“I want to taste my life.” I see you, Sarah…Walk good. 28all. Eya. *CM, PB, SW*

The Warm-Up: 

“In our pursuit of our highest selves, let us remember that the world knows us by what we say and do, not by what we hold back.” ~Matt Gottesman

The Core: 

“Most people have everything they need to succeed, except for patience.” ~Orange Book

“No one ever made a decision because of a number. They need a story.” ~Danny Kahneman

“Anxiety is a side effect of trying to live in the future without the ability to shape it.” ~Kunal Shah

“Prayer, meditation, etc. really is just a conversation with yourself. Stop. Take time to listen to you. Not the wearables. Not the phone. Not social media. Take time to listen to you.” ~Joe Holder

“No one wants to join it. It’s too risky. Then it succeeds. Then everyone wants to join it. Then everyone joins it. Then it becomes mediocre. It’s too risk averse. Then it fails. Now no one wants to join it...” ~Balaji Srinivasan

“Self-belief creates titans. Are they always the *most* talented or capable? Of course not, but it doesn’t matter. They rise anyway. They figure it out. Contrary to belief, knowledge is not power…execution is power. Do not get stuck in endless learning. Jump in.” ~Dr. Julie Gurner

“Some of the memes…have been extremely funny. …We make our own narrative. … We got a bunch of guys that been in this league quite a while that understand and know what it takes to win. That’s the business that we’re in, of winning. And doing it all the time.” ~LeBron James, addressing the jokes about the Lakers’ age

“I bet we will look back in ten years and have a hard time believing we were all managing the stresses of life without the tools and information to help us optimize and make better decisions regarding what we eat, when we eat, when we go to sleep, what temperature is optimal for sleep, when to rest, and when to push.” ~Craig Shapiro, Investing in Health Data

“I have zero motive at all, other than hating to see misinformation spread about someone who has done extensive work for meaningful change. Maybe you didn’t mean to disparage him, but your comments contributed to a false narrative. BTW, his call to action was to just do the work.” ~Jemele Hill, in a Twitter response to Dez Bryant after Bryant expressed some frustration with Colin Kaepernick

“Here’s the thing. You’re called to do whatever God has placed in your life right now. Not ‘One day when you get married.’ Not ‘One day when you have more money.’ You are called to YOUR high school, YOUR neighborhood, YOUR coworkers. The best person to raise your kids is you. The best person to do your job is you. The best person to speak up for that cause that’s so burdened on your heart…It’s you. That’s your calling.” ~Holly Furtick

“Ask yourself the same questions about your boss as you asked yourself about your company. Is he or she going anywhere? If not, who is? Always try to work for the smartest, brightest, most competent person you can find. If you look at biographies of successful people, it’s amazing to find how many crawled up the ladder of success right behind someone else. From their first assignment in some menial job to their last as president or CEO of a major company.” ~Al Ries & Jack Trout, Positioning

“Now, I’m back. A sober vegan who goes to church. I could not be further from the woman who worshipped booze, bars, and bodies trying to find God anywhere but in herself. I’m looking for her though, this lost girl. I know she is within me still. I don’t hate her. I’m not ashamed of her anymore, nor afraid. I want to welcome her back home. To remind her that I love her and I’d never leave her again. I am done abandoning myself.” ~Sarah, Running in place: updates, an essay, & the next marathon

“To be clear, the lesson I took from this was not to skip weeks of school in order to memorize business school cases studies. It was realizing that the more people I connected with, the more opportunities I encountered—and when an opportunity opened up in front of me, it was worth going to great lengths to capitalize on it. In a crowded and competitive world, ‘good enough’ is generally not good enough. I’ve found that it’s only by trying to do something extraordinary that you can make extraordinary things happen for yourself.” ~Robert Reffkin, No One Succeeds Alone

Last Set: 

“You could totally be setting the wrong benchmarks, if you’re measuring yourself against a competition that’s not really that great. And you can also learn a lot about what not to do from competition. But I actually think it sounds quaint: you learn a lot more from your customers than you do from competition. And we always talk about having big ears and designing the company from the customer back, and solving the unsolved problems of customers. You’re not going to get those things from the competition as much as you will from a real understanding of what the customer is trying to do.” ~Michael Dell, on The Tim Ferriss Show: How to Play Nice But Win (#534)

Food For Thought:

A lady went to the Pastor and said ... “I won’t be attending Church anymore.”
He said, “May I ask why??”
She said, “I see people on their cell phones during the service, some are gossiping, some just ain’t living right, they are all just hypocrites.”
The Pastor got silent, and he said, “Ok... But can I ask you to do something for me before you make your final decision?”
She said, “What’s that?”
He said, “Take a glass of water and walk around the Church 2 times and don’t let any water fall out the glass.”
She said, “Yes I can do that.”
She came back and said “It’s done.”
He asked her 3 questions:
1. Did you see anybody on their phone?
2. Did you see anybody gossiping?
3. Was anybody living wrong?
She said, “I didn’t see anything because I was so focused on this glass, so the water wouldn’t fall.”
He told her, “When you come to Church, you should be just that focused on God, so that you don’t fall. That’s why Jesus said, ‘Follow me.’ He did not say follow Christians. Don’t let your relationship with God be determined by how others relate with God. Let it be determined by how focused YOU are on God.”

Signed, Pre-Order:

The Heart of the Deal, Lindsay MacMillan. Moving, funny, and timely, The Heart of the Deal is the story of one woman’s reckoning with life in a city, an industry, and a relationship whose high highs (nearly) make up for the low lows.

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