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J Cleveland Payne
Motivation is a very popular topic on Mondays. J Cleveland Payne has consistently produced Monday message since 2012 via social media and expanded that reach to podcasting in 2018. Look for the Welcome to your Monday message from ‘Your Mister Monday’ every week in your podcast feed or at the website welcometoyourmonday.com.
Time is a construct to keep track of reality. Ten minutes ago is history. Ten minutes from now is the future. The only thing that is real is what you experience in the moment.
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The easiest way to raise your own level of frustrations is to see a wrong and decide to do something to make it right. Take on the frustration and pledge to keep doing something.
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‘No’ only has two letters. But when followed by a period or exclamation point, it is a full sentence that conveys a complete answer to many questions. Saying ‘no’ is enough.
Love is a bundle of feelings, while marriage is a contractual commitment. Marriage exists for the many times that love on its own does not work. #WelcomeToYourMonday
Even the greatest creators have published work that the public just doesn’t particularly care for. This is not proof your work is not worth creating.
When taking on projects, always consider the lead time necessary to get things set up and completed. Those that do not consider lead time you should consider not working with.
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It is well within your right to say no to a salesperson. A good salesperson is trained in the art of accepting the answer no, even as they show you the art of convincing you to say yes anyway.
The most powerful weapon you possess is your voice. The most damaging ammunition you possess are your words. A devastating blow is always a motion away based on your wits.
You cannot just stop by a dollar store on the way to the prom and pick up everything you need. Moments of greatness require time for preparation, execution, and clean-up. #WelcomeToYourMonday(10/3/2022
No one gets it all right the first time. A slight few might get it right the second time. A larger number than we want to admit may never get it right, but you should not give up.
People who brag about being ‘nice to secretaries’ tend to be liars that are rarely nice to the secretaries when not being watched. Actions without your words speak greater volumes.
A wrench can, poorly, bash a nail through a plank, but a hammer can do nothing about removing tightened bolts. Having the proper tools for the proper jobs always matters.
With the cost of acquisition next to nothing, your appreciation equates to about the same. The harder it is to put your hands on and take possession, the more you will apricate it.
People with ‘vision’ get into trouble by always looking up at the possibilities, but not enough time looking down for possible setbacks and forward for their current situation.
You must only hit a jackpot once to win the big prize, but you know both the odds of hitting that jackpot and the reality of the lives of jackpot winners that turned out for the worst.
Coming in second place will never pay as well as coming in first place. But if coming in second place does not pay well at all, it will discourage healthy competition in any activity.
The difference in being seen as a comedian and a jerk is all in the perspective of the ‘spectators’ of a person’s words and actions. Every scene plays differently from other angles.
Your support is appreciated by everyone you can provide it to. Give sincere support freely to as many as you can. Bonus karma for you if you can give public support as well.
To do something better, you must do something different. This will lead to battles with people who want sameness with their rebuttals of chances of doing things worse.
Stop worrying about your chances of becoming the next best thing. You are already much better than that. And you have the only chance possible of being the first very you.
Slights people may give you are often not attacking you directly. Someone who lashes out at you is probably dealing with something that has nothing to do with you directly.
It is difficult to practice philanthropy when you are worried about paying your own bills. Do not lose your will to do for others, just moderate your personal contributions.
It is easier to remember old things than to imagine new ones. That makes is harder for humans to define themselves by their potential then by who they are right now.
The future cannot be predicted, because it is not something you can set in stone and just leave be. The future is always being created by people like you and me.
If you are the last one picked for a team, you have limited shots to make sure in the future you are one of the players picked earlier. Take your shots, and do not be afraid.
Age is an issue you have little control over. You can only be the age you are right now and can only manage the experiences you have acquired by the age you are right now.
If you knew you only had hours left to live, you would understand that how you choose to spend that limited time matters, or not. Even without limits, this maxim is always true.
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Every choice is, by definition, a once-in-a-lifetime shot. Since you can never get a moment back, make note of those choices as you make them and how much they matter.
