Podcasts seem to be the next big thing in entertainment but of the million-plus podcast out there, it could be a challenge to find something you like or find ones that spark all your interest. For me, I'm not one dimension so I like to listen to all different kinds of podcasts, and not all of them of informative, some of them are just fun to listen to.
One of my friends, Nick recommended a book to me a few months ago which was "Mindset: The New Psychology of Success" by Carol Dweck. Now me being a cheap charlie, I try to rent books from the library instead of purchasing them. I will, however, purchase a book after borrowing it from the library if I plan on re-reading it. I do wish we could share audio books like we could hard copies. But I digress.
Love him or hate it, you cannot deny Brown was a once in a generation running back. Myself I am not a fan of Jim Brown simply for what he did off the field in how he treated women. Not a fan. But what I have noticed about Brown was what he did between plays to save energy. It had me looking at my own day to day and seeing some similarities
Throughout my life I've always heard that I need balance. And my assumption was that balance meant 50/50 or some other equal equation that gives equal time with energy, finances or whatever to whatever needs "balance".
Well that is not true. As much as we should think everything in life should be balance it isn't. And giving equal parts doesn't necessary mean a happy life, or a productive life.
Things that I learned once I stopped drinking.
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Waking up was so much easier after going out
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When going out on good nights they are way better sober, nights that are lame are way lamer sober (the ying and yang method)
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It becomes easier going out sober the more you do it.
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Peer Pressure in the beginning is going to suck; but gets easier
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People get very uncomfortable with you not drinking.
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Prepare to lose “friends”
I was watching the NBA playoffs a few weeks ago, when the Houston Rockets were playing the Golden State Warriors. James Harden in his post game interview, made a comment that he wanted a fair chance to compete. This was in regards to the officiating. He felt that he was being fouled on a few questionable plays and never received the call.
When we think of rules most of the time we think of what we can't do. That rules are the there to tell us what we are not allowed to do when it comes to games and to life. However rules can be used to your advantage if you first know the rules, and understand them.
No one uses the rules of golf to their advantage better then my one friend Ryan Yip. This was a few years back when I saw how well he does this. It was at a Web.com Tournament in Knoxville Tennessee. The course was Fox Den. And every year when he plays there it reminds of how knowledgeable Ryan is of the rules of gold and how well he can use them to his advantage.
One of my least favorite social media platforms is Facebook. I dislike it not from how it is setup, the functionality of it, but from how the users use it. I have never read some many negative comments, hateful speech or so much false information in one place. But every now and then I catch myself on there because I get a message or I have to check my ads to see how they are performing. And every time I start to scroll I get sucked into some trolling comment and the flood gates open on the meanest comments ever.
I know I'm very late to the table when it comes to talking about the movie, 'A Star is Born' but I recently just watched it, and it is one of those movies that comes by every so often, that can get me to feel, think and that leads me down a rabbit hole.
