Ricky W Halverson

God first family-loving guy just working on making each day a little bit better. Be the Change You Want to See!

[Jasmine Quinn @Elise_Bergeron1]

Messed with the Wrong ONE!😲😲

[10,000 Takes @10k_Takes]

Remember when Matt Boldy cooked the Stars entire team?

[Wow, He’s Tsonga! @_aboihasnoname]

Thanos’s life on retirement.

Lmao this is honestly what AI should be used for.

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

Nick Saban said it best:

“Leadership is about helping somebody else for their benefit, not yours.”

Leadership isn’t about you.

It’s about helping others grow, succeed, and believe.

That’s how great teams are built.

[Words of Wise | Mindset Coach @Wordofwise_]

“We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.”

— Pierce Brosnan

[Chris Pronger @chrispronger]

The conversation you have with yourself matters.

Elite athletes don't just visualize success. They reinforce it with positive self-talk. Confidence starts with what you tell yourself every day.

How are you visualizing your success, and what are you telling yourself?

[Alan Stein, Jr. @AlanSteinJr]

You can't control what happens to you.

But you can always control the effort you give and the attitude you bring—and that's where high performance begins.

[Hoop Herald @TheHoopHerald]

“To be successful at anything, the truth is you don’t have to be special. You just have to be what most people aren’t: consistent, determined and willing to work for it.”

[successmovers @successmoverss]

“The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is underrated.”

— Viggo Mortensen

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Jordan Peterson on why you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are:

1. The deepest lesson under the Buddha's enlightenment is not "deny the world." It is that you should never let what you are stop you from being what you could be. The material world only becomes worth abandoning if your attachment to it is making you less than you could become.

2. What you identify with determines what you become. If you identify with what you already are, clinging to order, you become a tyrant. If you identify with chaos, the opposite of order, you become nihilistic. Both are traps. The way through is to identify with neither.

3. Identify instead with the capacity to continually transcend what you are. Not with any fixed state, but with the process of becoming more. That single shift changes how you relate to everything, including your own failures.

4. Seeking out your own errors on purpose is what humility actually is. You put yourself in situations where you can discover where you are wrong, where your limits are, where there is not yet enough of you, ideally in a way that challenges you without knocking you out of the game.

5. But you can exhaust yourself fighting dragons. Challenge is necessary, but unlimited challenge burns you out. Peterson coached lawyers with infinite workloads who worked flat out and were destroying themselves, because there was always more work to do.

6. The counterintuitive fix was to work less and rest on a schedule. He had them block off four days every three months, planned so far ahead the calendar protected it. They tracked billable hours to test it, and the hours went up. You can have the vacation and the productivity at once.

7. You are not optimizing this week, you are building a 30-year career. The goal is a game you can play today and still play next month and next decade, one that does not make you bitter or worn to a frazzle. burn off a feather at a time instead of letting the whole thing burst into flames.

8. To be renewed, you have to drink the water of life, and water is chaos. It washes away too much order. Staying refreshed means taking on exactly the right amount of chaos to keep your garden nourished, no more and no less.

9. Meaning is the marker that you have the balance right. Peterson calls this one of the only ideas he has ever found that he believes to be rock solid. You can use your own sense of meaning to calibrate your progress through life.

10. It starts with two decisions. The first is a decision of love, that being is worthwhile, and you will work to better it. The second is a decision of truth, that you will play a straight game. Aim at the highest good you can currently conceive, and update it as you learn.

11. It is better to be engaged in a hard problem than to have no problem at all. You do not escape the problem of being. You find one worth solving and become so engaged that the engagement justifies the problem's existence. You get the problem and the solution at the same time.

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Derek Jeter shares a truth about failure that most people don't want to hear.

"Failure is essential. If I can promise you one thing for certain, you will fail. I wouldn't have had the success without the failures."

Failure isn't the opposite of success - it's part of the path to it.

Successful people don't avoid adversity. They expect it. They know that they must learn from the setbacks and challenges.

You can't avoid failure - you have to be relentless in your pursuits and refuse to let it stop you.

Failure isn't a destination - it's a checkpoint. It's where growth begins.

(🎥 MLive)

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

Most people want championship results.

Very few are willing to live a championship life.

“Life is hard. No matter who you are there are bumps, hits, and bruises along the way.” - Tom Brady

That line is powerful because it’s true for everyone.

No one gets a free pass.

The difference isn’t who avoids adversity. It’s who keeps showing up when adversity arrives.

Here are 5 things champions do that most people don’t:

1: They stay consistent when motivation disappears.

Anyone can work hard for a day. Champions do it for years.

2: They choose discipline over feelings.

They don’t ask, “Do I feel like it today?”They ask, “What does the standard require?”

3: They embrace the boring.

The greatest performances are built on ordinary habits repeated over and over.

4: They own everything.

No excuses.
No blaming.
No pointing fingers.
Just responsibility.

5: They keep going after setbacks.

Failure isn’t the end. It’s feedback. Champions get back up one more time than everyone else.

Being a champion isn’t about trophies.

It’s about becoming the type of person your teammates, family, coworkers, and kids can count on every single day.

That’s a championship life.

[Dov Kleiman @NFL_DovKleiman]

"Dad, how good was prime Chris Carter?"

The greatest hands of all time 🐐

[Ricky W Halverson @NDMNgitpicker]

https://t.co/gTu4VOFWyg

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

This STAR WARS teaser trailer was screened before ‘King Kong’ in December of 1976.

The special effects weren’t finished, the music is NOT John Williams, and all in all it gives off a very different much darker vibe.

Interesting.

[Chuck Foreman @ChuckForeman]

Bud Grant always meant a lot to me. Hearing something like that after all these years... means everything.

Watch the full episode here: https://t.co/eis6Qr4T7E

[Words of Wise | Mindset Coach @Wordofwise_]

"If you feel pain, you're real alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being."

— Leo Tolstoy

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

This sentence by Nietzsche hits hard:

“I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.”

[Roy Rogers Happy Trails Music Shop  @RoyRogers_HTMS]

🤯 Only Eddie Van Halen turns Tokyo Dome into his bedroom and casually destroys “Eruption” like this! Sitting back, legs crossed, lightning taps and whammy-bar wizardry flowing like it’s nothing. Pure joy, god-tier tone, zero effort. The undisputed guitar king 👑🎸 Van Halen forever! #EVH