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Making the invisible visible…Walk good. 28all. Eya. The Warm-Up: “If she’s amazing, she won’t be easy. If she’s easy, she won’t be amazing. If she’s worth it, you won’t give up. If you give up, you’re not worthy...Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.” ~Bob Marley The Core: “In order to have a conversation with someone, you must reveal yourself.” ~James Baldwin “Stop worrying about the opinion of people who obviously already chose to dislike you.” ~Orange Book “Fire doesn’t ask for permission to heat the atmosphere. Light up the sky and stop waiting for approval. Be everything you are.” ~Dr. Thema Bryant “Authenticity isn’t always appreciated. That doesn’t mean you change to be liked more. It means you stand tall so others know that they can too.” ~Samantha King “Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I’m not perfect and I don’t live to be. But, before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean.” ~Bob Marley “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hate so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with the pain.” ~James Baldwin “Too many people lost their common sense. They make zero effort to eat, exercise, rest well. Zero effort to sustain meaningful, loving relationships. They only think and act short-term. Don’t expect some miracle pill for your mental health. The cure is in your daily actions.” ~Orange Book “So much of history is driven by chance, accident, and flukes. That’s true for the big stuff and the personal journeys…Finance professor Elroy Dimson says, ‘risk means more things can happen than will happen.’ Dig into enough stories like this in your own life, or around the world, and you’ll come to appreciate how fragile history is, and how differently things could have turned out if not for a few little errors and accidents.” ~Morgan Housel, Fluke “Build the house you want to live in…Instead of following the status quo, they build their companies from first principles, alienating almost everyone. The way you do things wont be for everyone, but it will be really great for a few people, and if you define your values early and often and tell the world who you are, they will find you. Conventual wisdom about how we work, when we work, and where we work is changing fast. Minimalist entrepreneurs understand there are few rules.” ~Sahil Lavingia, The Minimalist Entrepreneur “Determine what you can and can’t control. You can control your reactions to temptation — a lack of discipline is the antichrist to economic security. Our society of superabundance makes this difficult. Billions of dollars are spent every year on schemes to manipulate our natural impulses into spending more money, consuming more fat, and believing everyone around us is more successful than we are. The upgrade from economy to premium to business to first class to private jet can seem like an investment in yourself — it’s not. The most powerful forward-looking indicator of your financial security is not how much you earn, but how much you save.” ~Scott Galloway, The Algebra of Wealth “Shane Parrish: ‘Well, what’s the most important thing for you to remember when you’re under a lot of stress?’ Diana Chapman: ‘I’m just scared. I’m just perceiving a threat to my security, my control, or my approval because I’ve left presence. So if I can come back to right now, no past, no future, right now, how am I? I’m a woman sitting in a chair. I’m Okay. Would I be willing to come source that approval control and security back inside of myself and take a breath? And if I’m not, that’s okay. Then I’m just reactive and I’m just going to go, ‘It’s okay to be scared.’ And then I’m just going to do my practice over and over again.’” ~Diana Chapman: Trusting Your Instincts on The Knowledge Project w/ Shane Parrish #130 Last Set: “The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too...because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.” ~Bob Marley Food For Thought: “[Harriet Tubman] lived most of her life with a piece of metal embedded in her head.
When she was a teenager, a slaveowner struck her head with a 2-pound lead weight that was intended for another slave attempting to flee. Tubman said the attack ‘broke my skull’ and from that day on, experienced extremely painful headaches, seizures and fits, which would knock her unconscious for short periods of time.
However, this did not stop her from working on the Underground Railroad and serving in the Civil War.
Tubman carried a pistol with her which she would use on runaways that got cold feet and wanted to give up. She would point the pistol at them and tell them that they had two choices: continue running away with her or immediate death. She never lost anyone on the Underground Railroad.
After the war, she had made enough money to reinvest in the community and help out veterans and freed slaves. In her 70’s, she decided to have a surgeon remove the lead weight that had been stuck in her head HER ENTIRE LIFE. She was offered anesthesia, but chose to bite on a bullet instead, like she had seen so many Union soldiers do when their limbs were being amputated. In her own words, she said the doctor, ‘sawed open my skull, and raised it up, and now it feels more comfortable.’
She died in 1913, surrounded by friends and family members. Her last words to those in the room were, ‘I go to prepare a place for you.’” ~@lnsidehistory
Source: https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/harriet-tubman :: 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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