If there’s an image of the Apocalypse, I thought, it might be a man in a business suit building a fire in the courtyard of an abandoned high-rise. In different circumstances it could be any of us, anywhere, but it had happened to him here,
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“You know, some days life seems so messy that I can’t get out of bed. I just lie there, man.”
― The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life
― The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life
“When people are actively engaged in a cause their lives have more purpose... with a resulting improvement in mental health,”
― Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
― Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
“The old ‘you’ must die before the best ‘you’ can be born.”
― The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life
― The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life
“I heard a man say he needed to lose weight before he could start running. Imagine that. Lose the weight so he could initiate the running habit. That’s like a writer who waits for inspiration to begin the book, or the manager who waits for a promotion to lead the field, or a startup that waits for full funding before launching a status quo–disrupting product. The flow of life rewards positive action and punishes hesitation.”
― The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life
― The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life
“Farming, mineral extraction, gas and oil production, bulk cargo transport, logging, fishing, infrastructure construction—all the industries that keep the nation going are mostly unacknowledged by the people who depend on them most.”
― Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
― Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
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