If you come from a poor background - just freaking go for the fences.

Play big, be audacious, take chances.

What's going to happen to you? End up poor?

The worst case is that you end up where you started - and the most likely scenario is that you don't.

Go for it.

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When something is gone, something better is coming.

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A mask doesn’t fool the mirror. You can’t separate who you are from what you do.

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My father, never a rich man, gave me some advice: “If you want to really help the poor, son, don’t be one of them.” It took me awhile to understand the full depth of what that meant.
— Michael
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YOUR LACK OF URGENCY IS DESTROYING YOUR POTENTIAL.

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You can try your hardest and work yourself to the bone for them, but unless the effort is mutual, nothing will change.You can't change someone's behavior by loving them harder.

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This week's post
The things we choose to ignore

If you don’t choose your priorities, the world will choose for you.

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Avoiding hard conversations doesn’t save you from pain. It just postpones it and multiplies it later. Problems don’t fix themselves. They grow. Facing them early might be uncomfortable, but it’s the only way to keep them from taking over more than they should.

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Your soul

If you do not occupy it with what is right, it will occupy you with what is wrong.

-Ibn Taymiyyah

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Desire without discipline is simply a cheap drug with no cure.

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To be honest with oneself, to the point of complete humiliation, to the point of complete self-transparency, is the only sensible means to create beauty out of one's own disfigurement. The courageous act of unrelenting sincerity, at its culmination, delivers me from unending disgrace, and in spite of my flaws I have destroyed denial, that lies at the helm of deception and dishonesty.

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The quality of one’s thoughts produces the quality of one’s life.

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People suffering due to factors outside their control deserve all the compassion and assistance you can give them.

People who manufacture victimhood out of nothing, for the sake of winning status in a victim hierarchy, deserve your disdain.

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The devil won’t tempt you with fear always. He’ll often tempt you with comfort.

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Protip: When you take a hit, learn & quickly move from that headspace.

Feel it in the moment, assess the damage...and refocus forward

Never mentally stay in places you do not wish to live.

— Dr Julie Gurner

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John Steinbeck wrote in a journal every morning before he wrote what became The Grapes of Wrath. There in the journal we get to see Steinbeck daily reminding himself what it takes to finish such a project.

“There are so many things to go into this book. An astonishing number of things,” he writes. “This is a huge job. Musn’t think of its largeness but only of the little picture while I am working.” Nearly a dozen times, he tells himself some version of, “just a stint every day does it.” “Just do the day’s work.” “Just work a certain length of time and it will get done poco a poco.” “Just a matter of doing the daily stint.” “Just a stint every day does it. I keep forgetting.” “Just worry about the day’s work. That’s the only way to do it, I have found. But damn it, I have to learn it over again every time.” I think it’ll be my motto this week: Just do the daily stint.



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