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Brad Stevens shares his non-negotiables for life. "I wanna enjoy who I'm working with. I wanna enjoy where I'm working. I wanna have a goal, but I also wanna enjoy the journey of getting to that goal." "For me, it starts with being a great teammate. That is something I look for in people. Those relationships are probably the most important thing." It starts with the people and the character of those people. Then he explained what it means to show up every day: "You put your signature on your work every day. You give it everything you have." "You do it for the good of the whole. You do it to get better at your own job. You do it to improve the whole and see where the chips may fall." It means giving your best effort and bringing a mindset of excellence to yourself and your team. "I've been lucky enough to be on really good teams. Teams that have had chances to play for things that are really, really special." Then he shared what stays with you: "Very rarely when you look back on those teams - whether at Butler or here - do you think about the individual games or even the moments of the games." "You think about the people and the individual times with the people." "That's the special part about being a part of a sports team. That's why you walk through the building every day." The relationships always stay. Stevens' wisdom is simple: it comes down to character. • Be a great teammate. • Strive for excellence. • Enjoy the people and the process. Character isn't what you say - it's what you do consistently. (🎥 Way of Champions)

Brad Stevens shares his non-negotiables for life. "I wanna enjoy who I'm working with. I wanna enjoy where I'm working. I wanna have a goal, but I also wanna enjoy the journey of getting to that goal." "For me, it starts with being a great teammate. That is something I look for in people. Those relationships are probably the most important thing." It starts with the people and the character of those people. Then he explained what it means to show up every day: "You put your signature on your work every day. You give it everything you have." "You do it for the good of the whole. You do it to get better at your own job. You do it to improve the whole and see where the chips may fall." It means giving your best effort and bringing a mindset of excellence to yourself and your team. "I've been lucky enough to be on really good teams. Teams that have had chances to play for things that are really, really special." Then he shared what stays with you: "Very rarely when you look back on those teams - whether at Butler or here - do you think about the individual games or even the moments of the games." "You think about the people and the individual times with the people." "That's the special part about being a part of a sports team. That's why you walk through the building every day." The relationships always stay. Stevens' wisdom is simple: it comes down to character. • Be a great teammate. • Strive for excellence. • Enjoy the people and the process. Character isn't what you say - it's what you do consistently. (🎥 Way of Champions)

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🚨🇺🇸ALINA HABBA: STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT ELON... WHAT ARE YOU ACTUALLY DOING FOR YOUR CONSTITUENTS? “If you’re wasting taxpayer dollars protesting with a beer can or complaining about Elon, what are you actually doing for the people who voted for you? The woke stuff, the DEI stuff—it won’t be tolerated in this administration.” Source: Acyn

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Palmer Luckey’s advice for founder-led communications “My advice to people would probably be to recognize that the value of your reputation is very high,” Anduril founder Palmer Luckey begins. “If people do not trust you; if they do not believe in what you’re saying; if they do not think that you’re a person worth listening to, they’re going to have a hard time working with you.” Palmer also argues that founders don’t need to be neutral: “You don’t need to be neutral. You can be a propagandist. You can advocate for a particular point of view . . . In general, people should recognize that if you say something where you caveat it and hedge it and basically end up saying something that most people would agree with, you might as well have said nothing at all.” He continues: “You are not going to build a following of people who say, ‘I just love Palmer’s right-down-the-middle, very-hedged takes that everyone agrees with.’ If you’re just restating common sentiment, it’s not going to get you anywhere . . . So one of the things I tell people is, ‘Make sure that when you’re saying something, you’re SAYING something. Make sure you’re trying to persuade and affect change.’ — maybe not in everybody, but in some people. If you make some people love what you’re saying and some people hate what you’re saying, that’s a lot better than having everybody lukewarm agree with you. Don’t waste your time communicating about the things everyone already agrees with you on. Focus on the things where you need to change their mind.” Source: Lulu Cheng Meservey (Sep 2025)

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Lady Gaga performed “Hair” as the sole acoustic surprise song on N2 of The MAYHEM Ball in Saint Paul last night, and delivered a speech on the penultimate date of The MAYHEM Ball Tour: “This is the second-to-last show on the tour. Which means, it'll be a little while before we're all together again. But, this precious community rings true in my life every single day, and you ring true in each other's as well. And your love reverberates all around the world. And you teach people so many important things every single day. I hope you know that you lead the way. You lead the way with your heart, you lead the way with the way you love, you lead the way with the way you speak your truth, the way you do not stop and you do not give up. You lead the way the way you dress. Your friends, your family. And you lead the way with your hair.”

