up: 

“You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” ~Carl Benjamin

The Core: 

“Productivity = love + focus + a deadline.” ~Orange Book

“Don’t ask for a bigger title, ask for bigger responsibilities.” ~Shahed Khan

“Long-term, you will outperform most people if you just consistently invest in yourself.” ~Orange Book

“If your income is coming from labor rather than assets, you’re being decimated by hidden inflation.” ~Naval Ravikant

“Don’t be afraid of the solitude that comes with raising the bar on who has access to your energy.” ~@MindTendencies2

“The more you create, the more powerful you become. The more you consume, the more powerful others become.” ~James Clear

“The opinion of someone that can’t tell the difference between what they know and what they don’t isn’t just useless, it’s dangerous.” ~Shane Parrish

“ ‘Sorry I’m late, have you been waiting long?’ ‘What, me? Oh no not at all, just the exact number of minutes since the time we agreed to meet it’s honestly totally fine how are you...’” ~Mike Solana

“The most successful people I know are very impatient about completing short-term tasks, but extremely patient about getting long-term results.” ~Harry Hurst

“There are some things that are paralyzing you with fear that are senseless when you put them in the context of who God is and what you mean to him.” ~Steven Furtick

“Short-term intensity cannot replace long-term commitment. Many crucial changes take place over long periods of time. Physiologically, it’s impossible to become great overnight.” ~David Shenk, The Genius in All of Us

“If I could give a piece of advice to anyone starting out, in any field really, it would be to allow your imagination to expand to the belief that you are capable of achieving great things. And beyond capability, that you’re worthy.” ~Craig Shapiro, Perception

“Extrinsic motivation is unlikely to be enough to get us through the long period of struggle necessary to master a skill. Becoming proficient at anything means spending time failing repeatedly at it, during which there are few external rewards. But if we enjoy getting better for its own sake, we have more of a chance of persevering until our practice starts paying off. We can navigate obstacles because we want to see where the road might take us—the obstacles aren’t roadblocks.” ~Shane Parrish, The Ultimate Deliberate Practice Guide: How to Be the Best

“Excellence is mundane. Superlative performance is really a confluence of dozens of small skills or activities, each one learned or stumbled upon, which have been carefully drilled into habit and then are fitted together in a synthesized whole. There is nothing extraordinary or superhuman in any one of those actions; only the fact that they are done consistently and correctly, and all together, produce excellence.” ~Daniel F. Chambliss, The Mundanity of Excellence; The Individual and Society [I saw on Shane Parrish’s: Brain Food: What You Put In].

“But I needed to get addicted to something to get my mind right…It could have been knitting, but it wasn’t. People are shocked because I didn’t share my ‘journey’. They’re used to people documenting everything on Instagram, and most people in my position would get a big deal with a diet brand. I couldn’t give a flying f**k. I did it for myself and not anyone else. So why would I ever share it? I don’t find it fascinating. It’s my body.” ~Adele in Adele, Reborn: The British Icon Gets Candid About Divorce, Body Image, Romance & Her ‘Self-Redemption’ Record, by Giles Hattersley 

Last Set: 

“The goal isn’t to be ‘self-made’ but instead ‘community-made.’ 1. The concept of being self-made is a myth. Everybody has had help. 2. There is no way to achieve success without the support of lots of people. Loving them fiercely is where you find success. Love for your community can level the playing field even when your competition has more money. I’ve always believed that our competition can’t beat us because they kinda like a community we LOVE. They’ve got the pockets, but we are a collective. The greatest entrepreneurs in our community had the support of the masses. From Madam C.J. Walker to Bob Johnson to Rihanna all the greats figured out that deep appreciation for their community was the key to success. They weren’t self-made they were community made. This isn’t to say they didn’t work hard or weren’t incredibly smart. They all were. That’s foundational. Their biggest differentiator though was that they over-delivered to their community when others thought their market was niche. In short, they loved us. They also built trust and kept it. I’m sure mistakes were made along the way, but the community protected the business because we trusted them. Our community built these brands (and many others outside of our community too…we’ll talk about that later) and so we stuck beside them. As customers that leads to two daily options. 1. To be a part of the community that makes a business successful or 2. To be a part of the group that probably almost made them quit at some point. As Jay Elec says, ‘you either build or destroy.’ I like option 1. As founders, we have to show up well for our folks. They deserve it. Our success will come in understanding our assignment. By delivering. By building and uplifting our teams. By asking for help. By loving. By never forgetting that success isn’t found in self but in community.” ~Ryan Wilson

Food For Thought:

“The time, not the little changes, is what moves the needle. Take minuscule changes and compound them by 3.8 billion years and you get results that are indistinguishable from magic. That’s the real lesson from evolution: If you have a big number in the exponent slot you do not need extraordinary change to deliver extraordinary results. It’s not intuitive, but it’s so powerful…That’s not to say good returns don’t matter. Of course they do. Just that they matter less than how long your returns can be earned for. ‘Excellent for a few years’ is not nearly as powerful as ‘pretty good for a long time.’ And few things can beat, ‘average for a very long time.’ Average returns for an above-average period of time leads to extreme returns.” ~Morgan Housel, Nature Shows How This All Works

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