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It seems second-priority and a healthy body only makes for a healthy corpse in the end. We can’t take any of it with us, not even the body we trudge around in for nearly a century. But, health has its advantages.

A healthy body makes for a healthy mind, which makes for healthy decisions and quality work. Whether in art, labor, or study, the same blood flows through your feet as that three-bound inspiration blob between your ears.

Don’t make it about vanity nor indulgence. Make a habit of pushing past thresholds of pain. Health wants a challenge to overcome.  · · · →

The turning point comes when we cease worrying. It’s never easy. Sometimes we must worry ourselves out in order to stop the worry. Sometimes we need enough worry time proven wasteful before we decide it’s just a waste. However you get there, once you cut with the worry, everything starts to turn around.

Turning for the better doesn’t mean the battle’s over. It might not even start. But, many battles are decided before they start—especially if the worry stops before the worried battle actually starts. And, there’s the thing: We often worry because we expect results from the start.  · · · →

As one pushes forward, troubles come up. Incompetence, careless mistakes, no-brainers—things like these get in the way for most people and are all to common in most organizations. When you face an uphill battle, scaling someone else’s pile of disaster, there’s one easy, win-all solution: Overcome by being evermore awesome.

Whatever disadvantage you were handed by someone else being a fool won’t affect you as long as you rise and grow. Work, prepare, produce. Those who manufacture problems for others will end up keeping them for themselves if you don’t buy. Then, they’re at the disadvantage, and you’re not.  · · · →

Success is a convergence of preparedness and opportunity. No one makes it without some kind of luck, though all luck is created on some level—both the good and the bad. Life sends us unfair hardships which remain real as much as they require us to rise above them.

Once the last chip falls and all cards are on the table, success goes to those who worked hard, worked smart, and worked “until”. It won’t help to work only five years or only fifty years or until you’re tired. We must prepare and stay prepared until opportunity makes its move.  · · · →