There are two keys to owning a long-standing in anything: get started and keep going. You cannot claim a career of excellence until you stake a start date, then you just add time. ‘Welcome To Your Monday' offers a quick, tweetable message every Monday morning to give you something to think about as you work […]
There is a difference between people glad to learn the steps of sleight of hand to see how they could be fooled and those who would refuse to because it would spoil the magic.
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What makes a lottery ticket a tempting buy is an ease at which it can be acquired. If you needed to put in real effort to get a ticket, you would pass based on the odds of winning.
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The mastery of being a baker is not in ingredients and recipes and decorating. It comes from knowing when the cake is expected and working to ensure safe and on-time delivery.
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Be aware of who you are making famous. The people you choose to follow and support should be gracious for your effort, not so expectant they take you for granted.
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When a standard is artificially low, there is no honor in just meeting that standard. Even getting a participation trophy requires showing up for the bulk of the season.
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Your status at being special is not universally shared by everyone. Until you have proven a unique value to a specific person, you are only unique. They must deem you special.
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Our days on the planet are numbered, and we do not have the luxury of being clued into that number. Try to waste less moments in your life since more are not guaranteed.
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Do not try to argue with or rationalize the efforts of a crazy person. The reason why crazy people do crazy things is that they are crazy. Not necessarily sinister or evil, simply crazy.
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You can find a way to buy a house that is not for sale, but you cannot buy a house that does not exist. A life plan must be viable with a destination, not just hopes you will find one.
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Baskin-Robbins has created more than 1,000 ice cream flavors, but each store can only sell 31 flavors at a time. Like opportunities being limitless, but ones you can take limited.
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Most people only remember the premise of a TV show’s pilot if there was a major character change in episode two. Most people cannot recall your debut to the world either.
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If you are suddenly given one million dollars, then you do not have much time to figure out how to be a millionaire. The journey to the goal teaches the necessities of maintaining it.
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When you find life is finally improving after a long string of disasters, do not stop being vigilant. Just because there is less doom does not mean there is no doom.
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Two factors allow a person to offer up ‘the shirt off their back’ to a stranger in need. First is a spirit of altruism. Second, and the most important, is having clean shirts at home.
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A recipe will help you create a standardized product to offer to the world. But a standardized product does not get a standardized reaction from the crowd it is presented to.
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Once you have watched a magician’s trick enough times, you can figure out its mechanics. Your choice now is to be disappointed or try to learn how to improve on the trick.
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The irony of bad reviews is they have nothing to do with your actual performance. The issues have more to do with the reviewer’s lack of confidence than your own lack of talent.
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Becoming an artist is as simple as declaring it, whether out loud or in your head. Becoming an artist that matters takes more effort but does not make them more of an artist.
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Becoming a millionaire is never easy to do. Still, it is a lot easier if you happen to inherit millions of dollars from a family member who has already earned the cash for you.
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Privilege is often identified as better opportunities given. A better example of privilege is the ability to pass on an opportunity because you know others will eventually materialize.
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When a person gives false information, there is a difference between being misinformed and lying. If you show any doubt, they tend to assume you think they are lying.
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If your need to heat your house gets so dire you have to considerer burning the furniture, you may find you will soon run out of both fuel for the fire and furniture to lounge on.
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Much of the world around us operates on luck. We are all a coin flip away from success or ruin, but you can not count on knowing when those coin flip moments will come around.
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Over-communication is a useful tool. It is often necessary to overcommunicate because despite you saying the same thing over and over, people do not always ‘hear’ you.
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The emperor having no clothes is obvious, even to the emperor. What is never too obvious is who has the power to tell the emperor of his folly that can survive the ordeal of truth.
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Maybe you are giving the best effort you can give right now, and it is not getting the results you want. This is not a sign that is it time to give up, but a time for serious evaluation.
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The reality of moving forward is there is not a "there" to get to that is better than your current "here." You make the space you occupy better for yourself and those around you.
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You can start a story with the finale, and even tell the whole story backwards. But you do not get the full context of any story unless you tell it completely, even if out of natural order.
