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Trust creates smiles…All Gas No Brakes. Walk Good. 28all. Eya. *PH, TH, PB* The Warm-Up: “When you can see divinity in everyday life, you won.” ~Michell C. Clark The Core: “Short-term results come from intensity. Long-term results come from consistency.” ~Shane Parrish “Most productivity advice is about how to do more, and rarely about how to do it better.” ~Justin Welsh “When you need to learn quickly, learn from others. When you need to learn deeply, learn from experience.” ~James Clear “A guy that has friends and enemies, but is respected by both, is powerful. A guy that has to be friends with everyone, is powerless. Read that again.” ~Dee Sage “A worthy goal for a year is to learn enough about a subject so that you cant believe how ignorant you were a year earlier.” ~Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice For Living “The only two relationships that work: 1. Secure Person + Secure Person. 2. Insecure person with high awareness + Secure Person with high patience.” ~@thedulab “Your calendar will show you what you care about. No need to defend. Just open it up. Give it a good look. Adjust if your walk isn’t matching your talk.” ~Dr. Julie Gurner “You don’t lack motivation. You lack clarity. Just kidding, I don’t know what you lack because I don’t know you. Stop following advice from random people on the internet.” ~Maura Ball “He told Wilson that to salvage his career he needed to focus less on Russell Inc. ‘Will you f---ing stop kissing all the babies?’ [Payton] said. ‘You’re not running for public office.’” ~Seth Wickersham, Sean Payton doesn’t forget anything “When people try to ‘blend in,’ what they’re really doing, is pulling to the middle. It’s the first step to mediocrity, to pull away from the edges…if you’ve got a tendency to be at the edges—that is exactly the thing you want to keep. Dig in. Don’t let it go.” ~Dr. Julie Gurner “Now in the game where only time can tell / Survive the droughts, I wish you well— hold up / Survive the droughts? I wish you well? / How sick am I? I wish you health / I wish you wheels, I wish you wealth / I wish you insight so you could see for yourself…” ~Jay-Z, American Dreamin’ “Once you see people being respected and admired for reasons that have nothing to do with the stuff they own, you begin to wonder why you have such a strong desire for those possessions. I tend to view material desire as a loose proxy for the inverse of what else you have to offer the world. The higher my desire for fancy stuff, the less real value I have to offer…I think if you keep it in mind, a lot of higher priorities come into view.” ~Morgan Housel, Respect and Admiration Last Set: “When you’re lacking motivation, remind yourself: discipline now, freedom later. The labor will pass, and the rewards will last.” ~Ryan Holiday Food For Thought: I was an overachiever on this email; starting it early and thinking it was “complete” well before today. Yet, as is often the case, I have my plan, then life throws something else my way. Before I went to bed on Wednesday night, a friend texted me the link to the below article. I loved it, and the upcoming quote is now the FFT. I woke up yesterday and during my morning reading, I loved the Ryan Holiday quote (below) about having an impact. To me, that is the beauty of curating the MML; I don’t know when or where the inspiration will come from. Yet, it’s my passion (to try) to capture them and share with you…Cherish the little things. “As I confront young adults who think this way, I am seized by an unfortunate urge to sermonize. I want to put a hand on their shoulder and say: Look, there are many reasons you may not find marital happiness in your life. Maybe you won’t be able to find a financially stable partner, or one who wants to commit. Maybe you’ll marry a great person but find yourselves drifting apart. But don’t let it be because you didn’t prioritize marriage. Don’t let it be because you didn’t think hard about marriage when you were young…My strong advice is to obsess less about your career and to think a lot more about marriage. Please respect the truism that if you have a great career and a crappy marriage you will be unhappy, but if you have a great marriage and a crappy career you will be happy. Please use your youthful years as a chance to have romantic relationships so you’ll have some practice when it comes time to wed. Even if you’re years away, please read books on how to decide whom to marry. Read George Eliot and Jane Austen. Start with the masters.” ~David Brooks, To Be Happy, Marriage Matters More Than Career Food For Thought II: “We tell our kids stories to inspire them. That’s what bedtime reading is about—not just tiring them out so they’ll go to sleep. The point of history class isn’t to berate them with the evil deeds of old dead white guys. We want them to know: People can have an impact. People can lead wonderful lives. People can leave their footprints on the sands of time.” ~Ryan Holiday, The Daily Dad
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