Lady Gaga performed “Hair” as the sole acoustic surprise song on N2 of The MAYHEM Ball in Saint Paul last night, and delivered a speech on the penultimate date of The MAYHEM Ball Tour: “This is the second-to-last show on the tour. Which means, it'll be a little while before we're all together again. But, this precious community rings true in my life every single day, and you ring true in each other's as well. And your love reverberates all around the world. And you teach people so many important things every single day. I hope you know that you lead the way. You lead the way with your heart, you lead the way with the way you love, you lead the way with the way you speak your truth, the way you do not stop and you do not give up. You lead the way the way you dress. Your friends, your family. And you lead the way with your hair.”

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50,859 views • 5 months ago

Jordan Peterson: "If you can't fix your room, you can't fix your life" "Why should you even bother improving yourself? The answer is something like: so you don't suffer anymore stupidly than you have to. And maybe so others don't have to either. It's not some casual self-help doctrine. If you don't organize yourself properly, you'll pay for it. In a big way. And so will the people around you." Peterson continues: "You can say, 'Well, I don't care about that.' But that's actually not true, you do care about it. Because if you're in pain, you will care about it. It's very rare that you can find someone in excruciating pain who would say, 'Well, it would be no better if I was out of this.' Pain brings the idea that it would be better if it didn't exist along with it. It's incontrovertible." On how to start: "Look around for something that bothers you and see if you can fix it. You can do this in a room. Sit in your bedroom and think: 'If I wanted to spend ten minutes making this room better, what would I have to do?' You have to ask yourself that, it's a genuine question. And things will pop out. There's a stack of papers bugging you. Some rubbish behind your computer monitor you haven't attended to for six months. Cables tangled up." He explains why this matters: "If you were coming to see me for psychotherapy, the easiest thing would be to get you to organize your room. You think, is that psychotherapy? It depends on how you conceive the limits of your being. Start where you can start. If something announces itself as in need of repair that you could repair, fix it. Fix a hundred things like that, your life will be a lot different." On fixing what you repeat every day: "People tend to think of their daily routines as trivial. You get up, brush your teeth, have breakfast. Those probably constitute 50% of your life. People think, they're mundane, I don't need to pay attention to them. No, that's exactly wrong. The things you do every day are the most important things you do. Hands down. Just do the arithmetic." On staying within your competence: "Sometimes you don't know how to fix something. Imagine you're walking down the street and there's a guy who's alcoholic and schizophrenic and has been homeless for ten years. That's a problem. It would be good if you could fix it, but you haven't got a clue. You walk around that and go find something you could fix. Just because something announces itself as in need of repair doesn't mean it's you, right then and there, who should repair it. You have to have some humility. You don't walk up to a helicopter that isn't working and just start tinkering away." Peterson shares the key insight: "As soon as you give your mind a genuine aim, it'll reconfigure the world in keeping with that aim. That's actually how you see to begin with. You've all seen the video where you watch basketballs being tossed back and forth, and while you're doing that, a gorilla walks into the middle of the video and you don't see it. If you thought about that experiment for five years, that would be about the right amount of time to spend thinking about it." He explains what it reveals: "What it shows you is that you see what you aim at. If you can get one thing through your head, that would be a good one. You see what you aim at. One inference you might draw from that is: be careful what you aim at. What you aim at determines the way the world manifests itself to you. So if the world is manifesting itself in a very negative way, one thing to ask is: are you aiming at the right thing?"