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The most basic form of intelligence you can display is knowing what you do not know and knowing not to talk about those subjects in front of a large audience.
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Some things you cannot say publicly while making your way up in your career. Some things you must disclose as it becomes more obvious your career is coming to an end.
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Cookbooks are not published to be sold as picture books or torrid romance novels. Cookbooks are meant to be reference books at worse, instruction manuals at best.
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Two things that are never free are freedom and puppies. The effort to maintain freedom is always warranted. The effort to maintain puppies is not always warranted.
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When you are forced to deal with tragedy, the question you are compelled to ask is, ‘Why me?’ The better question to ask yourself, considering the circumstances, is ‘What now?’
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The power of the knowledge you have, even seemingly simple knowledge, can bring surprising great results for you. Never underestimate knowing where the bathroom is.
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Laughter has very distinct and noticeable tones. There is a much sweeter tone to the sound of laughter that is with others than the laughter that is at others.
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There is a saying in baseball where, “If you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying.” In real life, you should not cheat, but you should constantly test boundaries and norms.
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You may not receive the exact opportunities you were hoping for, but you receive plenty. Don’t squander the ones you have for the ones you will not get.
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You can never see the end of a thing that you never had the courage to start in the first place. Plus, that end is the starting point for the launch of another new thing.
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The ideas you are right about that are initially good will not always prove to be sustainably good with time. You do not have to hold onto a once good idea after it turns sour.
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You start your journey not with the first step, but with the desire to move. Before you can move toward your desired destination, you need to know where you are departing from.
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Being a leader is a privilege you should hold dear. And those who look to be led have the power to dismiss the bad leaders so that the true leaders can rise up.
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Dictators who rule with an iron fist don’t last in positions of power long because the very people they lead always end up turning against them.
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In a room where everyone is being selfish, deciding to be overtly selfless will not bring you any extra favor. The only choice to maintain your own sanity is to leave the room.
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Saying ‘Please and thank you’ costs a person about three seconds a full breath of air. A person who does not have that much time or air to spare should re-evaluate their priorities.
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It is much easier to come up with new messages to deliver to an audience you already have than to find a new audience for a message you believe is perfectly crafted and accurate.
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The qualifications for the possible are extremely low. If you buy a lottery ticket, winning is possible, but highly improbable. Work hard at increasing the odds of possibility.
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A master of debates does not always expect to win the argument. They just focus on offering up quick and valid responses to as many objections as they can possibly imagine.
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The moment when you realize your life is leading you to drink heavily just to cope is the exact moment you should begin to truly evaluate the real details of your life.
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A picture may say a thousand words, but the words that are actually heard are very specific to the person viewing the image. Every viewer will have a different perspective.
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If you are in the business of selling firewood and you are currently not selling enough cords to cover your costs, chopping down more trees will not fix your problem.
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Your team can put out an impenetrable defense effort, but unless your offensive squad can manage to put some points on the board, you can never truly win.
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The problem is not about having enough time, it is having the ability and incentive to make the time needed. Your situations or your attitude may make that hard to do.
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Regardless of how great you design an escape plan, it will fail if you are outlining it while being watched by your captors. You need cunning and stealth in planning and execution.
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In order to have a partnership of two people working together, you will need to ensure that the two people can confirm they are both working and in on the same plan together.
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If you work for a boss who is not impressed by your work, you should either improve on the quality of your work or find a new boss. You should probably find a new boss anyway.
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History and Hollywood show us glimpses of pioneers overcoming incredible odds to achieve great triumphs. In the moment, the coming triumphs are not so obvious.
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Every musical artist cannot handle the rigors and the stress of performing on an extended major tour, but no musical artist ever wants to play to a totally empty room.
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A mutiny is a simple operation. Everyone on board a ship has to be okay with the plan to overthrow the captain and everyone involved in the apprehension must know their roles.
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Handling a mop or a broom is a skill just about any person can master. Finding a person showing their mastery of a mop or a broom does not mean you have found the janitor.
