Who Are You And What Will You Do?

"Life is so short you can’t waste even a day subscribing to what someone thinks you can do versus knowing what you can do."
--Virgil Abloh

"You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you."
--James Baldwin

"Your life’s a nanosecond; if you have a contribution to make, then make it. Don’t bitch about it, just do it."
--Richard Serra

Word To The Wise

Just sayin'...

Capitalism Can Be Harmful To The Psyche

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Be

Your Worth

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Know Your Competition

"Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don't support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck."
--James Altucher

"You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger."
--Siddartha Gautama

Don't Compare

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Be gentle with yourself...

“When it comes to being gentle, start with yourself. Don’t get upset with your imperfections. Being disappointed by failure is understandable, but it shouldn’t turn into bitterness or spite directed at yourself. It’s a great mistake——because it leads nowhere—to get angry because you are angry, upset at being upset, disappointed because you are disappointed.”
--St. Frances de Sales

Unprecedented

“You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.”
--John Green, from THE FAULT IN OUR STARS

Love After Love

The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
--poem by Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott

Self-Esteem

Dear Readers,

On a scale of 0 to 100, with 0 being absolutely no self-esteem (or sense of worth) whatsoever, and 100 being the most self-esteem possible, where would you rate yourself?

Do you get different numbers if you think of yourself unconditionally without reference to other people (i.e., your worth to yourself), as opposed to thinking of yourself in relationship to others and to society (i.e., your worth to the world)?