Play hard through the fouls…Walk good. 28all. Eya. *JD, SB, MM*

The Warm-Up: 

“Some roads you need to take alone. No friends, no family, no partner. Just you and the Universe.” ~Anonymous

The Core: 

“Courage is fear that has said its prayers.” ~Dorothy Bernard

“Power cannot accrue to those who squander their treasure of words.” ~Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

“People will call you names as soon as you don’t behave as they want. Life’s short, ignore the noise.” ~Orange Book

“You can’t begrudge others for developing a saviour complex if you can’t let go of your victim narrative.” ~Ayishat Akanbi

“If you lost interest in a subject matter right after a final exam, you fooled the system and the system fooled you.” ~Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“We should all have this goal in common: that our public and our private lives speak the same language and share the same light.” ~Tavares Bussey

“Much appreciation for the courageous trailblazers who speak the unpopular truth and stand for justice despite the arrows meant to silence you.” ~Dr. Thema Bryant

“Any meeting with eight people sitting around a conference table, nothing is getting done in that meeting. You are literally just dying one hour at a time.” ~Naval Ravikant

“Sometimes it doesn’t feel so good to be different…But I’d rather walk with a few who are broken, than with a mass of people who think they got it together.” ~Mr. Jason Wilson

“Blessed are the eyes that see what you see! For I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.” ~Luke 10:23-24

“I’ll have a better understanding of why in a year, and an even better one in two, and an even greater one in five, and it’ll go from being, you know, a book of my life to becoming a chapter to a paragraph to a line to a word to a doodle.” ~Jason Sudeikis on his breakup

“There are two forms of mental toughness: loud and quiet. Loud = Grit in extreme moments, pushing through great challenges. Quiet = Reliability in normal moments, showing up even when it’s easy to bail. Loud gets the press. Quiet wins the trophies.” ~James Clear

“But here’s the thing; all big things start off small. Every artist started with one fan. Every Instagram celebrity with millions of followers started with just one follower. The same thing goes for brands. They start off small before they grow to be big.” ~Marcus Collins, Check The Rhyme, Episode Ten--Drake

“The big blowups in any field aren’t typically caused by a lack of smarts. The catastrophes are typically caused by extreme intelligence that causes people to believe their own dangerous stories – that you can predict with accuracy, use leverage because your prediction must be true, and ignore warning signs that would have been obvious to a normal person who’s less adept at mental gymnastics.” ~Morgan Housel, Too Smart

“ ‘Meditation stops stressful thoughts and emotions controlling us,’ says Gelong Thubten. ‘There’s a misunderstanding that you’re supposed to clear your mind of everything to meditate. The more you try and push thoughts away the louder they shout back. You simply focus your mind on your breathing or on physical sensations for a short period.’” ~Mr. Rob Kemp, 33 Ways To Simplify Your Life (And Be Happier For It)

Last Set: 

“I don’t even know where to start and I don’t even know how to put into words how I’m feeling at this exact time. I’ve had a difficult season, I think that’s been clear for everyone to see and I probably went into that final with a lack of confidence. I’ve always backed myself for a penalty but something didn’t feel quite right. During the long run up I was saving myself a bit of time and unfortunately the result was not what I wanted. I felt as though I had let my teammates down. I felt as if I’d let everyone down. A penalty was all I’d been asked to contribute for the team. I can score penalties in my sleep so why not that one? It’s been playing in my head over and over since I struck the ball and there’s probably not a word to quite describe how it feels. Final. 55 years. 1 penalty. History. All I can say is sorry. I wish it had of gone differently. Whilst I continue to say sorry I want to shoutout my teammates. This summer has been one of the best camps I’ve experienced and you’ve all played a role in that. A brotherhood has been built that is unbreakable. Your success is my success. Your failures are mine. I’ve grown into a sport where I expect to read things written about myself. Whether it be the colour of my skin, where I grew up, or, most recently, how I decide to spend my time off the pitch. I can take critique of my performance all day long, my penalty was not good enough, it should have gone in but I will never apologise for who I am and where I came from. I’ve felt no prouder moment than wearing those three lions on my chest and seeing my family cheer me on in a crowd of 10s of thousands. I dreamt of days like this. The messages I’ve received today have been positively overwhelming and seeing the response in Withington had me on the verge of tears. The communities that always wrapped their arms around me continue to hold me up. I’m Marcus Rashford, 23 year old, black man from Withington and Wythenshawe, South Manchester. If I have nothing else I have that. 

For all the kind messages, thank you. I’ll be back stronger. We’ll be back stronger. 

MR10.” ~Marcus Rashford

Food for Thought:

“At the top tier of just about any sort of endeavor, you’ll find that the performers have coaches. Pianists, orators and athletes all have coaches. In fact, it would be weird if we heard of someone on stage or on the field who didn’t have one. And yet, in the world of business, they’re seen as the exception. Part of the reason is that work feels like an extension of something we’ve been doing our whole lives. Figure skating isn’t like school, but showing up at work seems to be. “I’ve got this,” is a badge of honor. And part of the reason is that a few coaches have made claims that stretch belief, and we’re not actually sure what they do. It doesn’t help that there’s no easy way to identify what sort of coach we need or what we’re going to get… It turns out that the people with the potential to benefit the most from a coach are often the most hesitant precisely because of what coaching involves. Talking about our challenges. Setting goals. Acknowledging that we can get better. Eagerly seeking responsibility… And yet we avert our eyes and hesitate. It might be because having a coach might be interpreted as a sign of weakness. And what if we acknowledge our challenges but fail to overcome them? It could be that we don’t want to cause change to happen, or that we’re worried that we will. One company I admire believes in coaches so much that they’ve put several on staff, ensuring that their leadership all benefit from one. But mostly, it’s something we have to pay for ourselves. And so, paying for a coach, for something that’s hard to measure, which might be socially awkward, to get better at something that feels normal—combine that with a hesitancy to ask for help—it’s a wonder anyone has a coach. The paradox is that the very things that hold us back are the reasons we need a coach in the first place.” ~Seth Godin, A coaching paradox

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