I Can't Make This Up

In life, you can choose to cry about the bullshit that happens to you or you can choose to laugh about it.

In life, you can choose to cry about the bullshit that happens to you or you can choose to laugh about it. I chose laughter

You can’t control the events that happen to you, but you can control your interpretation of them. So why not choose the story that serves your life the best?

Your life today is the sum total of your choices. So if you’re not happy with it, look back at your choices and start making different ones.

Defend yourself at all times. Don’t let nobody mess with you. If you don’t stand up to them, they’ll just keep bullying you,

You are somebody. You matter. And no one is allowed to take away your right to your property, your right to your safety, or your right to be yourself. Those are things that should be defended.

It’s easy to complain about your life—how tough it is, how unfair it is, how stressful it is, how everyone else has it much better. But if you step into the life of someone you envy for just a day, you’ll discover that everyone has their own problems, and they’re usually worse than yours. Because your problems are designed specifically for you, with the specific purpose of helping you grow.

The fun guy always wins.

You want to know what that secret is? It’s two words: Have fun

But there’s an additional lesson that I get from it now: It’s never too late to start caring.

Because no matter how low you go and how lost you feel, there is always tomorrow. And tomorrow just may be the day when you get lifted up and find your way. There is just one thing that tomorrow demands of you to make this happen: that you never stop believing in your power to create a better day.

Sometimes, other people’s doubt can be the best motivation there is to succeed.

You already know what you want to dedicate yourself to, so you don’t need to ask for their approval. There’s no need to seek external approval when you already have internal approval.

The problem is, many people want you to do things, up to the point where they lose control of you. As long as they’re still your boss or mentor or partner or good friend, it’s fine. But if it starts pulling you away from them or making you more successful than them or keeping you too busy to see them as much, then your dream can become their threat.

Acceptance, then, is knowing that when your plan fails, or your road dead ends, it means a bigger plan is at work. And I’d rather be part of a big plan than a small one.

It is through our most extreme experiences that the biggest growth happens—if we survive them.

I guess that was the difference between me and many of the people I met over the course of my career: I always wanted to be bigger; I always wanted to do more; I always wanted to find the next step and the step after that. I didn’t want to settle

A firm “no” is the ugliest sound in the world, and it triggers a defensive response in the brain: “Naw, you’re wrong!”

The biggest lesson I learned from him was how to hear a “no” or a “stupid” or a “Get the fuck outta here with that” and to not take it personally, but instead see if there was a lesson behind it.

You only get one chance to make a first impression—