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Jaynit

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As pissed as I am about the way things are going in this country, what I’ve seen across Maine this Labor Day weekend gives me hope. People are fed up with those in power making their lives harder. They’re ready for change that puts working people first. And to me, that’s what Labor Day is all about. Happy Labor Day, Maine. Solidarity forever. ✊

As pissed as I am about the way things are going in this country, what I’ve seen across Maine this Labor Day weekend gives me hope. People are fed up with those in power making their lives harder. They’re ready for change that puts working people first. And to me, that’s what Labor Day is all about. Happy Labor Day, Maine. Solidarity forever. ✊

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Tom Brady says his career turned around when a sports psychologist told him to stop complaining about what he wasn’t getting and start stewarding what he had the right way “Greg said to me, ‘Why don’t you quit bitching about all the things you’re not getting, and how about you do the best with whatever opportunities you get?’, ‘Stop worrying about what the other quarterback’s getting. Stop worrying about what the coach is saying to you.’” “‘Every time you get in there, you bring the juice. You bring the energy. You bring the enthusiasm. You treat practice like a game.’ Because if you just decide to go out there and you’re blaming everybody else, where does that get you? So I started to change my attitude.” “I didn’t have a lot of confidence in myself. And when you don’t have a lot of confidence in yourself, you blame other people. When you gain confidence in yourself, you start pointing the finger at yourself.” “I would encourage every athlete to look in the mirror after every day of practice or a game and say, ‘What can I do better to help the team? What can I do better?’” “Not, ‘What does the coach need to do better?’ Not, ‘What do my teammates need to do better?’, ‘What do I need to do better?’ If every player does that, you’re going to have an incredible team.” “You can’t have a false confidence. You don’t only gain your confidence because of your physical ability. You gain your confidence because you’re prepared, because you’re competitive. I couldn’t just show up and be better than everybody.” “I had to show up prepared. I had to show up with energy. I had to show up with my body feeling right. I had to show up like I was on a mission.”

Tom Brady says his career turned around when a sports psychologist told him to stop complaining about what he wasn’t getting and start stewarding what he had the right way “Greg said to me, ‘Why don’t you quit bitching about all the things you’re not getting, and how about you do the best with whatever opportunities you get?’, ‘Stop worrying about what the other quarterback’s getting. Stop worrying about what the coach is saying to you.’” “‘Every time you get in there, you bring the juice. You bring the energy. You bring the enthusiasm. You treat practice like a game.’ Because if you just decide to go out there and you’re blaming everybody else, where does that get you? So I started to change my attitude.” “I didn’t have a lot of confidence in myself. And when you don’t have a lot of confidence in yourself, you blame other people. When you gain confidence in yourself, you start pointing the finger at yourself.” “I would encourage every athlete to look in the mirror after every day of practice or a game and say, ‘What can I do better to help the team? What can I do better?’” “Not, ‘What does the coach need to do better?’ Not, ‘What do my teammates need to do better?’, ‘What do I need to do better?’ If every player does that, you’re going to have an incredible team.” “You can’t have a false confidence. You don’t only gain your confidence because of your physical ability. You gain your confidence because you’re prepared, because you’re competitive. I couldn’t just show up and be better than everybody.” “I had to show up prepared. I had to show up with energy. I had to show up with my body feeling right. I had to show up like I was on a mission.”

Josh Chambers

3,986,066 views • 5 days ago

Knowing your nature is critically important to understanding what success is for you. I can't tell you literally what is best for you, but I can tell you that success is not having a lot more money or status than you need. Having the time and freedom to do what you most want to do is far more important. What is success for most people? It is a matter of having meaningful work and meaningful relationships. If you can make your work and your passion one and the same, and do it with people who you care about and care about you, you will have a happy, successful life. Explore Principles for the Graduating Class of 2026 with my AI Twin, Digital Ray in Beta, here:

Knowing your nature is critically important to understanding what success is for you. I can't tell you literally what is best for you, but I can tell you that success is not having a lot more money or status than you need. Having the time and freedom to do what you most want to do is far more important. What is success for most people? It is a matter of having meaningful work and meaningful relationships. If you can make your work and your passion one and the same, and do it with people who you care about and care about you, you will have a happy, successful life. Explore Principles for the Graduating Class of 2026 with my AI Twin, Digital Ray in Beta, here:

Ray Dalio

99,356 views • 3 months ago

ELON: HERE’S THE KEY TO HAPPINESS Bill Maher: “I read in your Rolling Stone article back in the day that you said you can never be happy unless you're in love.” Elon: “Well, you can be half happy, I suppose. There are two things, I think, to be most happy. If you're happy in love and you love your work, then you'll be, I think, fully happy. If you lack either of those two, if you have one of those two things, you'll be half happy. Roughly.” Source: Elon Musk, Real Time with Bill Maher Bill Maher, April 2023

