Quotes
“All you need is ignorance and confidence and success is certain” - Mark Twain
"Action is the foundational key to all success." — Picasso
"You can’t get much done in life if you only work on days when you feel good." — Jerry West
"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done." —Bruce Lee
"Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest." — Leo Babauta
"You got this" (on achieving your goals) - Teronie J. Donaldson (yep, that's me — cool, right?)
Notes/Observations
1 Corinthians 15:33: Bad company destroys bad habits
I heard this quote from a motivational video I watched between sets working out at the gym.
It hit home because a few weeks ago, former co-workers from my early construction days invited me for drinks at a bar.
I don't mind having a few drinks, but I do so at home or around people I am comfortable with; from what I remember, these fellows party hard, a little too hard for my taste. I know because of the stories they used to tell me while working with them.
I was tempted to join but thought to myself, "Would I really enjoy hanging out with these fellows in that capacity?"
The answer was no.
Maybe in my younger days, but not now. All I could think of was that I would end up drinking, not doing my workout goals, and spending unnecessary money.
The quote may insinuate that those guys were bad, but they weren't — the quote is relevant because you must look at any company that takes you away from being the best you can be as "bad" company.
Enhancing as much of your good company as possible is the best return on your life. The better the company you keep, the more success, happiness, and opportunities you have.
Funny enough, one of those guys told me they got into a scuffle with another guy at the bar after having too many drinks — Imagine that…
Articles
Watched
Takeaways:
Partnerships are necessary to reach the level of success you want.
Keep building your business, don't rely on being a gun for hire; build your ecosystem.
Success requires sacrifice, but the sacrifice is okay as long as it is for the bigger picture.
Good Luck to You, Leo Grand
Nancy Stokes welcomes a young sex worker named Leo Grande into a hotel room. Nancy is anxious, having booked him online in a rare moment of self-indulgence within a largely repressed life. Nancy explains that her husband, who died two years ago, was the only sexual partner she ever had, and their sex life was extremely unfulfilling. Her husband never allowed her to perform oral sex on him or performed it on her, declaring the act to be demeaning to him. Nancy has never experienced orgasm, only faking it for her husband during the passionless missionary sex they never deviated from. Nancy is also embarrassed about her physical appearance and age, which Leo has no qualms about and encourages her to embrace.
My Takeaways
Be comfortable in your body. Enjoy it to the fullest.
Live your truth.
A life filled with sexual repression keeps you from living your true self.
Strategy
The Loci Technique is a way to expand your memorization skills. It involves taking a place or room you know well and attaching parts of whatever you’re memorizing to objects in that place. Then, you mentally walk through the room to remember each point.
Book of the Week
Limitless by Jim Kwik
Takeaways
When you put a label on someone or something, you create a limit - the label becomes the limitation. Adults must be very careful with their external words because these quickly become a child's internal words.
If you are not learning or living at your full potential if there is a gap between your current reality and your desired reality, here's the reason: There is a limit that must be released and replaced in one of three areas;
1- A limit in your mindset- You entertain a low belief in yourself, your capabilities, what you deserve, or what is possible.
2- A limit in your Motivation- you lack the drive, purpose, or energy to take action.
3- A limit in your methods - you were taught and are acting on an ineffective process in creating the desired results.
Question
What Time of Day Am I the Most Productive?
An essential question to ask yourself as you understand how your momentum works. If you are a morning person, doing your most important work will be an advantage.