I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Excellence is doing the right things.
Wisdom is doing them them at the right time.
Practice is how both happen.
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The little things are what makes up practice.
And the little things are what make big things.
Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, ‘You owe me.’ Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky. – Hafiz I recently had a realization similar to the quote above. I was waiting for love to come to me, to be loved and cared for…
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I was listening to Tripp Lanier interview Mark Divine on his New Man podcast (good stuff… ) and Commander Divine talked about how life is sort of like business, or the economy, in that it’s a progression, over time, with peaks and valleys. Life – but certainly not a successful, satisfying, joyful, useful life – can be linear…
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