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“You only know what you see / You don’t understand what it takes to be me”… Lucky Me…Walk Good. 28all. Eya. *TH* The Warm-Up: “One reason a lot of people aren’t successful is they’re trying to control everything but what they can control. Putting energy into what somebody else said, spending all day on Instagram worried about what somebody else has, where they are, what they’re doing, who they’re doing it with. You don’t control any of that, and meanwhile your life is as messy as they come. If you put that energy into what you can control, it creates a better outcome.” ~Rich Paul, Lucky Me The Core: “Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.” ~Naguib Mahfouz “The world has fallen so in love with lies that the truth feels like hate.” ~Anonymous, (@shane_pruitt78) “You cannot build a healthy relationship with someone who has no desire to improve themselves.” ~Orange Book “I’m not doing Access Hollywood.” ~Al Michaels, on why he didn’t talk about Taylor Swift during last Thursday’s Broncos-Chiefs Game “Success, however you define it, is achievable if you collect the right field-tested beliefs and habits. Someone else has done your version of ‘success’ before, and often, many have done something similar.” ~Tim Ferriss “Without enemies around us, we grow lazy. An enemy at our heels sharpens our wits, keeping us focused and alert. It is sometimes better, then, to use enemies as enemies rather than transforming them into friends or allies.” ~Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power “A real problem with social media, is that it shows the rewards of success, without the real work it took to get there. People then expect things to be instant, and drop out when they see that grinding isn’t glamourous. The reward usually requires many years of suck.” ~Dr. Julie Gurner “Be ready to fail to succeed. Be ready to get hurt to get loved. Be ready to make mistakes to learn. Be ready to lose money to make money. Be ready to waste time to make discoveries. Be ready to say no to say yes when it matters. Be ready to be alone to figure out what you want.” ~Orange Book “Sometimes their resentment has nothing to do with you – it’s about what they think you represent. To them, your success feels like an attack. Your confidence is a threat. So they try to ‘humble’ you, instead of elevating themselves. But their insecurities were never yours to carry.” ~Michell C. Clark “Big wins tend to be accompanied by some combination of bigger decisions, more uncertainty, and greater risk. If you want to play at a higher level, you need to be comfortable with greater swings of highs and lows: mentally, emotionally, financially. You can avoid the swings, but you might be forced to play at a lower level.” ~James Clear Last Set: “Your position determines if you’re playing on easy mode or hard more. Many people unintentionally choose to play on hard mode by not sleeping enough, not eating healthy food, or not investing in their most important relationships. You can’t remove struggle or emotion from life, but you can put yourself in a position where they don’t control you. Consistently doing the simplest things makes the biggest difference.” ~Shane Parrish Food For Thought: “So much of our suffering is just a tragic repetition of what happened to our parents and their parents before them, the unbroken generational cycles that haunt us. It takes an exceptional person to break that cycle for himself and his family. My father was that person.” ~Rich Paul, Lucky Me Food For Thought II: “One is that money that comes easily tends to be spent easily. When money comes quickly, the emotional cost of blowing it on something frivolous is low. You are only careful with something when it’s dear to you. Spending quick money that you didn’t invest much time or energy into earning can feel like the equivalent of a one-night stand: impulsive and prone to regret. Old money wants a tax shelter, new money wants a Lambo…The other is that the quicker the wealth was made, the higher the odds it came from luck that will revert just as fast…Put those two together, and whenever you see a surge of quick wealth – crypto in 2021 was a good example – you know it’s going to end poorly, as luck converts to risk and conspicuous consumption converts to inconspicuous lifestyle debt.” ~Morgan Housel, A Few Laws of Getting Rich
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