God Gap: The seasons where our ability and our responsibility don’t match. That’s not punishment, that’s purposeful. #Dr..DhariusD…Walk Good.28all. Eya. *LS*

The Warm-Up: 

“So the same people that did not think enough of him to even invite him to meet Samuel, are the same people that have to sit there and watch him get what they didn’t think he deserved…And I think this is a powerful picture of divine retribution and what the apostle Paul calls vengeance. See vengeance is not God inflicting harm on your enemies; vengeance is God empowering you to succeed in spite of what your enemies did and then putting your enemies in close proximity and their punishment is to watch you win.” ~Dr. Dharius Daniels, This Doesn’t Fit (June 26, 2022)

The Core: 

“Most senior roles become primarily sales or managing people. Prepare accordingly.” ~Jarrid Tingle

“Someone with half your IQ is making 10x as you because they aren’t smart enough to doubt themselves.” ~Ed Latimore

“Surround yourself with people who push you to be more ambitious, not people who are scared of living.” ~Orange Book

“Self-care is being private and not telling everyone your side of the story even when you have a lot to say.” ~@MindTendencies

“It’s not just a bear market—it’s back to the time when companies are valued on after-tax free cash flow. Build but build profitably.” ~Orlando Bravo

“Perform for what? Blend in for who? Your existence is a miracle. Your presence is a gift. They gotta get your full self or nothing at all.” ~Michell C Clark

“The one who were locked in that gym with me know what it is, they know what I’m about. If you haven’t been in there with me, ask around.” ~Kevin Durant

“A lot of people are not bad people…They’ve just allowed their unhealed wounds to dictate and direct their life…They’ve become the people who hurt them.” ~@turtlebreezee

“[Devin] Booker and [Karl-Anthony] Towns’ representative, Jessica Holtz, is the first female player agent to secure a max contract – and did it with two super max deals on the same day.” ~Adrian Wojnarowski

“My husband reading with 6 yo and explaining ‘Miss, Mrs., Ms.’: ‘Isn’t it wild that we created all these different words to tell the world whether or not a woman is married, but not for a man?’” ~Esther C, MD MPH

“When you encounter someone who is overcompensating for their insecurities with the performance of arrogance, attempting to break them down is not a helpful solution. Their spirit is already broken.” ~Dr. Thema Bryant

“Everyone thinks they understand the world until they travel more. Everyone thinks they understand themselves until they write more. Everyone thinks they understand what they want until they actually get it.” ~Orange Book

“If you tell yourself that you’ll do better than [Messi and Ronaldo], it’s beyond ego or determination. It’s lack of awareness. Those players are incomparable, they have broken all laws of statistics.” ~Kylian Mbappe, speaking to Esquire about Messi and Ronaldo

“They didn’t want to see me just waste years rebuilding and stuff. They want to see me win and just the best for Dejounte so I thanked them for that a lot. That’s what makes our relationship special and family forever.” ~Dejounte Murray, on being traded from the San Antonio Spurs

“It shouldn’t take a pandemic to convince people to put their mental health above their careers. In the long run, the choice between success and well-being is a false dichotomy. The best way to achieve your goals is to lead a life that invigorates you—not one that drains you.” ~Adam Grant

“Two kinds of good cooks. One is very skilled at following the recipe. Quality control, consistency and diligence. The other understands how the recipe works, sees patterns and opportunities and changes the recipe to fit the problem to be solved. It’s about metaphor in addition to process. Both are useful. If you think this is a post about cooking, you might be the first kind of cook.” ~Seth Godin

Last Set:

“Dear 2022, thank you for taking me out of my comfort zone. Thank you for leading me through a quiet bloom. Fill my heart with warm directions for the second half. Give me wisdom for the rest of the year. Be good to me.” ~Onosuvotu Miller

Food For Thought:

“Spoiler alert: that thing you’re doing isn’t working for you because it didn’t come from you. That ‘answer’—the diet, the planner, the four-step manifestation plan—came from something (or someone) outside of you. It came from Amazon. It came from an influencer or that wellness guru. It came from your sister or your sister’s neighbor or her sister’s neighbor’s best friend. We can’t always solve our own problems with someone else’s solutions. We can’t always find our own selves using someone else’s directions. And we sure as hell can’t always question our lives clearly if we don’t close our eyes to the nonstop jazz hands of every other answer parading by.” ~Jenna Kutcher, how are you, Really

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