ELON: HERE’S THE KEY TO HAPPINESS Bill Maher: “I read in your Rolling Stone article back in the day that you said you can never be happy unless you're in love.” Elon: “Well, you can be half happy, I suppose. There are two things, I think, to be most happy. If you're happy in love and you love your work, then you'll be, I think, fully happy. If you lack either of those two, if you have one of those two things, you'll be half happy. Roughly.” Source: Elon Musk, Real Time with Bill Maher Bill Maher, April 2023

Mario Nawfal

613,301 views • 8 months ago

Dana White: "If you get up every day and you're happy and you like your life, you are more successful than most of the people in this world."

Dana White: "If you get up every day and you're happy and you like your life, you are more successful than most of the people in this world."

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24,789 views • 4 months ago

Life advice from Peter Thiel: “People say you should live every day as if it’s your last.” “I think you should live every day as if it will go on forever.” “Treat people like you’re going to see them again in the future. Start working on projects that may take a long time.”

Life advice from Peter Thiel: “People say you should live every day as if it’s your last.” “I think you should live every day as if it will go on forever.” “Treat people like you’re going to see them again in the future. Start working on projects that may take a long time.”

Jawwwn

153,196 views • 4 months ago

Being rich is not FU MONEY. (sorry for the low volume. there are critters around me) There are many people in this space who are "rich". But they are not free. If you ask a lot of people "What does it mean to be free?" you get 3 core principles. "Being free means to do what I want, when I want, and with whom I want." 1. To do "what you want" you have to know yourself and what makes you happy and fulfilled. To have purpose. 2. "When I want" means time. This is you most precious gift, pleb. I see my last block out there on the horizon being mined. Don't waste time. Understand when you have enough, and get on with your life. 3. "With whom I want" means you need to cultivate deep friendships NOW so that at the end of your life people remember you as someone they admired and loved. There are people in this Bitcoin space who will never have enough things, or enough Bitcoin. They will stand in front of you at a Bitcoin conference and never engage with you while "working the room" with their eyes. You can have FU MONEY sooner than you think. Think quietly on the above and realize it is not a number. It's what is between your ears and in your heart.

Being rich is not FU MONEY. (sorry for the low volume. there are critters around me) There are many people in this space who are "rich". But they are not free. If you ask a lot of people "What does it mean to be free?" you get 3 core principles. "Being free means to do what I want, when I want, and with whom I want." 1. To do "what you want" you have to know yourself and what makes you happy and fulfilled. To have purpose. 2. "When I want" means time. This is you most precious gift, pleb. I see my last block out there on the horizon being mined. Don't waste time. Understand when you have enough, and get on with your life. 3. "With whom I want" means you need to cultivate deep friendships NOW so that at the end of your life people remember you as someone they admired and loved. There are people in this Bitcoin space who will never have enough things, or enough Bitcoin. They will stand in front of you at a Bitcoin conference and never engage with you while "working the room" with their eyes. You can have FU MONEY sooner than you think. Think quietly on the above and realize it is not a number. It's what is between your ears and in your heart.

George Bodine

73,195 views • 11 months ago

Keith Rabois tells the story of Elon Musk observing interns waiting in line for coffee at SpaceX Keith is asked how Elon Musk gets so much done, to which he replies: “If you approach every day and every week of your life with the question, ‘What did you accomplish this week?’ I think that compounds, and very few people do that. I think that’s the number one ingredient.” As for the second ingredient, Keith tells a story he heard from some friends at SpaceX where Elon observed a line of interns piling up around the coffee machine. This prompted Elon to send a memo to the company asking: “Why are all the interns wasting all this time? If you feel like you have nothing better to do than waiting in line, you’re at the wrong company. And by the way, I’m installing cameras to make sure that we don’t have lines at the coffee shop.” Keith believes that stamping out entitlement and expecting people to accomplish things every day also compounds over decades in Elon’s career. He recalls a principle PayPal cofounder Max Levchin taught him where he compares startups to gas in chemistry: “Gas expands to the size of the container… If you tell people they have a month, it’ll take a month. If you tell people it takes two weeks, it’ll take two weeks. Tell them a week, it’ll take a week. So you want to constantly compress the container size because those accomplishments add up over months, quarters, years, and decades.” Video source: Chris Vasquez (2024)