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The greatest indicator of expected future behavior is a good study of consistent past behavior. People can change, but real change takes time and is very easy to detect.
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Try not to give your enemies extra ammunition to help them take you down. It is not your job to bring extras guns to a knife fight to hand to those who are under-prepared.
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Calculus is not harder than Second Grade math. Calculus is as difficult for the High Schooler as Second Grade math is for the Second Grader. Different levels of skill and perspective.
More than you know, the people you see suffering from failing to make a dream come true were undone by unexpected and seemingly innocuous side issues, not from lack of talent.
Whenever you doubt your abilities, take a break from your work and visit a gallery filled with bad art. Then, go back to work and do better than what you just observed.
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Know your whys and why nots. Understand how you came about your whys and why nots. Have an idea what it would take to adjust or change your whys or why nots.
Don’t put much worry into the suddenly lost customers or clients. Put the bulk of your concern in the action or inaction you did that drove them away, and how not to do it again.
In order to find those diamonds in the rough, you have to be searching for diamonds and sifting through the rough. Gems are waiting to be found, but you have to put in your effort.
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I believe you have a right to question ideas and processes you do not completely agree with. This does not give you the right to pester others on their lack of understanding.
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The more desperate you are, the more pressure you will feel to take long shots to break even. Fight this temptation and work your way up hand by hand the slower, harder way.
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People who don’t put down roots don’t understand the weight of being asked to clear space to make way for the new. This does not invalidate the request, just makes it hard to follow.
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Million-dollar ideas don’t materialize fully formed from millionaires or geniuses. They are planted and cultivated from any idea someone is curious and clever enough to work with.
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The problem with ‘picking your battles’ is that it requires one to actually pick a few battles. Don’t use that statement as a buffer when you are looking for a way out of conflict.
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The only people who should be paid well to be on standby are firefighters and lawyers. Everyone else should be allowed to put to good use the time they are being paid to work.
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While it is extremely solid advice to follow, making your bed every day is totally optional. Getting out of bed, if you indeed possess that power, is always mandatory.
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You will have days in your life when the most significant activity come sundown was to get out of bed at sunup regardless of what you knew your day had in store for you.
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‘Successful’ actors will refuse to work with children and animals for a bevy of reasons, but a consistent complaint is an unwillingness to not be the center of attention.
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Character flaws can be entertaining and even endearing for people who have come to terms with having them. People who don’t realize they have them are a totally different story.
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It is rare to find an outsider who gets to see how ‘the sausage is made’ and will continue to gleefully consume the sausage. These are the customers and clients you must protect.
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All ideas are essentially ‘worthless’ until someone proves their viability to real paying customers. Let the actual market decide if your idea is a hit or a flop, not your detractors.
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Knowing we are not promised tomorrow and believing the sun will still come out tomorrow are not an either-or. Assume futures days while preparing for those days to be numbered
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Put less focus on being worried about giving a person a job they don’t have the traditional qualifications for. Worry about their actually ability to perform the job with excellence.
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You can always question the validity of a plan as presented, but make note that the answers to the questions ‘will it work’ and ‘do I want to do it’ have no bearing on each other.
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You will learn you can get so much more accomplished when you learn you don’t have to do everything involved just to get something accomplished.
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One of the burdens of a good protector is to keep their wards from walking off cliffs. This burden is usually made heavier by a ward’s personal desire to wander near cliffs.
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The magic of the technology available today--some of it more ‘modern’ than others--is you can use it to get anywhere you need to in the world. It just may not be a direct flight.
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In stress, in depression, in trouble, in strife, there is a lesson to be learned in every difficult encounter. Mine these experiences for the gold that is hidden deep with the pain.
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When an opportunity appears, you don’t have to be cut and polished diamond ready to step up. But you do at least need to be carbon, with the potential to shine.
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Leaders are ultimately graded by the state of their followers. Make sure your followers are not actually prisoners before you show them off.
