Steve Rubio

A fan and promoter of all things positive. Wrestling fan.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Be a foolish doer.

A foolish doer will outperform a smart thinker every time.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

A peak life advice from James Clear:

“You are not your grand plans. You are your daily patterns.”

[Digi @digiii]

Life is fucking electric bro. Don’t fall for the doomer shit. Thats for losers and normies scared of their own shadows. Walk around like God sent you and smile at everyone you see. Spread light and abundance. Build things and take chances. This is the best time in history!

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

Now Trump is planning on selling off a part of Yosemite to private developers. Is he trying to destroy everything we hold dear? It feels like we're under attack, from the inside.

[Travis J Davidson @TravisSkol]

The OU Media Team is on a generational run.

[Napoleon Hill @napoleonmastery]

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

Most of what is frightening you about the future was probably written by people with no intention of building any of it.

[James Clear @JamesClear]

I split problems into two groups: muddy puddles and leaky ceilings.

Some problems are like muddy puddles. The way to clear a muddy puddle is to leave it alone. The more you mess with it, the muddier it becomes. Many of the problems I dream up when I'm overthinking or worrying or ruminating fall into this category. Is life really falling apart or am I just in a sour mood? Is this as hard as I'm making it or do I just need to go work out? Drink some water. Go for a walk. Get some sleep. Go do something else and give the puddle time to turn clear.

Other problems are like a leaky ceiling. Ignore a small leak and it will always widen. Relationship tension that goes unaddressed. Overspending that becomes a habit. One missed workout drifting into months of inactivity. Some problems multiply when left unattended. You need to intervene now.

Are you dealing with a leak or a puddle?

[Dirty Flannel @DirtyFlannel90]

MTV’s Unplugged series was a real test for the musicians of that era.

Sure, you sound huge wired up to stacks of amps with distortion and effects stacked on top of each other.

But can you do it in a small room, up close to the audience, without all the gear to hide behind?

Stripped naked of the electricity.

Just the songs, the voices, and whatever you could pull out of an acoustic guitar and bongos.

The Stone Temple Pilots walked into that room in 1993 and passed the test.

Scott Weiland sat in a rocking chair like he owned the place.

No theatrics, no wall of sound to lean on.

Just the band and the material.

“Plush,” “Creep,” “Wicked Garden,” and the first public airing of “Big Empty.”

It held up. The songs didn’t need the volume to work.

That was the point of the whole series.

Some bands just got quieter.

The ones that mattered found a different kind of power when everything else was taken away.

“Plush”
STP

[Jim Rohn Official @OfficialJimRohn]

"Ten years from now, you will surely become someone. The big question is, who?" — Jim Rohn

You don't get to opt out of becoming. You only get to choose the direction.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Marcus Aurelius wrote this over 1800 years ago:

“Be satisfied with even the smallest progress.”

[Potato @Potatxxl]

In 1987 Nike had $600 million in revenue. Phil Knight was stuck. The company was losing ground to Reebok, burning cash, and nobody inside could agree on what to do next.

He brought in Les Brown to speak to his executive team.

Brown was found abandoned in Miami at 6 weeks old. Labeled mentally retarded at age 9. Failed fifth grade twice. Had no degree, no connections, no money.

By 1987 he was the highest-paid motivational speaker in America. Marriott paid him. McDonald's paid him. General Electric paid him. Fortune 500 companies flew him in because one session with Les Brown changed how their people think.

Nike's revenue crossed $1 billion two years later.

Brown built all of it on one thing he learned by losing everything.

He made a promise to his adopted mother to buy her a house. Worked years to get the down payment. Found a home on the water in Miami. Signed without a title search.

A registered letter arrived weeks later. A $12,000 lien against the property. The previous owner's debt. 30 days to pay or lose the house.

He lost the house. Lost 23 pounds in the process. Packed his mother back into the old neighborhood while the same neighbors who watched them leave watched them return.

He stood in the driveway unloading furniture with his head down crying.

His mother said hold your head up. You have nothing to be ashamed of.

For weeks he couldn't move. Couldn't think. Couldn't plan.

He said the mind works like a gas pump. You cannot start pumping until the previous bill clears. Anger doesn't clear. Humiliation doesn't clear. They sit on the lever and nothing moves.

He told the story of a man everyone in Columbus called Chicken Man.

Woke up at 3am to a house on fire. Got out the window. Heard his wife and children screaming. Ran back. The flames were too hot. He could not get in.

The screaming stopped.

His brother-in-law arrived and started hitting him. Calling him a coward over and over.

When people pulled him off they asked if he was all right.

Chicken Man looked at them and started making the sounds of a chicken. He never spoke again. Drove around the city for the rest of his life with a toy chicken on his car and a photo of his wife in a baby carriage.

Brown said most people walking around are carrying something exactly like that. An event from years ago still running their entire life.

80% of the people you tell your story to don't care. The other 20% are glad it happened to you and not them.

The question is never what happened. The question is what are you going to do about it.

The lecture is free on YouTube. Just over an hour.

Almost nobody has watched it as a precise diagnosis of why capable people stay exactly where they are.

[⭕️U - Woerzy @woerzyfbaby]

Some of yall sound ridiculous talking about BV is 32-20 at Oklahoma…

RILEY left him NOTHING. Did we forget that?

Let’s talk about how he went 10-3 in his first season with HIS true cycle of players.

Let the haters talk. BV has OU trending 📈.

Facts don’t care about opinions.

[Funky 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @Benaskren]

For anyone who needs to hear this:

The point of your sports IS NOT to be good at youth sports.

The point is to teach values that will make them successful as they get older in sports AND life.

If you appropriately teach these values you will have many successful athletes that enter their adult years!!!!

If instead your kids peak between 8-14 years old it is not the kids fault, it is your systems fault and your values are misplaced.

[RJ Ochoa @rjochoa]

It feels like it has been a long time since somebody who so vocally wanted to play for the Cowboys got to do it.

Von manifested this. Hopefully he and everyone else truly manifests it all working out the way we want.

[Napoleon Hill @napoleonmastery]

First: I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my definite purpose, therefore I demand of myself persistent, aggressive and continuous action toward its attainment.

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Underrated life skill: Refusing to let one person’s bad mood become yours. Negativity spreads fast, but so does optimism. Protect your energy, then raise the energy around you. Sometimes the most valuable thing you can bring to a difficult situation is a better attitude.

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

The reason it’s hard isn’t because it’s actually hard, but because you thought it would be easy.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Marcus Aurelius wrote this over 1800 years ago:

“It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.”