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Many Hands Make Light Work…Happy Birthday J.Tack.W…Walk good. 28all. Eya. *SC, KW, VD, JD, TK* The Warm-Up: “God’s lucky. The Goddess of luck is fortune, fortune is the Sister of fate, fate is the Divine Order, and the Divine Order is God. So, as far as I can tell, if you believe in luck, you believe in God.” ~Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights The Core: “The more talented you get, the less you care about what you put on your resume.” ~Orange Book “Be mature enough to forgive people, but wise enough to know that they don’t always need to play an active role in your life.” ~Vex King “I don’t have to invest in everything I’m interested in. I’m looking for things where I think I can predict what’s going to happen with a high degree of accuracy.” ~Charlie Munger “You can accept people, treat them fairly, and extend kindness without submitting to every tenet of their worldview. If that’s not enough for someone, they are not seeking an ‘ally’, they need a parrot.” ~Ayishat Akanbi “No risk, no reward. No pain, no growth. No trauma, no depth. No honesty, no clarity. No trust, no friendship. No discipline, no talent. No commitment, no love. No investment, no wealth. No courage, no self-esteem. No self-reflection, no peace. No imagination, no opportunity.” ~Orange Book “My biggest flex of 2020 is how much I’ve softened. Once you realize most people are just hurt & don’t know how to process it without doing fuck shit, it’s so much easier to move around & wish them well instead of hardening with them. Taking things less personally & proud of that.” ~Taylor Blossom “When an online course tells you how to make money in real estate remember they are making money by selling online courses. When a conference covers how to build an online business remember they are building an event business. Learn from what people do as much as what they say.” ~James Clear “The arrow doesn’t seek the target, the target draws the arrow. We must be aware of what we attract in life because it is no accident or coincidence. The spider waits in his web for dinner to come. Yes, we must chase what we want, seek it out, cast our lines in the water, but sometimes we don’t need to make things happen. Our souls are infinitely magnetic.” ~Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights “You can’t skip chapters, that’s not how life works. You have to read every line, meet every character. You won’t enjoy all of it. Hell, some chapters will make you cry for weeks. You will read things you don’t want to read, you will have moments when you don’t want the pages to end. But you have to keep going. Stories keep the world revolving. Live yours, don’t miss out.” ~Courtney Peppernell, Pillow Thoughts “If there’s one driving theme of 2020, it should be intersectionality. Diversity and inclusion are intrinsically linked to our environment, our economy, our lives. It is not a coincidence that Gen Zs, the generation most affected by climate change and societal ills, have been at the forefront of pushing for change within the consumer space.” ~Tasha Kim and Jay Drain Jr., Consumer is BACK: A Look at 2020’s Top Tech Trends Last Set: “Some people may only learn to appreciate you by losing access to you. The vulnerability that honesty requires isn’t something everybody can handle. Rest knowing that it’s not your job to force anyone to be in tune with their authenticity; your job is to remain genuine, open, and self-aware enough to know the truth by the way it feels. See…observe…assess…decide. Being honest with yourself gives you the most accurate chance to grow from what you feel. Denial only puts you further in harm’s way. Trust your intuition, verify your assumptions.” ~Rob Hill Sr. Food for Thought: One of those weeks where two separate friends sent me the same article….jumpman, jumpman, jumpman, them boys up to something… “ ‘A man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh…But on the other hand, it helps people to understand that reality alone counts, and that dreams, expectations, and hopes only serve to define a man as a broken dream, aborted hopes, and futile expectations.’ Sartre thought we should focus on what we have done and will do, rather than on what we might have done or could do. He pointed out that we often take too narrow a census of our actions. An artist, he maintains, is not to be ‘judged solely by his works of art, for a thousand other things also help to define him.’ We do more than we give ourselves credit for; our real lives are richer than we think. This is why, if you keep a diary, you may feel more satisfied with the life you live.” ~Joshua Rothman, What If You Could Do It All Over? The uncanny allure of our unlived lives [Some] Blog Posts: [Click the picture to read!] The first: I received this text from a friend on Oct 19th, “So I went searching for the first MML I read. Monday, February 10th, 2014 @ 5:30am. Back then it was titled a Private Email. Proud of the work you’re doing and wanted to say thank you. I have read every email since.” It’s texts like that that give me life. And him sharing his words make it even realer… The second: Just me connecting the dots…
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