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One-off epic wins and failures do not define a person’s legacy. Study the details of their consistent actions--positive, negative, or indifferent--to get a better picture.
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A checkup will help diagnose a problem by identifying and analyzing the symptoms you present. The severity of the problem will determine the severity of need for therapy.
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There is no reason not to believe you will receive a miracle. But if you want to receive a similar result on a regular basis, you must have a repeatable and reliable process.
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A dying project with no set get-well date is doomed to fail eventually. Don’t let neglected projects drift listlessly on purpose. Set a get-well date or a date for dissolvement.
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There is always a much worse situation or place you could be in. And often, the palatial palaces we see are truly prisons for those we think are lucky to inhabit them.
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Indomitable odds will remain indomitable until someone finds a way to dominate and overcome them. This is never a given, but always a possibility.
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The wisdom of experience is a very expensive thing to acquire on your own. That is why the wisdom from experience others share with you should be cherished as priceless.
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The support and resources you need to ensure your success is probably already within your reach. Do you know what support and resources are within your reach?
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By the time you get the spark of the idea to do something that will take a massive effort to be great, you’re already too late to get in the game. Do it anyway.
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The most profound life lessons always come from situations and places where you least expect them. Also, when you seem to need them the most.
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Relationships are about people. But relationships cannot properly form or grow to their full potential if one of the people involved fails to show up.
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Every ordeal you are forced to face is the beginning of a story you get to share with others that will go through similar ordeals. But you have to survive your ordeal first.
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Everyone given a dream is also given the ‘capacity’ to see their part through. What we often misinterpret is the length and depth of our part.
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There can be an infinite number of variables that go into a decision. The ‘yes’ or ‘no’ you received may have nothing to do with you in the grand scheme of their life.
You are free to live as you choose as the protagonist of your own story. Try hard not to let your choices make you the antagonist in too many people's stories.
Some people were created with a mission to offer you support, some with a mission to try to throw you off course. All should be welcome in your life.
When you survive a situation through shear will and duct tape, take a moment to congratulate yourself. Then immediately start working to never be in that situation again.
Mob rule works out great for the man who the mob is currently pushing for. Until he becomes the man the mob decides its time to push against.
Many of the people you will put yourself out for will never appreciate the effort you give. This doesn't get you off the hook to stop putting in the effort.
The first person to make a path through the jungle is a trailblazer. The next person is doing lawn maintenance. Just as important, but not the same.
When no one seems to be listening, it doesn’t make you less right. When you have everyone’s undivided attention, it doesn’t make you less wrong.
You should work to make instant connections, but not to teach instantly rushed lessons. Take time to support your case after you quickly state your case and its scope of possibilities.
Don’t be afraid that you are just taking up space in the world. That space was meant for you to take up, and there is plenty more out there for you to expand.
Don’t be afraid that you are just taking up space in the world. That space was meant for you to take up, and there is plenty more out there for you to expand.
Your choices are your choices. As long as you are paying your own way honestly and not depriving others of their liberties in the process, you do you.
You can only survive so long on the profit of selling low hanging fruit. You should invest in a few ladders as quickly as you can to prepare.
The questions you ask and questioning style you use matters. They can change the direction and scope of the story beyond what you may expect.
You don't know how good a story is until it is finished. Believe it or not, you actively give benefit of the doubt to the storyteller based on how well you like them.
Take full advantage of your youth. Celebrate your ability to be both carefree and rebellious. Time moves forward, and the seasons will change. Spring and winter will be different.
Whatever your age is, if you are living on the minus side of the average age of a particular group, you are not meeting the needs of the generations to come.
Admiration for those people with the ability to say things you wish you could say is dangerous. After all, there is probably a reason why you don't say those things yourself.
When your assistance is necessary, always make sure your intentions are clear to you and them from the start. Are you working so they get better or are not a bother?
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Always celebrate the success of others in your circle. Every win you experience with them is a lesson to learn on how to progress for more wins for yourself.
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You will see more results when you spend more time doing nothing because when you are doing nothing you can see what results came from the work you put in.
