You should try to be the person that, when shit hits the fan, people want on their boat. If you do that, you will find yourself on a boat full of people you want to be on a boat with.

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Maybe all the meaning is in doing things that are hard, and the harder they are the more they mean to you.

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If you ever think something nice about a person in your life, TELL THEM.

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There is life in the struggle. There is only a speedy decline in the easy way.

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Choose the actions that seem likely to deliver the consequences you desire.

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Week 48 of 2024 has arrived. The holiday planning and decorations are in full swing.  Enjoy it.  It's the most human thing in the world to celebrate the endings and beginnings of things. Time to walk over to your 4K Weeks poster and fill in another square.  Done? I have been writing this weekly newsletter for 2 years and 2 weeks. 106 weekly newsletters. Does that seem like a lot?  I have been recording the podcast for a year and 2 weeks.  54 podcasts. Does that seem like a lot? It doesn't seem like it has been that long, and also it seems like I have always been writing it each week. I think that is when a good habit...

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I think one of the most valuable things you can telegraph to young people is that you lovingly have high expectations.

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Life is Struggle, Struggle is Life, would that make even the messiest struggle more noble?

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The only way to heal and grow stronger is to rip off the band-aid, look honestly at the festering wound, and start cutting out the rot.

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We should be looking for high leverage activities.  Levers that, when we pull them, make a much bigger impact than the effort it took to pull them. 

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