Keith Rabois tells the story of Elon Musk observing interns waiting in line for coffee at SpaceX Keith is asked how Elon Musk gets so much done, to which he replies: “If you approach every day and every week of your life with the question, ‘What did you accomplish this week?’ I think that compounds, and very few people do that. I think that’s the number one ingredient.” As for the second ingredient, Keith tells a story he heard from some friends at SpaceX where Elon observed a line of interns piling up around the coffee machine. This prompted Elon to send a memo to the company asking: “Why are all the interns wasting all this time? If you feel like you have nothing better to do than waiting in line, you’re at the wrong company. And by the way, I’m installing cameras to make sure that we don’t have lines at the coffee shop.” Keith believes that stamping out entitlement and expecting people to accomplish things every day also compounds over decades in Elon’s career. He recalls a principle PayPal cofounder Max Levchin taught him where he compares startups to gas in chemistry: “Gas expands to the size of the container… If you tell people they have a month, it’ll take a month. If you tell people it takes two weeks, it’ll take two weeks. Tell them a week, it’ll take a week. So you want to constantly compress the container size because those accomplishments add up over months, quarters, years, and decades.” Video source: Chris Vasquez (2024)

Startup Archive

197,396 views • 1 year ago

"The purest form of ambition and most intense source of energy in the business is the founder CEO. Every next concentric circle of management beyond the founder CEO has the potential to be an order of magnitude drop off in intensity. And that is f*cking dangerous. You don't need to buffer people from the intensity of the CEO—you need to absolutely mirror that intensity. There is an infinite supply of people under you who will buffer other team members from the intensity of the demands. Your job is not to be one of those buffers. If you want to achieve greatness, if you want an extraordinary outcome, then you have to relentlessly inject energy at every single step. Teams will always optimize for local comfort over company outcomes. Your job as an executive, as a leader, is to fight that entropy tooth and nail, every single day." — Matt MacInnis (Matt MacInnis), Rippling CPO/COO

"The purest form of ambition and most intense source of energy in the business is the founder CEO. Every next concentric circle of management beyond the founder CEO has the potential to be an order of magnitude drop off in intensity. And that is f*cking dangerous. You don't need to buffer people from the intensity of the CEO—you need to absolutely mirror that intensity. There is an infinite supply of people under you who will buffer other team members from the intensity of the demands. Your job is not to be one of those buffers. If you want to achieve greatness, if you want an extraordinary outcome, then you have to relentlessly inject energy at every single step. Teams will always optimize for local comfort over company outcomes. Your job as an executive, as a leader, is to fight that entropy tooth and nail, every single day." — Matt MacInnis (Matt MacInnis), Rippling CPO/COO

Lenny Rachitsky

75,835 views • 8 months ago

I am very happy and honoured to stand in front of you in Kota. I want to make it clear: this is not a political meeting. This is about you, about your future. This evening is about you, what you are facing, and the challenges you deal with every single day. : LoP Shri Rahul Gandhi 📍 Kota, Rajasthan #ChhatronKiGoonj

I am very happy and honoured to stand in front of you in Kota. I want to make it clear: this is not a political meeting. This is about you, about your future. This evening is about you, what you are facing, and the challenges you deal with every single day. : LoP Shri Rahul Gandhi 📍 Kota, Rajasthan #ChhatronKiGoonj

Congress

240,526 views • 3 months ago

"You can either produce excellence or you can avoid criticism. But you cannot do both of those. The reason that you don't have certain excellence that you want is because you are afraid of getting criticized. You are afraid of the judgment that comes with it. You are afraid of standing out. You are afraid of being alone. You are afraid of people looking at you. You are worried about what people think of you. There are 2 categories of things in this world: 1) Things that are up to you 2) Things that are not up to you Which category does your reputation sit in? Your reputation is not up to you. I'm the one who associates your reputation with something, not you. You just do things. What's up to you? How you act. Your decisions. Your actions. That is up to you. Your reputation is not up to you. Here's how I know that: You all have a reputation about me and it's not in my control. I get to say and do whatever I say and do up here. I am in control of saying it. I am in control of doing it. The moment words leave my lips, who has control over what is done with those words? You! You are in control of what you think of me. And there's no way everybody in this room is going to think the exact same thing about me. No way. When it comes to exceptional, what we've got to understand is you can spend your whole life trying to avoid criticism and earn reputation, and it still won't be in your control. We can waste a lot of time missing out on excellence we could have been producing if we were just simply LESS trying to engineer what we wanted other people to think about us."

