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[Joey Swoll @TheJoeySwoll]

Just left the funeral of a friend that took his own life this week. He was one of the nicest, kindest, most selfless people ever always helping others. He would do anything to make someone smile that needed it so it made me think of one of my favorite quotes from the late Robin Williams.

"I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anyone else to feel like that."

#MensMentalHealth

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

A reminder from Atomic Habits by James Clear:

“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity. This is one reason why meaningful change does not require radical change. Small habits can make a meaningful difference by providing evidence of a new identity. And if a change is meaningful, it is actually big. That's the paradox of making small improvements.”

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

C.S. Lewis once said:

“To be happy at home is the end of all human endeavor. The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of beer, or a person alone reading a book that interests them; and all economics, politics, laws, armies, and institutions, are only valuable in so far as they prolong and multiply such scenes.”

[𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐞🪽 @soulful_indigo]

Birds only sing when they feel safe, thus signaling on a deep, cellular level that you are safe too. Their frequencies calm the nervous system, lowering cortisol and anxiety. Birdsong is nature’s medicine.

[Mind and Glory 🎖 @mindandglory]

Study the man who never celebrates publicly, never complains openly, and never lets you know exactly how close he is to winning.

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

Get addicted to thinking positively about your life. Not delusion, not pretending everything is perfect, but training your mind to stop betraying your future with fear. Speak life over yourself until your spirit starts believing you again. Expect good things. Look for lessons. Trust your process. Some battles are won the moment your mind stops agreeing with defeat.

[MLB Network @MLBNetwork]

What has led to Miguel Vargas' breakout season?

The @whitesox slugger joined us LIVE in Studio 21 to dive into his hitting adjustments and what goes through his mind in the batter's box!

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Gregg Popovich shares his final message and it has nothing to do with wins and losses.

"The wins and losses are all crap. The highs and lows are all crap. It's illusory. It doesn't really exist."

"What exists is seeing these guys and their kids. Those relationships with your assistant coaches - everybody else you're with - your colleagues, your friends."

"'Cause that's what you take with you as you move along."

The best leaders and coaches invest in people.

"All those wins or losses - they fade away. They fade away."

"But those relationships stick with you forever. And that's where the self-esteem and the self-satisfaction comes."

A must-listen message for all coaches, players, parents, and teach out there.

Great leadership isn't one style. It's knowing your people well enough to give them what they need. Invest in the relationships.

Care about people, hold them to their potential, and lead in your style.
(🎥NBA )

[Philosway @philosway]

"People ruin the calmest souls and call them toxic, when they finally react. "

— Albert Camus

[conduct|r @conductr_]

A reminder from Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl:

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke ‘em down to nothing.”

― Tom Waits

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

The nicest thing literature does is this: it tells you that your strange little feelings are not that strange. Someone, somewhere, in some century, was also confused by love, bored by society, tired of pretending, and hungry for meaning.

[Joshua Mellin @JoshuaMellin]

🏟️ Full house at Comiskey for White Sox / Dodgers

[Mike @ChiSoxFanMike]

THIS MEANS SOMETHING TO ME.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Epictetus said it right:

“You can't hope to make progress in areas where you have taken no action.”

[Retro Recall (☥𝐃𝐁) @RetroMoviesDB]

I wish kids today knew how hard this intro truly went...

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Every fact is “fake news”

Every protest is “paid agitators”

Everything they don’t like is a “hoax”

Every election they lose is “rigged”

Imagine being so fucking weak and pathetic that you have to invent an alternate reality because you’re incapable of dealing with the truth.

[James Fegan @JRFegan]

Spoke to White Sox hitting director Ryan Fuller about some elements of their offensive identity that I found interesting. If you get something out of it, that's cool too.

https://t.co/28UlFzxSEW

[Dylan Barnas @NotCease]

Pitchers this season to go 6+ IP, 0 ER, 0 BB, 4+ Ks against the Braves:

Davis Martin, tonight.

End of list.