Stop chasing certifications and start delivering results. Showing proof of past jobs done well offers greater validity than a wall covered in fancy and expensive degrees.
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Your life is meant to play out like a documentary, where at the end, people will have learned a few things. Your life is not meant to play out as a soap opera or sitcom.
You have the simultaneous right to promote your own work and cheer on a rival for their accomplishments. Don't let competition draw out the petty in you.
You are not an aspiring anything. If you create you are a creator. The value of what you are producing is not tied to the market value of the individual products.
The pomp and circumstance of a military parade is the perfect way to celebrate a victory. It is not a very good idea when the tide of the war has not quite been settled.
There are plenty of insightful people you aren't listening to because you don't think they are famous enough. Remember this when it seems like no one is listening to you.
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A rising tide lifts all boats but cannot transform a life raft into a battleship. Joint gains are wonderful for all, but incremental results will always vary.
The best-intended advice quickly becomes useless if given to please the provider more than the receiver. Empty words are always empty words.
Good advice given freely to the masses is common advice by default. It may not be commonly followed, but assume it is a general standard of knowledge. #WelcomeToYourMonday
The inability to give a simple explanation of a solution can be a sign of not truly understanding a problem. So can the need to quickly explain a complicated solution to a problem. #WelcomeToYourMonday
Career success may gain you a reputation for being a fighter, as in fighting to do what is right by customers and to not tell decision makers what they want to hear becomes standard.
You will have distractors who will push against you regardless of whether you are winning or losing. So why not focus on your winning and not their detracting?
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No one is irreplaceable, but you cannot just replace a person with a random nondescript no one. Context and character matter with all people.
It is hard to find a community of supporters who will salute you in your failures as fiercely as they will celebrate you in your success. It is possible, but it is hard.
Failure is coming. It is an inevitable part of the process of learning and growing. You will probably not handle that moment of failure as well as you would believe when it does come.
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Make time to check on your friends that keep up a consistent strong front. Never let them answer to you that they are okay. Never leave until they open up.
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It is difficult to have a sober conversation with an inebriated person. It is difficult to have a temperate conversation with an emotional person.
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If you represent both the first and the final lines of defense of an issue, you actually represent the only defense to the issue. Period.
The difficulty in being a visionary is the world cannot make out the finer points of your ideas until they have been proven successful.
Gathering the best talent available and lavishing them with resources and perks is an easy mantra to recite. It is becoming increasingly harder to implement in the real world.
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If you suddenly notice a person you are used to hearing from has gone silent, and they have a habit of not saying negative things about people, you need to evaluate your recent actions.
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Despite your desire to be known as a trailblazer, if there is well-worn path set in front of you to what you believe is excellence, take it.
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Scoring extra time with a renowned expert is not worth the effort if it takes twice as long to get the needed information as an interview with someone with standard knowledge.
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Sometimes your dream job becomes a nightmare. Sometimes your vision of your work becomes blurry because someone else is messing up the view.
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After growing tired of starting over with new whims after the reality of hard work sets in, start your focus on pushing through the difficulties of one task until you find next-level success. #WelcomeToYourMonday
Once you understand how good a life you already have, you can effectively push for as good of a life you ultimately desire.
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Success brings momentum, but often as momentum is starting to grow, some interference leads to interruption. Be prepared.
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This is your life. As far as we know, you only get one shot at it. Put less worry into 'doing it right' and more work into 'doing.'
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To receive the perks of a hero, you have to go public with your actions. That means being vulnerable to detractors, perceived or real.
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You will find that some of your most faithful supporters don't actually understand your vision but really do believe in you.
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Your role in the grand scheme of time means little. But that little amount of time you have should mean a lot to you and yours.
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People who tell people who live in glass houses not to throw stones should probably refrain from throwing bricks.
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When everything is a competition, you always put your talents on display. But you are not displaying your diplomacy.
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The grass just might be greener on the other side. The grass might also just be synthetic and re-painted green often.
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You don't need worry about someone trying to take your spot if you are always working to help others find their own.
