Sunday Thinking

"The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth they can accept about themselves without running away."

March 31, 2024

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The weekly Sunday Thinking newsletter is quick-hit content that aims to provide a booster shot to your thought process as you end and start your week.

"Being honest with where you stand and how you feel, it's really giving another person an option and opportunity to be as honest with you. And whatever your fear of that is, of that outcome is never really as big as what you make it up to be ― you know? Tomorrow is not promised to anyone ― and if tomorrow never comes, at least you can know you said what you needed to say."

― Michael B. Jordan, On Purpose Podcast

I. How Bad Do You Want It?

Hear me. Hear me. 

  • It's not what you're capable of. 

  • It's what you're willing to do.

I know plenty of people that are capable. But I know fewer that are willing.

  • Will is a powerful thing. 

  • Ask yourself what are you willing to do?

Source: Mike Tomlin, Head Coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers

II. Nurture, Protect and Share Your Gift

Don't confuse movement with progress. Because you can run in place and not get anything done. 

  • So are you moving forward? And who are you taking with you? 

  • And how are you making things better by the talent that you have in whatever area it may be?

You have a gift. It's called a gift. You didn't earn it, you were born with a gift. 

  • Now you hone that gift. 

  • You develop that gift. 

You do everything you need to do to protect it. And then you share it.

Source: Denzel Washington, Actor, Producer, and Director

III. The Call to Courage

I hope you find the courage to change your life. 

  • In the small ways, in the big ways, in every way that matters. I hope you do not end this story with a heart full of regrets. 

  • I hope you do not spend your years just waiting for your life to begin. I hope you realize that this is not the practice run, this is not the preview. This is it. 

There is nothing to do but leap. There is nothing to do but allow yourself to exist as boldly and honestly as you can. 

  • You will think you have forever, but you do not. It all happens, and it happens quickly. 

  • You are not waiting on another person, or the right timing, or for everything to fall into place. 

You are waiting to feel ready enough to exist within the questions, to not need every answer, and to know that this life does not come to us to be perfectly understood, but to be fully experienced, in every direction we can possibly reach.

Source: Brianna Wiest, The Pivot Year

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V. Question

What experiences in these first three months of 2024 made you grateful, showed growth, and/or brought joy?

VI. This Week, I Will

  1. Apply actions to intentions.

  2. Trust the gift of my intuition.

  3. Take one step and rep at a time.

  4. Commit to finding joy in the process.

  5. Remember, everything is going to be okay and work out.

The Last Words…

"Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust. Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power, so long are you young. When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty."

― Samuel Ullman, Youth

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