"Life shrinks or expands in
proportion to one's courage." – Anais Nin
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars..... Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
“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
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 ….
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) ….
“In real life it is
always the anvil that breaks the hammer, never the other way about.” – George
Orwell
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 ….
“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