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Firefighters are successful when they save a building from a fire. They are more successful when there are no fires.
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The right perspective is necessary. The shallow, disfranchised, and afraid view life as things that only reinforce.
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Having the ability to see bad things coming is a gift that many do not enjoy. If you do, take full advantage. #WelcomeToYourMonday
You can have a conversation with a subject matter master about growing and improving. You cannot with a know-it-all.
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There are over 300 million people in the United States and 8 billion in the whole world. Many have no idea you exist.
Genius is fickle, and is often confused with insanity by outsiders. But don't confuse this with actual insanity.
You have the right to criticize the words a person uses to speak out, but you could take a moment to listen first.
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There is nothing wrong with having someone else do the heavy lifting. Just remember that you are not doing it.
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Second chances allow you to overcome sins of the past, but not negate or nullify those past sins. They did happen.
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People traumatized by the past have problems envisioning the future. These people need your help in the present.
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To add what you have never done consistently to the normal routine requires a downgrade or elimination of something.
Your ability to play 'good soldier' is less effective with orders from bad generals. There are unlawful orders.
Even leaps of faith can use some precaution. You can't expect to clear a twenty-foot chasm with two ten-foot jumps.
The best way to avoid cleaning a mess is to not make a mess. This works for both personal and professional pursuits.
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The words you use must always be chosen wisely. Don't let a lapse of emotion become a horrible slip of the tongue.
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Make your impact show an absence proves how much better things are with you than what they can get by on without you. #WelcomeToYourMonday
You can never control another's bad behavior. You can always control your behavior to those who do behave badly. #WelcomeToYourMonday
When you are in pain, spend time with others who conquered similar pain, then prepare to pay their effort forward.
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Miracles are rarely spontaneous. They are usually the result of time and effort that resembles failure in the moment.
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Never treat a gift like a burden. Stay aware to what is really a blessing to have that may look like drudgery work.
When you know what effort is needed to succeed and refuse to put in that effort, you will fail. Do not be surprised.
People without good things to say about others rarely have good things to say about themselves. Show them otherwise. #WelcomeToYourMonday
There is great value to good reputations and a high cost to bad ones. Working to grow either takes the same effort.
People with low standards will lead a charge against people with high standards. Don’t let them get away with it.
Musicians put on concerts for the enjoyment of fans, not sound engineers. Flawless perfection is not always necessary.
You can offer up as much sizzle as you want in your sales pitch. You have to produce an actual steak at some point.
The less you focus on winning lotteries to make it through life, the more life you will find you have to enjoy.
The only man with no worries for tomorrow is the one who just died moments ago. Assume you have a day to plan for.
Sometimes random things happen and sometimes miracles happen. Choose the frame of reference in which you see it.
Outside observers must always be careful to avoid giving views marred in conflict injected into their commentary.
Life will never let you get to an even set. You are always working to stay ahead in the game or playing catch up.
It is hard to cheer for a person's leap of faith as your own faith is waning. It is still very necessary for both.
Do not fret over not advancing to your desired level of achievement. If the goal is still valid, just keep working.
Data can not lie, because it can not 'speak.' Knowing this, take note of the motivations of your data interpreters.
The goal of the ask is to be deserving and not desperate. Show them they will be better off by awarding it to you.
Ideas are meant to come easily. Many will not work out, some are meant to steer you to other ideas. Act accordingly.
Do not sell yourself as a person offering up favors. Sell the value you provide and how they should not pass on it.
Some people in your life are blessings, some are just lessons. The wisdom is in knowing how to act accordingly.
You can easily find ways to increase your workload. At some point, you need to come to a close and call it a day.
There is a reason behind every action. It may not be obvious or rational, but there is always some true motivation.
Everyone begins at zero. Even those who have the fortune of 'overnight success' had to start with a first attempt.
If yesterday represents your greatest experience ever, you need to work harder at doing something amazing today. You can not know much of anything until you try.
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You will not know how good or bad your efforts can be until you try. You can not know much of anything until you try.
