August 25, 2022

Shorts

Success in any endeavor means that you must be willing to swap the feeling of comfort with a feeling of vulnerability. Pushing outside your comfort zone requires risk, courage, and the fortitude to keep moving forward. Future success requires present planning. Success isn’t something that just happens, it’s something that you create. Therefore, success is

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August 18, 2022

Principles

In his book Resilience, Eric Greitens compares happiness to the primary colors. Just as red, green, and blue make up all other colors, so does happiness of grace, pleasures, and excellence make up happiness. It’s the pursuit of all three that lead to sustained happiness. Much like you need to mix the primary colors to

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July 26, 2022

Principles

Your attitude will affect how you interpret & respond to people and events. It’s a sort of self-fullfilling prophecy that will, more often than not, sabotage your desire to make change by creating the circumstances that you fear most. For example: Your fear of failure will prevent you from even trying, which will cause you

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July 22, 2022

Principles

Sometimes I come across a quote, or a saying, that gives me pause. Many times it doesn’t really makes sense to me at first but then there is something about the words that feel poetic to me For the past 10 minutes I’ve been pondering a quote from Friedrich Neitzsche that said: “I tell you:

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July 19, 2022

Principles

We all struggle. It may not always look that way on the outside, especially when we look at somebody we admire from a distance, but I assure you, we’re all human. Being human means that we covet what we don’t have, then when we do get the object of our desire, we find something else

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