Startup Tech Founder, Sustainable lifestyle enthusiast, Industrialist Innovator, Proud Mom & took my late mom name to undo & redo her story. #newlegacy#God1st!
@sweatystartup They tired to convince me many years smh 🤦🏽♀️ I refused and was told I would great it. That was the moment I pulled him out of charter school into private and rim private into homeschooling. His now senior just made 4.0gpa.
Parents you know your children best!
If your ambition fades with age, you don't really have it in your blood.
- That's an "interest," not a passion.
- It's a "job," not obsession.
True, deep passions stick with you for life...
It's hard to live with, and never stops.
Real Ambition is a Monster.
There is so much power, in being the person who is genuinely excited to win & for other people to win...
It's endless fuel & high-fives.
Jealousy and resentment will eat you alive.
Eyes forward. Mind your own game.
Dig into yourself & your work.
Do something great too.
You have to be fine being utterly unrelatable, to achieve anything big in life...
Walk through the fire. It's worth it.
Read more on experience of being unrelatable, and how some of the very successful experience it, cope with it, and direct it: https://t.co/KVRXxr9kj7
Most people don't lack potential...
They keep repeating patterns in:
- how they think
- what they do
...that keep them small & stuck.
You get to decide how big you will be & what you will do.
As soon as you give that control away, you are lost.
Kobe Bryant: "Failure doesn't exist, it's a figment of your imagination"
An interviewer asks: "Are you someone who loves to win or hates to lose?"
Kobe responds:
"I'm neither. I play to figure things out. I play to learn something. Because if you play with a fear of failure or you play with the will to win that supersedes fear, I think it's a weakness either way. If you play with fear of failing, you'll capitulate to that fear. If you play with the sense of 'I want to win, I want to win,' then you have the fear of what happens if you don't. But if you find common ground in the center, you're unfazed by either. That enables you to stay in the moment and not feel anything other than what's in front of you."
The interviewer asks: "How did you become someone who doesn't seem afraid of failing?"
Kobe responds:
"What does failure mean? It doesn't exist. It's a figment of your imagination."
He explains with an analogy:
"Let's use happy endings. Everybody wants a happy ending, right? Snow White finds her prince and lives happily ever after. Well, I call BS on that because two months later, they had an argument and he's sleeping on the couch. The point is: the story continues. So if you fail on Monday, the only way it's a failure is if you decide to not progress from that. If I fail today, I'm going to learn something from that failure and try again on Tuesday. That's why failure doesn't exist."
The interviewer asks: "If you finished your career without a championship, would you have looked at that as a failure?"
Kobe:
"No. I would look at it as being extremely disappointed, because I had a dream and goals I wanted to accomplish. If I didn't accomplish those goals, I'd have to ask myself why. Poor leadership? Failure to communicate with my teammates? Lack of preparation? Those would be reasons why I didn't win. So I'd have to analyze that. And as I evolved post-basketball into business, those same weaknesses would reveal themselves there too. If I don't learn from that, I'm going to struggle again."
He concludes:
"I can take those situations and learn from them and have them make me a better person later in life. But if I don't take that stuff and apply it someplace else, that's failing. The worst possible thing you can ever do is to stop. It's to not learn."
If you are unsure of a course of action, do not attempt it. Your doubts and hesitations will infect your execution. Timidity is dangerous: Better to enter with boldness. Any mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity. Everyone admires the bold; no one honors the timid.