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Disciple of Jesus Christ. "This is what the Lord requires of you: walk in justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with your God." Micah 6:8

[J’ae VESper 🩸 @TheJaeVESper]

Former NFL star Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson says he saved 83% of his $48,000,000 career earnings by wearing $10 fake jewelry from Claire's and flying Spirit Airlines.

Johnson says he was so focused early in his career that he lived at the Bengals' facility for his first two seasons.

> “Everything I need is right here.”

When teammates told him to buy expensive watches and jewelry...

He couldn't understand why.

> “What's the point?”

Instead of buying diamonds...

> “I went to Claire's. Who buy real diamonds when nobody’s gonna check ’em anyway?”

He says his name was already worth more than anything money could buy.

> “There's nothing I can buy that's bigger than my name.”

He also never understood spending tens of thousands on luxury watches.

> “What time is it?”

> “Time is free.”

Looking back, Johnson says that mindset is why he still has most of the money he earned.

> “I done saved 80–83% of my salary.”

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

Every successful person can attest to how their whole lives suddenly changed within the course of a few unexpected months, but there’s a nuance, it took them many years of “invisible work” to get to those few months, and they didn’t get to choose when their “luck” would begin.

[Matthew McConaughey @McConaughey]

bets still on the table America, yet.

[SKB @seyikanbai]

Thierry Henry and Zlatan Ibrahimović going aura for aura while casually juggling the ball. 😮‍💨🔥

[Sean trades @SRxTrades]

The entire system that made me over 7 figures in the last month...

Keep it simple.

[Jason Howerton @jason_howerton]

My sons are at the age now where it is VITAL that I teach them how money is linked to creating VALUE.

For most of their lives, money has flowed from dad to them. They need new shoes? Dad buys them etc.

Tonight, we are sitting down at the dinner table to implement *THIS* plan. I think this will be one of the most important things I do as a father.

Thank you @LewisHowes & @imScottDonnell for putting this in my feed at the right moment.

[Guy Benson @guypbenson]

Finally watched it all. Extraordinary.

[MLB Replays @MLBReplays_]

Royals vs Mets game 5 of the 2015 World Series.

[How I Write Clips @PerellClips]

What makes for a good ending?

Whether it's a movie, or a book, Anne Lamott looks for the following elements:

“The ending makes sense and that if I look back at all the pages before, I might have known. I could have intuitively seen this coming, but there is a little bit of surprise where I smile.”

Good endings are not only the product of a final scene, but a relationship forged with these characters. They become part of our lives.

“I love spending 300 pages with them. Every night for eight nights in a row I got to know these people, and I pulled for them. I lost confidence in them, they gave me faith in them again by making choices and decisions I didn’t know they had in them, and they moved on, just like in real life.”

[Steven St.John @SSJWHB]

I was so lucky to be in the stadium that night. One of my favorite memories of 14/15. What a game! 💙

[How I Write Clips @PerellClips]

Anne Lamott's storytelling formula: ABDCE

1) Action: something has to happen. Make the audience curious enough to stay.

2) Background: why are the characters together? What's the context? What are the stakes?

3) Development: things start moving. The story is directing you somewhere.

4) Climax: everything collides. The minor chords you've been playing crash into one another.

5) Ending: you walk the audience out gently in a way that feels. It should feel surprising but inevitable.

Here’s an example using Start Wars Episode IV:

1) Action: Desperate princess hides messages in a droid. Luke Skywalker discovers it.

2) Background: The Empire’s Death Star threatens the Rebel Alliance. The princess must be rescued.

3) Development: Luke and Han rescue Princess Leia. Plot to destroy the Death Star.

4) Climax: Epic space battle. Luke uses the Force, destroys the Death Star.

5) Ending: The Death Star is destroyed, but Darth Vader survives. The Empire plots vengeance.

Don't think of this formula like a straitjacket. Rather, think about it as a way to compose a master dish; you need salt, you need texture, you need heat, you need color.

@ANNELAMOTT

[Manisha Mishra @manishamishra24]

A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.

He knows his time is running out.

So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.

He died 5 months later.

This is that lecture.

The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇
Bookmark it for later

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

Moses spent 40 years thinking he was somebody; 40 learning he was nobody; and 40 discovering what God can do with a nobody.

— D. L. Moody

[internet archiva @internetarchiva]

3. Patch of Grass - Vincent Van Gogh, 1887

At first glance, it is just a painting as the name suggests. It depicts grass and flowers. However, in 2008, when the painting was subjected to macro X-ray fluorescent scanning, an entire portrait of a peasant woman emerged from beneath the vegetation.

She had been there since 1887, completely invisible, covered by a field of grass.

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

Politics are important, but listen to me: Politics cannot fix what politics did not break.

And Mankind was broken long before any political system.

Only a return to Jesus Christ who can reach inside the chests of men and give them new and living hearts of love, worship, and humility can save any person, any family, and any society.

Christ is the only way out of the chaos.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

An email from Coach Sommer I revisit often:

Hi Tim,

Patience. Far too soon to expect strength improvements. Strength improvements [for a movement like this] take a minimum of 6 weeks. Any perceived improvements prior to that are simply the result of improved synaptic facilitation. In plain English, the central nervous system simply became more efficient at that particular movement with practice. This is, however, not to be confused with actual strength gains.

Dealing with the temporary frustration of not making progress is an integral part of the path towards excellence. In fact, it is essential and something that every single elite athlete has had to learn to deal with. If the pursuit of excellence was easy, everyone would do it.

In fact, this impatience in dealing with frustration is the primary reason that most people fail to achieve their goals. Unreasonable expectations timewise, resulting in unnecessary frustration, due to a perceived feeling of failure. Achieving the extraordinary is not a linear process.

The secret is to show up, do the work, and go home.

A blue collar work ethic married to indomitable will. It is literally that simple. Nothing interferes. Nothing can sway you from your purpose. Once the decision is made, simply refuse to budge. Refuse to compromise.

And accept that quality long-term results require quality long-term focus. No emotion. No drama. No beating yourself up over small bumps in the road. Learn to enjoy and appreciate the process. This is especially important because you are going to spend far more time on the actual journey than with those all too brief moments of triumph at the end.

Certainly celebrate the moments of triumph when they occur. More importantly, learn from defeats when they happen. In fact, if you are not encountering defeat on a fairly regular basis, you are not trying hard enough. And absolutely refuse to accept less than your best.

Throw out a timeline. It will take what it takes.

If the commitment is to a long-term goal and not to a series of smaller intermediate goals, then only one decision needs to be made and adhered to. Clear, simple, straightforward. Much easier to maintain than having to make small decision after small decision to stay the course when dealing with each step along the way. This provides far too many opportunities to inadvertently drift from your chosen goal. The single decision is one of the most powerful tools in the toolbox.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

@Israel …on the ruins of Sodom and Gomorrah

You can’t make this up

[Unapologetic @Unapologx]

Some good humor and powerful message

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

I’m going to propose that you develop an uncanny ability to be selectively ignorant. Ignorance may be bliss, but it is also practical. It is imperative that you learn to ignore or redirect all information and interruptions that are irrelevant, unimportant, or unactionable. Most are all three.

Lifestyle design is based on massive action—output. Increased output necessitates decreased input.

Most information is time-consuming, negative, irrelevant to your goals, and outside of your influence.

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

@JoshuaBarzon Good book for the RIGHT person.

A huge number of people read it as “the ruthless elimination of hard work”