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When Fear knocks, let Faith answer the door…#Walk good. 28all. Eya. New Protein Powder: Happy to announce that after years of reps, rest, and repeats, the MML now has a new microsite and a revamped social media presence! Blessed to have made it this far, but as I’ve heard many times, I didn’t come this far to only come this far. Thank you to the MML family that has been along for the ride, as well as MG & CDC. I met yall through the MML family—your creative genius amazes me! The Warm-Up: “The first step for anybody is … I would say get to know somebody who isn’t exactly like you and doesn’t come from the same background as you, educate yourself and then just keep showing up, finding ways to show up for people and your voice will come out of that relationship and out of your pursuit to seeing people who aren’t exactly like you.” ~Maya Moore, on how others can fight for social justice (via Good Morning America) The Core: “Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the Gods made for fun.” ~Alan Watts “Only in challenging times do you discover the difference between leaders and actors.” ~Shane Parrish “Switch the word ‘life’ with the word ‘time’ and you’ll start spending it differently.” ~Matthew Kobach “Books for mindset. Quiet time to think for strategy. Conversations with successful peers for tactics.” ~James Clear “I knew I was on the right path when I started feeling peace in situations where I would normally feel tension.” ~Yung Pueblo “You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.” ~Fannie Lou Hamer “Leisure is not a time to retreat from the world. Rather, it’s a time for poetry, prayer, and philosophy — a chance to reflect on where we’ve been, where we are, and where we’re going.” ~David Perell, Don’t Kill Time “I, too, sing America…Tomorrow, I’ll be at the table When company comes. Nobody’ll dare Say to me, ‘Eat in the kitchen,’ Then. Besides, They’ll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed—I, too, am America.” ~Langston Hughes “Successful people are just people who started a healthy, hard routine a decade ago, and are still doing it. There’s no magic here: read, write, connect, take risks, work out, fast, travel, meditate, learn, create, invest, self-reflect, do better.” ~Orange Book “If you want long-term success in business, relationships, and life, you have to get better at accepting uncomfortable truths as fast as possible. When you refuse to accept an uncomfortable truth you’re choosing to accept an uncomfortable future.” ~Steven Bartlett “To get unstuck, you’ve got to identify where you’re at, where you want to go and what you can do today to support where you want to go. Creating your life is about knowing exactly where you are and then doing the things for exactly where you want to go. The ‘figuring’ out comes from the doing. That’s it.” ~Matt Gottesman “Where we come from — Gastonia, North Carolina — there’s a whole lot more that matters than getting a ball into a hole. In my family, our values were the most important thing. I was taught by my parents to be humble, to be gracious. And to always look on the bright side — to see opportunity where others may see disappointment.” ~Harold Varner III, The Home That Built Me “The whole time I was on the ground, I was just wondering how we had gotten to that point. All I was focused on was getting back to my family and my job. I thought about fighting back, but it was just an unnecessary attempt for them to show power. I could have gotten them off of me, but it was six guns to none. I had no protection and they had the protection of the badge.” ~Sterling Brown, Your Money Can’t Silence Me “Independence is actually about cooperation and interconnectedness. Yet we’ve set up systems that limit what we see, how we connect and insulate us from the hard work that’s right in front of us. One of the most important words I know doesn’t have a simple English equivalent, which says a lot. Sawubona, a Zulu term, means, ‘I see you.’ Not just your face, of course, but your hopes, your dreams, where you came from and where you’re going. It’s not something we’re good at, and I need to do it better. Figuring out the best way to see and understand and care about the people we call ‘us’ can be difficult indeed. And essential.” ~Seth Godin, Are We Part of Us Last Set: “An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. And this is one of the big problems of life, that so many people never quite get to the point of rising above self...so they end up the tragic victims of self-centeredness. They are the people who live an eternal ‘I’ ... They start out, the minute you talk with them, talking about what they can do, what they have done...where they have been...who they know...and how much money they have. Now, we can say to a certain extent that persons in this situation are persons who have really never grown up...For you see, a child is inevitably, necessarily egocentric. He is a bundle of his own sensations, clamoring to be cared for...When people become mature, they are to rise above this. When one matures...he turns himself to higher loyalties. He gives himself to something outside of himself. He gives himself to causes that he lives for and sometimes will even die for. He comes to the point that now he can rise above his individualistic concerns. And so you see people who are apparently selfish; it isn’t merely an ethical issue but it is a psychological issue. They are the victims of arrested development, and they are still children. They haven’t grown up.” ~Martin Luther King Jr. Food for Thought:
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