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Sip slowly, this may hit different…Walk good. 28all. Eya. *KV, WM, KO, OA, JK, PB* The Warm-Up: “As I was leaving the gas station, a young man comes up to me and says he ran out of gas and needed a few dollars to make it home. After giving him more than his request, my son asks, ‘Dad do you think he’s faking it?’ I replied, ‘Son I give from my heart, not my mind.’…I will never forget the time when I ran out of gas and humbly asked two men conversing for a couple dollars to get home. I had forgotten my wallet. With a look of disdain, they reached into their pockets and gave me 75 cents and continued talking as if I wasn’t there. That day I promised to treat people in need how I would want to be treated.” ~Mr. Jason Wilson The Core: “Golden rule: Seek peace over drama and distance over disrespect.” ~@SalesNotepad “Every great player has learned the two Cs: how to concentrate and how to maintain composure.” ~Byron Nelson “If it wasn’t for my mother, Olivia Manning, he’d have 11 of ‘em.” ~Peyton Manning, on Tom Brady’s Super Bowls, via The Match: Prediction Show “The problem with economic forecasting is that the things you can predict tend to not matter and the things you cant predict make all the difference in the world.” ~Morgan Housel “The men the American public admire [and reward] most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest [and punish] most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.” ~H. L. Mencken “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” ~George Bernard Shaw “The formula for how to do well with money is simple. The behaviors you battle while implementing that formula are hard… ‘Save more money and be more patient’ is too simple for most people to take seriously, but it’s the best solution to most financial problems.” ~Morgan Housel, Money Rules “The nerve of you, to think you could vesper hogs’ hooves into feast. That hymns could be coaxed into hip hop. That wool would kink & rope & lock into something resembling God. That you could stand the lash or the late shift without wilting, spirit legacy from the spaces between the words, speak in a voice that booms, not breaks. Hope. Fix your face to smile like your teeth wasn’t butter yellow. Be better than bitter. Be roiling in joy. Be.” ~Jubi Arriola-Headley, Transublimation “Develop ‘lessons learned’ from past challenging experiences: I’ve learned that it’s okay to make mistakes as long as you learn from them to prevent them from happening again. When things don’t go as planned, sit down with others involved and brainstorm ‘lessons learned’ from the experience and what changes in your systems or processes should be made as a result. Learnings gleaned from mistakes tend to be deep and life-long learnings so don’t let those go to waste.” ~Ken Volpert, Leadership Competency 7: Has a growth mindset that pushes past their comfort zone “The play before time ran out. The last speech of the campaign. The typo on your resume or the spot on your tie. The final decision before the company declared bankruptcy. We focus on the thing that happened just before the end. And that’s almost always an unimportant moment. Things went wrong (or things went right) because of a long series of decisions and implementations. A misguided strategy, a bad hire, a brilliant insight about network effects–these are the acts with leverage, not the obvious thing that all the pundits would like to talk about. When you get to the thing before the last thing, don’t sweat it. It’s almost certainly too late to make the outcome change. On the other hand, when you’re quietly discussing the thing before that before that before that before that, it might pay to bring more attention to it than the circumstances seem to demand. Because that’s the key moment.” ~Seth Godin, The focus on the last thing Last Set: “When you’re built by the system, then you’re sustained by the system. But when you wait on God’s timing, and you let God build you…no system or industry can stop you. That’s what happens when you wait.” ~Chandler D Moore Food for Thought: “The Board of Trustees wanted to send a message to me and others like me, and it did. I always tell college students and journalists who are worried that they will face discrimination, who fear that they will be judged not by their work but for who they are or what they choose to write about, that they can only worry about that which is in their own control: their own excellence. I tell them all they can do is work as hard as possible to make themselves undeniable. And yet, we have all seen that you can do everything to make yourself undeniable, and those in power can change the rules and attempt to deny you anyway… At some point when you have proven yourself and fought your way into institutions that were not built for you, when you’ve proven you can compete and excel at the highest level, you have to decide that you are done forcing yourself in… But I also get to decide what battles I continue to fight. And I have decided that instead of fighting to prove I belong at an institution that until 1955 prohibited Black Americans from attending, I am instead going to work in the legacy of a university not built by the enslaved but for those who once were. For too long, Black Americans have been taught that success is defined by gaining entry to and succeeding in historically white institutions. I have done that, and now I am honored and grateful to join the long legacy of Black Americans who have defined success by working to build up their own… Many people, all with the best of intentions, have said that if I walk away from UNC, I will have let those who opposed me win. But I do not want to win someone else’s game. It is not my job to heal this university, to force the reforms necessary to ensure the Board of Trustees reflects the actual population of the school and the state, or to ensure that the university leadership lives up to the promises it made to reckon with its legacy of racism and injustice.” ~Nikole Hannah-Jones Issues Statement on Decision to Decline Tenure Offer at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and to Accept Knight Chair Appointment at Howard University Food For Thought II: Choose Love “A young woman heard a knock on her door one day. When she went to open it, she found an old man on her door step. The woman explained that her husband was not home, but she invited the man inside anyway. He refused, however. ‘I am here with my two friends,’ pointing to two elderly men waiting in the front yard. ‘However, we will wait outside until your husband returns.’
That evening as soon as the husband came home, his wife told him what had happened. ‘Quick, quick, call them inside,’ the husband exclaimed. ‘We cannot leave old men standing in the cold outside.’ So, the woman went outside and beckoned the men in. One of them rose and said, ‘Ma’am, all three of us cannot actually come in. You see, I am Love, and with me are Success and Wealth. Only one of us can enter your home. Please, go and ask your husband which of us he would like in the home.’
So, the woman went and after relaying the story to her husband, said, ‘I think we should invite Success in. Then, you will get the promotion you’ve been waiting for and we will become more prosperous.’
However, the husband thought and said, ‘But, Honey, I only want the promotion so we can be rich. If we invite Wealth into our home, then it won’t matter if I get the promotion, because we will already be rich. I think Wealth is a better choice’'
Their daughter then quietly spoke, ‘Mom, Dad, let us bring Love into the home. If we have Love with us, then we won’t care so much about Success or Wealth. We will be rich on the inside.’
Her parents thought for a moment and finally acquiesced to their daughter’s wish. So, the woman went outside and told Love he could come inside. So, Love took a step forward and began to walk toward the house. As he passed through the doorway, the woman noticed the other two men following. ‘Wait!’ she exclaimed. ‘We have chosen Love. You said that only one could come inside.’
Love then paused and explained gently, ‘If you had chosen either Success or Wealth, he would have had to enter alone. However, wherever Love goes, Success and Wealth always follow.’
If you ask most parents what their concerns are regarding their children, you’ll hear, ‘’I want him to get into a good university. I want her to get a good job and be successful.’ Time and energy are therefore expended in pushing the child academically, encouraging the child to excel, punishing or reprimanding the child for anything less than a superb performance.
Yet, a degree from a top university, a well-paying job, a lucrative career – these are not the true marks of ‘success’ in life. True success comes when we are fulfilled, joyful, peaceful and prosperous – both internally and externally. So, fill your homes with love – love for God, love for each other, love for the community, love for all of humanity. Then, through that love, through that divine connection, all else will automatically follow. It is when we focus only on Success or Wealth that we find ourselves rich but not fulfilled, successful but not content.” ~H.H. Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji :: We appreciate your readership. You can learn more about the MML here. To the extent someone felt compelled to spread the love and this was forwarded to you, you can sign up for the newsletter here.
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