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Purple monkey in a bubblegum tree and…IYKYK…28all. Eya. *JP* The Warm-Up: “Most of what you’re looking for comes from the ability to: *Do hard things *Do what feels aligned *Keep promises to yourself *Show up every day *Trust your intuition *Follow your soul. You don’t just stumble upon your life, you’re the lead role in it.” ~Matt Gottesman The Core: “I don’t know who needs to hear this, but asking for help is a sign of strength.” ~Michell C. Clark “If I unsubscribe, please don’t send me another email telling me I’ve unsubscribed.” ~Trevor Noah “I loved Sapo. I loved Sapo because he loved himself. And I wanted to be able to do that, to rely on myself for my own happiness.” ~Ernesto Quionez, Bodega Dreams “That’s what we’re all doing…We’re setting examples,…and our conduct will have a great bearing on our youth, certainly, and our youth are our future.” ~John Wooden “People burn bridges on a whim, only to realize many years later that even the best relationships occasionally go through frictions. Stop assuming you can easily find ‘better people’ out there, good chemistry and lifelong great friendships are actually quite rare.” ~Orange Book “Remember that we are braced by a God who is too big for one-dimensional truths, and this is a good thing. It’s not that we hold paradox; it’s that paradox holds us. We are held in a deep place. An ample place. A generous place. Though we might fear paradox, God does not.” ~Debie Thomas “Life never gets easier, you just choose: to stay physically healthy, to get mentally stronger, to plan ahead financially, to keep your eyes open for opportunities, to build bonds with family and friends who have your back, to stay detached and optimistic during the worst moments.” ~Orange Book “When over leveraged markets begin to decline, the preference for liquidity becomes all-consuming, like the life-or-death struggle for a single life preserver thrown to non-swimmers when a boat capsizes. In an instant, all civility is suspended and everything is for sale at almost any price. Once uncorrelated assets begin to share a common fate – they sink together.” ~Frank Martin “ ‘Have you ever been to England?’ And [Countryman] said, ‘No, I have everything right here.’ Even though he owned nothing he was happy with it. He was somehow able to say, ‘I have everything.’ That does not normally happen. People have to go through a whole process before they realize that having lots of things is not the answer to life. [Countryman] was a truly exceptional person.” ~Chris Blackwell, The Islander “You can have all of the assets in the world you want, but if you have no liquidity it doesn’t matter. Liquidity equals value. At no time in my career has it ever been more clearly brought home to me than in the 2008-09 period. If you had liquidity, you had value. … Everything comes down to liquidity, everything comes down to exit strategies, everything comes down to knowing when you get in how you are going to get out.” ~Sam Zell “Despite Legend, I remained of the persuasion that [Bob Marley’s] music keeps getting rediscovered by new generations because it’s still kind of underground. It’s still not in-your-face. Bob keeps his secrets, and there is still a sense of discovery to the songs. That was where Rebel Music came from and it came from the Island that followed our own instincts rather than asking questions of a random sample of consumers and letting them make decisions for us.” ~Chris Blackwell, The Islander Last Set: “As the old saying goes: Liquidity is a coward, it disappears at the first sign of trouble.” ~Barton Biggs Food For Thought: “It’s a strange affair to be Black and live in America, and even stranger to be Black and a person of faith in these yet-to-be-United States, to carry around the burden of a socially constructed idea called race and yet be filled with a divinely inspired mandate to eradicate all limitations to the human soul. Being Black means you are born with a Blues song tattooed on your heart, and at the same time you still have a Gospel shout that is welling up in your soul about to come out.” ~Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III
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