Anais Nin Quote.....

 

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." – Anais Nin

Aristotle Quote....

 

“We want to be with friends who are better than ourselves, so that we can learn from them. At the very least, we want our friends to be the sort of people who can hold up a mirror to our soul, so that we can look into it frankly and gain a better idea of just how much work needs to be done on it.” - Aristotle

 

Weekly Retrospective....

 

What I’m Reading: How to Be a Stoic by Pigliucci Massimo and The Autobiography of Malcolm X…                

What I’m Listening To: Empire podcasts … 

What I’m Working On: Getting started ...      

Where I’m Succeeding: My Duolingo (Spanish) lessons – 30 days straight …           

Song Stuck in My Head: “Glycerine” – by Bush …    

Where I’m Struggling:  Staying focused …    

What I’m Grateful For: The ability to read … 

Quote That Has Me Thinking: “As far as the rest of us are concerned, remembering that people do bad things out of lack of wisdom is not only a reminder to be compassionate toward others, it also constantly tells us just how important it is to develop wisdom..” – Pigliucci Massimo

What I’m Excited About: Grilling chicken burgers later …

What I’ve Been Pondering: Creating the best me ….

Lenny Kravitz Quote....

 

“It’s a beautiful thing to really realize what you don’t need.” – Lenny Kravitz

Weekly Retrospective....

 

What I’m Reading: Atomic  Habits by James Clear and The Autobiography of Malcolm X…                

What I’m Listening To: Stacking Benjamins podcasts … 

What I’m Working On: Getting ready ...      

Where I’m Succeeding: My Duolingo (Spanish) lessons – 22 days straight …           

Song Stuck in My Head: “Who Made Who” – by AC/DC …    

Where I’m Struggling:  Creating my vision …    

What I’m Grateful For: Firsts … 

Quote That Has Me Thinking: “True life is lived when tiny changes occur.” – Leo Tolstoy

What I’m Excited About: Today …

What I’ve Been Pondering: How to get the kind of work in everyday that I did yesterday (image above) ….

George Orwell Quote....

 

“In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer, never the other way about.” – George Orwell

Weekly Retrospective....

 

What I’m Reading: Stillness is the Key by Ryan Holiday…                

What I’m Listening To: Bigger Pockets Money podcasts … 

What I’m Working On: Relaxing ...      

Where I’m Succeeding: Giving …           

Song Stuck in My Head: “One Last Breath” – by Creed    

Where I’m Struggling:  Starting …    

What I’m Grateful For: Undeserved grace … 

Quote That Has Me Thinking: “A crowded world thinks that aloneness is always aloneness and that to seek it is perversion.” – John Graves

What I’m Excited About: Opportunity …

What I’ve Been Pondering: The future ….

John Boyd Quote....

 

“If a man can reduce his needs to zero, he is truly free: there is nothing that can be taken from him and nothing anyone can do to hurt him.” – John Boyd, Warrior-Monk who revolutionized Western military strategy in the latter half of the twentieth century