During recovery, don't tell people you were sick, say you are now healing. And the process takes as long as it needs.
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The only work you get credit for is visible. Unseen work is still important, but unsurprisingly, rarely celebrated.
No one climbs Everest on a whim. All big dreams start with an idea but require detailed planning before execution.
There is no forever contract. Consequences permitting, you can choose to do whatever you want for as long as you want.
Don’t fret about taking the wrong path. Any path away from a dead or dying situation might as well be the ‘right’ path.
One of the drawbacks of being a good guy is knowing to play by the rules. But that makes the wins that much sweeter.
A plan does not have to be as rigid as steel, but it is through structure that one builds a true path to freedom.
There is no distinction between quality time and normal time. Moments are made by just spending time with people.
The most empowering question a person can ask is ‘why?’ Anyone unwilling to answer this question is your true enemy.
Take care of urgent things and find time to manage important things. There is plenty of time for unimportant things.
When the answers you receive are not the answers you seek, reframe your stance. Are you asking the right questions?
Those with a habit of throwing people under buses tend to find themselves lacking support for completing basic tasks.
A fighter’s greatest asset is not offense, it’s defense. They can’t dodge every strike and the ones that land hurt.
Your priorities are not the same as any others. Work to align your wants with others before tasking them to assist.
Do not worry about having to start at zero. It always takes time to build the right infrastructure for any project.
Characters are doomed to live out life exactly as written on a page. You are an author who can write your own story.
You never know when an opportunity to score will present itself. The team must practice for when that time comes.
Anyone saying success is as simple as moving barriers is giving bad advice and probably just selling a faulty program.
The payoff from a planted seed comes after time needed for a plant to mature. Impatience is no reason not to plant.
Are peers pulling you up to more personal success or pushing you down to suit their needs? What do you do for peers?
Contortionists gain flexibility from years of practice. If you want flexibility in your life, you will need practice.
Injury opens a door for humility to enter the body of those who want the appearance of invincibility. Humility heals.
The people you know who cannot recall a story of a past failure are probably lying about their current success.
Often, great ideas cannot turn a profit or be sustained. By contrast, profitable ideas are not always that great.
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Success is not about doing what needs to be done. It is about doing these things when lacking the obvious motivation.
Depression is a condition and sadness is a feeling. Both can be overcome. Misery is a conscience choice.
Forces beyond your comprehension are working both for and against your efforts. You may never know these sources.
It is noble to decide mountain climbing is not for you. But before you can retire, you must first get off the mountain.
Deals with ‘the Devil’ only benefit him. You can not win, break-even, or meet a clause that will terminate the contract.
A change of mind is hard, but possible with real facts. A change of heart, while possible, can rarely be counted on.
As an issue becomes an annoyance, instinct may say ignore it and let it go. At that point, it is too late to let it go.
Personal insults slung amid debates are extremely effective forms of distraction. They do not invalidate an argument.
If you are accustomed to making minor adjustments as you work, you will have fewer needs for major corrections.
The weight of a situation is often lost in the moment. Every action is not monumental but holds potential greatness.
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When you choose to not pursue, you cannot fail. The same choice also means you cannot ultimately find success.
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Focus on making a difference is hard when you live in a state of lack. Ensure your needs are met before others.
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Being put in a box is not that bad, as long as you have the right to choose your box and how long you stay in it.
Advice given by people walking away is advice you were not going to take anyway. Maybe you should consider taking it.
Your success starts with a definition that comes from you. Others can contribute, but not write your definition.
Perfection is difficult, so do not aim for perfection. When good enough really is good enough, then leave it at that.
Some projects are like mountain climbing. Know the degree of difficulty before you reach the point of no return.
Every speed bump placed on a highway is there to serve a purpose. Do not add extra slowdowns to your life’s journey.
Learn the true value of relationships. Eating a goose that lays golden eggs is not a good move, despite being tasty.
Some of the greatest people owe their origin to dysfunctional backgrounds. Carry no shame for your starting point.