Love All. Walk good. 28all. Eya.

The Warm-Up: 

“Some people get offended when you are focused on your life. They somehow think you’re ignoring them on purpose.” ~Orange Book

The Core: 

“A simple heuristic: If someone can talk you out of it, you don’t want it bad enough.” ~Shane Parrish

“The number 1 problem with inexperienced speakers and ineffective leaders is that they focus on themselves.” ~John C Maxwell

“Anything you lose when you stand up for yourself, protect your boundaries and begin to grow, was not meant to stay.” ~Steven Bartlett

“Investing in yourself doesn’t take your money, it creates money. Investing in yourself doesn’t take your health, it creates health. Investing in yourself doesn’t deplete your energy, it creates more energy.” ~Matt Gottesman

“Imitation isn’ flattery, it’s just annoyin’ me / And I’m too about it / And the dirt that they threw on my name / Turned to soil and I grew up out it / Time for y’all to figure out what y’all gon’ do about it / Big wheels keep rollin’, rollin’…” ~Drake, Fair Trade

“Some of the greatest blessings of your life will come when you are obedient to trust God in unexcepted opportunities. What God is asking you to domay not make sense, but it will make a difference. Take a step in faith today and watch what God can do.” ~Steven Furtick

“I remain unphased, trust, worse has been done / Man, [forget] evaluation, show me personal funds / It’s the pretty boys versus the petty boys / Sold that already, got a whole new set of toys / [Stuff] is so surreal, Drizzy Drake, you better enjoy / Nothing else bigger than the OVO letterman boys.” ~Drake, Champagne Poetry

“The important thing about friends is that you need to have them before disaster befalls you. One reason is that, as we shall see later, people are only likely to make the effort to help you if they are already your friend. We are all much less likely to help strangers or people we know only slightly – despite what we sometimes claim. Making friends, however, requires a great deal of effort and time.” ~Robin Dunbar, Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships 

“7 things most people take a lifetime to learn. 1) The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships. Full stop. 2) The slow accumulation of small, simple experiences ends up being far more valuable than most of the big, life-changing experiences. 3) You don’t have to prove anything to anybody, including yourself. 4) Things almost never turn out the way you want or expect them to. And that’s all right. 5) You cant take care of others if you’re unable to take care of yourself. 6) Without health, you have nothing. 7) It’s never too late to start. It’s never too late to change.” ~Mark Manson

“—and they lingered still in this state as a warm spring gave way to a cool summer. Neither much enjoyed catching unexpected glimpses of their former lover’s new existence online, and so they distanced themselves from each other on social networks, and while they wished to look out for each other, and to keep tabs on each other, staying in touch took a toll on them, serving as an unsettling reminder of a life not lived, and also they grew less worried each for the other, less worried that the other would need them to be happy, and eventually a month went by without any contact, and then a year, and then a lifetime.” ~Moshin Hamid, Exit West

“I mean, even with his salary, you can’t put no prices on that / There is no salary cap, there is no payin’ him back, for real / I wonder what it could’ve been if I had snakes in the mix / Actually, I never wanna know ‘cause we made it like this / Shots gotta fly either way, now I make it or miss / Overtime, I was all good, we take it in shifts / What would you do if it wasn’t this? That’s a hard one / The finish line is where I like to pull up and start from / Pain is just a place that I go to get the bars from / Anxiety’s a drug that I use to get the job done / Delusional’s a space I like to think that I’m far from / My son is the one thing I hate to be apart from / Bet against me, don’t know where they getting their odds from / I know that when it’s done, I’m going wherever God’s from / But I still don’t know where I get the calm from…” ~Drake, The Remorse

Last Set: 

“Failure is most useful when you give your best effort. If you fail with a lackluster effort, you haven’t learned much. Perhaps you could have succeeded with a proper focus. But if your best effort fails, you have learned something valuable: this way doesn’t work.” ~James Clear

Food For Thought:

“If we’re hungry, the obvious solution is to eat something. If we’re restless, it pays to get up and walk around. Is stress different? Along the way, it seems as though we got confused about the best way to deal with the stress that comes from work and from the projects we work on. ‘Push through the stress and on the other side, everything will be okay.’ Simply get all the details right, get an A, get into a famous college, make the sale, polish the logo, do the pitch and then… reassurance will follow. The reassurance of success or even survival. The reassurance of external acclaim or simply relief. Now that everything’s okay, no need to be stressed! Until the next time. Which might be tomorrow. Reassurance is futile, because there’s never enough of it. Some folks manage to get their projects done without this sort of stress. They’re not using the search for reassurance as fuel. The solution to stress isn’t reassurance. It’s accurately understanding the world as it is, and making choices about what we do and how we do it. But far more than that, we relieve stress by making choices about the stories we tell ourselves. What’s the difference between giving a speech to your dog and giving one on the TED stage? It’s the same speech. The difference is in the story we tell ourselves about the stakes, the opportunity and what might happen next. If that story gets debilitating enough, it can paralyze us. If you’re on a backpacking trip, there’s little doubt that ten more minutes of tired to get to the next campsite is a smart investment. A little more tired translates into a lot more rest. But if you’re at work, there’s not a lot of evidence that more stress is the best way to have less stress. Look for the story instead.” ~Seth Godin, Solving for Stress

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