I think it’s very chic to be intentional with what you spend your money on, mindful of the items you surround yourself with and clear about what you will and won’t stand for — having strong boundaries not only with others but also yourself.
if you spend all day at a fish market, you’ll leave smelling like fish, even if you never touched one
but spend your day in a perfume shop and you’ll carry the scent even if you didn’t buy anything, that’s how environment works. it rubs off, whether you realize it or not. stay around complainers and everything starts to look negative. stay around excuse makers and growth feels optional but get around people who move with purpose, you’ll feel it.
get around people who live in gratitude, you’ll start to see differently. the scent of your environment will always follow you.
Don't worry about being the most interesting person in the room, just try to be the most interested person in the room.
The interested person asks about others and leaves a good impression because people like talking about themselves. The interested person is genuinely curious about someone's craft and learns a lot about how things work. The interested person engages with more people and—because opportunities come through people—is more likely to catch a lucky break.
In general, the interested person learns more and tends to be well-liked. And in the long run, it's hard to keep down someone who is well-learned and well-liked.
Dems are doing ok refuting Trump's narrative from his bizarro speech, but - IMO - that's NOT the most important thing they should be doing! Dems REALLY need to focus on forcefully and pointedly presenting the argument that Trump is so erratic, unstable, and so full of falsehood and delusion, that he is NO LONGER ABLE to carry out the duties of the presidency and therefore MUST BE REMOVED from office.
Look at him! Listen to him! To do anything but broach his unfitness and removal is to normalize that. And to normalize Trump, is to normalize psychopathy, FFS!
So say it, Dems. Say it loud. And say it on TV.
It's true, it's 100% accurate, it shows the mettle that Dem and Indie voters want to see, and it needs to be out there now, all day, every day.
Good morning. The air is heavy and my dog is a good boy.
In his speech last night, Trump was raspy, stiff, struggled to read, his meter was off, he was extra repetitive, and I'd guess we've probably heard his last-ever complete sentence.
His disorders rule him now. He is speaking to an ever-smaller base, and independents are against him. Still, and despite this, he simply cannot pivot, cannot stop, and cannot shut up.
He is insane, terrified, and a traitor to America.
Have a nice day!
When you dedicate 20 minutes a day, with a physical book, of great literature, no matter what your life looks like, you’re fighting against the enormous tsunami of pressure from this era trying to make you stupid and incapable of thinking well.
In case you forgot, we live on a planet where lightning turns sand into glass, trees communicate, dolphins give each other names, octopuses dream, bees dance to find their way, and forests bloom again after fire. A world that’s quietly, impossibly beautiful.
If Democrats were rigging elections, that fat orange pedophile wouldn’t be president, you’d have universal healthcare, and your kids would be safe at school. Be fucking serious.
Major life hack: Don't complain, ever. Nobody likes a complainer. They drain the energy of everyone around them. It's exhausting spending time around someone who constantly complains about things outside their control. If it's within your control, go do something about it. If it's not, you're just wasting energy thinking about it. Complaining gives too much power to the thing. Take back that power.
Americans forget that it’s the duty of the government to provide a prosperous society for us to live in. They owe us clean water, safe communities, funded schools, healthy food, universal healthcare, reliable public transport, etc.
That’s not entitlement, that’s the baseline.