“Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr.…Walk Good. 28all. Eya. *PB, NY*

The Warm-Up: 

“The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals…We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character–that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.” ~Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., January-February 1947. The Purpose of Education [Atlanta, Ga.]

The Core: 

“God’s timing isn’t designed for your relief. It’s for your revelation. His timing is designed to teach you to trust Him.” ~Steven Furtick

“Your worst enemy isn’t a person, situation, or thing. It’s the story in your mind based on assumptions and projected fears or insecurities.” ~Vex King

“You can slow churn your own way to success but since hype is a flash in the pan so many young folks are eager to make it now. Be patient and actually build.” ~Joe Holder

“You get in relationships to LEARN how to love each other, you’re not supposed to automatically know. People assume this and are too quick to break up.” ~@turtlebreezee

“Something to try this week: Take your life back. Find something (or someone) in your life that has been dictating too much of your time or thoughts and take some of it back.” ~Mark Manson

“There’s a special kind of depth you can only achieve with conviction. Once you go all-in, a new realm of potential opens up. People who waver between things rarely build anything of substance.” ~David Perell

When you heal yourself, you heal your lineage. Your impact will ripple through generations. The self-work that you do today will impact the way that your children, and their children, and their children, experience the world.” ~Michell C Clark

“From all the research I’ve studied on the topic of happiness, if a person could do only one simple mental exercise to increase their health and happiness then expressing gratitude on a regular basis would be it.” ~Steven Bartlett, Happy Sexy Millionaire

“How quickly someone answers you is rarely a sign of how much they care about you. Delayed replies to emails, texts, and calls are often symptoms of being overwhelmed. Unless it’s urgent, the true test of a relationship isn’t the speed of response. It’s the quality of attention.” ~Adam Grant

“The person who loves to climb is going to go so much higher than the person who just loves the view from the summit. Internal rewards from the process >>> External rewards from the prize. Summits are often not what we build them up to be. We get there and realize that there’s some higher peak in the distance and feel disappointed that we aren’t on that one. Summits are often so far off that they are only motivating in an abstract sense. The daily process has to be the focus if you want to go high and far. One foot in front of the other…over and over and over again.” ~Sahil Bloom (@SahilBloom,1/13/23)

“But there’s also an art to spending. A part that can’t be quantified and varies person to person. In my book I called money ‘the greatest show on earth’ because of its ability to reveal things about people’s character and values. How people invest their money tends to be hidden from view. But how they spend is far more visible, so what it shows about who you are can be even more insightful…People generally aspire to be respected and admired by others, and using money to buy fancy things may bring less of it than you imagine. If respect and admiration are your goal, be careful how you seek it. Humility, kindness, and empathy will bring you more respect than horsepower ever will.” ~Morgan Housel, The Art and Science of Spending Money

Last Set:

“Through many iterations, by paying attention to and incorporating feedback, we end up becoming more capable. Too often we remove the learning process, including the inevitable failures and disappointments, in success stories. In particular, when it comes to artistic creation, we look at the final product of a painting or piece of music without seeing all of the iterations that came before.” ~Farnum Street, The Great Mental Models Vol. 3, Systems and Mathematics

Food For Thought:

“Certain conditions continue to exist in our society, which must be condemned as vigorously as we condemn riots. But in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice, equality and humanity. And so, in a real sense our nation’s summers of riots are caused by our nation’s winters of delay. And as long as America postpones justice, we stand in the position of having these recurrences of violence and riots over and over again. Social justice and progress are the absolute guarantors of riot prevention.” ~Martin Luther King Jr., “Other America” speech delivered in 1967 speech at Stanford University

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