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@jimkwik Right back at you Jim!

If you're reading this, I hope you have amazing things happen for you this week!

The real secret in a quote: "Alignment outperforms force. Every Time." Forcing yourself in the wrong lane & spaces, is a hard slog... But if you are in your lane, doing what you are meant to do...you have all the momentum in the world. Alignment is everything.

The refusal to risk humiliation is a tax you pay on your own potential, collected daily, invisibly, until one day you look up and realize you've been playing a game so small that losing was never really possible. And neither was winning.

You are not your grand plans. You are your daily patterns.

Nobody will remember how hard you tried if you don't make it through. The sleepless nights. The losses. The doubt. The months where you had nothing to show for it. If you stop now, all of that becomes a story nobody hears. There is no trophy for almost. No recognition for the man who gave everything and quit one step before it mattered. That's the uncomfortable truth. Your pain only becomes a legacy if you finish what you started. So finish.

In Japanese archery there's a discipline called kyudo. The goal isn't to hit the target. The goal is to perfect the form. The belief is that if the archer's posture, breathing, and focus are correct, the arrow will find the target on its own. Apply that to your life. Stop obsessing over the result. Perfect the process. Fix your daily habits, your discipline, your mental clarity. Get those right and the outcomes you're chasing will arrive without you forcing them.

You are not the average of the 5 people who surround you. You are the average of their expectations and standards they hold for you. You need believers more than friends.

@davidflatman loving the Stoney big dog #SixNationsRugby

There's an old idea that says a man is tested three times before he earns anything worth having. The first test takes what he loves. The second test takes his confidence. The third test makes him wait with no proof that it's coming. Most men fail the third one. Not because they're weak. Because patience with no guarantee is the hardest thing a human being can do. If you're in the waiting room right now, don't move. Don't panic. Just hold.

Woke up reading the best quote ever. Motivated as fuck this AM! 😤 “One Win and Nine Losses.” You only need one win. As long as you survive the nine losses first. Failure isn't the opposite of success. It's the cost of success. Don't quit. Tadashi Yanai (CEO Uniqlo)

"Do not love half lovers. Do not entertain half friends. Do not live a half life...and Do not die a half death." - Kahlil Gibran Do nothing half way. A Great life is "All in."

Get up, stay up, and don't stop until the thing you see in your head is the thing you see in your life.

Vlogged my trip to Metrix London at Magazine London 2 weekends ago 🏋️‍♂️🤸🏾‍♀️👇🏾 linktw.in/YdMvTP

Shape of these England rugby jackets are absolutely diabolical btw

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out, and happened to things." - Leonardo da vinci Don't let the day just roll over you... Go out and "happen to things" today.

"Good writing doesn't make you look smart; it makes readers feel seen. You can't win people over with intellect. You do it by describing something they've felt their whole life but never had the words for. "

@Stellarixorine @Rainmaker1973 Do we get the words volt / voltage from his surname too?

@Rainmaker1973 Volta was a true electricity OG. The voltaic pile didn’t just power experiments — it basically kicked off the entire age of modern electronics. And discovering methane on top of that? One person helped shape both energy and chemistry.

Born Today in 1745, Alessandro Volta was physicist, chemist and pioneer of electricity and power. He is credited as the inventor of the electric battery and the discoverer of methane.

Can we start counting the little walk you have to do before and after picking up / putting the dumbbells back on the rack as a workout in itself please orrrr? 🥵🥵🥵

One of the greatest cheat codes in life is assuming everything is happening in your favor. Lost the deal? You learned a lesson. Someone broke up with you? You dodged a bullet. When you start seeing life as happening FOR you instead of TO you your life will change.