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Your name has been written in places where your feet have yet to enter...Walk good. 28all. Eya. *KO, JS, AK * The Warm-Up: “It’s liberating to shed the life, habits, mindset, relationships that no longer fit your spirit. It’s necessary to shed the ones that never fit.” ~Dr. Thema Bryant The Core: “She’s been through hell but wore her smile so heavenly.” ~Ventum “May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” ~Nelson Mandela “For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.” ~C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.” ~Corrie ten Boom “If you plan all the way to the end, you think more about integrity than expediency.” ~Shane Parrish “Those who seek to accomplish the immediate without consideration to the ultimate, move progressively from one crisis to another.” ~Shane Parrish “No one has ever regretted: Journaling, Working out, Eating healthy, Reading books. You may not feel like doing it in the moment BUT…Future you will thank you.” ~Alex and Books “When any person offers you a chance to earn lots of money without risk, don’t listen to the rest of their sentence. Follow this and you’ll save yourself a lot of misery.” ~Charlie Munger “This is how you entrench inequality: We let the poor ‘invest’ in lottery tickets, sports gambling and casinos but not startups. The first three are perennial losers. Startups have returned 15% over the past 50 years.” ~Chamath Palihapitiya “There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So, you watch yourself about complaining. What you’re supposed to do
when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” ~Maya Angelou “Still. Though [racism has] been with us for more than four hundred years and is as adaptable as anything I can think of—the fact that it was man-made gives me faith that we can still yet undo it. Not in our lifetimes, maybe not in anyone’s lifetime. It’s important not to let that discourage you but rather encourage you to stay in this long, noble fight.” ~Emmanuel Acho, Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man “Melvin Capital is reportedly down 53% YTD. This is for a fund that has compounded at ~30%/year since inception in 2015 versus the Barclays HF index at 3.2% & the S&P 500 at 10.6%. LP’s that picked arguably the top fund still have returns that may mirror the broader market or worse depending upon entry point. Will be interesting to see who doubles down and buys the low versus those that look to sell the low. Timing is everything.” ~John Street Capital “Contrast. When we want change, and we ask for it, the contrast begins. And it is at that moment your training elevates. You become faced with making different decisions that you once did because now you’re playing for higher stakes. Growth is not easy but it’s worth it. Deciding to make choices based on your truth, your integrity and your intention is often met with resistance…sometimes your own and sometimes from others. The key is to push through that resistance knowing from the start that it’s simply there to test you; to see if what you’re really fighting for is more important than what no longer serves.” ~Matt Gottesman Last Set: “We experience too soon and develop too late. Stop rushing the journey, just pace yourself. Get in your zone and work on developing into a well-rounded individual. Let the scene miss you sometimes. We get hit with so many experiences ‘trying to make it happen’—be it finances, losing someone close, moving from everything familiar, or being disappointed by a person we thought we could trust. Life is full of highs and lows, finding your balance takes time and work. Unlike aging, development isn’t something that happens automatically. It happens in each choice we make, in each decision we allow our experiences to inspire. We have to try to stop living life so fast and give ourselves more time to develop and grow. We’re overexposed and we’re overlooking the details. When we stop paying attention to detail we lose the ability to value and appreciate authenticity, beauty, and quality. Let’s slow it down…” ~Rob Hill Sr. Food for Thought: “Growing up means learning what life is. When you’re little, you have a set of ideals, standards, criteria, plans, outlooks, and you think that you have to sit around and wait for them to happen to you and then life will work. But life isn’t like that, for anybody; you can’t fall in love with a standard, you have to fall in love with a person. You can’t live in a criteria, you have to live your life. You can’t wait for your plans to materialize, because they may never materialize the way you think they will. You can’t wait to watch your ideals and standards walk up to you, because you can’t know what’s yours until you have it. I always say, always take the first chance in case you never get a second one, but growing up takes that even one step further, growing up means that you have to hold on to what you have, when you have it, because what you have— that’s yours— and all the ideals and criteria you have set in your head, those aren’t yours, because those haven’t happened to you.” ~C. JoyBell C. One More: How do Lobsters grow?
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