JakeMedcalf

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

John Wooden said, “Helping others is perhaps the greatest joy! You cannot have a perfect day without helping others with no thought of getting something in return.”

Acts of service enrich our lives.

It means selflessness, kindness, and serving.

Serving is a reward by itself.

[Teddy Mitrosilis @TMitrosilis]

Two summers ago, Kara Lawson was speaking to her Duke basketball team.

She wanted them to shift their mindset.

What followed was 2+ minutes of gold on how to be successful.

Here’s Lawson on embracing hard things:

“We all wait in life for things to get easier. Think in your own life. I just gotta get through this, and then it'll be easy … It's what we do. We wait for stuff to get easier.

“It will never get easier. What happens is you handle hard better.

“Most people think life is gonna get easier. Basketball is gonna get easier. School is gonna get easier. It never gets easier. What happens is you become someone that handles hard stuff better.

“That's a mental shift that has to occur and each of your brains. If you go around waiting for stuff to get easier in life, it's never going to happen. And then what happens? Oh, it's so hard. Oh, I can't do it. When is it going to be easy for me? Oh, it's easy for other people.

“It's not. It's hard. And the second we see you handling hard better, what are we gonna do? We're gonna make it harder. Because we're preparing you for when you leave here. Not just basketball – in life.

“And if you think life when you leave college is going to all of a sudden get easy because you graduated and you got a degree, it's not going to get easier. It's going to get harder.

“Make yourself a person that handles hard well, not someone that's waiting for the easy. Because if you have a meaningful pursuit in life, it will never be easy. If you're trying to win a championship, if you're trying to have a family … Ask your parents. Do you think it was ever easy for them?

“If you want to be successful, it goes to the people that handle hard well. Those are the people that get the stuff they want … If it's hard, don't get discouraged. It's supposed to be. Don't wait for it to be [easy]. It won't.

"Make yourself someone that handles hard well, and then whatever comes, you're going to be great.”

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My takeaways:

1. This isn’t about sports. It’s about building a business, building a family, building a community, being a valuable citizen and every other meaningful thing in life.

2. “Hard” doesn’t mean “bad.” There can be joy in hard things.

3. There’s a Haitian proverb: “Behind mountains are more mountains.” There’s always another one to climb.

4. What you see on social media is a facade. People make their lives look glamorous online. Behind the screen is a human being struggling through their journey.

5. None of us are immune to difficulty (even if some try to appear that way).

6. “Easy” is convenient, “hard” is fulfilling. What satisfies you in the short-term robs you in the long run.

7. Have you ever heard someone tell a story about how easy a great achievement was?

8. “Easy choices hard life, hard choices easy life” misses the point. We shouldn’t seek an easy life to begin with.

9. Instead, build your capacity for difficult things. Then find joy in the process of handling those things.

10. No meaningful life travels an easy road.

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Hope this is helpful. Follow me @TMitrosilis for more writing.

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[JakeMedcalf @PastorJakeM]

I’m an idiot - and never thought of this genius move

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

After sitting the final 18 minutes of Nuggets loss, Warriors forward Jonathan Kuminga has lost faith in Steve Kerr and no longer believes that Kerr will allow him to reach his full potential, sources say.

Story at @TheAthletic with @anthonyVslater: https://t.co/TIAGABnyS8

[Warriors Huddle @WarriorsHuddle]

The Warriors should consider acquiring Moses Moody. He’d be a great fit for this roster

[Natalie Esquire @natfluential]

#DubNation is definitely on Moses Moody’s side

[Jim Park🏀🌌 @Sheridanblog]

Steve Kerr. For the love of God - STOP CLOSING GAMES WITH CP. STOP THINKING DARIO AT THE 5 is OKAY.

Mike Dunleavy. TRADE CP. That's the only way to stop this. TRADE HIM NOW.

It's not CP's fault. He makes them TOO SMALL TO CLOSE. This HAS TO STOP.

[Ryan Fritzberg @Ryan_TheMayor23]

If I'm @JonathanKuming6 @mosesmoody I'm demanding a trade immediately, I wouldn't even be mad at them. To see them get wasted away and not being allowed to develop and when PLAYING WELL get sent to the bench not to return, it's an absolute joke. Lottery picks but treated like UFA

[4 of them @Nate_moseby]

Ws deserve that loss. But not cause of the players.

Steve Kerr has to on the hot seat today. He iced Kuminga and went back to Wiggins. He sat Podz for CP3.

Neither choice has any justification outside of ageism. Kerr has to go

[Don Showalter @dshow23]

Pretty much says it all!!

[Dr. Jim Afremow @goldmedalmind]

“People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.”
―F. M. Alexander #TheLeadersMind 🏆

[JakeMedcalf @PastorJakeM]

@BontaHill @ButcherBoy415 Need you gentlemen to answer this question

“Where is the Draymond “needs to go” line? How many more ejections, suspensions, punches before the Warrior fan base and management are forced to make a change?

10, 15, 20?

#draymondcountdown

[Golden State Warriors @warriors]

11 PTS
4-4 FG
all in Q4

Way to work, @mosesmoody ⚡️

[JakeMedcalf @PastorJakeM]

@ButcherBoy415 Could not understand that rotation at all!! Moody was cooking.

[JakeMedcalf @PastorJakeM]

@Athletics Medcalfs are out here supporting the local squad!!

[Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle]

Have the billionaires that can't afford workers tried to not eat so much avocado toast?

[Shane Claiborne @ShaneClaiborne]

“There is enough for everyone’s need, but there is not enough for everyone’s greed.”

-Gandhi

[JakeMedcalf @PastorJakeM]

This is a theological disaster...and the cause of so much pain, trauma, grief, and violence against Gods children.

This is not the Jesus of the scriptures.

[Jason S. Campbell @JasonSCampbell]

CNN's Rick Santorum: "We birthed a nation from nothing. I mean, there was nothing here. I mean, yes we have Native Americans but candidly there isn't much Native American culture in American culture"

[JakeMedcalf @PastorJakeM]

Amen...

[Michael Frost @michaelfrost6]

Here's @scotmcknight calling a spade a spade.
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[Bob Roberts Jr. ن @bobrobertsjr]

The strongest insulation & greatest detractor from true faith is tribal faith - it shifts the prophetic from the church to the society & redefines the message of Jesus to accommodate a misdirected church