"You can either produce excellence or you can avoid criticism. But you cannot do both of those. The reason that you don't have certain excellence that you want is because you are afraid of getting criticized. You are afraid of the judgment that comes with it. You are afraid of standing out. You are afraid of being alone. You are afraid of people looking at you. You are worried about what people think of you. There are 2 categories of things in this world: 1) Things that are up to you 2) Things that are not up to you Which category does your reputation sit in? Your reputation is not up to you. I'm the one who associates your reputation with something, not you. You just do things. What's up to you? How you act. Your decisions. Your actions. That is up to you. Your reputation is not up to you. Here's how I know that: You all have a reputation about me and it's not in my control. I get to say and do whatever I say and do up here. I am in control of saying it. I am in control of doing it. The moment words leave my lips, who has control over what is done with those words? You! You are in control of what you think of me. And there's no way everybody in this room is going to think the exact same thing about me. No way. When it comes to exceptional, what we've got to understand is you can spend your whole life trying to avoid criticism and earn reputation, and it still won't be in your control. We can waste a lot of time missing out on excellence we could have been producing if we were just simply LESS trying to engineer what we wanted other people to think about us."

Brian Kight

308,878 views • 1 year ago

"Allowing People to Diminish You is a Violent Act Against Yourself" Keke Palmer: Oprah, what is the single biggest mistake people make in their relationships with others? Oprah Winfrey: You are abusing yourself if you allow other people to be in your life to diminish you. You are punishing yourself it is a violent act against yourself to allow other people in your life to diminish you and not lift you and exalt you. Keke Palmer: Wow... that hits so deep. Oprah Winfrey: If you don't have people who see you for the light that you are, for the joy that you are, for the goodness that you bring... you are with the wrong people! I don't care how that shows up in your life. The reason that person keeps showing up in your life is for you to make the change. You can't change them. Keke Palmer: Absolutely. It’s like guiding yourself back to your own power rather than waiting for someone else to change. Oprah Winfrey: Exactly. You have had the power all along—you just have to remember it.

"Allowing People to Diminish You is a Violent Act Against Yourself" Keke Palmer: Oprah, what is the single biggest mistake people make in their relationships with others? Oprah Winfrey: You are abusing yourself if you allow other people to be in your life to diminish you. You are punishing yourself it is a violent act against yourself to allow other people in your life to diminish you and not lift you and exalt you. Keke Palmer: Wow... that hits so deep. Oprah Winfrey: If you don't have people who see you for the light that you are, for the joy that you are, for the goodness that you bring... you are with the wrong people! I don't care how that shows up in your life. The reason that person keeps showing up in your life is for you to make the change. You can't change them. Keke Palmer: Absolutely. It’s like guiding yourself back to your own power rather than waiting for someone else to change. Oprah Winfrey: Exactly. You have had the power all along—you just have to remember it.

FlickHub

28,144 views • 1 month ago

“The World is Bigger than you. “ As bad of a day you are having someone is having a worse one, as hard of a job you have someone has a harder one. Use the understanding that we are merely specs in the grand scheme of this Earth, when you’re individual life feels too overwhelming. There is a freedom is knowing the world doesn’t start and stop with you, a pressure that is taken off. But on the flip its important to understand what things in your world make it: is it your loved ones, your faith, your possessions. It’s a balancing act of zooming in and zooming out. There’s something to be grateful for every step of the way if you look hard enough

“The World is Bigger than you. “ As bad of a day you are having someone is having a worse one, as hard of a job you have someone has a harder one. Use the understanding that we are merely specs in the grand scheme of this Earth, when you’re individual life feels too overwhelming. There is a freedom is knowing the world doesn’t start and stop with you, a pressure that is taken off. But on the flip its important to understand what things in your world make it: is it your loved ones, your faith, your possessions. It’s a balancing act of zooming in and zooming out. There’s something to be grateful for every step of the way if you look hard enough

Meech

14,594 views • 4 months ago